How to put the proverbial “monkey wrench” in the Trump juggernaut?

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   Credence2posted 2 months ago

   From my perspective MAGAism is a form of a cult.
   
   Nikki Haley, in her determination and courage, battles against Trump and overwhelming odds to the very end. More important than her loss of the nomination to Trump is the weakness that her candidacy has revealed regarding the nature of Trump’s support. Trump losses among independent, moderately conservative voters has been exposed as a red flag with ill tidings for the general election. That is the soft underbelly that needs to be exploited by Democrats and the Left.
   
   Trump fanatics have been “slipped a mickey” and are a lost cause as they will following him everywhere like a puppy. But reasonable people can be called upon to take a more reflective view. If the smelling salts are properly applied, they will wake up.
   
   Let’s define the difference in regard to  women’s reproductive rights. Since Roe vs Wade was overturned, the GOP, Trumpians included, have taken a draconian tack restricting abortion and ignoring a woman’s discretion in most of all Red States. While they now try to back away, moderate their stance as the Crimson Queen, Kari Lake of Arizona has recently, we wont let them. While they minimize, we will magnify. This disparity will always be kept front and center before the electorate. The plebiscite on this issue in certain red states show a vulnerability that we will exploit. Will reasonable people give up their reproductive rights and options in favor of the lies and false promises of a grifty-grafty huckster? That remains to be seen.
   
   Also, we can separate the wheat from the chaff when reasonable people consider what a vote for Trump would mean. Can anyone in good conscience vote for a man that has spent the last 4 years promoting a lie that he has never proven and has split the country apart? Are we to believe that a man with 91 criminal charges and 4 indictments does not has culpability far beyond party politics as the Right would have us all believe? Some of these people might recall their grade school civics classes that spoke of Democracy and the Rule of Law as the American creed having intrinsic value in of itself. They might also recall when the President represented the highest standards in good citizenship, not the lowest. What do they tell their sons and daughters? The Right (Trumpians) are all to happy to trade all of this, swooning to the lies of a con man who says that in exchange, he will make the trains run on time. (and he really is not smart enough to do that.) But reasonable people are not so easily deceived, time to WAKE UP?
   
   
   I could not fail to mention Trump comparing his legal woes to those experienced by the Black community. It was insulting as the utterance of a shallow, crass and stupid man, but the Anglos love him. Can you vote for anyone that disrespects you in so obvious a manner? That got a standing ovation at my neighborhood barber shop.
   
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   It is a shame that I had to call on British journalism ( The Guardian) to present an article that explains the allure of Trump and critical nature of the choice America has to make next November. I ask the conservatives, I get double talk and deflection. Mainstream media is timid and reticent and who knows who they ultimately are working for? Even liberals spend too much time dancing around the periphery rather than getting to the heart of the matter.
   
   THIS article gets to the heart of the matter.
   
   https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr … -exception
   
   We need to attack and attack viciously at the MAGA’s weakest points. Underestimating them is our greatest danger.
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   I will leave you with a comment from a renown Social scientist, classic rightwing think.
   
   “That's how it feeds on itself, and becomes a cycle. Conservatives are constantly being told that not only that cities are hellholes and places that are alien to your values, but also if you send your kids to college, which is the path to more economic opportunity for most people, that they are going to reject you and your values. That they're going to hear all these alien ideas and that's going to break up your family. And it is sometimes true that you go to college and you get exposed to all these different ideas. It doesn't necessarily mean that they're "woke" ideas, but there are things that you never thought about. A lot of kids do come home from college and say, "You know, Mom, Dad, I don't think you're right about this anymore." People don't like that.”
   
   But is that not the very nature of life?
   
   Thanks for your attention.

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