Maybe, but not on this scale.
Conservatives lost the fight when Obama was elected and lost it again when he was re-elected. We can try to figure that out. We could say we had horrible candidates against him and it's true ... we could have selected better.
With two of the more liberal candidates the GOP could muster. Conservatives didn't lose to Obama, they lost to McCain and Romney.
But this time ... just as the ominous picture of Hillary taking over from Obama and plunging us deeper in socialism, big government, corruption, tolerance of illegal immigrants and much more horror .... this time. This time we selected the worst possible candidate in the eyes of many conservatives, one who didn't stand a snowball's chance in the hot place.
Yep, why break the pattern?
But he won. And the people who hated him during the primaries... the people who could tell you every despicable thing he'd ever said or done ... the people who fed on that hatred,
Actually, I would have to sit and think about that list, and I'm sure I'd miss a few things. There was so much of it. But I could generalize, that simply enough, his campaign thrived on falsehoods about the other candidates and anger harbored by Republicans who were tired of nominating people with liberal track records and losing. Now that wasn't hatred of a man, but outrage that that prevailed, and a warning that someone who prevaricated his way into the job just might continue that pattern of behaviour.
Well, some of those people couldn't give that hatred up. I'm not saying those people should have granted him sainthood just because he became President. I'm not even saying they should have given up fact checking his statements and actions.
No, you are saying people hate Trump. I don't hate Trump. If he was all alone, across the street from me, and on fire, I would cross the street to put him out, and do so promptly. There are others, well, I'd just have to hold it a while.
Sainthood is granted by the Church, after careful review, posthumously. I'm not worrying about that any time soon. We aren't talking Sister Teresa, here. Besides those decisions are above my pay grade.
And while it is nice to have your permission to criticize him, I don't need it. You have no authority to deprive me of my God-given Right to formulate my own opinions and to express them, just as you have your right to formulate and express your opinions. Neither of us granted the other that right, neither of us has the authority to remove it.
I am saying that the Left is down but not out. They are fighting for their lives and they fight dirty.
Sure they are. They have invested have a hundred years in this subversion of this country, and they are
that close. They overreached, though, another couple of generations and few would remember even a taste of the Liberty we have lost, the freedom sacrificed on the altars of convenience and expediency. That may yet prove their downfall. Grandparents can still recall the days when they could put a check and an order form in the mail and buy a gun, and their grandparents could buy
any gun, and that was all the paperwork required. Grandchildren are in awe of that one alone, and there is so much else.
There are too many conservatives who are on their side in this fight.
I think I see your problem. You are looking at this as if there are only two sides, the inside and the outside. If you aren't gaga over Trump, you are on the outside and the enemy.
That's a danger of cults of personality. You forget who your friends are.
So, to help, Conservatives are the ones who will criticize Trump for being too liberal. The Liberals (a common enemy, if you will just quit attacking Conservatives) are over on the other side, fighting for socialism and criticizing Trump for being too conservative. We don't make that mistake, so we really should be easy to spot if you read what we say and think about it for even a moment.
I'm not one of them.
No conservative is on the side of the liberals or the socialists. Just some are more liberal than others, and willing to settle for less. We'll keep reminding those folks that this is just a finger in the dike, not a flood control solution, and advocate for more Conservative measures, from all of government, at least that which is Constitutionally Authorized to exist.
