If you read or watch the news, you might be led to believe that the United States is in full-on existential crisis over Trump. It is not. Even the most strident Facebook leftist outside the Antifa class have moved on from Trump. Of course the Washington Post and USA Today, to name a few, are still stuck. This does not mean that the rest of the country is in love with Trump. We don’t care. That’s all.
What is actually more important is the war between that congealing alliances for the polarized left vs. right. The Antifa has had a free pass bestowed and left over from the Obama admin looking the other way. After Charlottesville and the incredible initial blow back against Trump over his remarks holding the left equally responsible, a certain realism is climbing out of the bunkers to say, “wait one minute”, Trump actually had a point. The real point is that the majority of Americans did agreed with him but you couldn’t hear that over the deafening Marxist din for about two weeks.
Well do we actually care after all? While you have to be a odd zealot to be a true-blue Trump lover, Americans DO care about their history, monuments, free speech rights, not to mention due process, the Second Amendment, civil order and moderately free market places. Etc.
This is what the CNN and MSNBC ilk and Steven Colbert and hundreds of other media notables miss. By exclusively associating the huge caring America class with the tweeter in chief, they’ve totally missed the zeitgeist of the day and its about to get stronger. Hell, we have more than our share of doubts about Trump. There are a lot of us that didn’t even vote for him and may not in the next election if he runs, but we sure as hell aren’t going to sit here and let the Soros rent-a-mob types take over. The culture wars are shifting and the chatter boxes you see on the evening ain’t it.
Commentary by Lee Jones