A regular Wednesday feature that takes a summary look at hot news issues surrounding Trump during the past week
With this entry, the regular three-part synopsis format of the Trump Scorecard will take a vacation, perhaps for the summer or a week or forever. Time will tell. In it’s place I’ll present a single stream of consciousness regarding Trump news.
Trump became a dedicated theme of commentary right after the election due to his unique outsider position in Presidential politics. Many moons ago, I avoided politics in general because it was such a divisive enterprise for people, but felt compelled to write about it because the stakes were suddenly so high. I was steadfastly against Trump (and Hillary) during the campaign because I felt they were both profoundly unfit for governing. Nevertheless after the election, I conceded that The Office of the President was greater than the shortcomings of any one individual legitimately elected to that office. Since that time, I believe that disposition has been validated. While Trump is still a course vain private individual, he has represented his constituency and their interests to a degree not much better or worse than his predecessors. He hasn’t collapsed under unprecedented hate and bias, and he has selected some good men and women to flesh out a conservative approach to governing. The Republicans have their head above water at least, Democrats are in soul-searching mode, and we are in at least some superficial modes of prosperity. Everything could change overnight, but it won’t be due to futile attempts to run him out of office with what he described as a ‘witch hunt’, an accurate description IMO. Instead, his detractors, e.g. the press, comics, commentators, and much of the Democrat elite are ruining their personal honor one by one as they attack Trump the individual and Trump the head of vaguely conservative or Republican values. This represents several gross miscalculations: They disrespect the Office of the President. They are trying to destroy a current office-holder that holds the keys to our protection in a volatile world. They don’t accept that Republicans and conservatives are a legitimate interest in the United States (disclaimer, I’m libertarian and Independent). They don’t truly understand that the huge gulf between the two coasts is part of the United States and that most of those inhabitants don’t automatically expect free stuff. They don’t understand that the majority of people in this country are primarily interested in the trains running on time and that they’ll be able to make rent or mortgage next month.
The people that want Trump to succeed, even as a flawed character, or just as a matter of self-interest, are greater then the number of those that want to destroy him, even now.
Commentary by Lee Jones