“If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America,” Lyndon Johnson apocryphally said. Today’s Democrats might have cause to wonder if they’ve lost CNN, and if that means the same thing.
The following, believe it or not, actually comes to you courtesy of the network whose coverage has so far been 93% negative regarding Trump. Pick your jaws up from the floor as you read.
When the global elite are aligned against him and laughing like the immature cool kids you hated in middle school, President Donald Trump is winning.
When the liberal law professors are neglecting their Thanksgiving turkeys to read congressional transcripts and snarking about Trump’s 13-year old son, Trump is winning.
When the politicians are mad — so mad that they have shut down all policymaking to impeach the President of the United States on what constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley called “wafer thin” evidence —Trump is winning.
In fact, as his supporters are well aware, Trump has been doing an awful lot of winning, from the economy and employment to foreign policy. Making the swamp monsters apoplectic with impotent rage is just the icing on the big ol’ winner’s cake Trump has been serving to his base.
You have to remember: Donald Trump wasn’t elected to fit in with these people — the political, intellectual class — to make them happy, or to become one of them. He was elected to break them. And that’s apparently what he’s done.
[…] What better evidence is there that you’ve shaken Washington to its core when the minders of a system you’ve come to despise are leveling the gravest punishment the system permits against the very President who is doing the shaking up?
More to the point, Republicans aren’t shocked, discombobulated or discomfited by the fact that Trump is almost certainly going to be just the third American president impeached. After all, Democrats have been screaming “Impeach!” from the instant they burst into tears upon learning that they’d lost the election.
Trump’s supporters have known since election night that this day would eventually come. After all, his sworn enemies have been openly promising it since before he was sworn into office! They’ve used words like “resistance,” “coup,” “insurance policy,” and “impeachment” so often that, now that they are actually doing it, the American people — and Republicans especially — are offering a collective yawn.
Rueful analysts stare into television cameras, lamenting and wondering why Republicans aren’t fleeing from the President over the impeachment hearings (he stands at 90% approval among his party in the latest Gallup poll). But there won’t be massive convulsions in public opinion because everyone has known for three years what was going to happen […]This is a one-sided, partisan impeachment. It’s the exact kind of thing Congressman Jerry Nadler, now chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, warned Republicans about in 1998, during Bill Clinton’s impeachment.
Republican voters are also well aware that this has nothing to do with imaginary high crimes and misdemeanours: it’s all about overturning a democratic election.
What have Democrats wanted more than anything since Trump’s election? […]The answer is obvious: to undo the 2016 election by any means necessary […]So here we are, headed for a rushed, hyper-partisan (and futile) exercise put on by the very elites Trump railed against to get himself elected in the first place. But for all the relief they might feel in finally striking this blow against Donald Trump, I wonder: have these Trump opponents even considered what this impeachment signals to the American people?
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That the Swamp is real, and that Trump really is trying to drain it – and he’s made the alligators and snakes as mad as hell.
