Recently Mitt Romney (of all people) said that Trump was changing the Republican party into the MAGA party and there's more than a kernel of truth to that.
The Democrats for decades were the party of the workingman, the guy packing a lunch pail. Every election they pulled the D handle.
Over time the Democratic party kept sliding further and further to the left, eroding Joe's values. Finally they did something that was Joe's last straw. Maybe it was drag queens in schools, maybe he discovered teachers could help students get an abortion without notifying parents. Whatever. He either went independent or maybe even Republican. Whatever.
Then he notices that the Republicans make more sense and they're not the party of the rich anymore. They've softened and are fighting for the values Joe espoused back when he was a Democrat and not paying attention.
I have heard a number of people that were Democrats say, "I didn't leave the Democratic party. The Democratic party left ME."
It wasn't a mass departure from the Democratic party that sent Trump to the WH. It was a fairly small group but it was big enough to tip the scales and give Trump a clear and indisputable victory.
The recent was of audits had caught a LOT of people's attention and I've heard more than one person say they voted for Harris and now wish they hadn't. They support the current audits and are watching the cockroaches scatter.
Under Trump the Republicans have somewhat morphed into the MAGA party and over time as Democrats slowly join they will bring many of their values with them and slowly the Republicans will swing a bit more to the left, close to center. My guess is that many moderate Democrats will stay independent voters but hopefully many will leave the party to wither.
Personally over the years I have learned to loathe career politicians which is what our presidents have been for the most part since forever. I can think of only one, really. That was Eisenhower. The rest have been pretty much career politicians. Actually Truman and Reagan had earlier non political careers but became politicians.
I have always advocated something like a successful CEO of someplace that understood business and ran the country like one, eliminating bloating and wasteful spending.
While Trump has these characteristics as positives I'll certainly admit that he's not the most polished or presidential person I have ever seen. He's a bull in a china shop and has little tact. Still, he gets things done.
He hasn't even been in office for three weeks yet and already he's cleaned out a pretty good chunk of the swamp and exposed an insane amount of fraudulent, wasteful and criminal expenditures on the part of government.
Anyway that's my take on things. We shall see what we shall see.
I've been wrong before.
You are not wrong. I was a democrat until the 1968 Chicago convention, when the train went off the rails. The party left me and I never looked back. MAGA!
ReplyDeleteI remember the DEC 68 Playboy had a spoof article over the 68 DNC in Chicago. It was savage.
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