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Anti-Trumpism in Connecticut has been a politically profitable business among Connecticut Democrat office holders.
There are two categories of anti-Trumpists: those whose
numerous beefs against former President Donald Trump are rational, and those
who are partisan politicians pushing what appears to them to be a successful
campaign ploy. Trump is in many ways the perfect Democrat Party foil. He falls
outside a traditional Republican Party box, and his volatile character is
unsettling among those who are easily unsettled.
Voters across the nation, even in Democrat bastions such as
Connecticut, understand the difference between the two categories of
anti-Trumpists mentioned above.
Connecticut, home of Yale and the cunningly amusing Colin
McEnroe, is not a state brimming over with political rubes who are putty in the
hands of Machiavellian politicians. Across much of the nation, the general
voting public has more or less “come of age” in our sometime confusing,
postmodern 21st century.
People in Connecticut know for example that Trump – got up
in horns, a tail and cloven hooves in a fevered Democrat Party imagination – is
no longer, if he ever was, a danger to the American Republic.
Yet even now, Trump, though he left office 17 months ago, is
almost daily put on a hobby horse by leading Connecticut Democrats and
displayed everywhere as a politically dead El Cid -- to spook easily frightened
Republicans, who are daily invited to hurl derogations in the direction of the
former titular head of the Republican Party. Most Connecticut Republicans
wisely decline the invitation.
And some of the braver ones are eager to offer a comparison
between Trump the Terrible and Lunch-pail Joe Biden, the current U.S.
President.
Trump was partly successful in stemming illegal entry to the
US across a fortified border designed to steer immigrants to legal points of
entry. Under Biden, the border has become what lawyers call a “legal fiction.”
It was Biden, not Trump, who turned Afghanistan into a rout,
leaving those in the country who had supported a largely successful 20 year
U.S. military operation in the iron grip of a militant Taliban that even President
Barack Obama agreed was a “terrorist organization.”
It was not Trump’s progeny but Biden’s son and brother who
reaped monetary gain from Ukraine, China and Russia, passing along a portion of
it, according to Hunter Biden’s emails on an abandoned computer, to then Vice
President Biden, who had been warned by Obama officials that the VP might be
circulating too close to a burning candle. While Trump’s son-in-law was
bringing together Arabs and Jews in the Middle East, Hunter Biden, now an
artist, was raking in the dough – in part, for “the Big Guy,” he noted.
Energy supplies were abundant and low cost during the Trump
administration. They have been deflated and made exceedingly expensive under
Biden, a captive of environmental overpromising.
Inflation was manageable during the Trump administration. It
is now raging, like a California wildfire, under Biden who, along with U.S.
Senator Dick Blumenthal, has a comic book understanding of what inflation
really is and its connection to the printing of devalued dollars by the Fed and
ungovernable spending in a time of
post-COVID job drought. Hint: Inflation is – too many dollars chasing too few
goods and services.
All the national polls indicate that the Biden
administration is suffering from a policy undertow, and not an inability on the
part of Washington wordsmiths to properly fashion a communication slant that
would convince voters, who have come of age in hyper-partisan political environment,
that up is down, left is right, and the extremist view on abortion of
Blumenthal, up for re-election in November, is normative and scientific.
Democrats in Connecticut really do expect Republicans
running for office in the state to run away from Trump with their pants on fire,
leaving a politically profitable field for Democrats to till.
Their expectations may or may not be correct, but a broad
swath of voters already has taken the measure of Biden and left-of-center
politicking. According to many polls, unaffiliateds, soccer moms concerned with
the woke nature of curricula in public schools, many Republicans, some U.S.
Senator Joe Manchin Democrats, some left-leaning Democrats satisfied with White
House rhetoric but disappointed with a President who seems unable to bring home
the political bacon, some African Americans locked for generations in
inescapable urban welfare traps, working folk worried about the toll inflation
has taken on their diminishing assets, and, surprisingly, some few left-of-center
media scribblers, are all turning their faces against postmodern progressivism.
As inflation – increasing prices and the devaluation of the
dollar – rises, support for the Democrat Party, even here in deep blue
Connecticut, must dip.
In the upcoming elections, policy, not campaign mystification,
will turn the tide.
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