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The Case Against Anti-Trumpism in Connecticut

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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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