Call it a collective kick in the rear, and the end of politics as usual, get a grip, Democrats, and move on.

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/06/lets-get-grip-democrats-put-it-in.html

June 27th's performance by Trump wasn't impressive. What was visible, whenever Biden was speaking, was the ugly scowl on Trump's bloated face, that was more frustrated and angry as the night wore on. Trump could not give a straight answer to a single question, could not marshall a single fact, not only about Biden's Presidency, but about his own, and could not handle criticism. He cannot debate. He has monologues that he spouts over and over and over, he has a small vocabulary and has few adjectives that he uses when he is critical.

Trump demonstrated such absolute contempt, not only for the American people, but especially for his own political base, delivering the kind of off the top of his head lying that almost every single one of us would have been punished for telling when we were children. That's not winning a debate. And while we do seem to have more than our fair share of ignorant, stupid, uneducated and easily duped people who allow him to play on their own selfishness and throw their patriotic love of country under the bus, we also have a lot of people who have enough common sense to realize what is going on and show a little bit of intelligence, sensibility, reason and patriotic pride.

People saw that. In most of the focus groups, and in the post-debate analysis where voters were brought in to provide commentary, it was pretty clear that Trump didn't move the needle in his direction at all. I didn't hear anyone say, "Yeah, Biden was quiet and seemed a little out of it so I'm going to cross over and vote for Trump, because I think a pathological liar would be a better choice."

But for some reason, among Democrats, a party whose political campaigns are known for their heavy weighing on issues and logical conclusions to the kind of folly Trump puts out, but who are also known for not being able to grasp a clear, concise, well-communicated narrative, there is frustration and panic at every corner when things do not go as planned. Maybe that comes from the pressure of holding together such a diverse coalition of voters, and always being afraid we're going to lose this group or that group over this issue or that issue. There's a difference between constructive criticism and defeatism. And I'm appalled to hear, coming from Democrats who have within their ranks some of the brightest and best journalists, politicians, and some of the best educated, reasonable, progressive thinking members of Congress and of state legislatures, what I sense as defeatism, in the face of an election against such an evil, anti-American personage as Donald J. Trump. We have the collective ability to convince every American who is not already convinced that his getting back into political power would be one of the worst things that could happen to the United States of America.

[Amaryllis]

1. EXcellent!!!!