Against Dubya the Dems ran Al Gore, who chose to serve in Vietnam (albeit not in a combat position, he still went willingly), served as senator and vice president, and was an award winning producer of "An Inconvenient Truth."
Gore lost, because Bush was "someone you'd like to have a beer with."
Next time against Dubya, the Dems ran John Kerry, a real war hero and senator.
Kerry lost.
When Trump ran, we ran Hillary Clinton, whose intelligence, accomplishments and service to her country as senator and Secretary of State uniquely qualified her to lead both the country and free world.
Trump was a con man best known as a "reality" show performer with a signature catch phrase and his name on everything he could see.
He was also a Russian asset, either knowingly or unknowingly (more likely).
Trump ran because he tapped into the racist underbelly of American society (the people who never forgave O.J. for literally getting away with murder) and the misogynistic attitudes of a large percentage of men and some women, to whom "grab them by the pussy" was acceptable. He also won the evangelical voters, who were willing to overlook his three marriages and cheating on each of his wives because he promised to appoint only judges and justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade.
Hillary lost.
The GOP has no desire to provide the country with the best and brightest. They have no desire to serve the needs -- and now apparently the security -- of their country. They want one thing and one thing only -- power. Trump is the end product of that goal, writ large for all to see.
And so they are willing to literally bend reality, break their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution, and cheat in any way possible (voter suppression being the most obvious) to gain and retain power.
The GOP has zero interest in serving the average person of the United States.
I've lately been watching YouTube videos about Lior Suchard, a mentalist who, among other things, has the mind-boggling ability to influence people into doing what he wants them to, as shown here:
(begin at 3:45)
In this case he influences an entire audience to do the same drawing, each thinking they are using their "free will." "I don't know
what you're thinking; I know
how you're thinking," Suchard explains.
That's just one man working alone. Expand that to nearly unlimited resources and mind-influencing disinformation campaigns -- many initiated and managed by the Russians -- and I now see what we are truly up against. We can never give even an inch to the GOP. The Republican Party is no longer the opposition but the enemy.
The Repugs clearly see this as a war. No, not a war, because war has rules, which the U.S. strives to follow, whether the other side follows or not. (One part of these rules is delineated by the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which Trump just trashed.) They acknowledge no limitations or rules on their never ending quest for power.
To save our country -- and not just the party -- we need never give them an inch. We must fight at hard as they do, without the ruthlessness.
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