{"id":1316,"date":"2020-07-02T22:41:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T02:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2020-07-02T22:41:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T02:41:44","slug":"its-always-darkest-just-before-the-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/its-always-darkest-just-before-the-dawn\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s always darkest just before the dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"

And right now, it’s pretty danged dark out there<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let me tell you why I believe the polls\u2026 Because in 2016, the polls were accurate. No, not the state polls. The state polls were way off. The average of the national polls, however, was almost exactly correct.<\/p>\n

President Trump lost the national popular vote in 2016 by\u00a02.1 points\u00a0\u2014 and just barely beat Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

The average of the national polls in 2016 had Trump behind Hillary by\u00a03.2 points.<\/p>\n

So, as you can see, the average of the 2016 national polls was only off by 1.1 points. That\u2019s what you call some damn fine polling, and right now, those very same damn fine polls have Trump losing to Joe Biden by\u00a09.2 points.<\/p>\n

And these polls were all taken\u00a0before<\/em>\u00a0the president stupidly tweeted out video of an idiot yelling \u201cWhite Power!\u201d<\/p>\n

Donald Trump is not only losing this election, if the election were held today, his loss would possibly be catastrophic, would be remembered as one of the most humiliating in history. He\u2019s not only facing a landslide rejection of epic proportions, he\u2019s losing to a 77-year-old imbecile and racist who\u2019s hiding out in his basement.<\/p>\n

How is this possible?<\/p>\n

How is it even remotely possible Joe Biden is kicking Trump\u2019s butt?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Don’t know how much of what Nolte writes here I actually agree with; Nolte was originally a NeverTrumpTard who eventually came around, and for all I know he might be eagerly reverting to type. But the dismayingly-successful COVIDIOT gambit, followed by the sacking and burning of pretty much every city in America with no response from Trump besides unfulfilled Twitter threats, has undoubtedly shaken his support more than anything the Marxist-traitor Left has been able to come up with so far. And, well, here we all are<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite their roots in reality, there is no doubt that these crises \u2014 and the White House and Senate\u2019s attempts to tackle them \u2014 would be reported differently if Hillary Clinton were president.<\/p>\n

The Federalist\u2019s exclusive Friday\u00a0Oval Office interview\u00a0revealed a president and West Wing that are happy and optimistic, while realistic about the political danger they face \u2014 a stark contrast, publisher Ben Domenech notes\u00a0in Monday\u2019s Transom newsletter, with his \u201cinterviews in the dark days of George W. Bush\u2019s second term.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president clearly believes he is down, and that he has been prevented from using ammunition curtailed by the continued challenge of the virus and without Joe Biden doing things like walking outside and talking for more than 30 minutes,\u201d Domenech writes. \u201cBut the president clearly is not of the opinion that Biden\u2019s lead is insurmountable.\u201d<\/p>\n

And it isn\u2019t. But a corporate media that have struggled for years to achieve their openly stated goal of defeating the president finally have a working plan. The president and his Republican allies had better get ahead of it, or Democrats will win the Senate \u2013and Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And that there is the problem, really: despite his own natural inclinations, Trump appears now to have shifted—been maneuvered<\/em>, more accurately, with an unwitting assist of every panic-ninny currently berating sensible people for refusing to don the Mask Of Submission—from the offensive to the defensive. That’s a defeat in and of itself, and I’m unsure how it might be reversed. But it must be, that’s all there is to it. Charles Hurt warns that complacency is the real enemy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Mr.\u00a0Trump\u2019s fourth year in office has been an unusual one, to say the least. But even that gives his supporters unwarranted reason to be complacent. They see a president in a time of national threat trying to unify the country while his enemies in\u00a0Washington\u00a0and in Congress only work to weaponize every tragedy for their own personal political advantage. With dishonest, evil vermin like this against him, how could Mr.\u00a0Trump\u00a0NOT win?<\/p>\n

To be clear, any such complacency among\u00a0Trump\u00a0supporters is badly misplaced. The only difference between 2016 and 2020 is that this time, Democrats, the political media and the so-called \u201cDeep State\u201d now know that\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0can win. This time, there is nothing they will not do to destroy him.<\/p>\n

Something decides every election. oftentimes, it\u2019s the economy, Stupid. Other times it is security. It can even be personality that determines the outcome of an election.<\/p>\n

The 2020 election is shaping up to be the \u201cMake it stop!\u201d election. Ardent\u00a0Trump\u00a0supporters love Mr.\u00a0Trump\u00a0and will walk through fire over broken glass to vote for him. Rabid anti-Trumpers despise the president and will loot and riot through tear gas to vote against him.<\/p>\n

This election will be determined by an altogether different group of voters. These voters don\u2019t particularly like Mr.\u00a0Trump, but they also aren\u2019t crazy haters. Many of them voted for Mr.\u00a0Trump\u00a0in 2016 and are open to doing so again.<\/p>\n

Today, they see rioters in the streets, smashing store fronts, torching police cars and toppling statues. They are appalled, and they just want it to stop.<\/p>\n

Mr.\u00a0Trump\u00a0claims to be the \u201claw and order\u201d guy, but the mayhem continues under his administration. Mr.\u00a0Biden\u00a0is desperate to curry favor with the peaceful protesters so he cowardly declines to forcefully condemn the lawlessness and rioters.<\/p>\n

The average voter is watching it all and just wants it all to stop. If a vote for Mr.\u00a0Biden\u00a0would make it stop, that\u2019s what he will do. Same with Mr.\u00a0Trump.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s kinda tough for Trump to run on “law and order” when he’s the guy ultimately responsible for seeing to it that law and order is maintained…and anyone can see that he has failed to do so. To wit<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s campaign has suggested that\u00a0riots and more disorder will happen\u00a0if Biden is elected. The problem with this argument is that\u00a0disorder is already happening now<\/em>\u00a0under President Trump.<\/p>\n

Admittedly, Trump has had a difficult fight from the beginning. He has been hamstrung by investigations, a hostile\u00a0deep state\u00a0resistance\u00a0from career civil servants, and a nakedly partisan propaganda campaign by the media. Nevertheless, he has a job to do. He\u2019s not merely citizen Trump. He\u2019s not just an observer. It\u2019s his FBI. It\u2019s his government to run. It\u2019s his military to command. If he can\u2019t run it, he needs to fire people until he can get the right people where they belong.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not entirely clear whether Trump\u2019s reluctance to use force is a cynical calculation that this chaos works to his advantage, or a vague instinct that anything he does will boomerang. It does not matter; there is a job to do regardless of electoral consequences.<\/p>\n

As it stands, the country and the president are diminished in the face of extended disorder. A strong and swift response, while controversial, would restore the sense that the nation is not up for grabs. It would also do much to restore Trump\u2019s prestige. Impotent tweeting and inaction encourages more assaults, demands, and brinksmanship.<\/p>\n

Voters need to understand that ejecting Trump will not lead to a restoration of order. But Trump needs to understand that inaction will not bring it about, either.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s hoping it does. But there IS at least a feeble ray of hope<\/a> amidst all this gloomy darkness.<\/p>\n

President Trump has told people in recent days that he regrets following some of son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner’s political advice \u2014 including supporting criminal justice reform \u2014 and will stick closer to his own instincts, three people with direct knowledge of the president’s thinking tell Axios.<\/p>\n

Behind the scenes:<\/strong>\u00a0One person who spoke with the president interpreted his thinking this way: “No more of Jared’s woke s***.” Another said Trump has indicated that following Kushner’s advice has harmed him politically.<\/p>\n

…Several conservative allies of the president have reached out to him and advised him to reduce Kushner’s influence over his re-election campaign.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For God’s sake listen to ’em<\/em>, Mr Preznit, sir. They have a much better idea of where your best interests lie than any damned liberal ever will<\/a>, however highly your liberal daughter might think of him.<\/p>\n

‘Trump has a Jared problem,\u2019 is how one conservative activist who works with the White House on immigration puts it. \u2018Jared is a total fuck-up. Everything he touches turns to lead.\u2019 Others groan about \u2018four more years of Jared\u2019 should the President be re-elected in November.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And if Trump does, we all do. Dump him. An hour ago wouldn’t be too soon.<\/p>\n

Various sources in, or connected to, the administration are stunned by the amount of power Kushner wields. He is a 39-year-old rich kid who had no experience in government before 2016, yet he is in charge of Middle East diplomacy, police reform, a major immigration reform package, criminal justice reform, PPE procurement during COVID-19 and construction of the border wall.<\/p>\n

Kushner\u2019s inexperience might be excusable if he were particularly brilliant. People who have sat in meetings with him, however, describe him as \u2018slow\u2019, \u2018a moron\u2019 and \u2018not really that bright\u2019. He struggles to master detail. One official suggests he doesn\u2019t have the acuity to master one, let alone all, of the tasks the President gives him. For instance, he was in charge of producing the 600-plus-page immigration reform package, but conservatives were horrified at how little he knew about the issue he was leading on. He didn\u2019t even seem to know what was in his own proposal; others had to step in when he was unable to answer the more technical questions.<\/p>\n

One conservative source who attended a briefing on the plan led by Kushner told\u00a0The Spectator<\/em>\u00a0he was shocked that Kushner seemed to have no sense of how to answer basic questions about chain migration and the diversity visa lottery. \u2018He presents as someone very knowledgeable and in the know until he faces questions,\u2019 the source said. \u2018He goes off the record or on deep background so people don\u2019t realize he\u2019s a fucking idiot.\u2019<\/p>\n

Some assign sinister motives to Kushner\u2019s missteps. His negative influence on the administration, it\u2019s whispered, goes beyond incompetence and veers toward deliberate sabotage. Several individuals close to the administration claim Kushner\u2019s history as a rather progressive Democrat makes him far more ideological than he lets on, and this causes him to subvert Trump\u2019s populist agenda. \u2018The depths and lengths Jared is going to to stab Trump in the back [are] quite profound,\u2019 one source claimed. \u2018Trump\u2019s been burned by Jared so many times,\u2019 said another.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Naturally. What we’re all pleased to misnomer “liberalism” isn’t a set of political opinions, nor a mere ideology. It is a religion, and its faithful acolytes will always and forever put advancing the agenda way<\/em> before friendship, family ties, decency, and common sense six days a week, and twice on Sunday. If Trump doesn’t realize this by now, he’d better wake the fuck up, and fast. He has no more than three and half months to turn this out-of-control bus around, before we all wind up bleeding in a ditch on the Left side of the road, dazed and wondering how the hell we got there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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