Swept-up in the energy created by President Trump’s journey to the Nation’s podium to take the oath of office, is a sea of grateful Republicans. Across America Republicans have leaped to majorities in 67 state legislatures and control of 37 governorships. Over the past eight years Democrats have relinquished 800 seats in state legislatures, relegating the party to its weakest condition in almost a century. Is the fate of the Democratic party sealed? Not yet.
Have no fear, the MSM isn’t done. Once upon a time, it might have been a fact that if the MSM was against you, you had no chance of winning political office. Trump flipped this axiom on its head. The MSM has attacked him from the moment of his announcement to run for the White House and continues the vitriol today, as the Nation celebrates his first day as President. The MSM will persevere with its attacks on President Trump, his family and his cabinet. For too many years the MSM failed in its responsibilities to provide the public unbiased information on the Nation’s governance, and failed to contribute objective feedback and pushback which the elected officials could, or should have assimilated.
For eight years we witnessed a complete deterioration of the Fourth Estate’s rationality. The Nation’s MSM morphed into a sycophantic echo bubble, adulating the President, even going so far as to unabashedly defending his most absurd acts and policies. The MSM has been willing to leap over the edge of ideology, falling headlong into the abyss of socialism. Self-avowed Marxists have evidently taken dominant positions as talking heads in outlets such as CNN. At this point, why this has occurred is not as relevant as, “What next?”
The stars in this MSM mystical, self-righteous sanctuary, pontificate with abusive assaults that will continue far beyond today’s far-reaching renouncement of Obama’s Administration. The broad National repudiation is also a forsaking of everything the MSM supported, including declarations such this one from Keynesian Paul Krugman, “There was (rightly) a cloud of illegitimacy over Bush, dispelled (wrongly) by 9/11. Creates some interesting incentives for Trump.” Are there words to characterize the dark reaches that this pathetic scribbling agitates? Can we take seriously the breathless Mr. Tingles-Up-My-Leg when today he invoked “Hitler” when moralizing on President Trump’s inauguration speech? Not likely. Does it matter?
It should matter enormously to the Democratic party. The farther the MSM strays from rationality and scampers out to deeper reaches of hate for the Trump Administration, the more the public will react, even those who did not vote for President Trump. The MSM’s continuing meltdown and assault will get old, but it will invigorate the self-immolating Democratic party’s absurd accusations and proclamations, further dragging it toward the far left of the ideological spectrum.
The slightly left of centre voters will drop any remnants of ties to the Democrats. The Democrats will pluck one of any number of socialists in their midst to lead them.
The vast majority of Americans will support those who value America and Americans first. They will rout those who insist on maintaining a borderless nation. They will discard the party which believes in bloated, oppressing government, squashing their abilities to self-actualize.
The Democratic party will have marginalized itself with the unrestrained help of the MSM.
A constituent of the vast baby boomer generation with a career which has been fortunate to know the ponderous corporate worlds, as well as the intimately pressurized, and invigorating entrepreneurial domains of high tech and venture capital, I have harvested my share of mistakes meandering through corridors of enterprise from Silicon Valley, to London and endless, colourful, sometimes praetorian points in between. The voyage has provided an abundance of fodder for a pen yielding to an inquisitive keyboard, a foraging mind, and a passionate spirit.
Whether political or business or social or economic or personal, is it not all political? It is a privilege to write, and an even greater privilege to be read by anyone, and sometimes with the wind at my back the writing may occasionally be legible. I do not write to invite scorn, nor to invite respect, but if I get really lucky the writing can stimulate thinking. I also write for the very selfish purpose of animating my own processes, and engaging the best of what life offers. Above all, whether biting fire or swatting shadows, I am grateful to be gifted the freedom to write and publish whatever flows down to the keyboard. To all those who enabled this freedom, and to all those standing guard to preserve it, I am indebted.