Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Help Us, Obi-Wan TheDonald--You're Our Only Hope

The thing is is: Trump is not merely a lesser evil than the Democrats and their basically-irrelevant, placeholder candidates.
   He comes with massive risks and downsides that I've harped on.
   But if he keeps it between the ditches and does his job even passably well, he has the real potential to be a truly transformative President.
   And that's a massive difference.
   If Harris is elected, then, even if the Dems manage to keep the House and Senate, we know beyond any reasonable doubt that she will continue to implement the lunatic Orwellian agenda of the progressive left.
   If Trump is elected and manages not to shoot himself in the ass overmuch, we know he will begin pushing back against the left's catastrophic, "whole-of-government" / "Whole-of-society"--i.e. totalitarian--agenda. Against the infusion of race and gender pseudoscience into government and all our institutions. Against Lysenkoism. Against climate apocalypticism. Against free speech reductionism/eliminativism--including in its new "disinformation" guise. Against open borders and other elements of globalist anti-Westernism. Against progressivism per se--i.e. rule by "experts" and "elites"...  And that's not yet to mention the possibility that he might be able to appoint successors for 2-3 of: Thomas, Sotomayor, and Alito. Whatever else you think about him, you must admit that he saved a lot of our bacon already with his generally excellent SCOTUS appointments.
   When I can tamp down my disgust and anger at and with Trump the person--for he could, indeed, make the Pope cuss--I'm able to recognize the extraordinary good a second Trump Presidency really could do.
   His downsides are very significant. To say the very least. But ditto his upsides.
   It's easy to slip into I-just-hate-him-less mode--perhaps as a tactic for deflecting criticism/blame if he flames out spectacularly and wreaks havoc on the way out.
   But that's a dishonest thing to do.

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