Dont lose heart Republicans Dem disasters like Graham Platner will only make things much, much worse
Everyone’s angry with Donald Trump.It’s true that things are getting ragged with just over five months left until the midterms.The president’s agenda is being stymied in the courts and in Congress by bloody-minded Democrat obstructionism, and by a handful of lily-livered naysayers in his own bare-majority party.His poll numbers are as bad as they’ve ever been, apart from a rough patch in the aftermath of Jan.
6, 2021.The war with Iran has hit gas prices and exacerbated the cost of living.It may be heading to some sort of deal, but cheerleaders are thin on the ground.
His enemies at home are desperate for Trump to fail, even if it means America is dealt a savage blow.His administration’s botched handling of the so-called “lawfare” slush fund is one of several own goals that his media foes and their Machiavellian whisperers have twisted into fake existential catastrophes to demoralize his supporters.Under inhuman pressure, he has a tendency to talk too much, and his sclerotic lashing out at blameless bystanders endears him to nobody.The other day, he scolded popular Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich apropos of nothing, during a press conference, because she is engaged to a Republican congressman, Brian Fitzpatrick, who breaks with Trump more than most — but that’s because he has to hold on to a purple suburban Philadelphia district full of Trump-deranged wine moms, and why is that Heinrich’s fault?None of this is good.But — and this is a big but — don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.Or to paraphrase Joe Biden: Don’t compare Trump to the Almighty.Compare him to the alternative.Wherever you look in the Democratic Party, the alternative is horrendous.Exhibit A: Graham Platner, the Dems’ hard-left Senate candidate in Maine who cosplays a rugged working-class oyster farmer.
He has been given the superstar treatment by the likes of The New York Times and Time in airbrushed cover stories praising him as “rough-hewn, gravelly voic...