Konspiracy Korner: Trump Scorecard
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Like we sez, a balanced diet in your political oatmeal is -- if nothing else -- less MONOTONOUS. Y'feel me?
If this kind of masochism means for you a challenge to progressive consensus, we can recommend Camille Paglia's latest this week. She had a great line that helped revolutionize my own understanding of gender politics: she said "never for a moment in my life have I felt like a female." Neither has she ever felt like a male. For some reason, that put her perspective in a new light for me. It's also mostly consistent with the Scriptural concept of "eunuchs," those not driven by large imbalances of testosterone or estrogen. Up until Paglia's remarks, I thought my own friends and family were kidding, sort of.
Also provocative was her casual wave and dismissal of -all- news talk TV. It's the way she does it. Heh. Only Camille would admit the first time she ever laid eyes on Megyn Kelly was at the debate. Or was the admission a backhanded compliment to herself?
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If you're in the mood for anti-Trump material this morning, here is Silver's inner circle discussing hopefully whether the week's 'scandals' are damaging Trump's re-election chances. For a progressive intellectual, it doesn't get much better than that roundtable, I wouldn't guess.
;- ) Or if it does, feel free to link us up. Do give preferential treatment to ideas.
Actually it is fascinating to me that 538.com speaks in terms of Trump's 2020 "election." Every month that goes by without impeachment is a considerable surprise to me, considering (1) the fervor of the Democratic base, (2) the attitude of the Republican NeverTrumpers, (3) the "Deep State" leaks and opposition, (4) the disaffection of the hard-right base typified by Ann Coulter, (5) Trump's own talent for self-immolation, (6) etc.
Why would the Left prefer a religiously committed President such as Mike Pence to a Manhattan real estate mogul? The best explanation I've heard is that the Left figures they could "roll Mike Pence in two weeks." Another explanation has been that the Left WANTS Trump to remain President so that it can waltz to huge election victories the next two cycles.
But James predicts an 80%, 90% chance of Trump still being in office when the next election is held, factoring in life expectancy and everything else.
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The Dilbert guy has a fairly serious attempt at a relatively Centrist scorecard for Donald Trump.
He has Trump doing extremely well on his own card. So, I would be very, VERY interested in a -dispassionate- reply from a NeverTrumper (perhaps Matty?) who doesn't have much of an axe to grind on the subject. That's because my own irritation at CNN/MSNBC -- which are to be differentiated from reasonable outlets like CBS and the WSJ -- my own irritation at the sabotage sites have given me cataracts on the Presidential scorecard five months in.
(Scott Adams is hardly a convicted right-winger. He's a devout materialist who believes we are probably living in a Matrix-like simulation run by unfriendly beings. No, I'm not kidding.)
So would be quite interested in getting some help as to figuring out how it's going. Like the Dilbert guy says, what is the baseline for success here? Abraham Lincoln's first 100 days fighting ISIS and Kim Jong-Un? It's a tough read. If you can help me out, thanks in advance.
Respectfully,
Jeff