Commentary
If you think former President Trump is the forgotten man, you’re not paying attention.
Of course, it helps that Kramerontheright makes his home in Arizona, where he’s still very much on the minds of voters, Democrats and Republicans.
Unless you are a subscriber to Fox Nation, and watched his speech to Turning Point’s streaming of his 109-minuite speech to some 5,000 enthusiastic young voters in Phoenix last Saturday, you might think he was down in Florida playing golf. You would be wrong. He covered every imaginable subject, especially Maricopa County’s 2020 voting audit. It was “the Donald” we all remember.
To its credit, the left-leaning Arizona Republic published reporter Ronald J. Hansen’s account of Trump’s speech and the appearances of Republicans running for state offices, devoting a half-page to a fair representation of what took place at the event.
However, on the Opinion page, the Republic gave Gerard Robinson, of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, space in an op-ed to raise the issue of racism, suggesting that prejudice makes it hard for blacks to participate in the GOP.
Tell that to South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida, and the black candidates out there, like John James in Michigan, Kim Klacik in Maryland.
Claiming to be a black Republican for decades, Robinson believes that racism makes it difficult for some blacks to participate in the Republican party, citing a survey from the left-leaning USA today, indicating that 44 percent of Americans believe that.
Robinson seemingly shoots holes in his concern when he cites that 45 percent of Americans, and 43 percent of blacks, agree that “racism is largely a problem of the past, it is unproductive to focus on it today.”
Turning the page to the letters to the editor of the Republic, I was reminded of my July 14, 2021 blog, “It’s Getting ‘Worser’ and ‘Worser,’ as writer Jim Peterson of Gold Canyon, Arizona reeled off a list of leftist-caused concerns, from the BLM to critical race theory and the teachers’ unions, the NFL and the breakdown of law and order, to the disrespect of America by our Olympians.
He points out that those watching the mainstream media aren’t hearing much about it, mentioning the slumping viewership at CNN and MSNBC, but reminds readers of the Silent Majority that will be head loud and clear in the mid-terms.
Another writer, Ted Henning of Sun City, Arizona, was critical of Republic editor Phil Boas’ recent editorial for “trying to explain away the Republican Party’s love affair with Donald Trump.”
Referring to the Republican Party having chosen Trump for its leader, when it was “already ethically and intellectually bankrupt,” Henning suggest that Boas was wrong blaming Trump for the leadership “you have been looking for, for 40-plus years.”
Henning is another Democrat suffering from amnesia on the subject of ethics and being intellectually bankrupt. Benghazi, the IRS scandal, and Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server are just a few on the tip of my tongue.
I don’t know about 40 years, but it is well known that it was the eight miserable years of the Obama-Biden administration’s lack of leadership that helped Trump win in 2016.
Meanwhile, on the national scene, Seth Mandel and Jay Caruso teamed to write “Leaving Trump Behind,” in the Washington Examiner magazine, in which they state that “He (Trump) has the power to leave the GOP and the conservative movement intact or disastrously divided.
“It will all depend on whether Trump runs for president in 2024. For the good of the country, his party and himself, he shouldn’t. The only way for the Republican Party to secure and build on (the Trump gains) is to move on from Trump himself.”
We can expect more advice for Trump and the party to flow in the months ahead.
If the disastrous first seven months of the Biden-Harris administration are an example of what we can expect between now and the midterms next year, it appears that the Republican Party has a darned good shot at taking back the House and the Senate.
The mess on our southern border; stopping construction of the wall, allowing drugs and illegals, some with Covid-19, free passage throughout the country after Trump’s policy, was a major mistake, soon to be realized by Americans without Fox News Channel coverage.
America has already tired of the Biden agenda, according to the latest Gallup poll. Biden’s approval rating has dropped from 61 to 48 percent, and he is viewed as a figurehead of a leftist agenda, out of touch with the priorities of Americans, notes Ben Domenech of The Federalist.
American optimism has dropped 20 points to 45 percent since spring. Fifty-five percent of Americans are now pessimistic, according to an ABC News/Ipsos poll. I doubt ABC News won’t be sharing that with its viewers.
“The reality here is that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are utterly unequipped to lead this nation through this moment,” writes Domenech.
FINALLY, PONDER THIS from AXIOS … “About 1.8 million out-of-work Americans have turned down jobs because of the generosity of unemployment insurance benefits,” according to Morning Consult poll results.
Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.
