I hate weeks like this. I’m sitting here at midnight on Friday, trying to think of something to write about. My deadline is noon Saturday, so I have some time. But with so many topics to choose from, how can anyone expect anyone to pick just one? August has traditionally been a silent time in politics—a month of congressional recess and vacations, when cable news is testing out D-list candidates, fresh candidates are desperate for fame, and human interest stories are becoming more popular. It’s still mostly about those things, but in 2018, there’s never a tedious moment, even if you want one.
This week was the Ohio special election that should never have been more than a footnote to a random Tuesday, but which was transformed into the most significant election in history, or at least since the last most significant election in history. Democrats, both in and out of the media, did what they always do – attributed the weight of the world and their personal hopes and dreams to the results.
Of course, as in 2016, leftists were certain they knew the outcome. A Democrat was going to win, fairly easily for a Democrat in that district, and that victory would be a chance to inspire their base to go to the polls in November. Voters in Ohio’s 12th District had other ideas.
The Democrats did what too many politicians do—they fielded the ball on the 5-yard line. Republican Troy Balderson won, narrowly. But as my father told me when I was a kid, it doesn’t matter if you win by one or a million, it’s still a win. Democrats will try to steal the electionas is usually the case in elections where the result is close.
Still, watching the air escape the liberals’ bubbles as the results showed their plans had been thwarted by voters is one of life’s basic pleasures. As did the realization that socialism had lost this week that made me smile.
This MSNBC and CNN’s golden girl saw her and the senator’s incensed grandpa’s candidates losesome by a lot, in their primaries. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose name you have to pronounce like a cheesy local news anchor trying to sound culturally sensitive by saying a Latino name, otherwise it’s a hate crime, and Bernie Sanders couldn’t share their socialist magic with fellow travelers running for the Democratic nomination.
It’s a real shame, because the more leftists talk about their political ideas, especially those with the “wisdom” of Alexandria in interviews, the more ammunition Republicans have against all Democrats this fall. So while liberals try to silence conservative voices, conservatives want to put a megaphone in the mouths of leftists so everyone can hear their madness.
She will probably win the November election, her district is so liberal (if she ever spends any time there, since she is busy basking in her celebrity status and traveling the country giving the kiss of death to other “progressives” in their primaries), but she will serve as an anchor for other Democrats who will have to answer for her anti-liberty and anti-American policies, not to mention her inability to do math. So please, Alexandria, by all means, keep talking.
Also this week, the “Russia collusion” investigation got underway, along with the trial of Paul Manafort for unrelated tax and bank charges. What he’s accused of happened long before he met Donald Trump and would have sent a mortal to prison for about a year, but because he met Trump, Manafort now faces the rest of his life plus several hundred years in prison, for a total of 305, for concealing taxable income and lying on loan applications. John Hinckley, who outed President Ronald Reagan and seriously injured three others in an assassination attempt in 1981, is now a free man, but Manafort could be imprisoned until the year 2323. Isn’t justice great?
But even if Manafort is convicted, the charges he faces have nothing to do with Trump or Russia, so liberals won’t be able to employ them in any forthright way (though that won’t stop them from trying).
As you can see, it’s strenuous to decide what to write about. How can someone choose just one thing? I’m sure someone could, but I can’t. So I didn’t.
Of course, I could have just written about the interview I did with Gregg Jarrett about his fresh book, “The Russian Hoax,” on my fresh(ish) podcast, which you should watch Or listen (and subscribe) because it’s really good, but that would be too uncomplicated. Maybe next week when the news cycle slows down a bit. Then again, it’s 2018, so probably not.
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