The Virginia Bellwether

In another prequel of what’s probably coming nationally this November, Virginia voters – if you can believe what we’re being told – approved a redistricting measure yesterday that will give the Blues a decisive electoral advantage in the next election and (apparently) make it so that whoever receives the majority vote in the presidential election also automatically gets awarded the state’s Electoral votes even if that candidate won the state’s votes.

The latter item has been an agenda item of the Blues for some time because the Blues control the urban hives in almost every state and these hives already have political control over the rest of these states; California and Virginia are big states with large tracts of geographically red areas that effectively get no say politically because the Blues control the hives. Soon, the Blues will control the country. Overdiagnosed: Making ... Woloshin, Steve Check Amazon for Pricing.

Thanks to Trump.

The man who destroyed MAGA.

The man who discredited it.

MAGA was never a coherently defined set of principles – which is part of the reason why it has become incoherent – but, for awhile, it was understood to mean in a general sense that the interests of rank-and-file Americans would be put first, again. This implied their economic interests, above all. Trump won to a great extent because working and middle income Americans wanted relief from the economic catastrophe engendered by “COVID” and four years of vicious inflation under Biden. They wanted lower gas and grocery prices; they wanted more affordable cars. They wanted to pay less taxes. Instead, they got more war – and war always makes things more expensive. Americans are now paying through the nose for gas and they know why and – more to the point – they know who’s to blame.

The economic pain Trump has caused is bad enough. Salt in the wound is his obnoxious, no-longer-funny personality. For awhile, his vulgarity was refreshing because it was confused with honesty. He refused to call him a “her.” Four years of hims insisting they are “her” ginned up understandable outrage that Trump benefitted from by mocking it. But maybe we ought to have seen something dark in all that mocking – an underlying cruelty rather than a commitment to tell the truth – which is now turned on the very people who voted for him and supported him. They are “low IQ” and “losers.” By implication, so are we – the rank-and-file ordinaries who are also reeling from the president’s serial betrayals of everything we thought we heard him say.

Certainly, men do not become women just be feeling they are – and it is an affront to objective reality to demand others pretend they are. A principled man might have put it that way. There is no long-term good in making fun of people – especially mentally ill people. Put another way, most people do not like bullies – and Trump is just exactly that. He has always been just exactly that – but many were deceived into thinking he was just poking fun. Forgotten Home Apothec... Dr. Nicole Apelian Check Amazon for Pricing.

Well, the joke’s no longer funny, is it?

At least Clinton – Bill – pretended to feel our pain. This man openly dismisses it. Us having to pay $4 per gallon for gas is “worth it” – to the billionaire who doesn’t have to worry about the cost of paying for it. The stock market is doing bangers, he says – and by dint of that, the economy is doing bangers. Yes, it is – if you’re a member of the Stock Market Class, which isn’t most of us. The Dow being “over 50,000” is meaningless to most Americans. Having to spend $4 per gallon for gas is very meaningful.

Americans did want something done about “immigration” – the flooding of the country with millions of foreigners. But most Americans did not vote in favor of masked up (and tatted up) ICE goons snatching people off the street. The pretextual murder of those two Americans in Minneapolis were seen by many Americans as just exactly that. The ICE goons wanted to murder those two Americans – and when they got their chance, they did. The backlash in response to this and all the other things Trump has done – and undone, such as the brief lowering of gas prices people enjoyed for the first year of his second term – elected a very Blue Abigail Spanberger the governor of Virginia by 15-plus points over the MAGA alternative, Winsome Sears. Spanberger rode a wave of revivified Blue rage and Red demoralization into office and she and the Blues mean to hold onto it and expand it. They probably just succeeded, too – having cemented their control over the state and likely given whoever the Blues put up as their anti-MAGA candidate in 2028 a certain victory in the state as well as a likely victory nationally.

All because of one man – who had a chance to abate the Blue tide and (cue Robert DeNiro voice from Copland) blew it. This stupid, evil war being perhaps the final straw that broke MAGA’s back. This is not to suggest the Blues are the remedy for Trump. It is to state the hideous truth that the Blues are going to be the beneficiary of the wave of revulsion engendered by Trump. He has already cost us Virginia, my home state.

It is likely he is going to cost us – those of us who aren’t Blue – everything in just a few months from now.

This article was originally published on Eric Peters Autos.

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