SLOW AWAKENING

Political poster c. 1920.

I hope the quieting of reactionary madness after the Kavanaugh hearings is a sign of slow awakening of the middle of America's political spectrum. Media pundits on The Left are reduced to personal mockery of their colleagues on The Center and The Right. President Trump's actual performance in his office goes unnoticed and unrecognized. But I think something has changed.

Those of us who are not fanatical team players in politics have been exposed to an element of opposition to Trump that is simply irrational. It is not really feminist or pro-diversity. It is not LGBTQ+-proud. It is a kind of mental derangement which resists any form of rational debate. I am hoping those more stable around the periphery of that derangement are awakening. 

Midterm elections are coming within the next month's time. These could significantly change the currents of House and Senate nationally. They could also change administration in states at the gubernatorial level. No matter the results, two things will be the same: The Trump administration and the Supreme Court. 

The economy is stable. Our relationships with other nations are being maintained and negotiated as necessary. Unemployment is at record levels. The Trump administration is looking seriously at justice reform. Internet privacy and freedom of speech are high on the administration's agenda. Despite anarchist mobs, violent crime is slowly decreasing in cities. These are a few of the positive contributions being made by the Trump administration. And they are not minor by any means.

A disruption of The House of Representatives by the mob-courting Democrat wing could be disastrous for average Americans. Schumer and Pelosi have earned their reputations as irresponsible stirrers of reactionary irrationality in the Kavanaugh debacle along the lines of incoherent Maxine Waters. Pelosi's deep control in The House could strangle progress, real progress, for Americans. The Presidency could be ground to a halt. The people's business could be forgotten in favor of a swamp fight.

Trump's election over the corrupt Clinton establishment in D.C. was not a defeat of decency and progressive governance by any means, despite the lies and personal attacks of man-hating pink-hatted mobs. Progressive thought is neither Democrat nor Republican. For example, coming out of eight years of the average-American-hating Obama regime, national pride and national identity are progressive. Globalist masochism, which dictates that America's middle class must hand over what it has to the Third World with a politically correct grin, is not. 

Slow awakening is always a way to middle ground in politics. Looking at successive governments over time reveals this swing. Recently, the giddy honeymoon with Obama in 2008 gave way to the outbreak of reverse racism and self-justified lawlessness in his second term. The charmed hypnosis by Bill Clinton in 1992 gave way to the debacle of sex scandal and lies in his second term. The rabid patriotism exploited by George Bush in 2001 turned to disillusioned acceptance that the man was not very bright in his second term. 

Perhaps the slow awakening to a functional Trump administration will work the opposite way, if these midterms do not bring even more chaos to the streets of America. Wouldn't it be nice to see the Trump presidency continue to succeed at its actual work for the nation, despite all the personal assaults on him and by him.