The ignorant will always be with us, but I’ll be satisfied when they go back to being ashamed of it. As it stands, “Ignorant and Proud of It” is the order of the day, as a bunch of stump-jumpers in Maryland’s Calvert County dmonstrated with this billboard, which basically threatens that if a political solution to ending this bastard presidency is pursued, they will resort to violence.
Why this is a story I don’t really understand: A White House apparatchik said in a meeting that John McCain would be dead soon, which is nothing but the statement of a fact, but cable news has turned it into a two-day-long cudgel with which to beat a White House full of insensitive people who have said much worse.
Voters who thought Trump would “drain the swamp” might be among America’s stupidest. Nobody who has ever gone to Washington to reform it, starting with Andrew Jackson and continuing to the present day, has ever changed its self-dealing culture; Trump voters are merely the latest saps in a 200-year-old long con.
With Third Way Democrats on our side, we don’t need enemies. Mark Penn, the pollster who steered Hillary Clinton’s 2008 candidacy into the ditch, took to The Hill to complain that we don’t know who is paying Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels’ lawyer. The hypocrisy, it burns.
A fascinating Democratic primary is shaping up in the Pennsylvania congressional district around Allentown. Three candidates — one a centrist, Clinton style white woman, one a Sanders-style black minister, and one a white guy who’s really a Republican — are vying for the nomination, and this HuffPo story about the race poses the question of which sort of Democrat can win in a Trump-leaning district.
Ignorance has real consequences. Just ask the folks interviewed for this article about the H-2B “guest worker” immigration program by the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader. They voted for Trump, mainly because they heard in his vague promises what they wanted to hear. Now they’re facing bankruptcy because they can’t find American landscape grunts who’ll work for $17 an hour. This should surprise precisely nobody. Remember, one of the chief justifications for slavery was that white people couldn’t (read: won’t) work in the climate of the South.