What Does It Mean?
In one week President Trump did for a bunch of RINO state senators in Indiana who didn’t want to descend to the crude politics of partisan redistricting. And Governor Janet Mills (D-ME) just bailed out of a Senate bid against Nazi tattoo Graham Platner.
So, does that mean that the US is dividing into two extremes: extreme MAGA and extreme lefty tattoo?
Ruy Teixeira thinks that Graham Platner's surge tells us about the importance of online and social media.
[Janet Mills] was recruited by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other elements of the Democratic establishment. They worried that nominating Platner would undercut Democrats’ ability to beat moderate incumbent Republican Susan Collins…
Platner’s new model of fundraising crushed Mills’s old model. Mills depended on itemized, large-donor contributions and institutional-style support. Platner, by contrast, sought and received national media coverage, national endorsements by progressive figures like Bernie Sanders, and a high profile in the online, generally progressive and antiestablishment Democratic discourse.
So you tell me. Is Trump leading the Republican Party into a Far Right wilderness, or disciplining wimpy old geezers that just don’t have any fight in them any more?
Well, if you go to Independent Voter Project they say that
Indiana is Republican by 30.97% to 24.96%. But the largest bloc of voters is Independent.
Maine is Democratic by 33.78% to 29.83%. But the largest bloc of voters is Independent.
So, anything could happen! Maybe the only thing that matters is gas prices.
Meanwhile California had a debate for the Governor’s primary election,, and all the Dem candidates spoke as woke as could be.
California is Democratic by 44.96% to 25.14%. Only about 30% of voters are Other.
If you are a racist-sexist-homophobe like me you hope that the Dems are lemmings jumping off a cliff. Actually, in reality, lemmings don’t jump off cliffs. It was our beloved First Nations that conducted buffalo jumps all across the Plains. Experts agree that there was no environmental consequence from these mass killings.
Meanwhile, the question is whether President Trump knows what he is doing with Iran. Experts are divided on the matter.
But I dare say that gas prices will decide the midterms.