Allow me to capture a particularly amusing aspect of one half of our beautiful country's beautiful polity, courtesy of WSJ. Hillary has now shared a victory speech she had planned to give in 2016, had she won. ...
2. Hillary's victory speech had this beautiful passage:
"I am as sure of this as anything I have ever known: America is the greatest country in the world."
As for the last eight words of the preceding passage, truer words were never spoken.
3. Unfortunately these words were never spoken at all by Mrs. Clinton in her concession speech on Nov. 9, 2016. Though she had this bedrock conviction that this nation is the world’s best, somehow the line never made it into the next day’s message.
4. Did America’s unique greatness end when we refused to elect Mrs. Clinton? There is a recurring and destructive theme on the American left that this country is only functional, legitimate and just when it is moving rapidly to enact so-called progressive policies.
5. Otherwise, pundits carp about an alleged broken democracy and an Electoral College in alleged need of replacement and a Supreme Court in alleged need of restructuring and an allegedly dysfunctional Senate and of course allegedly deplorable people who cannot be redeemed at all.
6. So much for Hillary Clinton's situational conviction. She is not alone though. Michelle Obama too had shared with us that she became proud of America only after her husband was elected president. These are some special kind of patriots we are lucky to have amongst us.
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Too many people have a romantic notion of 'resetting' our government. Status quo is not the creation of a select few politicians. It's the net of pushes and pulls of millions upon millions of interconnected interests in the nation. Wisdom lies in pursuing stepwise refinements.
Big moral battles of mankind have already been fought and mostly won in the United States and most other liberal free market democracies. We should strive to keep the gains and build upon them, not gratuitously recast every pet peeve as 'civil rights issue of our time' and such.
For our entire history, mankind has strived hard to cope with problems of survival, scarcity, and calamities of all kinds. Nothing in our history and evolution has trained us to deal with problems of plenty and unprecedented successes all around us. No wonder we are disoriented.
And Republicans' opportunity, if they keep their heads and address the electorate respectfully and constructively.
Turning to the nature and size of recent Hispanic shifts against the Democrats—it’s not as bad as you think, it’s worse.
2. In the most recent WSJ poll, in a 2024 hypothetical rematch between Trump and Biden, Hispanic voters favored Biden by only a single point. This is among a voter group that favored Biden over Trump in 2020 by 26 points.
3. In the same poll, Biden’s net approval rating among Hispanics was -12 (42% approval/54% disapproval). Hispanics in the poll favor Republicans in Congress over Democrats on containing inflation and securing the border.
"The fact is, GOP's 2017 tax reform law did exactly what was promised: It lowered taxes for all income groups, provided the greatest benefits for middle-income households and spurred economic growth that helped to reduce poverty and improve prosperity." thehill.com/opinion/financ…
Illustrative example:
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Got A Tax Cut From Trump's Tax Reform
The Governor's income in 2017 and 2018 was exactly the same; $212,000.
His Federal Tax Bill for 2017: $41,765
His Federal Tax Bill for 2018: $39,138
Just as with immigration , Afghanistan , and unemployment, Biden and his allies want us to think that he is nothing but a bystander. It can never be his fault or the fault of the policies he has pursued and implemented. The world is simply out of his control.
Biden The Bystander
It’s OPEC that isn’t boosting production, not Biden’s failed energy policies. It’s those oh-so-complicated supply chains, not Biden's unhinged stimuli and mandates.
Biden’s go-to move: Everything that happens on his watch is either inevitable or irrelevant.