Reprehensible Ideas vs. Reprehensible Behavior

Reprehensible ideas:

Nancy Pelosi (D, San Francisco), House Minority Leader

Reprehensible behavior:

Donald Trump, President of the United States

The results of the soon-to-be-defunct Pennsylvania 18th congressional district election signals a rising tide for the Democrats in November, but not because of any great love for their lefty ideas.

Conor Lamb (D), winning candidate in the 18th congressional district race.

Their (Dems) fortunes rose in direct proportion to the repulsiveness and churlishness of a president with a “R” after his name. Trump is the accelerant for this state of affairs, not love for SDS-type values. (SDS: the 60’s Students for Democratic Society – Tom Hayden’s, et al, group for bringing socialism to America).

This is an election year that will pivot on the choice between reprehensible ideas (Democrats) vs. reprehensible behavior (Trump). Trump has soiled the “R” label. It’s a sad situation when people react to deplorable conduct by turning to people with deplorable ideas.

Time to recycle the wisdom of the historian Robert Blake: ““The right to misgovern oneself is as valid as any other political right, and it is exercised more often than most.” We might see it play out in November, and maybe two years later.

Robert Blake, historian, Queen’s College, Oxford University.

Say good-bye to your tax cut and guns; say hello to incessant impeachment dramas and the Californication of the federal government.

RogerG

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