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| RYAN: Did he help Grand OI' Party? |
In
fact, some of the strongest rhetoric has been tied to the name of House Speaker
Paul Ryan, R-Minn., who says he’s so offended by what Trump has said about the
fairer sex (even if it was supposed to be in private, and many years ago) that
he won’t defend him.
RYAN SAYS HIS focus for the final four weeks leading up to Election Day is to work to ensure that Trump's presence on the Republican ballot won't wind up taking down to defeat other GOP candidates seeking Congressional seats.
Which
actually is a myth. Largely because urban and rural Democrats have never been
able to work in unison on issues the way that Republicans can. Just remember
the brief times when both presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama had
Congresses that theoretically were aligned with them.
A
whole lotta nothin’ went on, and both of those presidents wound up spending the
bulk of their time with Republican-controlled Congresses that were openly
hostile toward presidential interests.
BUT
BACK TO Ryan, who says he fears Trump’s misogyny is now such a threat that it
can’t be ignored. Not that he or other Republicans really are offended by Trump’s
thoughts on gender issues. It’s more a matter of they’re upset he doesn’t understand
the subtle way of expressing oneself without putting one’s foot in their mouth.
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| Speaking truth? Or his mamma didn't teach him manners? |
I once remember a reporter-type colleague who, although working in Chicago, hailed from Georgia, who tried explaining to me a difference of perception on racial matters. Telling me that with regards to a certain “n----r” word, “It’s rude. Even if they think it, only the lowest form of white trash says that in public.”
Does
that mean Trump is just lacking in manners; in the ways of behaving when
amongst civilized company? If he had piped down what he thought of women, he’d
be fine?
But
the fact is that some people are, in a sense, rude. A large part of why they’re
attracted to the Trump campaign no matter now stupid he sounds is because they
sense he doesn’t hold it against them the way they really think.
SO
THE FACT that the initial polls didn’t show any large drop of support for Trump
even after we learned where he believes women should be grabbed to gain their
attention?
There
probably will be people who will take Ryan’s attitude as further evidence of
how out-of-touch political people are! Which is the part about our society that
scares me – the segment of those who equate having manners with so-called
political correctness.
It
means that when I do my own review of the Election Day facts and figures
following Nov. 8 (and yes, I realize there are many people who only want to
know “yes” or “no” as to whether their preferred presidential candidate won the
election), I’m going to be checking many of these Congressional candidates.
How
well did they do? How many of them got taken down? How many of them only got
re-elected by the skin of their teeth? How many of them will feel the need to
make post-Electoral mea culpas for
their attitudes being expressed now?
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| CLINTON: Has she really won?!? |
IN SHORT, HOW much of a change in the way our most narrow-minded in our society did Donald Trump’s existence as a presidential candidate wind up creating? How much “cover” did he create for them to think their thoughts – which usually focus on trying to keep everybody unlike themselves in check.
Ryan
and other political people may want to view Trump as the aberration who will
fade away (remember Michael Dukakis?!?) into forgottonia.
But
it may be the lasting after-effect that we’ll have to devote generations to
trying to fight off.
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