First Post in New Era: Post Trump Election

I had stopped posting several years ago because Blogspot (now Blogger) changed their method of editing posts and I was too busy to figure it out.  This is a test post to see how their many updates to the system work.

 Last week, January 20th, Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 44th president.  (Not the 45th as is usually noted because that would be counting Grover Cleveland twice.  There was an intervening president, Benjamin Harrison, between Cleveland's two terms but I don't see that as a reason to count him twice.  Incidentally, probably the last small government, low spending Democrat president.  Because he lowered tariffs, he lost his first re-election attempt, and was not supported by unions. The second time around, tariffs were not as publicly popular.  There was a major recession in his second term.)

Since Trump's inauguration, the left has lost what was left of its mind.  There have been riots, marches, and protests all with the usual hallmarks of the left: property destruction, real or threatened violence, massive littering, and illegal interference with the rights of anyone trying to drive or walk anywhere.  Their speech is reminiscent of the obscene yelling, spitting, and twitching of a tourette's patient, and that's just the Democrats in congress.  They have been saying since the election that he is not their president and they will oppose him in whatever he tries to do.  This demonstrates the principle that liberals are always doing what they accuse the right of doing.  In point of fact, there was never anything remotely resembling this when Obama was elected.

Stewart Woods wrote a book a few years ago in which a fictional group of Republican congressmen held a secret meeting in which they agreed to oppose the newly elected Democratic president.  When this was leaked by a shocked attendee, it was seen by the left as an unspeakable abomination and the worst possible destructive partisanship.  The president, his staff, and ranking Democrats were figuratively shaking their heads for hours when they found out.  To them it was almost the end of the union.  One of the meeting organizers was so fearful of exposure that he murdered the leaker, thus the rest of this very thinly plotted suspense novel.  Now the left opposes the newly elected president in the most repugnant fashion and they see nothing wrong with it.  This exemplifies the above principle and the famous observation of William F. Buckley , that liberals say they want to hear other views, but are shocked and offended to find that there are other views.  I am here to say that there are other views, and they should be respected as any legitimate opposing view.

By the way, Stewart Woods is the de facto chronicler of the Democrat, liberal, progressive, globalist elite, much as F. Scott Fitzgerald was of the elite when they were Republicans.  Woods lacks the literary talents of Fitzgerald but that can't be held against him since he puts out one or two books a year While Fitzgerald only wrote five or six in his lifetime.  I have sworn off Woods several times.  Currently, I am waiting to see his fictional take on the Trump election.  (In his most recent books, he already had the Hillary surrogate in office.)

Given the large scale of the repugnant and reprehensible  (though not deplorable - that's taken) behavior of the left, the name of this blog will remain unchanged for the time being.