“Every crowd has a silver lining.”
– P. T. Barnum
“There’s a sucker born every minute.”
– Barnum Associate David Hannum
“(Y)ou idiots just don’t understand …TRUMP understands ME!”
– Trump Supporter Maxon Roads
On April 6th New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof published a column entitled, “My Most Unpopular Idea: Be Nice to Trump Voters.” Kristof was motivated by a reaction to a column that asked his mostly progressive readership to keep an open mind about those who voted for Trump. “One problem with the Democratic anger is that it stereotypes a vast and contradictory group of 63 million people,” Kristof wrote, adding, “”Sure, there were racists and misogynists in their ranks, but that doesn’t mean that every Trump voter was a white supremacist.” Addressing his liberal readers, Kristof wrote, “The blunt truth is that if we care about a progressive agenda, we simply can’t write off 46 percent of the electorate.”
Another blunt truth is that we have to write off some of them by publicly shaming them.
Irma’s Lesson for the Debt Limit Debate
Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down
Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em all around
• Don Henley, 1982
They came, they saw, and they wound up talking about themselves. Irma was the storm to exhaust all superlatives, the biggest, strongest, baddest hurricane ever, that threatened to rip through the center of Florida with killer winds and a devastating surge. Irma was a huge Category 5 storm, larger than any storm in memory, bigger than the notorious Andrew, a wow factor from space that drew an invasion of satellite trucks, camera operators, engineers, and on-camera talent. Irma seemed poised to retain Category 5 status through landfall and the dreaded storm surge was predicted to hit 15 feet, maybe more with high tide. “Old Testament … real wrath of God type stuff.”
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