Something Happened

You walk into the room with your pencil in your hand
You see somebody naked and you say, "Who is that man?"
You try so hard but you don't understand
Just what you will say when you get home
Because something is happening here but you don't know what it is
Do you, Mr. Jones?  ~  Bob Dylan


I was wrong.

Not only that, I was wrong twice in four years.

I have written two blog posts explaining how Donald Trump would never ever in a billion years become President of the United States.  Here's a link to the first one: http://manisville.blogspot.com/2011/04/who-will-not-become-president-donald.html.  

Here's a link to the second one: http://manisville.blogspot.com/2015/07/who-will-not-become-president-donald.html


I think it is safe to say that I am not a direct descendant of Nostradamus, who incidentally, predicted Trump's victory.

I am totally Mr. Jones. Something was happening and I didn't know what it was. For some reason, this doesn't surprise my wife.

Trump is too rich. He is too vulgar. He doesn't understand complex issues. He's a long winded narcissistic boor. He's been married three time. You can easily find nude pictures of the future First Lady on the internet. Or so I'm told.

He's mean and nasty. He has a short fuse. He's a "hater" and a demagogue. He's very thin skinned and lashes out viciously at critics.

On top of all of that, the Republican Party was split between the Trump people and the "elites" (people that refused to kiss Trump's rump).   He insulted Jeb Bush. He basically called George W. Bush a war criminal. He named Marco Rubio "Lil Marco". He called Ted Cruz "Lyin Ted" and pushed the story that Cruz's father was somehow involved in the Kennedy Assisination.

Those are a lot of liabilities. But, he had a couple of assests.

One: his name was not Hillary Clinton.  Hillary Clinton would have won if she wasn't a micromanged lying skunk. Of course, she wouldn't be Hillary Clinton if she wasn't a micromanaged lying skunk.

Her first response to any question is to lie. You can count on it.  Ask her what's the weather is like outside and if she says "Sunny", you better take an umbrella.

Bengahzi is a perfect example. Instead of saying it was a terrorist attack, Clinton lies about, fabricating an insane story about a video that's just one or two notches above"the dog ate my homework" in believability.

The E-mail story is the same way. Everything Clinton has ever said about it was not a fib or a little white lie, it was a flat out whopper.

Clinton was a terrible campaigner. Her speeches were yelled in a flat Midwestern accent. It wasn't inspiring.

Trump's slogan was "Make America Great Again", which was attacked as natvistic. Of course, Bill Clinton said it every day in the 1992 campaign.

Clinton's slogan was "I'm With Her". Wow, aren't we lucky.

Clinton's husband once said that "Republicans fall in line and Democrats fall in love". In this election, the Republicans, except for some #Nevertrumpers like me, fell in line and voted for Trump. For the most part, the Democrats that fell in love with Obama didn't fall in love with Clinton and they stayed home.

The second asset was the contemptuous spirit of American liberals. American liberals do not want to discuss and debate. American liberals want to mock and ridicule.  American liberals fancy themselves as the kids at the cool table. They have become the Mean Girls. They are the ones who make the rules and those rules can charge whenever they like for any reason. 

They are always ready with a sermon. They are always ready to yell and scream. They are always ready to block on Facebook and Twitter.

They are always decrying "close mindedness" but they never seem open to another point of view.  They preach tolerance, but rarely ever practice it.  They enforce a level of political correctness on college campuses that goes way beyond manners and enters into the land of suppression. Sally Kohn freely admitted to Kristen Powers: “If [conservatives on campus] feel like they can no longer speak against positive social change, good.”

Guess who decides the meaning of "positive social change"?  Hint: it is not anyone that's not sitting at the cool kid's table.

In her Op-Ed piece in USA TODAY, Powers said this:

There is a sense among many “Cracker Barrel” Americans [note: Trump won 76% of the counties that have a Cracker Barrel, one of the exceptions was Cobb County] that they are not only expected to accept rapid cultural changes, but they are obliged to never even express a reservation or ask for more time to adjust. The choice is full-throated embrace or nothing.

They wanted someone to stand athwart history and yell stop. Donald Trump was that man. So they made him president.

I didn't vote for Trump. I voted for Gary Johnson. But you have to tip your hat to Trump. He went out and found The Forgotten Man and at least acted like he was listening to him. Which is more than you can say for Hillary Clinton and most of the American Left.