Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive
Donald Trump has become America’s political middle ground because the strange events within the Democratic Party this summer produced the Party-elite picked Harris/Walz ticket — without a doubt the furthest left ticket in the party’s modern history.
I’m not going to start with the weird gender-bending ideas espoused by the “we must stay woke” Kamala Harris or Tim Walz, who signed a bill as Minnesota’s governor to mandate tampons be put in all men’s bathrooms.
That would be too easy.
Let’s focus on the two big issues facing voters this election cycle: The economy and abortion.
It’s safe to say no one likes today’s economy. From gas prices to rent, everything costs way too damn much.
The Democratic Party prides itself as the party of working stiffs, yet in this economy — the Biden/Harris economy, it is fair to say — the working class has been smushed. In fact, the poorer you are in this economy, the harder you have been hit.
Mr. Trump says he did better as president and he can do it again. He lays out policy differences that he says prove the point. When President Joe Biden was still in the race, his standard comeback line was to say his economic approach “is working,” but you just can’t see it yet.
If that’s the Harris/Walz strategy, too, give Trump the edge on this issue. Trump can point to his term as president and lay it over the last three years of the Biden/Harris term and make a good case that he’s the safer option.
Saying nothing about the economy — which Mrs. Harris has chosen to do so far — ties her to the Biden strategy. and it allows Republicans to fill in the blanks with the scores of clips of Mrs. Harris, in her own words, defending woke platitudes about equal opportunity … and equal results, which in economic textbooks is called communism.
Absent articulating an economic way forward of her own, Trump wins on this issue. He becomes the less risky, and therefore, more moderate choice.
The other big issue is abortion.
Mr. Trump favors keeping abortions available, but with restrictions decided on by voters in each state.
The AP reports it this way:
The Republican National Committee moved Monday to adopt a party platform that reflects former President Donald Trump’s position opposing a federal abortion ban and ceding limits to states, omitting the explicit basis for a national ban for the first time in 40 years.
Fairly middle of the road stuff on this highly charged topic.
But the Harris/Walz campaign is, again, out in far left field on this issue.
Mrs. Harris favors a Roe v. Wade type of national law with no restrictions on the procedure. Mr. Walz is even further out there. As governor, he allows a baby that survives a botched abortion to die without any effort to save it. Once an abortion, always an abortion.
Normal people would say that once a baby is born it is endowed all the civil rights of a citizen. Putting a baby in a “comfort room” to let it die because it was supposed to be an abortion, isn’t where most voters are on this issue.
So again, who’s the middle ground? It’s gotta be Trump.
Look, there’s much euphoria in the Democratic Party after the political assassination of Joe Biden. But, there’s a reason primary elections are a good idea — it vets and tests candidates for their electability among real folk.
Democratic Party elite short-circuited that process and now have a ticket on their hands that makes Donald Trump look downright middle-of-the-road.
Amazing times.
You can read the entire column here.
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