U.S. Senate chamber
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
JAN. 21, 2020 | If the Democrats do not want to have to go up against President Trump in the 2020 elections, their best hope is to get the Senate to convict him of wrongdoing in the impeachment trial. Right now, that does not seem likely, as Republican senators appear to have their ears and minds closed and may vote as a bloc to allow him to remain in office. Thank you, Mitch McConnell.
It appears that no matter which Democrat might run against the president in the fall, it appears that President Trump some how, some way, will win the fall election, at least in the Electoral College. Even though the president did not win the majority of the vote in 2016, he has a certain magic with staunch conservatives and many ordinary people. So he can count on their support, come what may. Their minds are closed. He will probably get the big industrial Midwest, garnering their key big electoral votes, and go back into office.
Modern technology may be the culprit. Perhaps if instant communications through the Internet, Tweets, Instagram, television, etc. were not present, maybe the president would not win re-election. But he has mastered this direct way to communicate. It is far-reaching and ever-encompassing. The President’s support may be a thin one, but again, just enough to put him on top another four years. He will probably lose the popular vote again.
We say this hoping he doesn’t win re-election.
After all, Donald Trump has sullied the office of the president, to the point that mothers today may no longer suggest that their children to grow to be president. We feel he has soiled the office with his bullying, his misinformation, his inability to accept guidance, his quick-handed reaction to frustrations, his efforts to ignore Congress, and his overall demeanor touching on ignorance.
Oh! What we would have given, had we known, to have his parents, at least a few times, to say “NO!” to him. He has never had that discipline, as a child or adult, and seems intent to never have it.
Simply, he has not been a president that a majority to look up to. Some people cringe just to see his image, knowing what he is.
Now the United States, under Trump, is an embarrassment to much of the world. Many no longer see us as an example of the civilized and restrained world as we should be.
Yet you would think that President Trump, running again, would have enraged some of his previous supporters. You would think that there are enough previous supporters who recognize the error of their ways when they voted for him, and would turn against him.
However, we suspect that the president will have attracted enough new voters to replace his departed previous supporters. Who that might be is beyond us.
The impeachment trial this week is the Democrats’ one best hope that a few Republican senators are going to see and understand what President Trump is doing to our nation. Though it appears unlikely, perhaps that trial will work on the Senators’ conscience so that in the long run they will say, “What the heck. I’m sick and tired of what he has put us through. No matter what it costs me, I’m going to do the right thing!”
Pie-in-the-sky? Maybe. That’s about our one last hope for the present. It may not be our Georgia senators way to go, but we can hope others see more clearly what needs to be done, and will vote accordingly.
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