https://amgreatness.com/2019/08/29/the-political-class-is-exhausted/
The Political Class Is ‘Exhausted’
“Can we really do another four years of THIS?” Yes, we can!
Julie Kelly
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But, of course, their collective exhaustion is caused most of all by Donald Trump. In embarrassing fashion, anti-Trump pundits on the Left and Right are admitting that the president is getting the best of them. NBC’s Chuck Todd, mercifully giving the “white supremacy” canard a temporary rest, launched this week’s new narrative. “Weeks like this is [sic] what wear people out,” Todd told Andrea Mitchell on August 23. “Amen,” she replied. Todd further claimed, without evidence, that even Trump’s supporters are “exhausted.”
A cadre of prostrate pundits chimed in. “The editors of National Review are exhausted with presidential tweets, from asking whether Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell or Chinese leader Chairman Xi is the bigger enemy, to ‘hereby ordering’ private companies to look for alternatives to operations in China,” confessed National Review’s Jim Geraghty on August 26.” (Imagine being a grown adult and publicly admitting that a few crazy social media posts are grinding you down.)
Geraghty then mimicked Todd’s assertion that “even Trump’s supporters are getting tired of his daily drama,” but his proof only included a shortlist of random comments by a handful of professional opinionators.
Kyle Smith, NR’s critic-at-large, concurred. “It really is hard to imagine 5 and a half more years of this. It’s just exhausting,” he tweeted. The affliction spread on the commentariat’s right-wing, with Washington Examiner editor Seth Mandel Twitter-whining, “Aren’t you tired? I’m tired.”
MSNBC contributor Neera Tanden told Chris Matthews on August 28 that she, too, was exhausted. When Tanden, head of a progressive think tank, asked the Twitterverse who else was exhausted, her tweet was liked more than 12,000 times.
No one, however, is more tired than New York Times columnist Frank Bruni. In what could be the most humiliating confession of the week/year/decade, Bruni told his readers how he spent a summer Saturday morning—incapacitated by news headlines about Donald Trump.
“He had commandeered too many of my thoughts, run roughshod over too many of my emotions, made me question too many articles of faith,” he explained. “I was sapped—if not quite of the will to live, then of the will to tweet, to Google and to surf the cable channels, where his furious mien and curious mane are ubiquitous. What I was feeling was beyond Trump fatigue and bigger than Trump exhaustion. It was Trump enervation. Trump enfeeblement.”
Someone get this man a double espresso, stat.
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Linking to Bruni’s piece, ace political consultant David Axelrod suggested this message for the Democratic presidential candidate: “The question for 2020 is not going to be ‘Are you better off than you were four years ago?’ It will be, ‘Can we really do another four years of THIS?’”
Yes, we can?
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There is one person, however, who doesn’t seem a bit exhausted: Donald Trump. So if the Democrats and NeverTrump Republicans want a fighting shot to take him out in 2020, they had better rest up. They’ll need all the energy they can get.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey Comes Under Fire for Wearing Blackface 52 Years Ago in College Skit
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Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) is facing calls for her resignation following the unearthing of a college skit from 52 years ago. Back in 1967, Ivey performed in a skit called “cigar butts” in which she wore blackface.
This will be the first test of “Democrat privilege” whereby Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and AG Mark Herring weathered photos of blackface surfacing from the 1980s. Is it only Democrats who are “privileged” enough to survived decades-old indiscretions? Or did Democrats lose a valuable piece of political weaponry in letting Northam slide?
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If anyone can withstand this onslaught of outrage from the perpetually outraged left, it’s Ivey. She has come under repeated fire for her stance on protecting Alabama’s Confederate statues, for banning “free speech zones” on public college campuses in her state, and for signing into law Alabama’s “Human Life Protection Act.” And she hasn’t blinked an eye.
It remains to be seen how this plays out. If the left thinks it’s found in Ivey a shrinking violet they can bully, they are in for a surprise when they discover that she’s a steel magnolia.
The pundits complaining of being exhausted by Trump’s tweets should try thinking rationally instead of trying to twist everything Trump says into negatives, just to comply with Deep State dogma. Living with lies is bound to exhaust you.
::No one, however, is more tired than New York Times columnist Frank Bruni. In what could be the most humiliating confession of the week/year/decade, Bruni told his readers how he spent a summer Saturday morning—incapacitated by news headlines about Donald Trump.
“He had commandeered too many of my thoughts, run roughshod over too many of my emotions, made me question too many articles of faith,” he explained. “I was sapped—if not quite of the will to live, then of the will to tweet, to Google and to surf the cable channels, where his furious mien and curious mane are ubiquitous. What I was feeling was beyond Trump fatigue and bigger than Trump exhaustion. It was Trump enervation. Trump enfeeblement.”::
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Wow! What a whiny little girl.
And, leftists, I am so glad you are tired because we are not tired of winning.