The Week When Trump Was Reelected

Santa was late coming down the White House chimney, but this week a sack of reelection Christmas presents belatedly arrived under the Trump Christmas tree.

Face it, Christmas was a downer for President Trump and his supporters. The House rammed through two articles of impeachment and promptly skipped town, much like kids leaving a flaming bag of dog poop at someone’s front door before running away.

There was uncertainty over how long this would drag out, whether there would be witnesses and an ultimate vote for acquittal. There was concern that a last-minute witness would appear, like Julie Swetnick at the Kavanaugh hearings, accusing Trump of participating in a “rape train” during his phone call with the Ukrainian president.

Last week’s festivities started with “Republican strategist” Rick Wilson and sidekick stooge Don Lemon on CNN calling 63 million Trump supporters, “credulous boomer rubes” and laughing uproariously over their cleverness. As a strategy, it was brilliant, but not in their intended way, energizing the Trump base by insulting them.

Then came the Iowa caucuses. The party that wants to nationalize and run healthcare and energy can’t count 170,000 votes in a relatively small state and provide prompt results. Where’s the Democrat enthusiasm against the reprobate Trump? In 2008, 240,000 turned out to caucus for the Democrats.

Was this incompetence? If so, then Democrats should not be put in charge of anything larger than a yard sale.

If it was deliberate, they are trying to screw Bernie Sanders out of the nomination again. The Des Moines Register scrapped their pre-caucus poll for sketchy reasons, raising suspicion it reflected a Bernie surge. Their establishment can’t have that, pinning their 2020 hopes on a hard-core socialist who honeymooned in the USSR and recently suffered a heart attack.

Enjoyable watching the left eat themselves right now, such a gaggle of leaderless followers, huddling and thrashing in their angry dirty corners.

Most are young and foolish and will grow out of it but is a great time to encourage deserters.

The Rise of the people is happening on the Right. Fact !

We have so many great leaders .... only wish is ... they had better microphones.

Trump should split the funding to PBS and NPR and celebrate the Rise of the Right.

The NYT reported the first signs of trouble at the Iowa Caucuses came early.

<><> the smartphone app had been ok’ed last fall by Harvard’s Harvard’s “Defending Digital Democracy Project”
to develop strategies and systems to protect results and deal with misinformation (LA Times report).

<><> The Harvard group included “party campaign experts” and experts in
(A) cybersecurity, (B) national security, (C) technology and (D) election administration.

<><> fortuitously, the Harvard group simulated different ways “things could go wrong” on caucus night.

<><> (cue maniacal laugh machine here).

<><> but a simple task like reporting the results began failing last Monday night.

<><> “quick-thinking” Democrat party officials then instructed precinct leaders to move to Plan B:

<><> plan B had precincts call-in results into caucus hdq in Des Moines, to be entered into a secure system by volunteers.

<><> but when volunteers tried to log on, they discovered they needed smartphones to retrieve a code,

<><> the caucus team had been told NOT to bring phones into the “boiler room” in Des Moines.

<><> a torrent of results were phoned in from gyms, union halls and elsewhere, places that made the Iowa caucuses a world-famous “model of democracy,”

<><> it soon became clear that the whole smart-phone, app process was melting down.

<><> desperate volunteers resorted to passing around a spare iPad to log into the system

<><> other Dems , desperate to verify results, were telling precinct leaders to email photos of worksheets that tallied results — to a dedicated email address.

<><> for hours, no one monitored the inbox; finally opened Tues AM, there were 700 emails with photos sent sideways;

<><> volunteers faced the task of deciphering the handwritten forms.

<><> Iowa Demo Party chair, Troy Price, huddled with other Democrat officials,

<><> alas, no Democrat had a clear strategy to manage the unfolding chaos with exasperated presidential campaigns.

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