Trump, explained (perhaps)

This article from The Guardian seems to explain the Trump phenomenon fairly well. It’s a shame the Republican Party has not recognized just what it’s done by creating a base of voters who expected Roe v. Wade to be overturned, the Affordable Care Act repealed, gay marriage banned, immigrants thrown out of the country and terrorists killed, all while continuing to pay for Medicare, Social Security, cheap grazing rights, mortgage deductions and good roads while cutting taxes.

When people didn’t get what was promised and then watched their jobs be outsourced to China and Mexico and Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos (and could see that on the tags inside their shirt collars), they waited for their elected representatives to do something about it. But those representatives only came around during election campaigns asking for donations. Sure, they talked a good game in Washington and out on the stump, but women could still get abortions (now on demand, as Ted Cruz puts it!), those gay people could get married (and they want my cousin’s bakery to make the damned cake!), their health care premiums went up or they weren’t eligible for Medicare (because their state’s Governor and Legislature said “hell no” to Obamacare’s expansion of it), brown people kept showing up and driving cabs or taking jobs at the chicken processing plant (not that anyone else wanted to work there, but still!), and oh by the way (and this may be the biggest complaint of all for many of those people) why is that black man still President?

Anyway, they got angry. And now the GOP has Trump.

The rest of us do too, mind you, and we have to ensure our turnout is big big big in November, not just for President but for down-ticket races as well. We need the Senate back nearly as much as we have to keep the White House.