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With less than two months to go until the election former Vice President Joe Biden’s once considerable lead over Donald J. Trump appears to be vanishing. Polls are showing the Democrat still ahead nationally and in several crucial swing states. Many equally reliable surveys however show the president closing.
Whether this is due to a change in voter attitudes or a change in polling methodology and the way pollsters look at their numbers is anyone’s guess. Public opinion surveys are highly objective analyses of electoral sentiment that can be influenced by both those crunching the numbers and those participating.
Any good survey seeks to replicate the partisan and ideological breakdown of the electorate that will be participating in the next election based largely on what happened in the last. That’s not always a reliable measure as it requires those conducting surveys to manipulate the numbers to account for ideology, partisanship, race, religion, and gender among the respondents that may not resemble who shows up on Election Day.
Environment influences optics. People in solidly Democratic areas are likely to feel comfortable putting Biden/Harris signs in their yards while Trump/Pence supporters in the same neighborhoods might be reluctant to bring attention to their intentions. Demonstrating support for the president, an admittedly divisive figure, can have adverse consequences. In one notorious incident, two 21-year-old women stole a “Make America Great Again” hat off the head of a seven-year-old boy at August’s Delaware Democratic state convention.
They’re now charged with hate crimes as well as robbery, conspiracy, and endangering the welfare of a child – and what they did what was inarguably cruel – but it hardly scratches the surface of what’s going on around the country. The social sanction shown toward Trump supporters is severe and encouraged by Democratic leaders. Congresswomen Maxine Waters, chairman of the House Banking Committee, famously told participants in a California rally that, as far as administration officials were concerned, “If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd, and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
Rhetoric and behavior like that can be intimidating. Few people want to open themselves up to the social sanction and shunning that attaches to being a supporter of the president. This may be why, as a recent Rasmussen Reports poll indicated, 17 percent of likely voters who give Trump’s job approval high marks say they are reluctant to let others know how they intend to vote in the fall. “A similar but narrower gap is evident between the two parties,” the polling firm said, with 16 percent of Republicans being less likely to tell others how they intend to vote, compared to 12 percent of Democrats.
This phenomenon was likely present in 2016 as well. Most pre-election polls showed former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton winning the White House easily. Instead, Trump won by the narrowest of margins by pulling together enough narrow victories in the 50 separate state elections that constitute a presidential contest to win a clear if not necessarily convincing victory in the Electoral College. If it is again present, as Rasmussen Report’s latest survey suggests, then most national and state surveys are undercounting the president’s level of support.
If that’s true, then the race is a lot tighter than people are being led to believe by most of the reporting on the race. Other surveys have shown GOP satisfaction with Trump to be much higher than the Democrat’s happiness with Biden. Republicans who say they are likely to vote are also showing much more enthusiasm as regards their participation in the upcoming election than their counterparts. These numbers too suggest support for the president’s re-election is being under-estimated rather than reported accurately even if the numbers in the national surveys say what they say.
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Presently, in the United States of America sanity is on the defensive and ubiquitous idiocy is on the offensive. The destructive fascination with money and power has overtaken not just the entire Democrat Party, but also the most radicalized and extremist fringes of their fellow travellers. The labels they all employ against their real and perceived opponents are stupid and non-sensical. Moreover, those labels are meaningless too, because they do not define the essence of human intentions and conduct. Finally, anything that does not fit their anti-American, anti-Democratic, and anti-Capitalist rhetoric is simply eliminated from their vocabulary. Calling the police, the national guard, and the military racist for just doing their duty, which is the maintenance of law and order, is an outright lie. Designating illegal aliens who break the law dreamers, while those whom they kill or injure are not even mentioned, are the height of hypocrisy and heartless cynicism. Their ideologically blinded harping on “White Supremacy” demonstrates that they still do not understand why they lost the 2016 elections so badly.
American society appears to be on the brink of an approaching civil war. The only person standing between law and order and total anarchy is President Trump. Therefore, the ultimate success of his campaign for reelection lies in how effectively it can manage to face his opponents, to provide a positive vision for the present and the future, and to unite the people around the motto of genuine love for the country.
For the better part of the second half of the 20th century and the subsequent two decades of the 21st century, the marauding anti-American forces, headed by the Democrat Party, have been attempting to undermine the constitutional principle of rule by majority, the concept of equality under the law, and the theory of political, economic, cultural, as well as educational freedoms. With such a mindset, the Democrats’ policies have been shaped for the streets and not for the country at large. The result has been the abandonment of the political culture based on the rule of law and the glorification of anarchy and chaos. Their latest campaign to substitute in-person voting with mail-in ballots amounts to an attempted revolution at the ballot boxes, which surely will result in wholesale electoral fraud. Clearly, no democracy can be built on lies.
Their other hoax has been identity politics. In essence, this is tribalism on steroids. Ultimately, it is based on false racist authority and not on individual merit. Its application in real life has led to lies, abuses, and ultimate betrayal of the constitution and the objectivity of the judiciary. If the United States loses its merit-based character, Americans will end up with a spineless and dysfunctional society. The fake Steele Dossier, the Flynn investigation, the Russia Hoax, and the attempted coup d’etat by former President Barack Obama and his political appointees should be sufficient warning signs for the future.
To sum up, the Democrat Party has set itself on a collision course with the majority of the people and adopted a political strategy that will ultimately destroy the United States of America. The most glaring trait of the Democrats’ destructive politicians is their nauseating hypocrisy by putting social justice before freedom. The Democrat Party’s current so-called leaders have created in the last three and a half years a crisis every month with different persons and groups of people as a way to fan political extremism and hatred, while distracting from the hollowness of their policies. Thus, by emphasizing diversity to the extreme, they have undertaken to divide the nation, while employing poisonous rhetoric to ensure that the thus differentiated groups will hate each other. In this manner, politics and justice have been corrupted for nefarious power purposes.
Diversity has also given rise to the politics of personal dislike. Under this mentality, President Trump is an enemy, because he has been doing what is best for America and not for privileged minorities that will support discriminatory policies. To add international insult to domestic injury, the newfound hatred of the Democrat Party against Russia is also based on personal emotions rather than sound policy. Russia is the living reminder for Democrats that Socialism failed before reaching the political apex of Communism. Simultaneously, they hate the United States of America, because it beat the Soviet Union and thus demonstrated the superiority of Democracy and Capitalism over the Communist Party’s dictatorship. Conversely, the People’s Republic of China appears to be more successful with its Communist Party in total control of the country. Accordingly, Democrat criticism of President Xi has been minimal, if at all.
Not trying to be facetious, but the Democrat Party has succeeded to rewrite Marx’s Communist Manifesto by calling upon their “Sturmtruppen” to destroy America thus: “Looters, Marauders, Criminals of the World Unite.” Furthermore, as the Manifesto claims, a “spectre” or specter is haunting the United States of America, and this “spectre” is the Democrat Party’s convulsive and insane attempts to replace the Republic with a pseudo-Marxist Communist dictatorship. Not unlike Marx, who never gave any attention to the individual, because with him it was always about the cause and the ideology, the Democrat Party inspires to gain absolute power to the detriment of the national soul of the United States of America. Clearly, Marxism has always run against human nature. For this reason alone, the current Democrat Party’s policies are absolutely inhuman and antisocial.
However, history has taught the world that there is no greater disaster than greed. If a government becomes a bureaucracy of men and not the laws, the entire nation is destroyed. If the political culture abandons conversation and relies exclusively on hateful argumentation, national unity will cease to exist. Clearly, the Democrat Party maneuvered itself into a vacuum of lies. It has no useful messages, no leaders, and no consistency. The macabre return of Joe Biden, a totally useless idiot and at best a mental case, will only further radicalize the party and its followers. His tortuous selection process that produced Kamala Harris reinforces the fact that America was founded by geniuses but under the current misguided political requirements are claimed by idiots. The Democrat ticket only offers a progressively demented presidential nominee with a running mate that is a complete fraud.
For all these reasons, the Republic is in mortal danger. A minority that worships absolute power wants to overthrow the constitutional order by undemocratic means. Having failed to obtain permanent majorities on the local, state, and federal levels, they have targeted the weakest branch of the federal government, the judiciary. In addition, for this purpose, they have also conquered the media and the institutions of education from kindergarten to universities. With the election of Barack Obama, the most incompetent president in American history, who famously promised to “fundamentally change America,” meaning to introduce Nkrumah’s amd Kenyatta’s African Socialism in the United States of America, this minority, which only amounts to no more than 20% of the population, believed that they finally reached their goal. They thought that the country is marching toward Socialism. Suddenly they were stopped on their tracks. The dream was over and the momentum was gone with the unexpected defeat of their nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016. This development understandably pushed them into total desperation. They just could not reconcile themselves to the new situation. Thus, the movement of illegal, unconditional, and total resistance to President Trump was born. Since his inauguration, the Democrats have been fighting like the rat that is cornered.
Meanwhile, Democrat presidents have reacted by launching political as well as economic campaigns with alternating intensity and varying degrees of success. Strategically, all of them have shown hesitation as well as weakness, and almost total disregard for the cultural aspects of a fringe minority’s extremist agenda. In general, mostly it was the politics that was more public, while the economic efforts were discussed and implemented usually behind the scenes.
Yet, the political and the economic measures taken have lacked coherence. With the exception of President Reagan, his Democrat successors were more concerned about protecting their electoral base, rather than creating a comprehensive vision for the future. For this reason, instead of confronting the destructive challenges of the radical and extremist minorities, they tried to survive politically by forging ambiguous compromises with the latter. These usually unprincipled and multipronged solutions were totally inadequate to successfully face the uncompromising and increasingly violent forces, especially the irrationally radicalized and insufficiently educated black gangs.
At least from the justified shooting of Michael Brown Jr. in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9, 2014, by Officer Darren Wilson, that gave rise to the “Black Lives Matter” movement, the Democrats have undertaken several attempts to change the political and legal foundations of the nation, while further eroding the constitutional order. In spite of repeated attempts by the Republicans and from 2017 by President Trump, measures to protect the constitution have failed to stop the Democrats to promote the domestic and international destruction of America. Therefore, if the Democrats could maintain their control over the House of Representatives, additionally take over the Senate, and defeat President Trump in November 3, 2020, they assuredly will try to force the country into a new and politically disastrous equation. In this case, the United States of America as we have known it for over 240 years will cease to exist. Coupled with the present economic situation that is already significantly damaged, due to the pandemic, the present and future viability of the greatest nation on earth will be fatally compromised.
Under these exceptional circumstances, the skill and prowess of President Trump have lay in how he has managed thus far to simultaneously promote his pro-American, pro-rule of law, and pro-economic growth agendas in an unimaginably hostile and even hateful political atmosphere. Yet, for the better part of his presidency, President Trump has been on the defensive against the Democrats as well as the overwhelming majority of the written, electronic, and social media. By trying to exploit the pandemic, they routinely disseminate false information and outright lies about President Trump, the Republicans, their supporters, and the international reactions.
In order to counter these nefarious attacks, the President and his campaign must launch a comprehensive political and cultural campaign. The effectiveness of his campaign will depend on how it will manage addressing the electorate on a number of fronts: in the written, electronic, and social media, within the various groups of society, in the different regions of the country, and in the mobilization of all patriotic Americans. Each of these fronts presents in and of itself a unique challenge, but taken together they comprise the great Leftist threat. Therefore, instead of executing a global election strategy, the campaign must be broken down into more individual components and apply heightened flexibility and creativity to confront each one in a unique way.
Being on the offensive mainly means that the campaign’s chief target should not be the ticket, but rather the American electorate. As far as the ticket and the opposition to President Trump are concerned, the strategy must be relentless and aggressive attacks on all possible and imaginable fronts. In this context, exploiting human and non-human weaknesses of the opposition is a must. Planting fact-based stories with lightning speed and utilizing the methods of investigating journalism must be a priority too.
Lastly, and perhaps the most complex challenge, is the international situation. Recognizing this complexity is important, because the Democrat Party will use Joe Biden’s non-existent experience and expertise to criticize President Trump’s and his administration’s handling of foreign affairs. Neither is Kamala Harris endowed with any foreign policy knowledge and experience. In fact, she knows nothing about foreign affairs or the global economy. Consequently, major efforts must be exerted to expose these glaring weaknesses of the Democrat ticket. Any distortion and lie must be immediately rebutted. This will require a group of specialists and close cooperation and coordination among political, economic, financial, cultural, and global international experts. Whether through American or foreign individuals, the extent of the Democrat ticket’s incompetence is so obvious, any option must be welcome and put into practice without any delay. Any opportunity to expose the ridiculous claim that Joe Biden is a foreign policy genius must be utilized to its full extent. At the same time, President Trump’s campaign must emphasize that America’s allies and friends must unite against Joe Biden and his supporters, because together they represent a common threat to everybody.Finally, the campaign must adopt a slogan that would encapsulate its essence: “Love America.” Protecting and maintaining the Republic must be the overriding requirement for all Americans. To be loved is to be understood. Those who want to erase, to falsify, and to distort American and world histories must be confronted with decisive force. Those who falsely glorify tribal racism, also called “multiculturalism” must be exposed and defeated. What will save America and the world from the onslaught of the uneducated, destructive, and immoral mob is the vigorous defense of American and universal values. On this issue alone there cannot be any compromise. Any guilt syndrome, namely a psychologically sick response wherein a goodhearted individual starts to identify with his or her executioners, has no place in the United States of America or in the rest of the world. Otherwise, the infantilization of America and the world would only lead to the denial of reality and the glorification of hopeless destruction.
By Angela Morabito • The Federalist
Study Finds Voter ID Requirements Don’t Repress Minority Votes
Voter ID requirements do not affect voter turnout, according to a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The researchers looked at 1.3 billion data points on U.S. voters from 2008 to 2013, and they found that “the laws have no negative effect on registration or turnout, overall or for any group defined by race, gender, age, or party affiliation.”
For years, opponents of voter ID laws have equated them with disenfranchisement. The American Civil Liberties Union says “voter ID laws deprive many voters of their right to vote” and that they “reduce participation.” Writing for CNN Politics, reporter Eric Bradner addressed voter ID requirements as “discriminatory voting laws.” The Democratic Party’s official website addresses voter ID laws as if they are anathema to democracy. Continue reading
By Jim Geraghty • National Review
Think of these poll results the next time someone laments that voter turnout is low in the United States. A disturbingly high percentage of Americans can’t name the three branches of government and basically don’t know anything about how their government works.
That’s nearly three-quarters of the American population that can’t cough up “legislative, executive, judicial” on demand and fully 60 percent that can’t name *more than one* of those . . . Continue reading