Post-Midterm, Republicans Look in the Mirror for Solutions to Their Lacking Performance…They blame SingleWomen For Not Supporting Them But Are Still Frightened of Diversity

  The Perched Eye blog is 12+ years old, beginning from 2009 with President Obama's election. Our focus has been eclectic ...  the shapes and directions of American politics and culture, with occasional comments on the potential impact of new technologies. Pericles21's observations sometimes attract a critical eye, but the 'pen' remains unblunted. 

‘Republicans Looking in the Mirror’ (with full-on, myopic admiration of themselves) appears to be a significant political meme for 21st century American politics. What Republicans see reflected are their own images that they approve of mightily with only minor adjustments of eyeliner, hair tint, or toupees. 

How...'Buffo' are the Republican Party (with males playing female parts.) How 'Rabelaisian' in their idiotic and farcical obstinacy. How not enjoyable yet intellectually fascinating, as a natural disaster can be sometimes.

Meanwhile, when not admiring themselves, Republicans expend an unholy effort to remold the reality of the world around them to fit their private, gender-race exclusive view of what the world ‘Should’ look like. (And they genuinely appear puzzled as to why the world does not want to kneel to their view of things.)

Republicans seem not to like the majority of Americans (as evidenced by their losing the popular vote in the last 5 or so POTUS elections, even though they ‘rigged’ 2 presidencies in that period.) 

But those voter signals haven't persuaded the Republican Party to broaden its base with more inclusive appeals and policies, even though they cry and complain why the broad American voters don't like them.

Republicans need to tap into the American voter diversity, but they shy away from diversity of all kinds and instead worship their mirrors. But ‘what the Hell’, political shannigans (and foreign campaign money, thanks to the Roberts Court) can change that, right? ‘Not’, per the last mid-terms.

The latest Republican farce is the complaint that their shockingly ‘less’ mid-term performance was because all those terrible “single women” didn’t show up to vote for a homogeneously white male political party that is singularly patriarchal, ‘retro’, misogynist, and racist (by the preferred absence of skin ‘tint’, except for burnt orange from a tube).

Owing to that ‘betrayal’ (shed a tear) by those single women, Republicans shakily ‘won’ the House but with nowhere near the ‘Red Tsunami’ they expected, and crowed about as they counted chickens that would hatch from rotten eggs.

What are those Republican, white male exclusionists to do? Why 'obviously', find other scapegoats. (Ah, there they are - single women..."that's the ticket" for sure.)

Meanwhile, America’s diverse audience has left the theater, leaving Republicans to creak open faded curtains on Act 2, mascared actors and all.

THE TRUMP YEARS - AN OVERVIEW (1/3)

This blog will be twelve (12) years old this Spring 2021 ... it began with the 2009 first term of President Barack Obama. President Obama was followed in 2016 by Donald Trump (a single term). Trump lost a try at a second term in the 2020 election to Joseph Biden, Obama's Vice President. (Sigh of relief ... Trump is gone!) 

NOTE: Democrats have won the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections since 1992!

Perhaps the most significant aspect of those twelve years was the opportunity to compare two presidents of historical significance and of radically contrasting executive styles. Obama is the first president of color (Africa-American) and Trump is a businessman elected in hopes of applying business management and economics to solve some of America's challenges in the face of the global economy and domestic needs. (Trump failed in both respects.)

To this blogger, the best summary of the past 3 terms of American presidencies is the great exhale of held breath since Donald Trump became President. The last four years have been a day-to-day test of one's sanity in the face of Trump's seemingly ever-full bag of chaos and confusion which he threw widely and at any target that struck his fancy.

Now, under the Biden presidency, America can go forward under experienced, competent, and stable leadership.

This is this blogger's summary of what was actually going on under Trump. The details will be revealed in time. 

First, was Trump a traitor or, somewhat naively, just a Russian intelligence asset-in-place? (This blogger wrote in May 2016, before the following November election, that Trump had already committed "treason" with Russia.) 

Second, was/is Trump wealthy or simply agile with shady accounting, gangster accomplices, faked financial forms, complicit bank executives ... i.e.,  actually a con-artist? (This blogger has consistently favored 'con artist'.)

Third, was/is Trump a racist, misogynist wreck of a man.  We saw evidently that Trump has always been both.

In any case, Trump's policy decisions seemed guided by two consistent themes - what was good for Putin, Russia's leader, and what was good for lining the personal pockets of Trump and his family. Two simple and straightforward guides that seemed always accurate interpreters of Trump's actions and thoughts while President. He really was just a simple guy, after all. But a businessman he was and is not. Trump is more of an out-of-his-depth, 'Mom-and-Pop' corner grocery store single proprietor who can barely find his way o get his next fast-food burger (to which he is addicted). This is not intended to be funny, it is the truth about Trumps as far as we know or can politely speak on.

However, again, here we are this day relieved with the 'Fact' that Trump was voted out of office and America is free to go forward. and recover its sanity.