To the editor:<\/p>\n
Ever try talking to cult members; ever try explaining to them that not everything out of the mouth of their exalted leader is the truth?\u00a0\u00a0I keep wanting to ask MAGA voters how their lives are materially better under the Trump administration, but that\u2019s missing the point; it\u2019s not a question of their material lives getting better; they feel better about themselves.\u00a0Telling a pollster you\u2019re concerned about high gas prices and are struggling to pay your grocery bills is not the same as saying you\u2019re going to vote for Democrats in November.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Many South Carolina Republican voters probably never saw the video clip of Darlene Graham being asked about Taiwan and its strategic importance to the U.S. going forward.\u00a0Graham was completely thrown by the question, obviously knowing nothing about Taiwan.\u00a0 She finally stammered that foreign policy is \u201cnot her thing.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n
She\u2019s running for the U.S. Senate, not for a seat on her town council.\u00a0She has no experience, is completely unqualified, and discerning voters ought to have ask why vote for her?\u00a0 But she had the endorsement of Donald Trump. That\u2019s what matters.<\/p>\n
Many commentators wonder why Trump is pursuing deeply unpopular policies, such as his shooting war with Iran and his trade war with Canada, with the midterms just around the corner.\u00a0 Well, Trump has no respect for Congress; he rules by executive order and is confident SCOTUS will back him up.\u00a0 Anyway, no one would be surprised if he declares some sort of election emergency, either before or after the ballots are counted, and throws the election into chaos.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trump is theoretically a lame duck president, but does anyone really believe he will anoint a successor next year and bow out gracefully.\u00a0 How many exalted leaders ever do that?\u00a0 He\u2019s not building that ballroom for another president, especially not a Democrat, to enjoy.\u00a0 He thinks of the White House as\u00a0his\u00a0house and doesn\u2019t plan to see a moving van pull up in January 2029.<\/p>\n
Ray Clasen<\/p>\n
North Fort Myers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: Ever try talking to cult members; ever try explaining to them that not everything out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-383787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}