Rarely can I boast about being ahead of the curve on political trends, as I mostly am wrong far more than I am correct.
As it involves the 45th president and his unfitness to hold — let alone run for — public office, well, I take a back seat to no one on that matter.
I made such a declaration long before he and his wife rode down the escalator in the office tower that bears his name. I noted that the future POTUS had zero public service experience, that his entire professional life was geared only toward self-enrichment. I argued vehemently on this blog that American voters must never let him near the Oval Office.
Well, as with most things, the voters didn’t heed my warning. He got elected in an Electoral College fluke, losing the popular vote by more than 3 million ballots, but being elected by pilfering key states and being awarded their electoral votes.
I truly wanted him to succeed. It couldn’t happen, though, because of that damn lack of public service background thing.
I said “I told you so” a time or three during his term in office. But again, the MAGA followers who happen to read High Plains Blogger were dismissive. I need to get over myself, some of ’em said.
Eight years later, the former POTUS is at it again. Only this time he has lost more than a step in speaking to the critical issues of the day.
He recently confused fellow GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley with Hillary Clinton, prompting Haley to declare — for the first time and way later than I ever did — that the GOP frontrunner is “unfit for public office.”
Well, no sh** Sherlock!
These missteps are going to chip away where his previous insults, gaffes and hideous pronouncements couldn’t.
Hold your applause if you’re so inclined to congratulate me. Hey, I was just stating the obvious. If only those MAGA followers would follow suit.