{"id":44194,"date":"2020-08-30T01:47:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T01:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44194"},"modified":"2020-08-30T01:47:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T01:47:47","slug":"settle-down-nerves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44194","title":{"rendered":"Settle down, nerves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%40JoeBiden%20%40realDonaldTrump%20%232020election&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bidenjoe_102015getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13136\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bidenjoe_102015getty-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bidenjoe_102015getty-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bidenjoe_102015getty.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Am I allowed to express a bit of nervousness? Sure I am! This is my blog and I can say whatever I deem appropriate!<\/p>\n<p>So, here goes &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am getting slightly nervous that Donald Trump, on whose watch we have seen a pandemic rocket out of control and producing an epic economic collapse, could actually be re-elected to a second term as president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Do not misread this nervousness. I am not predicting it will happen. Nor am I going to predict that Joe Biden will end our long national nightmare with an Election Night victory over Trump.<\/p>\n<p>I just listen to Trump&#8217;s bellicosity, his anger, his in-our-face declarations that Biden will lead us straight to hell and I am filled with dread that Trump&#8217;s base of supporters is getting fired up. Worse, I am shuddering at the prospect of Trump persuading those few undecided voters out there that he&#8217;s their guy.<\/p>\n<p>He is playing into many Americans&#8217; fears about the unrest that is boiling up in cities across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden can point to Trump&#8217;s abject incompetence in his early handling of the pandemic. Trump, though, is seeking to portray Biden as being soft on the violence that has erupted on many city streets.<\/p>\n<p>Dare I remind anyone that all of this is happening &#8230; <em>on Donald Trump&#8217;s watch?<\/em> There. I just did.<\/p>\n<p>Trump managed to trash Hillary Clinton in 2016 sufficiently to eke out an Electoral College victory. I am not going to suggest a similar event will occur this time, with Trump losing the actual vote by even more than he did four years ago but still winning the Electoral College.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to express my <em>fear that it could happen<\/em>. The very idea of a second Donald Trump term is likely to cost me more than a few sleepless nights.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%40JoeBiden%20%40realDonaldTrump%20%232020election&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am I allowed to express a bit of nervousness? Sure I am! This is my blog and I can say whatever I deem appropriate! So, here goes &#8230; I am getting slightly nervous that Donald Trump, on whose watch we have seen a pandemic rocket out of control and producing an epic economic collapse, could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44194\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Settle down, nerves<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,2139,2505],"class_list":["post-44194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44195,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44194\/revisions\/44195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}