{"id":59046,"date":"2025-10-31T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59046"},"modified":"2025-10-31T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:00:11","slug":"one-year-down-almost-three-more-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59046","title":{"rendered":"One year down (almost), three more to go"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Listen up, boys and girls, I have some good news to remind you about some news that might cause you some queasiness … as it does for me and I’ve just now thought about it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The good news is that we’re closing in on the first year of Donald Trump’s second term as POTUS. He took the oath of office on Jan. 20, 2025, which means on that date next year — which is just around the corner! — he will have completed the first year of his Retribution Tour.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Now for the rest of it. Dude’s got three more years to wreak havoc on our democratic republic.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I shall qualify the bad news with a few glimmers of hope that we might be able to stem the damage this blowhard can inflict.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The midterm election is coming up next fall. A year from next week! It’ll be here in a flash. We have to prepare for a back-alley brawl with the MAGA cultists. It is winnable. The House of Reps is close to flipping to Democratic control. If the nation can elect a handful of Democrats, we can welcome Hakeen Jeffries as our next speaker. The Senate is a tougher climb, but there appears to be a GOP senator or two who might be vulnerable to defeat. I am not going to toss John Cornyn under that electoral bus … at least not yet.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Trump keeps yammering that he’s in the strongest public approval rating in history. Yeah, he actually has said it. He’s lying. His approval rating at this moment stands at around 41%. President George W. Bush’s rating peaked at around 90% right after 9\/11. President Bush the Elder’s rating topped out at 91% when he declared that Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 “will not stand.” President Reagan won a 49-state re-election landslide victory in 1984, garnering 59% of the popular vote. President Nixon also won a 49-state re-election bid in 1972, and with a 62% popular vote.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Finally, Donald Trump said this week that he cannot seek a third term as president. The Constitution’s 22nd Amendment won’t allow it, he acknowledged. So, there … even the insurrectionist in chief <\/em>has realized that amending the Constitution to allow him to run for a third term is out of the question.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

What does all this mean for democracy’s future? It means that Trump is the lamest of ducks and that if he continues to blunder and bumble his way through the rest of his term that there well might be a candidate who can restore regular order to the way we govern this great country.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\n

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Listen up, boys and girls, I have some good news to remind you about some news that might cause you some queasiness … as it does for me and I’ve just now thought about it. The good news is that we’re closing in on the first year of Donald Trump’s second term as POTUS. He … Continue reading One year down (almost), three more to go<\/span> →<\/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":[82,10497,1424],"class_list":["post-59046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-22nd-amendment","tag-constitutiion","tag-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59046","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=59046"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59049,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59046\/revisions\/59049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}