Democratic Wave Weakened by Bitterness and Corruption as Trump Builds Seawall of Success May 1, 2018 Vol. XI, No. 7 1:13 pm Trump’s Seawall of Success Grows as Democratic Enthusiasm Wanes On Monday, April 30, when President Moon Jae-in of South Korea was complimented with the suggestion that his role in reunifying Korea and
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Democratic Wave Weakened by Bitterness and Corruption as Trump Builds Seawall of Success
May 1, 2018 Vol. XI, No. 7 1:13 pm
Trump’s Seawall of Success Grows as Democratic Enthusiasm Wanes
On Monday, April 30, when President Moon Jae-in of South Korea was complimented with the suggestion that his role in reunifying Korea and denuclearizing North Korea merited the Nobel Peace Prize, he replied, “It’s really President Trump who should receive it; we can just take peace.”
If President Trump does succeed in the denuclearization of North Korea during the coming months, his job approval will likely reach 50% by Labor Day, adding great height to his seawall of success in defense against the threat of a Democratic wave in November. A seawall already well-fortified by major regulatory and tax reform, economic expansion, jobs/wages growth, and favorable foreign trade deals.
The 2018 midterm elections are coming down to the highly anticipated Democratic wave versus the Trump seawall of success. Remember, midterm elections are a referendum on the White House.
So, which will be higher? The wave or the seawall?
My sense is the Democratic wave is losing energy. Too many Democrats poisoning the party’s political potential with bitterness over having lost the presidential campaign to the likes of Donald Trump and his “deplorable” supporters. Bitterness exposing liberal hatred and bigotry. Elitism.
Hillary Clinton is weakening the Democratic wave with claims that white women who voted for Trump don’t think for themselves. They voted for Trump because of an “ongoing pressure to vote the way your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should,” said Hillary.
Hillary Clinton is an old-school Democrat living in the past, still carrying tattered protest signs from the 1960s. Disagree with them and you are branded. Racist. Sexist. Xenophobic. Homophobic.
The politics of bitterness is costing Democrats young voters, critical to their political wave.
The results of a new Reuter/Ipsos poll of voters ages 18-34, released April 30, 2018, found that the enthusiasm among millennials for the Democratic Party has dropped by 9 points over two years, to 46%. They don’t like Trump. And, they are still far more progressive than conservative. But if they are not enthusiastic about Democrats in 2018, they will stay home. No millennials, no Democratic wave.
Democrats’ reliance on Trump bashing to energize the wave is not working. For every one Stormy Daniels story on Trump there are 10 stories of Democrats exposed by the #Me Too movement.
And, unfortunately for Democrats, indictable offenses soon to be revealed by the investigations of Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz are just as likely to expose officials with the Obama Administration and associates of the Clintons as anyone associated with President Trump. Offsetting political penalties.
Why Korean Denuclearization and Unification is Likely
Meanwhile, Trump is on the verge of accomplishing what every US president since Harry Truman wanted to accomplish. Peace in Korea. Here are the keys to why he is likely to succeed:
• China’s 21st Century goal is to be the world’s greatest economic and military superpower.
• China cannot achieve global superiority without the wealth to build the infrastructure, wealth that comes from favorable trading relationships with wealthy nations like the US.
• North Korea’s threat of nuclear war with the US and its allies was undermining China’s ability to focus on creating wealth. That’s why China joined the economic sanctions imposed on North Korea by the United States and the UN earlier this year.
• Crippling economic sanctions against an already desperately poor, hermit country is leaving North Korea farther and farther behind the rest of the world, including Asian neighbors.
• In a world of high-speed Internet commerce and communications, where the new “space race” is artificial intelligence, North Korea cannot even provide electricity to its people.
That’s why North Korean leader Kim Jong-un traveled secretly in an armored train on March 27, 2018, to Beijing, for talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping about denuclearization. That’s why one month later, on April 27, 2018, Kim Jong-un became the first member of the North Korean Kim dynasty to step across the border into South Korea.
Waiting at the border, was South Korean President Moon Jae-in. They shook hands. It was a handshake heard around the world. A handshake President Trump is being credited with initiating.
Soon, Kim Jong-un will agree to abandon North Korea’s nuclear program, end the seven decades of sabre rattling against the United States, and begin the process for reunification with South Korea. The entire world will celebrate and join South Korea and China in aiding North Korea’s economic recovery and assimilation with the rest of the world.
Success in Korea, economic optimism and offsetting scandals/indictments combine well with Trump’s incomparable skill at defining himself a winner and his detractors as losers to build a solid seawall of success in defense of an ever-weakening Democratic wave in the 2018 elections.
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