The results were good for the country. As disclosed in the last blog, The Sensible Conservative voted for Donald Trump. That decision was motivated not by affection for the President but alarm over what a Biden win might mean for America – a decided move to the Left. So it is a great relief to note that the GOP has probably retained control of the Senate and thus will be able to thwart the harmful designs of the incoming Democratic Administration whether led initially by Joe Biden or, as is distinctly possible, Kamila Harris. (No court packing, etc.)
The exit of Donald Trump isn’t good for him but is a blessing for the country. With the Senate in GOP hands, his continued occupancy of the White House is no longer necessary to thwart the Left’s agenda. Although the President is not solely responsible for the antagonism which plagues American politics, his absence from the scene should lessen its intensity. Further, with Trump gone, there will be no strong incentive for Democrats to flood the off-year vote. So Republicans will be likely to add to their election successes as then and will be well-positioned to oust Biden/Harris in 2024.
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Some pundits on the Right are echoing the sentiments of many on the Left who question the intentions of those on the other side. Conservatives have long been accustomed to being on the receiving end of slurs from the liberals who claim that opposition to their position can only result from malevolence.
Thus, for instance, Tucker Carlson of Fox News and Mollie Hemingway of the Federalist website claim that the wildly inaccurate pre-election polls were designed to be such. Why? To lull conservatives into thinking that the campaign was hopeless and thus should give up. Ok. But “lulling” works in other ways, too. The candidates whose numbers are inflated would think that campaign efforts can be reduced since the results are “in the bag”. Manufacturing phony polling numbers would indeed be a doubled-edged sword.
[Of course, a follower of conspiracy theories could claim that the liberal pollsters let the favored campaigns in on the secret while keeping the other side in the dark. Really? Anyway a pollster is in business – they make most of their money from private companies. Intentionally skewing results would damage their reputation for reliability and undoubtedly affect their financial success.]
Sometimes people, both those on the Left and Right – simply have genuine differences of opinion and make mistakes. Ill will may not be involved at all in what is said and done on either side.
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The liberal media is very disappointed that its desire for Donald Trump and Republican candidates to receive a thrashing (blue wave) has been thwarted by voters. But they apparently take little solace in the narrow defeat of their nemesis. So the blatant bias in their coverage continues.
An example: The President and other prominent supporters suggest that some election results may have been tainted by fraud. The New York Times and the Washington Post report the allegations but append the terms “baseless” or “invented” to them.
How do they know? The absence of any proof presented thus far hardly means there isn’t any. And such evidence may or may not be forthcoming. But for “respectable” news outlets to term the suggestion of fraud as being baseless is opinion, not straight, unbiased reporting.
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