A Progressive Finds Some Truth : Sadly - It's Temporary

My goodness - But in the light of so much fake news that we have to deal with these days, and knowing what and who Maureen Dowd is and her reputation for being a true definition of an unrepentant progressive liberal, this article could have been written by her, but I can't prove it, and again I don't care.
 
Defining truth comes in many forms and this is one. Sadly I believe this is mostly smoke and mirrors as Dowd is deep into her cups of progressive liberalism. She will at some point come to her senses and return to her life time of scratching out more delusional nonsense for her employer.

This article does how ever strike home the thoughts of those progressives that have been forced to temporarily to come some where close to reality, not that they will ever join the ranks of the sane, but some come close on occasion. No one actually believes Dowd will suddenly step forward giving a thumbs up signal to Trump for winning the presidency, given the extreme tortious attacks from the progressives of all strips.

But reality is not something that can be turned on and off easily. Under extreme conditions, it can rise to the surface of the everyday toxic slugs that permeates most media outlets. 

So as the dust settles in the political arena, and Maureen settles down again to her route at the New York Times, will she return to her roots of contemptuous scribblings that attacks all aspects of Republicanism and Conservativism? Oh Please! Will or can the Leopard shed it spots?

 

 Maureen Dowd : Election Therapy From My Basket of Deplorables 

The election was a complete repudiation of Barack Obama: his fantasy world of  political correctness, the politicization of the Justice Department and the I.R.S., an out-of-control E.P.A., his neutering of the military, his nonsupport of the police and his fixation on things like transgender bathrooms.

 

Since he became president, his party has lost 63 House seats, 10 Senate seats and 14 governorships. The country had signaled strongly in the last two midterms that they were not happy. The Dems' answer was to give them more of the same from a person they did not like or trust.  

 

Preaching — and pandering — with a message of inclusion, the Democrats have instead become a party where incivility and bad manners are taken for granted, rudeness is routine, religion is mocked and there is absolutely no respect for a differing opinion. This did not go down well in the Midwest, where Trump flipped three blue states and 44 electoral votes. 

 

The rudeness reached its peak when Vice President-elect Mike Pence was booed by attendees of "Hamilton" and then pompously lectured by the cast. This may play well with the New York theater crowd but is considered boorish and unacceptable by those of us taught to respect the office of the president and vice president, if not the occupants.     

 

Here is a short primer for the young protesters. If your preferred candidate loses, there is no need for mass hysteria, canceled midterms, safe spaces, crying rooms or group primal screams. You might understand this better if you had not received participation trophies, undeserved grades to protect your feelings or even if you had a proper understanding of civics. The Democrats are now crying that Hillary had more popular votes. That can be her participation trophy. 

If any of my sons had told me they were too distraught over a national election to take an exam, I would have brought them home the next day, fearful of the instruction they were receiving. Not one of the top 50 colleges mandate one semester of Western Civilization. Maybe they should rethink that.  

  

Mr. Trump received over 62 million votes, not all of them cast by homophobes, Islamaphobes, racists, sexists, misogynists or any other "ists." I would caution Trump deniers that all of the crying and whining is not good preparation for the coming storm. The liberal media, both print and electronic, has lost all credibility. I am reasonably sure that none of the mainstream print media had stories prepared for a Trump victory. I watched the networks and cable stations in their midnight meltdown — embodied by Rachel Maddow explaining to viewers that they were not having a "terrible, terrible dream" and that they had not died and "gone to hell." 

  

The media's criticism of Trump's high-level picks as "not diverse enough" or "too white and male" — a day before he named two women and offered a cabinet position to an African-American — magnified this fact. 

 Here is a final word to my Democratic friends. The election is over. There will not be a do-over. So let me bid farewell to Al Sharpton, Ben Rhodes and the Clintons. Note to Cher, Barbra, Amy Schumer and Lena Dunham: Your plane is waiting. And to Jon Stewart, who talked about moving to another planet: Your spaceship is waiting. To Bruce Springsteen, Jay Z, Beyoncé and Katy Perry, thanks for the free concerts. And finally, to all the foreign countries that contributed to the Clinton Foundation, there will not be a payoff or a rebate. 

 

As Eddie Murphy so eloquently stated in the movie "48 Hrs.": "There's a new sheriff in town." And he is going to be here for 1,461 days. Merry Christmas."