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A Tale of Two Inaugurations

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Posted By: Moritz55, 1/27/2025 9:25:34 AM

Eight years ago, I was perhaps overly optimistic when I wrote in an editorial for my old newspaper, the Daily Inter Lake, that Donald Trump’s first inaugural address was a promise that “politics as usual would come to a grinding halt in Washington, D.C.” Overly optimistic? Heck, I was dead wrong. Instead we got more than two years of the worst kind of politics – the politics of personal destruction – as Hillary Clinton and her Democratic allies planted the seeds of the Russia collusion hoax, leading to the failed Mueller probe, then another two years marked by a pair of partisan impeachments and divided government.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Strike3 1/27/2025 9:49:44 AM (No. 1883020)
Trump has learned well since 2016. Every attack thrown at him now bounces off like it was reflected from a mirror and comes right back at the Deep Stater or Leftist who was stupid enough to attack him. JD is also getting very adept at it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: bpl40 1/27/2025 9:56:12 AM (No. 1883033)
The Democrats sowed the wind in 2016. Now they are reaping the whirlwind.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: BarryNo 1/27/2025 10:01:46 AM (No. 1883036)
Misuse of government assets... isn't that treason or sedition?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 1/27/2025 11:08:57 AM (No. 1883073)
"Instead we got more than two years of the worst kind of politics" While true, in their despiration to destroy Trump, the Left did more damage to itself than to Trump. Plus, they YUGELY underestimated who they were attacking; a person far stronger, smarter, more determined, and with an enormous sense of justice with a splash of seeking revenge on the side. Trump has leveraged what is GREAT for the Country with justice for himself and so many others AND a bit of revenge for those who have suffered and, because the Left is writhing with impotent anger and almost terminal angst, revenge for what was done to him as well. So now, the dems are defeated, the media is crumbling and impotent, the Deep State is being dismantled, and crystal clear messages are being sent to just about everyone about the costs of their betrayals and crimes. The mechanisms they used to attack him last time have been mostly neutralized. Plus he has smart, loyal, trustworthy people who are not part of the Washington morass to carry out his intentions. The political blitzkrieg he unleashed last week was unheard of and astonishingly successful. As the article reminds us, "“success” would be his revenge or retribution" and "the best is yet to come". And, what the heck, a good helping of well deserved schadenfreude cast at the Left's abject misery.
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