The speculation goes on: Will he run?
The Friday Letter / No.495 / June 3, 2022
Edited with typo correction at 1:08 p.m.
With AT&T's disembowelment of One America News, Newsmax is the only unapologetic conservative cable TV channel we know of. It is not an objective news reporting service and doesn't pretend to be. It is partisan conservative, which means it has no use for most of the Republican Party.
Newsmax wonders if President Trump should. It has concerns. “The years of grueling combat with the media and his penchant for outrageous statements have taken their toll,” John Gizzi writes in the spring issue of the Newsmax magazine.
Gizzi quotes a Quinnipiac poll reporting that “60 percent of voters of all stripes – Republicans, Democrats, and independents – feel it would be 'bad for the country' if Trump ran again.” It says 73 percent of Republicans think a Trump candidacy would be good for the country.
Trump needs more than 73 percent approval from self-styled Republicans. He will never get the Bush wing of pretend Republicans like Romney and McConnell, but he needs every last conservative.
The poll further shows that Trump swamps DeSantis in preference. DeSantis is likely the only alternative to Trump who could win, with the exception possibly of Mike Pompeo.
A caveat is needed here. Like most major pollsters, Quinnipiac has a left-leaning bias and consistently polls more Democrats than Republicans to produce Democrat-victory predictions. Like every other major pollster except for the L.A. Times, it got the 2016 election wrong, predicting a Clinton victory.
Gizzi also quotes an Emerson College polls showing that Trump would beat Biden by 47-45 if the election were held today. Would that it would. We have to wait more than two agonizing years. But as we have said before, 2 points is not enough to overcome the fraud factor. Only an overwhelming Republican plurality would negate a stolen 2024 election, and this is why every single vote counts.
Here is a warning flag. Says Linda Feldmann, the Washington, D.C., bureau chief of the Christian Science Monitor, “If Trump decides to run again, I believe he will be motivated first by a desire to vindicate himself.”
Trump must change that trajectory, a difficult task given his ego. He must talk about the future, not the past. The 2020 election results will not be overturned, in spite of irrefutable evidence of voter fraud in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, Georgia, and Wisconsin. Voters are becoming aware of that. This election is in Trump's hands. He may steer it however he chooses.
“I'd like to have a Trump without the tweets,” said Tom Davis, a former congressman and Republican strategist.
So much for police protection
The gun grabbers say you don't need guns because the police will protect you. Just call 9-1-1. How did that work out in Uvalde? Until a Border Patrol agent finally acted, the local and state police used their armed force for only one purpose – to prevent parents from storming the schoolhouse to save their children.
Contrary to what the 2nd Amendment repealers claim about the need to disarm the law-abiding public following a mass shooting, Uvalde demonstrates with disgusting clarity the need for armed citizens.
Now Joe Biden wants to outlaw 9mm handguns. The fact that this is as unconstitutional as his campaign to outlaw semi-automatic rifles is beside the point. He may be counting on a very shaky, undependable Supreme Court to eventually give Democrats their way.
If enough parents outside the schoolhouse that awful day had been armed, they might have persuaded the cowardly police to lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Furthering the cause of liberal thought
A few months after promoting a woman who fantasized about massacring crowds of white people, Emerson College in Boston has nominated a racial bigot called Shaya Gregory Poku as the school’s new vice president for equity and social justice. Poku, a co-author of a manual on how to raise children under the critical race theory dogma, says that not judging people by their skin color is “absurd.” Earlier, the college president nominated Kim McLarin to be the college’s dean of graduate and professional studies. Here is what McLarin wrote shortly before her nomination:
“If a civil war breaks out, I say, if violent white mobs begin roaming the country as they have done in the past, I will not worry about precision shooting. I intend to sit on my porch with my legally acquired handgun and as much ammunition as I have and perhaps a bottle of Scotch and take them as they come.” – from a story at The Federalist.
We are pleased to note that Dean McLarin supports the 2nd Amendment. Just make sure your “legally acquired” handgun is not a 9mm Glock, because Sleepy Joe intends to confiscate them.
Great strides in scholarly research
Using highly-acclaimed scholarly research methods, two Chicago high schools have discovered how to improve their black students' performance: Don't figure absences, misbehavior, or failure to turn in assignments into their grades. A training slide explains that “traditional grading practices perpetuate inequities.” The West Cook News reports that “Oak Park and River Forest High School administrators will require teachers next school year to adjust their classroom grading scales to account for the skin color or ethnicity of its students.”
Short takes on the news
From Florida taxpayers, thank you, Tampa Bay Devil Rays baseball team, for opening your big mouth advocating gun control. Our governor, who will some day be president, will veto a $35 million handout the Legislature had planned to give you for some sort of welfare you claimed to need. We taxpayers need the money more than you do. . .
Notice of upcoming celebrity tour. We report this as a service to our readers: Get your tickets early, because they will go fast. John Hinckley, Jr. is organizing a “John Hinckley Redemption Tour” this summer in Brooklyn, now that Clinton-appointed Federal Judge Paul Friedman has ordered his unconditional release from the nut house where he has resided since trying to knock off President Reagan in 1981, Just the news reports. Hinckley has been able to come and go for several years . . .
There has been another white supremacy mass shooting, this one at a Tulsa hospital with four murdered victims plus the killer. No, wait. The killer was black. Please disregard this dispatch. Nothing to see here. . .
(Not much) better late than never. The U.S. Supreme Court, which found nothing unusual about 800,000 ballots falling out of the sky after Pennsylvania's polls had closed in the 2020 election, has taken a sudden interest in how the state counts mail-in ballots – arguably the leading source of voting fraud nationally. Well, at least one Justice has, Samuel Alito, who was never the problem in the first place. He ordered a pause in the recount of some mail-in ballots for a judicial 2021 election that could affect the upcoming recount in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate. Alito handles emergency cases from Pennsylvania. A lower court had ordered some undated mail-in ballots counted, even though state election law renders undated ballots invalid. . .
Connecticut creates its own version of a Ministry of Truth to attempt censoring of reporting in time for the mid-term election, The Daily Signal reports. This comes after public outrage forced Biden's handlers to shut down its short-lived news censor operation under the direction of a Democrat Party Marxist activist. . .
From the halls of Montezuma, into bed with me and thee. Or, Can we fall any farther? The Marine Corps, whose mission was once to storm the beaches of enemies trying to destroy our freedoms, honors homosexuals with a poster of rainbow-tipped bullets for “Gay Pride Month.”
Today's quote
“When doughnuts are outlawed, only cops will have doughnuts.” – Friday Letter correspondent Jake Phake