Choosing To Go With Trump

ASSUMING THAT TRUMP wins today's New Hampshire primary, he will almost certainly win the South Carolina primary which comes next, in a state which evidently does not widely like its former governor, Nikki Haley. Interesting, in many of these suthern and midwestern states which elected a far right wing Republican governor, in almost every instance, said far right gov ends up tremendously unpopular. Although a marjority of Americans describe themselves as "conservative", the plain fact is that a majority of Americans prefer progressive policies, an are repulsed by not only the far right, but by itspolicies as well. Unless there are factors unknown to me, it begins to seem nearly inevitable that Donald Trump will not only represent the Republican party running for president against Biden, but that Trump's candidacy will be definite by February. That leaves a full nine months for the Biden - Trump election campaign,a very long time indeed. With either Nikki Haley or Trump, the Repblican party is committed to a far right presidential candidate, which may prove a problem for the Grand Old Party. The Democrats have made it clear that not only is democracy on the ballot in 2024, but reproductive rights are as well. America is a majority pro democracy country, and a majority pro choice country. In every state in which the electorate has voted on abortion rights, even in extremely conservative states such as Kansas, reproductive choice for women has been elected, by a wide margin. Many other states will soon have such referendi - all of them will vote similarlty to legalize abortion, with reasonable restirctions. There is a reason why the Democrat candidate has won seven out of the most recent eight presidential elections; namely, a majority of Amerians prefer progressive over far right policies, notwithstanding America's allegedly conservative bent. On issues such as whether to tax the rich or the poor, support for social programs, international cooperation, climate change, reproductive rights - acoss the board, the progressive position wins. The Democrats not only can hammer home the conservative refusal to deal with climate change, and refusal to embrace reproductive freedom, and make political hay. Then too, we will have nine whole months to compare Joe Biden and Donald Trump as human beings, including their past records. The current status quo begins to look rather favorably upon the Democrats, particularly since the Republcians are rapidly losing their opportunity to demonize Biden's record on the economy, since the economy seems to improve and grow stronger every day. In a more perfect political environment Joe Biden would have, early in his presidency, declared hismelf a one term president, and now, we would be embroiled in an exciting Democratic party primary campaign to replace him, with some new, younger, dynamic political leader getting the Democratic presidential nomination. The greatest liablity the Democrats seem to have against Trump is Joe Biden himself, his age, in spite of his proven record of being able to defeat Trump. So, we are stuck with comparing Biden and Trump as leaders, and as human beings, and making our choice. The advantage for the Democrats is that Donald Trump has nine full months to show the American people exactly what kind of person he is, as he has always done.