Grounded In The Present, Eye On The Future

No matter what legal challenges Trump may pursue to the election, the election is now over. He lost. Every legal challenge to the election he has brought is being defeated or dismissed by Conservative judges at the state and federal levels.

I am not mentioning this for the benefit of his supporters. I am mentioning this for the sake of his detractors. “The Resistance” being chief among them.

In late January, he will be leaving office. That is the key phrase to keep in mind. Trump will no longer be in office.

What this means is that he can no longer be used as an excuse, a rationale or a response to every damn problem that comes along. Nobody gets to use “But Trump” any more. At all. Ever. Nor can anyone use, “But Trump was worse” as a rationalization to anything at all.

Nor does anyone get to claim GOP obstruction. Remember when Obama had a Democratic party majority in the House and a filibuster-proof Senate? Nothing got done except for a Republican corporate insurance healthcare insurance plan which took the form of a mandatory tax. Then it was followed by a GOP majority spending the past 10 years and the Dems claiming GOP obstruction. For the past 4 years, the Dems have confirmed every Conservative…