Hopefully you read the piece here yesterday castigating the left in general, and Bill Maher in particular, for publicly proclaiming this -- that they would rather have an economic crash that would leave millions damaged economically than to see President Trump succeed and be reelected.
It was pretty frightening to read that quote, and actually see the clip. It was frightening because the sentiment that Maher expressed was oh, so obviously shared across the leftists that populate New York and Southern California. Their contempt for the preponderance of America -- the "flyover states" that they never care about -- and their (our) views is simply inexplicable.
So we are now immediately on the heels of a pretty successful summit meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-Un, the dictator of North Korea (but you knew that). Yes, a lot needs to be proven out in the coming months, but we awoke yesterday to the news of an agreement under which North Korea would dismantle its nuclear weapons capability and allow some form of inspection to verify that it indeed was dismantled. Peace with NoKo is at hand.
It is certainly reasonable to think that Kim is now persuaded that the USA is not the military threat to his reign that he would readily have thought before. Between the options of an invasion that would topple him, and a cooperative agreement with the USA that helps him develop his country, feed his people and be seen as the man who turned North Korea into a productive society, he apparently chose option "B", even if it meant dismantling nuclear weapons he would then not need to have.
But apparently the left is not buying.
Today's Official Leftist Narrative is that "nothing is proven" (duh) until the weapons are actually dismantled, that the president embarrassed the USA somehow by meeting with a murderous dictator. It couldn't possibly be that Donald Trump did what the sainted and holy Barack H. Obama Himself couldn't do. So therefore it is, I guess, invalid.
What is particularly frustrating is that the left, as exemplified by CNN and the national network news anchors, clearly do not want the summit to have succeeded. Even as President Trump openly took questions from the international press thereafter -- I think he took at least six questions after he said "only three more" -- some of those from the American-accented reporters there were condescending and pessimistic.
So I go back again to the "Bill Maher take" on the economy and have to ask the same question. Would CNN prefer that the North Koreans maintain their nuclear threat, or would they rather that they remove them as part of a deal that was arranged through the leadership of Donald Trump?
I wish I didn't know the answer, but I surely do. Like Maher, the leftist media have an agenda, and that includes opposing anything that President Trump does, even if it clearly leads to an outcome that is positive, whether it involves a massive improvement in the economic health of the country or the denuclearization of North Korea.
Donald Trump has succeeded in doing things that have led to positive outcomes, and succeeded even more so in demonstrating the hypocrisy of the left and the press (but I repeat myself) by their unwillingness to acknowledge or support any successful action on his part, even where it is a beneficial action.
We see that. We will vote for Mr. Trump's reelection irrespective of the press's bias, simply because he has made it almost impossible to argue that his approach is not far better than that of his predecessors from both sides of the aisle.
We will never again trust the media to report the news fairly, because we see that they simply have no interest in doing so.
The media have gone all Bill Maher on us. We will go all Donald Trump on them.
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