(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . The 2024 Win is There, If You Fight [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-19 Jack Smith The incomparable Digby of Hullabaloo was recently in her Salon slot with an astute political observer who confirmed what she’s been saying for a long time: the Republicans wage holy war with “cultural issues” like LGBT rights and abortion but in fact are destined to lose with them, for they’re on the wrong side on all battles, the American public soundly rejects their bigoted, angry, panty police politics. But then the guy added just one little sentence in conclusion, that little detail if you fight back, yes, the culture wars are there to be won. Just sit there or react defensively and terrible losses are totally possible, just ask Michael Dukakis or John Kerry. It’s entirely possible to add Joe Biden to that woebegone list for his failure to fight back for the rule of law in failing to prosecute Donald Trump. Every time that Jack Smith special prosecutor makes a statement or subpoenas someone I get offended, what is the point of this laughably obvious useless delaying tactic? How is it possible this seriously advanced human can’t see he’s just being used as a prop tool? Yeah the Republicans are always on the wrong side of culture war battles with their obnoxious, ruthless suppression, but they unfailingly show up because Democrats, like Martina Navratolova said, have the total reputation of being wimps and won’t fight back, just go watch Jack Smith, he’ll show you. Or Ron DeSantis, who just got bullied by Donald Trump showing him being a creep drinking with teenage girls and fought back like Jeb Bush. All this puerile yap from the DC Beltway chattering press about how DeSantis has real potential is some of the most useless stuff I’ve ever read, if Ron Desantis can’t fight back against Trump he’s finished, no matter what fantasy profile our journalists yammer about. I’ve always been baffled how analyzing the 2022 election leaves out the variable of not prosecuting Trump, what would have happened if that lying orange blimp had been cuffed for the 2022 election? As Aaron Rupar said, it’s just surreal that the Party of January 6th then 2 years later won the House, that never should have happened. We’ll never know because Democrats just sat there and let the rule of law get put in the Cuisinart, thus the Republicans ran around with amazing confidence in their semi-fascist attacks on our people and democracy. Of course it wasn’t the only element in the election, but it didn’t help. Look, viewed with Machiavellian lenses leaving loser Trump out there to inflict enormous damage on Republicans and almost assuredly losing in 2024 isn’t a bad 2024 outcome, but it’s the almost in that sentence that should have obliterated the chance of it ever happening again, 2020 was way too close for a Biden victory. San Francisco had approximately 30,000 registered Republicans for 2020, yet 55,000 votes came in for Trump, how in the holy hell did that happen? Racism, misogyny, petulant angst god whatever it was Trump has the ability to provoke and bring out the worst in our people, anything could happen in 2024, despite all the other grossly offending elements demanding a prosecution of Trump knowing how close it all is should have should have been enough to cuff him, taking the risk is a terrible failure of duty. Biden, Garland, Harris, Jeffries, Schumer, who in the hell do you think you’re talking to? I have a deep, serious knowledge of the little people’s history of the United States, I got a SJSU political science degree with professors like Larry Gerston, and I’ve been watching your Party for five decades, why’d you Jack Smith me and the rest of the Party? Why couldn’t you just tell us the real honest reasons for not prosecuting Trump? Fear, tentativeness, weakness, failure, these are the ultimate words that would be the destination of the explanation, I can certainly see why’d you’d be loathe to do it, but know your little Jack Smith caper didn’t work at all, and we deserved the truth. How futile and useless it all seems, how many times has this been said in many different forms over the years? I am the tiniest of persons, why would the Party leadership listen to me? Duty to the little people, country, Party and the truth will have to do, infinitesimally puny as it may be. The keys to the Kingdom are so much very well within our grasp, Democrats could easily control Congress and the Presidency in 2024, Republicans are lying fools on the wrong side of everything. Fight back, Democrats, if you ever can. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/19/2153827/-The-2024-Win-is-There-If-You-Fight Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/