By Andrew Boyd
I struggle to talk about these debates in the fashion of the day, as if we were watching something as superficial as a UFC bout; but as political heavyweight contests go, there were no big surprises. Adopting as non-partisan perspective as I can manage, I thought both men got in their shots, but the roundhouses were few and far between, and neither combatant went face-to-canvas.
Trumpâs best line of attack was the right hook to Joeâs legacy as a careerist pol, and the watery, flavorless stone soup of âaccomplishmentsâ over 47 long years that should do little to satiate anyoneâs desire for a candidate possessed of the capacity, desire or will to affect meaningful change in any direction.
If fate elects Joe, Iâll take what solace I can in the fact that heâs no ideologue and mostly just a guy looking to fill out his political butterfly collection with the rare Potus-excremus. Nothing new, certainly nothing better, but probably no worse than business as usual.
Iâm in the species of conservative who thinks Washington is rotten down to its core, whose vote for Trump was a message to the D.C. establishment, left, right and center, that the game is up. And itâs that same disgust for Washingtonâs three-card monte that will pull the lever for DJT once again.
I think Donald, for all his many foibles, has a genuine love of country and a desire to do the right thing by his countrymen and women. That, for me, is the trump card in a deck full of one-eye jacks. Establishment Washington wouldnât know a straight deal if they saw one; and worse yet, if they did, theyâd form a posse to hang that dealer, which is more or less what played out as the Mueller probe over the past three years.
Get in there Donald and break some shit!
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