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Comedian D.L. Hughley likes to say that Obama is who we want to be, but Trump is who we are. Hate to say this, but…I think he’s right. As I watched the whole damned Kavanaugh debacle unfold, I started to realize something really, really scary. The Left was being outplayed at every turn. And a whole lotta people were awfully happy about that. Damned happy, if the latest polls are right. CNN’s Julian Zelizer explained our big loss this way, as the countdown toward confirmation wound down: “There was also the vicious public relations effort from the GOP throughout the past few days. Even as they uttered some pleasantries about Ford’s testimony, many Republicans, including President Trump, questioned her credibility. President Trump went even further when he depicted this as some kind of last stand for white men against a vicious and slanderous #MeToo movement. “It’s a very scary time for young men in America,” he said, finally showing some empathy for someone.In other words, he reframed the narrative and turned what would be a crisis for most presidents into a political advantage. The us-against-the-world president transformed this nomination into a rallying cry for the midterms. This was the final argument for his base to come out and vote.” We Lefties just don’t know how to play that game. We come out in droves with our pussy hats on our heads and our hearts on our sleeves to bleat at people who move us around like chess pieces. And so, with the help of a hungry 24-hour cable news cycle that needed fresh meat to grind into “breaking news” all day and night, they cynically turned the Kavanaugh confirmation into a “he said/she said” story instead of an integrity issue. A story that let them give us what we said we wanted — an FBI probe — and then razz us for not being satisfied when we got it. And we didn’t know how to flip the script. We never do. I heard a show on NPR’s “Hidden Brain” today that explained how the poor can sometimes only see day-to-day needs, can only attend to what they don’t have and how to get more of it. While the rich, all fat and sassy, have the time and resources to bend the rules that the rest of us have to live by, ensuring that they will always have more than they need. Experts in several fields talked about how this applied to scarcity and plenty in all walks of life. Say, to those who are lonely to those who have too many friends. And to those who don’t sleep enough to those who get plenty of rest. In all of these cases, those experiencing scarcity can’t see beyond it. While those experiencing plenty can see for miles. There are other issues, serious ones that can be ugly and hurtful. But let’s stick to the up side for now. Those with plenty can make grander, more long term plans. Often increasingly Machiavellian ones. I think that’s where we are politically now. The power poor Left is always playing “catch up.” Always just trying to keep up. We don’t have the votes we need, so we’re always scrambling to make a way out of no way. We’re like the single mom living on a below minimum wage job who has to forget about the rent or credit card bills for a while just to make sure everyone eats. It’s all-consuming and exhausting and we’re so focused on the daily battles for survival that we can’t see beyond them. The Right, especially the McConnells and Hatches and Grahams et al, have the votes and, worse yet, decades of experience in playing this game. Like the rich folks they represent and protect, who send their money or fugitive relations to other countries where the laws will hide them safely away, the Old Right know how to circumvent rules and laws right here at home in ways we don’t have time to think of. Or invoke obscure ones we’ve never heard of to their advantage. Trump, who’s been running the Big Con for decades, is a perfect fit for their evil cabal. They admire the man, for being able to invent ruses and smoke screens even more diabolical than theirs. And they will do whatever he asks, having seen how skillfully he gets what he wants. Schooled by his mentor Roy Cohn, he is teaching them how to do this unapologetically, not just masterfully. That’s something very new to politicians trained to “suck up” whenever necessary. Trump does not say he’s sorry. For anything. Nor does he back pedal — for long. Someone may rein him in for a day or two, but as we learned last week, he always breaks free and returns to full “bull in a china shop” form. And from now on after this huge triumph, when the Lefties march, the Right will chortle and reminisce about the time those hapless “bullies” cornered Flake in an elevator and actually thought he was listening to them. Another NPR report asserted that Flake was not actually swayed by that elevator moment. He was apparently sincerely worried about Kavanaugh’s integrity in general, not just the sexual abuse charges, long before that. But he caved in the end. Knowing full well that the FBI investigation he’d asked for had been a sham. He used the “no corroborating evidence of sexual misconduct” ploy that the bogus investigation let all his Republican brothers and sisters hide behind. Probably telling himself he’d still “done the right thing” just by asking for the investigation in the first place. God knows how these people think. I try to tell myself that God also knows exactly why these people came to power. That the idea is to make the Left so damned uncomfortable and angry that we have to wise up and rise up. And then I think of Russia meddling with our elections. And then I look at all the gerrymandering going on that we won’t catch before the midterms. And I think about, as Bill Maher likes to say, who has the guns and guts to use them if the Left really does prevail someday soon. I’ve seen Trump get a crowd of sad and desperately angry white people burst into loud, derisive laughter by making fun of a woman who was probably sexually abused by the man he put on the Supreme Court to save his own ass. He doesn’t give a damn about those people. But he knows how to use them. We Lefties can’t do that. We won’t do that. Our minds just don’t go there. So instead of seeing the office as an opportunity for personal power and financial gain — and revenge against “enemies” real and imagined — some of our wealthiest presidents went Machiavellian for “good.” Bent the rules to help other people. People who didn’t have what they had. It’s so weird. One of the Roosevelts — I always forget which — used a cigar chomping bulldog of a man as cunning as McConnell to threaten a whole lot of politicians into helping him set aside the land that became the same National Park system Trump is now trying to set up uranium mines in. I know, right? In fact, millions of people are living off the bright ideas we used to have when we had the time and the votes and the moxie to come up with New Deals that lifted people out of poverty and gave everyone hope for a secure retirement. Trump and his relations only use “the art of the deal” to line his own pockets, often, as the New York Times proved recently, at the expense of the least fortunate among us, inflating expenses on rent-controlled apartments and worse. Here’s one horrific incident as reported by The Atlantic: In 1981, Trump scooped up a building on Central Park South, reasoning that the existing structure was a dump, but the land it was on would be a great place for luxury condos. Trump’s problem was that the existing tenants were — understandably and predictably — unwilling to let go of their rent-controlled apartments on Central Park. Trump used every trick in the book to get them out. He tried to reverse exceptions the previous landlord had given to knock down walls, threatening eviction. Tenants said he cut off heat and hot water. Building management refused to make repairs; two tenants swore in court that mushrooms grew on their carpet from a leak. Perhaps Trump’s most outlandish move was to place newspaper ads offering to house homeless New Yorkers in empty units — since, as Trump wrote in The Art of the Deal, he didn’t intend to fill units with permanent residents anyway. City officials turned him down, saying the idea did not seem appropriate. Typically, Trump also sued tenants for $150 million when they complained. Yeah. That happened. And he again proved just how low he could go — and how artfully he could dodge exposés like that — with the Kavanaugh confirmation. Dog whistling to all the men — and women — who think they’re the victims now. Of sexual and/or racial discrimination. Oh yes. If history is written by the victors as Churchill allegedly said, Trump Nation is re-writing or ripping out whole chapters. And turning the truth inside out. It’s kind of like how Trump decided the UN delegates were actually laughing with, not at him. And that despite all the huge protests over the past few days, women are not upset about being totally ignored and insulted. They’re on his side. Or the ones that matter are, anyway. And in case you haven’t noticed, a whole lot of people, including women, agree with him. Cause like the song says, everybody loves a winner. And we Lefties haven’t won one in a long, long time. So if that Blue Wave doesn’t materialize I won’t be surprised. But I will vote. I will make sure everyone I know votes. You do that, too. Let’s try to keep believing we don’t have to be who we seem to be right now. And that God’s got a breakthrough on deck, as we Christians like to say. Yeah, wipe that smirk off your face. We need a miracle of Biblical proportions right now, people. To send that Blue Wave flooding through the House and Senate while we ride the swells like Noah, waiting to step out on dry, safe land again. Kavanaugh Shows Us Just Who We Are Now was originally published in Extra Newsfeed on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
