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Donald Trump has utterly and completely failed as President. He has had help. The Republican Party has completely and utterly failed with him. I'm old enough to remember when the GOP was a functioning, governing party. Many mistakenly believe the failure of the GOP is just during the Trump era. It is not. It has been winding down for decades.

The GOP is like an alcoholic in his moment of despair who is hitting rock bottom.

In recovery, the rock bottom is the place where an alcoholic has a moment of clarity. A moment when the drunk looks at the mess of his life that his drinking has made. The alcoholic has three choices to make at rock bottom. One, to admit he is powerless and seek help for his addiction. Two, to have another drink and continue the spiral down. Three, to just end it all.

It appears the GOP opened a fresh bottle of cheap hooch and is continuing on the drunk as it tries to commit political suicide. The rock bottom will come for the GOP. I predict the rock bottom will come for the GOP on the evening of November 6, 2018, around 11 PM Eastern Time. That is election night and by that hour the election results of the mid-term elections should be in.

The Problem is the GOP doesn't believe in Government at all.

I was one of those who celebrated Ronald Reagan whose message of self-reliance and hard work without Government interference resonated. His comment that the scariest words in the English Language are "I'm from the Government and I'm here to help," resonated with many of us.

It's a great throw away line and it's wrong. It is a nice fantasy. The GOP has been infected with the Libertarian Virus. There is this notion that people only need minimal regulation in a complex society. They do have regulations they are in love with though. Their position is hypocritical. They want the full weight of the law to come down on abortion seekers and providers.

The GOP says they don't like Government regulations and it gets in the way of business and is job killers. Let me translate those words.

I'll use an example to help with the translation. The Volcker Rule states that if you own a big bank, you can't make risky investments that might blow your bank up. The GOP and the Banker's Association are having apoplexy over Dodd-Frank making the rule permanent law. It is much harder to get rid of a law than a rule.

That law helps protect us from another banking blow up. It also may keep the Wall Street gang from huge profits. To hear them tell the story, these high-risk investments that could trigger another financial crisis always pay off and they are missing out on huge profits. Let me get my hankie out for a good cry. I sort of feel like a strong financial sector is good for the nation. Keeping it from blowing up is in our best interests.

We live in a complex society and that means the rules are complex too.

The GOP has failed.

Fortunately for the USA, the GOP legislative agenda has failed. They have failed to repeal Obamacare. They have also failed to reach out to the Democrats to fix Obamacare's shortcomings. President Obama stated it is not perfect and would welcome efforts to fix its problems. There were no takers.

The GOP is setting itself up for failure with the 2018 budget. The heartless Paul Ryan announced yesterday there will be cuts in Medicare and Social Security. Nice fantasy, Mr. Speaker. Do you remember 2010, when Tea Party Candidate Sharon Angle had Senator Harry Reid on the ropes in the Senate race in Nevada? This is political suicide.

On the Sunday before the election with a lead in the polls, Ms. Angle went to a nursing home and told the residents that she was sorry, we just can't afford Social Security and Medicare and there will be cuts. Harry Reid beat her just two days later. When will they learn to not be stupid, don't mess with the old people?

We vote, and the Baby Boom Bubble is still large and formidable. We will vote them out of office. You can take that to the bank.

Donald Trump has failed and failed badly

He likes to have press conferences and say he has done more than any other President in history in a short time. It's utter nonsense. He signs executive orders and calls that substance. He has his kids running the country like some 3rd world despot with his family running the show. Despots are often paranoid and in their paranoid world, close family is the only people they can sort of trust.

Rex Tillerson runs around the world cleaning up the messes Trump's incompetent son-in-law makes. Meanwhile, the White House is being used as a showcase for Trump products. Does anyone else see the irony of Trump echoing "Made In America" from inside the White House this week, while his cheap clothing line is still made in China?

His major intiatives have been struck down by the Courts as un-Constitutional. If he wants to claim records, perhaps no president has been struck down so fast, so many times for trying to usurp people's rights.

What good can come out of this?

Swimming in a sea of failure, there are rays of hope in this dark time in America's history.

Maybe this will put an end to the USA flirting with Ultranationalism once and for all. Critics of Trump often call him a Neo-Fascist but he is not one. If he was Neo-Fascist, Congress would be dissolved and the opposition in jail. It doesn't mean he doesn't have the temperament to be one.

Trump and his base are Ultranationalists. It is a trend in the world today, and it is a disease of the far right. Ultranationalism is rampant in Greece. They scorn those who are not of Greek heritage in who live there. In the USA we put our own spin on the practice.

The Greeks use ethnicity to carry out persecution of minorities. Trump's base uses religion, race, and ethnicity as criteria to hate, scorn and persecution. Instead of screaming "spic" at Mexicans, they are building a wall. It is a more subtle form of the same thing. I heard a GOP County Chair in Kankakee, Illinois go off on Mexicans. I was embarrassed for her. Hating foreigners is part of the GOP narrative.

Maybe the USA will see populists are dangerous. Trump ran on populism. He reached out to poor, white, underemployed and unemployed males who are in dire straights. He made big promises to them that he would bring back their jobs. Early on, Carrier was lured back to USA shores at least for the press releases. They announced earlier this week they are cutting jobs in the USA again.

The Carrier deal has fallen apart. The automotive deal which Trump had nothing to do with but takes full credit for has fallen apart too. There is a common fantasy in politics that the Government controls the economy.

The Government only has minor control on business in the USA. We do not have a centrally planned economy. Those don't work and central planning by the Government of Industry is what the Soviets failed, and China has moved to a market-based economy.

The only job Trump can create is if he hires you to work at the White House. That's it. The rest of it is smoke and mirrors.

Maybe the GOP will wake up that the far right does not represent the majority views in America any more than the far left represent the majority views in America. There is a term in Politics "the tail wags the dog." That is what happened in the GOP with Religious Right and the Tea Party. The neocons, the moderates who were the backbone of the GOP and who looked for conservative solutions to problems in society are leaving. That is a brain drain on the party.

There is a message for the Democratic Party about embracing populism too. Minority ideological movements will destroy a political party. I think Democrats are smart enough to recognize that seeing who they overwhelmingly chose to be the party standard bearer in 2016. It was not a fringe candidate.

Maybe the champions of civil rights will be reenergized. The struggle has not ended. While the Trump base scoffs at Black Lives Matter, the new voter integrity initiative of Trump will highlight voter suppression. That is its purpose. Trump and his gang want to suppress minority voting in places like North Carolina whose voter suppression law was recently struck down by the Supreme Court.

Pundits are saying that Trump will damage the GOP for years to come. There was an editorial in the San-Diego Union Tribune yesterday that states how Trump may hurt the party in the long term. It is well worth reading. You can read the editorial by clicking here.

The lessons of the Trump failure is not just a lesson for the GOP. It is also a lesson for the Nation. It is a blue print for how an extremist view can hijack a major party and become ruthless. We can now see the dangers early on thanks to Trump.

I believe in the goodness of America. I believe in our people. It is why I came to the Democratic Party. At times we may be raucous and disorganized but we mean well. The GOP has embraced evil. I don't care how often they go to church and pray on their knees, what they are proposing to do is pure evil.

I believe the American Public will see its error of last November and will begin to correct our course in the midterm elections next year.

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