Trump’s election catastrophe lessons: don’t end failed Iran war; don’t end demonization of Democrats

 Trump’s election catastrophe lessons: don’t end failed Iran war; don’t end demonization of Democrats

 

President Trump learned two self destructive lessons from the massive congressional defeat he suffered ten days ago.

 

The first lesson is his deranged belief he won his failed war that made life so unaffordable for his MAGA base that they voted out his Republican majority in the next Congress. But even tho Trump knows he cannot defeat Iran, cannot open up the Strait of Hormuz, cannot resume normal flow of Middle East oil, cannot bring down energy prices, he simply declared victory and moved on.

 

“We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!”

Trump doesn’t have one dollar of their money for American use. It’s held in banks overseas and it’s only about a hundred billion, not “hundreds of billions.” Most preposterously, Trump doesn’t have the Strait of Hormuz and never will. He’s not relaunching all out war to open it up because he knows Iran will prevail just like they did during his failed 40 day bombing campaign begun February 28 that decimated US Gulf State bases. If Trump does resume all out bombing, Iran will eliminate remaining Middle East oil infrastructure, and he knows it.

 

Trump’s second self destructive lesson from the election is that he must continue his degrading fear and loathing campaign against Democrats to retain the dwindling MAGA base which is disappearing before his disbelieving eyes. “I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S. The Blue States, such as Minnesota, California, Illinois, and many more, are all poorly run, corrupt disasters”

 

 

Vice President Vance’s complete and total attention will be focused instead on distancing himself from a clearly disintegrating president. Vance will ignore Trump’s edict t to follow Trump down the rabbit hole of madness attacking imagined big city Democratic criminality as a sensible way forward for Republicans. Vance is desperate to remain a viable presidential candidate in ’28, not a footnote to Trump’s place in historical political infamy.

 

The election demonstrated that the electorate, including much of MAGA, has moved on from Trump’s delusions. They want his criminal war ended, his degrading attacks on Democrats ended, domestic problems addressed and solved.

The question remains: will the trimmed down Republican congressional caucus finally break free from politically weakened Trump to join a bipartisan effort to seek peace and uplift the commons?

  

 

Walt Zlotow West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL