Conservatives must have really taken the 2018 election results hard because their responses since have been pretty weak and insincere.
Just not feeling it like I used to...almost as if the wind being taken out of their sails can focus the attention to the big holes in the boat, with the biggest hole being the intellectual bankruptcy of their governing ideology. I think they truly believed there would be a #Walkaway, and that the economy would be growing by leaps and bounds. Neither is/was the case, though. Even they're recognizing that this economy is total weak sauce, and they seem unable to defend it on any terms other than "3% growth!"
Is it really 3% growth? Who's seeing the growth? It's not the market because that's down for the year. It's not wages for 90% of workers because those are also down. It's not in jobs because this is the weakest year of job growth since 2011. It's not in housing either.
Yeah...I'm not feelin' it from Conservatives and haven't since election day.
The magic is gone.
I cannot imagine what it is like to be a member of a political party who feels obligated to defend Trump, George Dumbya Bush, Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin, Donald Rumsfeld.
It took about six years, but on this forum I noticed that posters who spent countless hours defending George Bush seemed to eventually have realized how preposterous it was to continue to defend Dumbya and the Iraq War.
There is some kind of threshold even barely educated conservatives reach.
At this point, it is plain as day to any sentient being that Donald J. Trump is the stupidest, most dim-witted, least informed, most petulant, least articulate, least capable, and most arrogant person that has ever been allowed to occupy the office of the presidency.
By a country mile.
I do not know how one can even have a shred of self-respect in spending countless hours on an obscure message board vainly defending this incompetent, popular vote-losing Orange Pig.