I've tried, but I can't escape it.
Every time I get on X.com to check my daily news, I'm bombarded with posts and re-posts by Team Trump of some sparsely attended Kamala Harris rally with accompanying comments about how the paltry size of her crowds demonstrate her initial honeymoon phase is over and her popularity is cratering again.
More recently, those same voices are sharing their belief that "every single one" of the people at Harris' latest rally were actually actors paid by the DNC to be there.
The outlandishness and childishness of those charges almost make me set down my phone, but not before I scroll down far enough to see posts and re-posts by Team Kamala that depict a nearly empty gymnasium that I'm assured is, "just moments from when President Trump took the stage to speak."
I've read how, "Trump fatigue is real," and "the rats are fleeing the Republican ship."
It's like we're all being forced to re-live the elementary school playground with its mindless braggadocio, insane exaggeration, and childish, "Oh yeah, my dad can beat up your dad" taunts.
The caustic urination contest between the two sides is so annoying, so pointless, and so exhausting.
Last weekend, syndicated radio host Erick Erickson hosted his annual political "Gathering" in Georgia, interviewing significant political leaders on the right. One of those individuals was former Vice President Mike Pence who again reaffirmed his decision not to endorse his former boss in this cycle:
"For the reason that I cannot endorse this growing abandonment of our allies on the world stage that's taken hold in parts of our party," Pence told Erickson. "I cannot endorse ignoring our national debt that reached $35 trillion just in the last week. I cannot support marginalizing the right to life in our party as we saw in our national platform."
That seemed like a reasonable, reasoned, principled decision to me when I heard it. Pence sees a Trump-led Republican Party softening on its commitment to the sanctity of human life, permitting significant infringements on 2nd Amendment rights, featuring pro-abortion porn stars on stage at their summer convention, eliminating its allegiance to man-woman marriage, and says he doesn't want to reward those choices with his vocal support.
And for that, the former vice president is ripped by acquiescing Republicans for being a traitor to the cause.
What's astounding is that the same folks who criticize Pence for his concern over policy are some of the loudest voices currently blasting Kamala Harris for not having any policies listed on her website. But Harris' supporters couldn't care less. Just ask them:
They don't care if she has policy proposals, that she has flip-flopped on virtually everything she said she believed just two or three years ago, or, as NtB reported recently, that the one policy position she did announce, was just copied directly from Donald Trump:
In our political culture, we are going nowhere, real fast. Policy doesn't matter, and principles are for putzes.
