Self-Inflicted Wound
By Mitch Berg
I’ve said it a time or two in the past – Trump is as Trump does. I didn’t vote for him in 2016, but he impressed me enough to figure he was worth holding my nose and voting for him in 2020 as the lesser of two evils – holding my nose because of his really terrible down-ticket performance. Four years of Biden, and I didn’t hold my nose two years ago, hoping that his election-time hijinx would moderate a bit.
Yeah, about that.
You’ve no doubt heard Trump endorsed Mike Lindell for governor.
Joe Doakes., once of Como Park, emails:
Trump endorsed candidate for governor, Mike Lindell, goes wobbly on immigration. Idiot.
I know, he didn’t actually call for amnesty, he called for a temporary moratorium so illegals could get legalized. That might have been a reasonable position a couple of years ago. But after the craziness of attacking ICE officers, billions lost to fraud, and Walz actually pardoning a child molester to keep him in the country, the Overton Window has shifted.
I don’t want illegals to be legalized, I want them to be gone. All illegals, criminals, workers, families, all of them, gone, and cut off from all government money, welfare and scams alike.
Mitch called it – Lindell is a terrible candidate and will go down in flames. I hate when that happens.
Joe Doakes
The race appears to be coming down to Lindell vs. Demuth – and between voters who think in terms of magical thinking about big statements, stories and proposals, and doing a dirty, ugly job well. Which means negotiating, which in a divided government inevitably means compromise.
Like Pawlenty before her, Demuth is a legislative leader. And Demuth accomplished a lot in two years – stopping the DFL cold and elevating the fraud issue outside the legislative branch to the national stage. It’s boring stuff with exciting results.
And she – and Qualls, for that matter – deserve. better than to have Trump plotz the entire race.
But here we are.
