{"id":90259,"date":"2026-07-23T10:33:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90259"},"modified":"2026-07-23T10:33:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:33:40","slug":"self-inflicted-wound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90259","title":{"rendered":"Self-Inflicted Wound"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve said it a time or two in the past &#8211; Trump is as Trump does. \u00a0I didn&#8217;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 &#8211; holding my nose because of his really terrible down-ticket performance. \u00a0Four years of Biden, and I didn&#8217;t hold my nose two years ago, hoping that his election-time hijinx would moderate a bit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, about that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve no doubt heard Trump endorsed Mike Lindell for governor. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes., once of Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Trump endorsed candidate for governor, Mike Lindell,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2026\/07\/22\/my-pillow-mike-lindell-proposes-deportation-moratorium-minnesota-governor-race\/\">goes wobbly on immigration<\/a>.&nbsp; Idiot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know, he didn&#8217;t actually call for amnesty, he called for a temporary moratorium so illegals could get legalized.&nbsp; That might have been a reasonable position a couple of years ago.&nbsp; 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,&nbsp;the Overton Window has shifted.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t want illegals to be legalized, I want them to be gone.&nbsp; All illegals, criminals, workers, families, all of them, gone, and cut off from all government money, welfare and scams alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mitch called it &#8211; Lindell is a terrible candidate and will go down in flames.&nbsp; I hate when that happens.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The race appears to be coming down to Lindell vs. Demuth &#8211; and between voters who think in terms of magical thinking about big statements, stories and proposals, and\u00a0<em>doing a dirty, ugly job well. \u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Which means negotiating, which in a divided government inevitably means compromise. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like Pawlenty before her, Demuth is a legislative leader. \u00a0And Demuth accomplished a\u00a0<em>lot\u00a0<\/em>in two years &#8211; stopping the DFL cold and elevating the fraud issue outside the legislative branch to the national stage. \u00a0It&#8217;s boring stuff with exciting results. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And she &#8211; and Qualls, for that matter &#8211; deserve. better than to have Trump plotz the entire race.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But here we are. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said it a time or two in the past &#8211; Trump is as Trump does. \u00a0I didn&#8217;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 &#8211; holding my nose because of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[471,2,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-26","category-minnesota-politics","category-mngop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90260,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90259\/revisions\/90260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}