That's why I'm not the least bit worried about November. The media
wants me to be afraid. They want to throw out polls like a 60% disapproval rating for Trump. They want me to think Trump's negotiation skills are failing because they broke every journalistic principle they had to leak off-the-record comments. Polls want me to think that the GOP incumbent in my district is doomed because some far-left Regressive won the Democratic primary, despite the fact that the GOP incumbent has won his past two elections by 20%.
It won't change anything, and it won't work, because I remember
The Meltdown. Not
that Meltdown, the one just before it. See, here's what the media was doing in late 2016 to people in the middle of the aisle who were paying attention to them. If you want to sell someone on an idea, sell them on the idea as if its
already happened, not the idea itself. The media wasn't trying to convince anyone when it came to the idea of Trump losing. Trump losing was an
absolute certainty. No, they were trying to convince people of what would happen
after Trump lost.
The media was
bombarding people with the notion that after Trump lost, all of his supporters would take to the streets kicking and screaming and rioting. Not if,
when. It was supposed to be a meltdown of epic proportions, and they were so sure of themselves that they founded a new Subreddit
specifically to cover it:
/r/The_Meltdown. /r/The_Meltdown
did end up serving its purpose. It catalogued one of the most-ridiculous, mind-bending meltdowns ever recorded in this country, but it wasn't the one that they wanted, and then the moderators abandoned it once all the Trump supporters filed in and started tap-dancing on the corpse.
We're a year-and-a-half forwards from then, so what's changed? The methodology of the polls still haven't changed: Oversampling Democrats, polling registered instead of likely voters, flat-out fudging the numbers at every opportunity. There's been truckloads of faux gaffs of GOP candidates hyped by the media which have shown to be bullshit with literally
two minutes of research. It's the exact, same pattern all over again. Just you watch: in October, the Left will start talking about how the Right will meltdown when the Democrats retake the house and start impeachment proceedings.
They're walking right down the exact, same road and they're expecting me to buy this bullshit for a second time after the first time failed catastrophically?
I'll pass, thank you.
