That's a surprising amount of cash coming out of the West Coast for Trump, I guess people are way more fed up these days than it seems.
It goes hand-in-hand with what I consider to be the most-interesting group for the 2020 elections, and one that I've been keeping the closest eye on because
even pre-riots I'd wagered that his focus for the 2020 elections would be the inner cities, even so far as aiming for inner-city moderates
and Democrats. They're the groups that the Democrats generally consider to be a completely safe bet, but there's an aspect to all of this rioting that a lot of people are discounting: Not everyone in the inner cities is a rabid Antifa-devotee. In fact, that group is a minority.
When you look out of your window and you see people running up and down the streets, smashing cars and burning buildings and beating people over the head or even
outright murdering with little to no repercussions, and then you turn on the TV to see what the local politicians are saying, and all of them are calling them peaceful protests, it's the Summer of Love, Black Lives Matter, as a moderate you're going to be understandably annoyed,
bare minimum.
You're not allowed to go out to restaurants, you're not allowed to go to parks, not the gym, not the theater, not the bars, you just have to sit at home and
maybe go to work if you're lucky and your job wasn't shut down or your business wasn't torched, and watch all of these psychotic people have complete run of the town, most of them not even bothering to wear that mask that you
have to wear or you're not even allowed to shuffle into your nearest gas station.
Even if that moderate looks all the way "up the chain" to Joe Biden, he's not talking about the riots. I don't believe he even brought them up during his speech at the DNC. It might be infuriating to people on the outside who are way out in another state, but how do you think it feels to the people who are literally on the front lines, the people who are having
their neighborhoods torn down and looted? They're not even being completely ignored by their own politicians, their own politicians are
actively pushing their boot down against their throats, and it's all happening just a few months away from an election.
There's not going to be enough time to "cool off", even if all of the riots and all of the Kung Flu panic ended
right now, this will still be fresh on everyone's mind two months from now. I am
immensely interested in seeing what that group does when they walk into a voting booth and are faced with the options of the local politicians who allowed all of this to happen, the 'big guy' at the top who won't even
talk about it, or that loud-mouth who's promising to come down on these people like a box of hammers.
A lot of the reason that Trump won in 2016 is because Moderate Democrats walked into that booth and at the last minute went, "Fuck it, why not." The DNC has done nothing but distance themselves from people in the middle to the point where they outright insult them on a regular basis. People like me have been completely locked out of their platform. We're not wanted, we're not welcome, we're outright
detested, and that mindset has spread
deep into their cities now.
Inner-city moderates and inner-city Democrats are going to be a
very interesting group in this election.
