Backing Harris, as not Trump, and before that, backing Biden, as not Trump, it is as if posting to nobody with a vote.
The majority last November wanted Trump/Vance and so Trump/Vance nailed down the majority vote, and that entire story is unfolding at a very fast clip. Here is last 30 days readership statistics Google has for the Crabgrass blog -
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ME: Not a wealthy donor, nor an activist organizer/schmoozer, instead an old white guy with attitude along Bernie lines - not liking how healthcare is held over heads like a sword of , keeping folks tied to crappy jobs and, like a mortgage, making people pliant and accepting of paycheck to paycheck because getting by has only the alternative of not getting by and being hammered by finance.
For the great majority of people Trump/Vance note things as amiss, while the Democrats court this fringe, and that, to go with Black people, for a coalition willing to put up with what the Dem politicians are doing because what's their option?
That chart says a few U.S. people - a clear minority by the numbers - read Crabgrass, while foreigners without a vote to change things are more numerous readers. Globalism is fine, but not happening without the U.S. population taking a hit, and Trump/Vance stepped into a vacuum of pointing that out. And then the Replacement.
I admit to not reading Project 2025, who would it being very lengthy mean junk, but knowing enough of it to think it evil, and isolationist power tripping and sabre rattling - or being the big economic Sumo and flexing - is no answer to me. No help to me. No answer to me.
Hegseth, not wanting unending war with ongoing attrition, may be okay. But as an atheist, myself, who has not read Augustine nor the Epistles, nor Gibbons, and expecting Hegseth has not either, with JD having read Augustine, the Hegseth Crusader tattoos speak to me, and say watch out.
JD converting Catholic, is speaking to us of his outlook, while Francis is steering the Roman Church IMO better than his predecessors, my worry is JD may be less with Francis and more in mood with the predecessors.
Given that Trump is delivering what he threatened, if he and JD and crew do actual good for the standards of living of majority America, they will be okay. But will they?
It is all a frustration. An Ecclesiastic vanity. A blog that is read more than usual, but having no effect that matters on national political actualities, is frustrating, while writing ideas is not. Nobody with votes seem to care to see what I write, so, take a vacation from posting and protect one's head.
Patel and Bondi will do as told and Trump has an agenda they will follow, so over four years, with both Houses of Congress by bare majorities at the rapid-paced start, it will be strange and hostile times.
Importantly, neither party is "My Party." I approve Trump's decision to lessen threat to the world's economy by putting a smart economic mind there, and being a partial pacifist because he's an isolationist - but Elon - - - and his South African white minority biases is hard to take.
Crabgrass readership before the election was worth the chance it could make a difference. After the election there is sadness to the Democratic Party's meandering and treading water with a firm unwillingness to go populist-progressive while similarly unwilling to cut loose the entrenched DC money-suck crowd and reform itself. A crowd wanting favors and wanting to work the levers, but not earning favors nor access to the levers.
Ken Martin to head DNC on a first ballot does not speak to me of betterment on any major dimension. Just less of what was the worst at DNC, more of what Martin's been. Which could be wrong. Words are words, wins are wins. At least he's got somebody worried.
Better, but not good yet.
All that is heavy. Trump and JD won. Trump picks a Cabinet that is unimpressive in general, but his loyalists, which Biden did, and Bush - Chaney did too. We'll see.
Meanwhile, NBA news, what about Doncic being traded for Davis?
Why care of that? Well, with the casino lady buying into the Dallas franchise majority seat (and appearing to want to open gambling in Texas with that as a home base to work levers from) - why The Trade? Mark Cuban is now a minority ownership figure, not in the driver's seat anymore, and it appears to be a money-to-Doncic issue where, again, bigger by far wealth calls the shots, players getting a share. It's the American Way, basketball version, but signs of the times come at all levels, and it's really a sign. Musk buys Twitter, Adelson buys into the Dallas NBA franchise, each with a like-kind motive - to push wealth to run the world the way the wealthy want. A/k/a more of the same. It saddens.
So, take a break, see what befalls the lone voice from the wilderness, and keep the main motive of this one life to be continuing to suck air rather than croaking. Politics will move as it does, Crabgrass on vacation, or being a steady voice of distrust and reformation either way, the world still spins unchanged on its axis.
___________UPDATE___________
While blacks were as a bloc most impacted by DEI retractions, it would be remiss to close the blog for a period without mention of the U.S. and Russian decline in birth rates among white Euroethnic people, where JD and Putin agree a long term situation exists where notice needs to be taken.
JD faults the failure of single wage earner capacity to fund a majority of families forcing "dinks" (double income no kids) to proliferate to where barefoot and pregnant seems okay with some more than expected and females having career goals can suffer. Readers can research Putin worry over traditional Russian birth rate decline as well.
JD's family is anti-traditional to recent norms, but traditional to the 50s pattern of women not in the workforce after the war so men would have jobs and not be disgruntled veterans.
JD's spouse was in Yale Law School as capable as any of the students and had the big well-paying law firm job comparable to Michelle Obama, again readers can search out detail. JD's spouse is now raising the children while it is JD's career on the hot single-career burner. JD's success in venture capital "out west" being the anchor of the family's ability to make a single earner family feasible.
That is not critical of anyone's lifestyle capability or choosing, but stating a fact where in the last election the women's vote was mixed between careerist aims and double income needs, vs suburban homefront moms happy in single earner situations where it worked without a need for two earner structuring.
Those women deserving the most respect are those who single parent when they have to, and those able to handle both parenting and career growth. There were not enough of those two voting blocs, last election, to carry the Democratic Party to a win.
Again, the point is not to criticize, but to try to discern demographics that are unclear, but likely as analyzed. To the extent the analysis is oversimplified or dead wrong, apologies to everyone, as the UPDATE is-and-was never intended as criticism of anyone's life decisions and opportunities being structured as various voting individuals choose. But it seems true that an anticipated heavy women's vote against Trump failed to materialize as Democratic strategists hoped they would see.
Whether the post suffers from the UPDATE or not, there was too much chance that things could be saying the Democrats were dumb, when the fact is they read the Tarot cards wrongly, which was happening in an ambiguous voting situation.
Things now happen as they will, and the two parties seem more hostile to one another than has recently been the norm. Meaning there will be frictions, but one party has White House and both Houses of Congress - and SCOTUS in the back pocket, so that overbearing force is possible, even if a short-term win but long-term mistake. Both parties should make the best of co-existence, with no Reagan sized mandate at play, so we'll see.
FURTHER: Politico reported -
Martin looked to cement that [fighter] image in his first remarks to the press as chair on Saturday, after defeating Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler, who had the backing of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Turning from losers can't be a bad idea, and Jeffries and Schumer got it wrong. Which is to say the vote to head DNC went to Martin, first ballot, so we have to wish him well in moving forward to reorient the party's thinking to having an agenda that matters. Resonates even. If he has a little of Keith Ellison in him, it would help. Something is needed.
All for now. All for a while. Wish the nation well under Trump. He is our President.
One more thing -
NEXT ELECTIONS POLICY MATTERS! CRED MATTERS!
KEN MARTIN -- BUILD CRED. WORK WITH BERNIE, WITH AOC, WITH ELLISON, AND WITH WARREN TO PROMOTE MEDICARE FOR ALL, AND WIN!
TRUMP WILL OVERREACH AND FALTER. FOR NOW, PAY OUT ROPE. A TIME WILL COME.