Trump’s triumph or tarnish week

Ironically in Middle America, the famous rust belt and from where populist politics spawns votes, it is in those inner states that constitute Trump’s loyal ‘forgotten men.’

In the last two weeks as the United States Democratic Party congressmen at the Lower House, emboldened by bloodlust, doggedly pursued to impeach Donald Trump on a single article of “Abuse of Power” — a matter that decidedly tarnishes his record — he had ironically recorded his best and most productive week in his presidency.

Irony seems to be the defining trait of the Trump presidency.

Never mind the negative impact on an economy that has never seen it so good in at least a lifetime. And never mind what the Founding Fathers had expressly intended in the American Constitution. And to be specific, never mind still that an impeachment without due process and bipartisanship does not count for much beyond tarnishing records. And finally, like a bonfire of the vanities, never mind that an impeachment at the Lower House remains incomplete without an impeachment trial at the Senate and thus, in the final analysis, after mainstream media and cable news networks ejaculate to themselves, all these fail to remove the accused from office as the Senate is the true adjudicating body.

The yin and yang dichotomy has always been characteristic of the Trump presidency from the time he decided to run for the highest office from the outside, not against the notorious Washington D.C. swamp, but from beyond the traditional political hierarchy.

Note the deep dualities that characterize Donald Trump.

Where the Democrats populate the swamp and draw their strength from the coastal communities of California and San Francisco in the west and New York State and New York City in the east, thus armed from both coasts, ironically in Middle America, the famous rust belt and from where populist politics spawns votes, it is in those inner states that constitute Trump’s loyal “forgotten men.”

The irony in the foregoing is that Trump is a billionaire who made his money from the eastern coastal states that are Democratic bailiwicks. The obvious irony is that Trump should have been more comfortable with the wealthy who fund the super political action committees that nourish and feed the Democratic Party.

Part of the irony of Trump was when he challenged everything that was even remotely establishment. One of these was the Washington DC Democratic cabal represented by Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation and their billion-dollar political action committees. When he ran in the Republican primaries, not only did Trump have no previous political experience, but he seemed to loathe it. Not only did he also not have a need for fund raising, he financed himself and thus was not beholden to anyone.

Not being beholden, and not being politically correct allowed him tremendous leeway to achieve for the economy what he had achieved as he did not have to worry of being indebted. Yes, he was uncouth, and even disrespectful. His manner was unpresidential. He insulted. He treated everything like a deal. Admittedly, all these were antithetical to the traditional and conventional.

Unfortunate for the establishment and the Democrats, middle America had had enough of the traditional and conventional insincerity and lying so associated with establishment politicians.

Ironically, in its place they seemed to go for Trump’s uncouth, ill-mannered and disrespectful authenticity.

Poll the states that determine the presidency. Analyze the crashing ratings of media networks like CNN, and its anchors Don Lemon, Anderson Cooper and Chris Cuomo where two out of these three had to fend off criticism and censure nearly landing them in fights and fisticuffs.

The polls have risen steadily for a second Trump term in the swing states that actually determine the presidency. As for CNN, even at primetime, the network is hard pressed to attract a million viewers while Lemon and Cuomo were the center of open criticism as they went about in malls and bars.

The Lower House impeached Trump last week but it was also when economic indices were highest and Trump’s poll ratings the most positive thus far. Both rendering the Democratic primaries irrelevant.