Trump isn\u2019t trying to interfere with the Mueller investigation, it is the \u201cseventeen Democrats\u201d employed by Mueller who are trying to unjustly accuse him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nSo here\u2019s the scary thing about this theory.\u00a0 If Trump is doing everything that he accuses others of doing, he\u2019s doing a whole lot of stuff that\u2019s bad.<\/p>\n
He sees in the actions of others the flaws within himself.\u00a0 He expects people to lie, cheat, steal, because in his life that\u2019s what he\u2019s done.\u00a0 He takes pride in his ability to \u201cplay the system;\u201d remember the quote \u201c\u2026I alone can fix the system, because I know it best.\u201d\u00a0 Part of Trump\u2019s allure as a candidate is the image of the great \u201cdeal maker\u201d who knew all the corners to cut to get the \u201cjob done.\u201d<\/p>\n
So he was elected President.\u00a0And we discovered that when Donald Trump looks at America, he looks in the mirror.\u00a0 What\u2019s good for Donald Trump is good for America, \u201cMaking America Great Again\u201d is really making Donald better again.\u00a0 That\u2019s what he does:\u00a0 in the tax cut bill, in pouring gasoline on the fire of polarization, on undermining American institutions from the FBI, to the Courts, to the Free Press.<\/p>\n
And the Republican leadership, overwhelmed by the power Trump tapped in the American electorate, accepted his leadership, and his image in the mirror.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t like the view; the fear and the prejudice, but they wanted the results.\u00a0 They wanted a generational control of the Courts:\u00a0 Mitch McConnell\u2019s dream of a \u201cFederalist Society\u201d dominated judiciary.\u00a0They wanted the tax cut; supported by all of their financial backers. And they wanted an end to \u201cObamacare\u201d \u2013 well you can\u2019t have everything!<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve had to accept the mirror image of Trump to get what they wanted.\u00a0 They paid a price at the polls last week, losing the House, the majority of state Governorships, and, in a slow motion \u201cblue wave\u201d slowly eroding what they thought was an ironclad Senate.\u00a0 It was an election about Trump, and while 46% of Americans chose to support his views, 53% voted against him.<\/p>\n
Want to know what\u2019s going to happen in the next two years?\u00a0 We now know Donald Trump, and we know that he will attack anything that threatens him, using any means necessary.\u00a0 Whether they go high or low, he goes to the bottom.\u00a0 Don\u2019t be surprised by anything:\u00a0 firing Mueller, attacking the Justice Department, declaring \u201cwar\u201d on the House of Representatives, refusing the courts.\u00a0 Whatever the \u201cgoals\u201d \u00a0to improve America of the Democrats in the House, or even the Republicans in the Senate, \u00a0we already know what’s going to happen.\u00a0 It\u2019s all in the mirror.<\/p>\n
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