Post Inauguration Week: The First Day

Did Joe Biden's first week disappoint us? Did Joe Biden let us down? Check out PJM Stephen Kruiser's review of the bloody first five days. By god, sir, no Joe Biden did not let us down. In fact, he exceeded our expectations. Well done, sir. Well done indeed. All is proceeding as we have foreseen. Now in casa de Stroock we refer to Kamala Harris as '47.

But let's talk. It's been 32 years since a GOP won a clean, solid 'the country likes what it see's and wants more of it' victory. That's nineteen freaking eighty-eighty, people. Nineteen eighty-eight. For you older reader(s) that's like people in 1988 talking about Eisenhower's reelection. Get it? 

[Wooooooowwwww....or Antony Eden-Ed]

Exactly.

In that same time the Dems won clean victories in 1996, 2008, and 2012. They stole 2020 of course. Reader(s) know 81 million people didn't vote for Joe. But even in 2016 the Dems still got three million more votes than the GOP. Ok, to be honest we think that three million Dem lead A), comes from California and 2), was probably fake anyway. Still....

We don't want to hear about smashing GOP congressional and state victories in 1994, 2002, 2010 and almost certainly 2022. It just doesn't matter that much. The GOP can't seem to win. This blog has some ideas, but it's nothing reader(s) won't have heard before. Whatever we're doing, we're doing it wrong.

Vehicles

Both William F. George and William Kristol have recently talked about Mr. Trump being the end of the GOP as a 'vehicle for conservatism'.

Whether or not that's true, I couldn't say. But the idea is endemic of the problem with modern conservatism.

We've talked about the problem in this space before but it deserves discussion again because its why we're in this mess.

Over the last twenty years conservatives have had this great ideology with ideas about school choice, enterprise zone, pro-growth tax rates, etc, etc...Works great in elections, right guys? This is why Mitt Romney is cruising to re-election and W. won a pair of landslides.

Look guys, no one cares about the ins and outs of public vs private garbage collection. William F. Buckley got that. Paraphrasing now, 'You guys worry about garbage collection, I'm going to save the world from communism.'

Now, the other fatal flaw we, not they, we, because I am certainly with George and Kristol, is the deification of Reagan. Hey, he was always president when I was a kid. So I tread lightly here. But you know what everyone remembers about Reagan? That's right, Morning in America and There's a Bear in the Woods. He had a few simple, strong ideas he conveyed. What were Romney's ideas? What about W's. Hey how about Bobdole?

Mr. Trump is doing the same thing. What do we remember? Crooked Hillary, Build a Wall...you know what your getting with Mr. Trump.