What is really at stake

Yesterday was another one of "those' kind of days.  The irritation I felt was a lot like what I felt when Mueller was hired.

At that point last year, I decided to chill out, but here we are again.

Funny thing how you can get irritated with the people you should be agreeing with.  Trouble is, I don't have confidence in their methods.  Perhaps this is the source of my irritation.

Take this Betsy Newmark person.  She writes about how the GOP needs to expand its appeal.  Guess what?  I have no problem with that statement.  The problem is with how people like her propose to do it.  It seems to me that their proposition is Democrat Lite.

Democrat Lite isn't going to work.  Democrats want real Democrats.  Copying the other side is a sure fire recipe for defeat.  There needs to be an alternative that is truly an alternative.

The real issue here dividing the GOP is immigration.  You can pretty much forget about all of the "civility" stuff.  That is trivial in importance in comparison with the larger issues.  Russia is another one of those fake issues.  Our problem is fakery.  We don't seem to want to square up to the problem, so there are those of us who focus on these phony issues.

An example of that could be obtained from history.  There were those who disapproved of General Grant.  They may have preferred a McClellan type general, who comported himself according to their standards.  However, Lincoln overlooked Grant's problems, because he knew that Grant could win, and that McClellan wouldn't.  McClellan eventually ran as an opponent to Lincoln in his conduct of the war.  If McClellan got his way, the Union would have been dissolved.

The question is this:  what is your TRUE objective?  You don't really care about those trivial items, but you don't want to actually say it.  What you really prefer is that immigration be unlimited and unregulated.  Per the example above, Lincoln wanted results with respect to winning the war.  I think Trump can get results on the conservative agenda, but he can't if the party is divided against itself.  The never Trump wing will never agree with his immigration proposals.  Nor will they agree with his trade proposals.

Let's be honest here.  Trump could become a star pupil of a charm school, but it wouldn't make any difference in the real issues.  This civility stuff is baloney.

What they want more than anything is to remove Trump because of substantive disagreements, not over the phoney baloney civility stuff.