As I write this Thursday night with no “official” declared winner in the 2020 Presidential Election, I’m reminded of the time Richard Nixon issued his concession speech following his loss to Edmund G. “Pat” Brown (Jerry’s father) in the 1962 California Gubernatorial race.
Nixon admonished the press in attendance at the Beverly Hilton for their disproportionate negative coverage of his campaign, and that this was his “last press conference.” Of course it was not his last press conference, as he would be elected and then re-elected President in 1968 and 1972, respectively. Nonetheless, he told reporters, “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore …”
The 1972 election was the greatest Presidential Election landslide in history, with Nixon winning every state in the Union with the exception of Massachusetts. The joke at the time was Nixon appointed Teddy Kennedy as his Ambassador to Massachusetts.
A few months later marked the beginning of the end for “Tricky Dick.” Something called “Watergate” became the final chapter in Nixon’s political life.
As a historian, I can tell you that Donald Trump is no Nixon, as the latter was the last liberal to occupy the White House. Nixon was the last President who created and sustained big-government, as well as FDR-New Deal-type social and economic programming, implemented an aggressive interventionist foreign policy, and fostered an activist federal court system.
The reality is that Richard Nixon would not be welcome in today’s Republican Party, or for that matter, the contemporary Democratic Party. Both parties are pimps for Globalism which is the main threat to our system of government.
Trump was never a threat, menace or danger to the constitutional underpinnings of our democratic republic. But these One-Percenters are, as they have no allegiance at all to our country, or any nation for that matter. In fact, their raison detre is a borderless, govermental-less world. In a stateless world, they would be free to conduct their business at will. Ironically, Trump the Businessman was a threat to Globalism, albeit on a limited scale, but he did more to fight the One-Percenters than either Republicans or Democrats.
In fact, campaign finance documents show that Wall Street has lavishly bestowed $57 million on Biden and only $13 million to Trump. Does that square with Biden being the defender of the Little Guy, the Worker, the Middle Class? What’s Wall Street know about Joe that the rest of us don’t?
As pointed out by the Brookings Institute, “Trump’s embrace of bilateral negotiations is borne out of his understanding of the global economy as a zero-sum conflict. From this starting point, it follows that the key question in assessing any trade deal is not whether it creates overall economic gains, but how its benefits are distributed between countries—who’s getting the biggest slice of the pie … in previous trade negotiations, and particularly talks involving several different countries, U.S. negotiators have allowed other countries to gain at America’s expense. But in one-on-one negotiations, Trump suggests the U.S. will have greater leverage and thereby be able to capture a greater share of the gains from any agreement.”
Although I’m a Democrat, I keep my distance from today’s Dem Party that rabidly supports Globalism, immerses itself in identity politics, slavishly practices oh so politically correct buffoonery, and persists in its long-time sellout of workers and the rapidly disappearing middle class.
As I’ve said before, all the pundits have it wrong who have diagnosed the Trumpster as a fascist or xenophobic nationalist. Hell, he couldn’t even spell fascist if his life depended on it.
In fact, he’s not even a politician, and he’s definitely not a statesman.
For the past century, the cry emanating from the business community has been, “What this country needs is a businessman in the White House!”
Well, we’ve had one now for four years.
How’s that worked out?
We’ve also had the best-to-offer Republicans and Democrats hold the Nation’s Highest Office preceding Trump.
How’s that worked out?
As I predicted last Spring, lawyers from both parties will once again be arguing the intrcacies of ballot tabulation before the Supreme Court.
Political polls, as I told you last week, and numerous times in years past, are worthless. They all showed that Trump was the deadest of doornails, with Biden the winner in a wipeout. And yet, paraphrasing the 2016 Hillary Clinton once ballots were counted, “those damned Deplorables, clinging to their religion and guns have screwed everything up again.”
Actually those Deplorables are no more theological or gun-toting than their familial predecessors were in the Great Depression who forged an alliance with someone who actually gave a damn about their plight — Franklin Delano Roosevelt. A man who understood my definition of leadership: You have to know how to lead yourself before you can lead others.
Roosevelt brilliantly accomplished two things simultaneously.
He dragged the capitalists — the Wall Street Sharpies — who caused the world-wide depression — kicking and screaming into the very same long-term economic recovery program(s) that saved working people and the middle class from economic extinction. He actually saved capitalism from destruction by capitalists.
Socio-economic polls — which if conducted properly, are very reliable — show that the number one fear of common folks in this country is the negative, long-term financial impact of the Pandemic. Those with lower incomes and children at home are especially fearful of the future.
There is also a general malaise amongst workers and the middle class about the real fear, verging on certainty, of being left behind in this new age of Globalism.
That’s why this country is split right down the middle over this Presidential Election featuring Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
That’s why they can count and re-count ballots until the cows come home, but nobody believes the other side is looking out for them. So behind closed doors folks on both sides tell themselves it won’t make any difference who’s declared the winner.
And you know something, both sides are right.
Jim Shields is the Mendocino County Observer’s editor and publisher, and is also the long-time district manager of the Laytonville County Water District. Listen to his radio program “This and That” every Saturday at 12 noon on KPFN 105.1 FM, also streamed live: http://www.kpfn.org
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