Does ‘civility’ mean we’re heading toward MAMA again?

Are we headed for a left-wing ‘Make America Mediocre Again’ trajectory?

In a great article today, Victor Davis Hanson compares the President’s effort to ‘Make America Great Again’ to the regrettable results seen in the Western classic ‘Shane‘.

In the movie, a reformed gunfighter reluctantly uses his skills to protect the peaceful but vulnerable sodbusters trying to farm, from vicious cattlemen intent on driving them out.

As Mr. Hanson notes, in November 2016…

“…the public turned to Trump, despite his lurid personal history…But as the centrists of the suburbs showed in the recent midterm elections, those who saw Trump as necessary in 2016 may now see him as optional in 2018 – and probably because of his successes rather than his failures. In other words, good times allow well-off voters to forget bad times. Success breeds options. They are freed to turn their attention to…controversial means that had achieved for them their desired ends.”

Shane took up his gun to fight a hired gunslinger (Wilson) who had already murdered a sodbuster who dared stand up to him even though woefully unskilled. The movie ends with a wounded Shane riding off into the sunset…no gratitude given him for his help.

President Trump has stood strong against Swamp detractors using combative tactics he’s known for; and though he has won most of the fights, he hasn’t gone untouched.

It remains to be seen if his supporters regret ‘controversial means’ used to achieve the ‘desired ends’…we contend many past failures called for the controversial measures.

In the end, will the President ride into the sunset…ostracized by an ungrateful Nation?

High unemployment, stagnant wages, sagging slow-growth GDP, ankle-biting foreign nations – is Make America MEDIOCRE Again really that attractive an alternative?

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