How can I be sanguine with Trump in the White House?

President Donald J. Trump makes my best friend, an old-time liberal, sick to his stomach.

Literally physically ill. Can’t bear to watch him, or listen to him.

How can you remain so sanguine?, he asks me.

I don’t hate Trump. I don’t hate Joe Biden. I don’t hate any American politician, although I come close to it with Rep. Ilhan Omar, for her ingratitude to the country that pulled her scrawny ass out of a refugee camp, and also for her proven anti-Semitism.

Trump is an anomaly. He is temporary. He is a bi-polar symptom of the disease, which is Democratic wokeism.

Just now some, but not enough, Democrats are beginning to engage in introspection, asking “How could we lose to him?”

They are confused, they don’t know whether to turn to the middle, or go farther Left. (Stu says, Don’t do that!” Read the goddamn room!”)

The world has changed. You have too many positions that are out of step, not just with Americans, but with much of the so-called civilized world.

Back to Trump. Why am I sanguine?

Because I believe we have a self-correcting democracy, that Trump will go too far.

The crazier he gets, the more people will fall off his bandwagon.

I have seen green shoots, just a few, here and there, of people in red MAGA hats, peeling away.

Some can’t believe Trump said Ukraine started the war. They may not like it, they may not support it, but they know Russia started it. Everyone does. 

Some may think, with cause, our government is bloated, but some are getting the heebie jeebies about the way Elon Musk is wielding the chain saw.

Him swinging that thing will be in many Democratic campaign videos next year.

A lot of the fired bureaucrats voted for Trump. Will they be voting Republican? No. And the more he fires, the more votes he loses.

Midterm elections almost always go against the party in power. I am not sticking my neck out too far to predict Trump, with a three-vote majority, will lose the House in the next election, effectively tying his hands.

See why I am sanguine?

One more thing: Trump’s first month was a master class in swamping the opposition. Anyone who denies it is a fool, or suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Unlike many of his other critics, I am willing to concede he has done some things right.

Such as?

He has sealed the border, which should  be sealed.

Although he first blew off Covid, when he finally came to his senses, he ordered Operation Warp Speed that saved many lives. He beheaded the ISIS Caliphate. He attacked Political Correctness, woke and biological men competing against women in sports. He invented the Space force. He created the Abraham accords.

When he turned on the fire hose of executive orders, he knew they would run into roadblocks.

He is counting on a conservative-majority U.S, Supreme Court to have his back.

That is a mistake.

The majority are “textualists,” or “strict constructionists,” meaning they believe what the founders wrote is what they believed and how they wished us to be governed.

One of the things they believed, and feared, was a too-powerful chief executive.

Yes, I know the Supremes gave the President limited immunity for what he does in carrying out his (or her) duties. The President already had it.

But when Trump tries to expand his power beyond what the Constitution says, the Supreme Court, the people of the book, will stop him. Not in every case, but in the important ones. 

That is why I am sanguine. I believe in the exquisite checks and balances of the Constitution. 

Could I be wrong?

Yes, I could. But until then the loony left should stop screaming about coups, and dictatorships, and fascists, because it is not ringing the chimes of the vast majority of Americans.