Once again, it's hard to believe my last post was in early November, prior to the election. Quite a bit has happened since the election and it did prove to be the end of the line for the Trump Administration. The election results were disturbingly closer than I expected, but thankfully a few states came through to turn the tide for President Biden. Although not particularly shocking, my home state of Florida did go for Trump and I was disappointed that it wasn't even close yet also not shocked given the number of Trump signs I saw prior to Election Day.
Needless to say, the displays after the election were terrible. The challenging of the Electoral College by sitting Members of Congress was a massive disappointment and continued to back up my feelings of disgust for our sitting lawmakers, both Democrat and Republican. And then the rampage on the Capitol was something that I could not even imagine happening during my time working as a lobbyist. I've stood near the spot where the woman was shot. The fact that a sitting President encouraged this mob is the cherry on the sundae of the past four years as our society continues to disintegrate into something that I find to be unimaginable. And yet we saw the birth of some of this with Bush v. Gore in 2000 and the first time we heard the term "Red State/Blue State" and what they represented.
I wish Presdient Biden well although I remain concerned that he is already governing far more to the left than I would like. We'll see how that works out. Amazingly, while the Mainstream Media predicted massive Republican defeats, the GOP actually gained several seats in the House and might have held onto the two Georgia seats if the activities of January 6, and how President Trump responded, had not taken place. To me it shows the real will of many, disgust with Trump but not endorsing a massive Progressive change in our governing. Will Democrats overreach? It's pretty likely they will. Will the voters punish them in 2022 like they did to President Obama in 2010? Quite possibly. We'll just have to see how it plays out.
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