Map courtesy of Google. The Copper State, Arizona, USA.
Phoenix is a terrific place to give rallies. Sky Harbor Airport is easy in and out. Descend to ascend. TFG did nearly ten rallies in Arizona, a state considered a battleground state by the GOP, a purple state that broke for Biden in 2020. It’s hard to forget as the nearly ceaseless recounts demanded only finding more ballots for Biden. Arizona is the state in which Sidney Powell refined her Dominion spiel, for which she is being sued for one billion plus dollars by Dominion for defamation. There has been a lot of bother in Arizona. It’s by the way, a state that is receiving plenty of new residents from California. The reason most cited is that Arizona is a beautiful state with natural beauty.
MAGA wants AZ. They want it bad. They think it’s easy pickins. It’s not.
Kari Lake is at the top of the ticket as governor wannabe against Katie Hobbs, a Democrat already in state politics as Secretary of State.
Kari is one of the women that Trump supports and she has all the correct attitudes and has learned the MAGA talking points. A former Democrat she is running on the Republican ticket. Her previous work is primarily as a television talking head, having much in common with other candidates whose skills dovetail into the performative nature of the party.
To be clear, the GOP platform includes candidates showing a united front that violence will follow voting that doesn’t go the Republican way. Election results will be attacked with speculation and no proof in a 2020 post voting reprisal. Lake has been coy in answering about accepting election results. Also included as general banter is the continued general trashing of America, verbal and literal. There is no delicate or friendly way to put it. MAGA is more violent every day in who and what they support. This violent leaning is part of the party now along with the outlandish and constant lies. It is progressing down a road we have seen before only one hundred years ago, it’s paved the same way as the road to Nazi Germany.
Trump is not on the ballot anywhere yet he is everywhere as the captor of the party. Ask Rep. Liz Cheney if he was handed the keys or if he stole them. She will tell you there is no Republican candidate that has successfully distanced themselves from him. It is the end of their political career to try. The party has succumbed to being taken. Their power has been transferred to TheDonald. It is the first step in being handed the country if we can’t stop it. He wants the country to go to h, e, double hockey sticks for most of us. Remember waiting for “Infrastructure Week”? Biden is getting that done instead. For American Hitler, his best and closest friends, things should be much better, even fine but does not take into consideration climate change.
It’s fortunate we still have time to choose. The balance of power has not yet completely shifted but many see this 2022 election decision as the tipping point. Many Republicans are looking to the Democratic Party to take the wheel for a beat as rhetoric escalates daily in MAGAland from the top and the rest are kept scrambling to keep up with the threatening posture.
With todays acknowledgement by most media that Donald J. Trump has revealed himself to be what we already know, an antisemite. The political right in general pushes daily, viciously on everything the left cares about and calling it “woke” disparaging things like empathy and self care and instead elevating gun ownership ignoring mass shootings and glorifying the shooters. Will we see another year of Christmas cards in the news with festive displays of guns and ammo with the kids, pets and Granny or can we start to have a good time again? Thoughts of fun may be way too hopeful.
That’s enough depressing stuff. Voting has begun if you’re the mail in type. Otherwise November 8, 2022 is your day at the polls. Vote and let it be a fun and hopeful day.
Vote. Thank you. It’s a Tuesday.