Over the weekend I saw a short news clip of a reporter interviewing attendees at a “Tax March” in CA. They were asked what they were protesting. Several gave various incantations of Trump is not their president, but one woman apparently had read the full march organizers’ talking points, judging by her list of invective against Trump and demands that he release all his tax returns. This woman claimed President Trump is breaking the law by not releasing his tax returns.
She is wrong, of course, as there is no legal requirement that presidential candidates release their tax returns, although there is a tradition.
In typical leftist fashion, the Tax March came with its own symbolic gesture – the Trump chicken:
“Tax March, it turns out, also has an unofficial mascot: a giant inflatable rooster known colloquially as “Trump chicken.”
A Seattle-based illustrator completed a design in November for a company that wanted a statue for the Chinese New Year to commemorate the Year of the Rooster. The original 23-foot fiberglass statue was installed outside a shopping mall in northern China at a time when relations between China and the United States were especially strained.
An activist in San Francisco later came up with the idea of buying replica inflatable chickens for use in the Tax March, Ms. Taub said. She said the chickens were a “good symbol” for the march, both because she said Mr. Trump was too scared to release his tax returns, and because the chickens are more fun and entertaining than tax policy.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/15/us/politics/tax-day-march.html?_r=0
Most Americans live in a reality-based world, so they’re not paying any attention to the Left’s Trumper tantrums anymore. These marches aren’t galvanizing millions of mainstream Americans to take to the streets.
Most Americans have accepted that Donald Trump is the President of the United States and even within the Left’s ranks there’s discord and growing disagreement about how to counter Trump and his agenda.
Far beyond the rancor of partisan politics in America, the very fact that most Americans still believe in following The Constitution and haven’t been swayed by the Left’s relentless efforts to overturn the 2016 election, through massive mass media propaganda efforts, sparks hope for America’s future.
Despite all the dumbing down in America’s schools and despite the wasteland of American culture, that most Americans still believe in playing by the rules makes me optimistic for America’s future.
Perhaps, the 2016 Presidential Election will turn out to be both, a pivotal and a positive, to borrow the Left’s catchphrase… teachable moment.
I am hoping for many more.
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