Where Were You…

There is a deep sickness in this land. https://t.co/DTBct4BCTt

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) June 26, 2021

...during the heyday of the  televangelists? Robert Tipton? Jim and Tammy Faye? Oral Robert, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson? I feel like I’m only scratching the surface. And that was just the latest iteration. Don’t get me started on populism, which gave us good things but also the enduring mess that is the Texas Constitution (and a lot of southern state governments since Reconstruction).  Or the first “Great Awakening” (not a fan), or the “second,” or the third. Not to mention racism, classism, sexism. This is just American history. The part we all live, the part we never admit is as American as mom and baseball and the Constitution.

And yet Robertson couldn’t win a primary (if memory serves), all those named are just footnotes (at best) to history, and Trump is no more likely to be re-elected than he is to be reinstated to the Presidency. He did a rally in an Ohio backwater so he won’t have an empty arena on camera, although nobody’s watching. GOP  consultants insist if 2022 is about Trump, Democrats win.

GOP consultants raise red flag about 2022 midterms: 'If they are about Trump, we lose' https://t.co/x06LHjMbgN

— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 26, 2021

Trump insists everything in the GOP is about Trump. 

This world contains all kinds of people. Even in America, the majority of them don’t like Donald Trump. He just still hasn’t figured that out yet.

Welcome to the world.