Trego's Mountain Ear

I picked up the mail, and the return address said President Donald J.  Trump.  Still, the red, white and blue of the stamp, along with the nonprofit org print did a good job of showing me that the letter wasn’t going to be offering any cabinet position. 

I wasn’t particularly hurt to find that my letter from Trump wanted me to send a check to the RNC today.  I have to admit, I never counted myself so wealthy that the Donald would be sending me a letter asking for a handout.  Flattering it is, I suppose, that he calls me a Republican grass roots leader – but I’m already committed to casting my vote in opposition to my local republican representative.  Not because he’s a bad person, but because he now has a record of voting against my best interest.  Sorry, Donald, but if my “immediate generous support is vital,” my local representative should have considered how voting to screw our local elementary school would affect my political donations and voting patterns.

So, I don’t “stand with you in supporting our Party’s efforts to elect a Republican President, Congress and GOP candidates at all levels.”  That doesn’t mean the Republicans have lost my vote – when I weigh the difference between Trump and Biden, I’ll be voting against Biden.  The thing is, Biden has done more against my interests.  He has a long record, and I’ll be voting against extending that record.  But I vote against people who get into office and vote against me. 

There’s a certain irony that I received the fund-raising letter on the same day that a New York court convicted Trump of felonies and that the Supreme Court voted 9-0 that Vullo violated the first amendment in coercing various companies to disassociate with the NRA.  Anyway you look at it, a 9-0 victory in the Supreme Court, for the NRA, says something bad about New York’s legal system.

I can’t say that Trump’s conviction in New York made me a stronger Trump supporter.  In 2016, I voted against Hillary with hopes Trump would be better than her record.  He was.  In 2020, I voted against Biden knowing Trump would be better than Biden.  Again, I figure I was right.  I haven’t been given a choice between two younger and better candidates – so I still figure that Trump is a better choice than 4 more years of Joe Biden.  It’s the choice I have, not the choice I would dream of having.