The Commander in Thief

Back in May, I wrote that I thought that the key to the midterms for the opposition would be consistently and constantly tying the administration’s corruption to individual pocketboots. Every issue — the money spent on the war, healthcare cuts, tax cuts for the wealthy, the wanton Trump family corruption — needs to be connected directly to the daily experiences of the average American. No one is managing this narrative better than Jon Ossoff: “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice, while he and his family rake in billions from foreign princes, while he plunders our healthcare to cut taxes for the rich. Meanwhile, rent, power, groceries and healthcare have all hit all-time highs this year. While you pay more for everything, the first family’s wealth is growing by billions of dollars – because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.” To quote the Mandalorian: This is the way. It took a lot of messaging, and even more corruption, but the connection seems to be getting made. A recent “Fox News poll asked voters how concerned they were about more than a dozen issues, and ‘corruption in government’ ranked at the very top.” Corruption is finally breaking through to voters this time.