2016 Election Thoughts – Part VI (DJT)

I’ve written many words about Donald Trump. None of them have been kind. Now, I find myself wanting, with precious little to say which hasn’t already been said.*

Most people say, We’ll get through this. Probably. But maybe not. No immutable law says the United States of America will last forever. That it has lasted for 228 years does not mean we have another 228 years to go. Or 28, or even eight.

Authoritarianism—a desire for order and a fear of outsiders—explains Mr. Trump’s victory. Vox had the goods in The Rise of American Authoritarianism, written by Amanda Taub in March 2016. (For non-clickers, Ms. Taub reports on research which demonstrates the

Well, it looks like Good Ole Bubba’s done stepped in the dirty stuff, once again. To hear it told, the impending Hillary indictment concerned him so greatly that he managed to arrange for an out-in-public meeting at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, plane to plane, with Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Why? Well, duh, to fix the case.

Occam’s razor is a maxim* which holds people should select the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions. William of Ockham, who lived about 700 years ago, gets credit for Occam’s razor. And although the razor works best in the scientific setting, its basic principle applies here.

Here’s how the Attorney General described the chat she had with former President Bill Clinton:

Lately, I’ve had two separate thoughts about the 2016 presidential election cycle. The first relates to Hillary Clinton; the second involves what happens if Donald Trump loses.

Hillary Clinton has clearly lost a significant following among Lefties. How everything plays out we won’t know for a while, but many Left-leaning people have “12 on a 1-10 scale” antipathy toward Ms. Clinton. Thinking about this situation brought to mind the Swim Coach Firing. (We going back more than 45 years here.)

I swam competitively between ages 8 and about 17, on and off. (More off than on as I got older, although I swam as a freshman at Beloit College.) My first coach was Sherman Ralsey Miller IV aka Minger. (If