Delicious Defeat

 

How perverse is it that even seeing Donald Trump get 51% of the popular vote, and facing 4 more years of All Donald All the Time, there are a couple of things Mad Dog secretly relishes?

Every once in a while, at one of the monthly Democrats Club meetings a guest speaker would introduce herself and add, "My pronouns are she/her," and it took every fiber of his restraint to throw nothing at her.

Reading a New Yorker article about a gender fluid person whose pronouns were "they" and the New Yorker dutifully described "them" going to town to get a haircut and how "they" ate an ice cream cone and he would tear that issue into tiny pieces.

As Dave Chappelle said, "I completely support everyone being whoever they want to be but my question is to what extent do I have to participate in your self image?"

And he agrees with the Massachusetts Congressman, Seth Moulton, "I have two little girls. I don't want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I'm supposed to be afraid to say that."

And he can now reiterate that when Ray Buckley opened the New Hampshire State Democratic convention with 15 minutes of Native Americans playing traditional tom toms to show how inclusive Democrats are, but there was no Lee Greenwood singing, "Proud to be An American,"  and he thought, "Oh, this ought to win over a lot of plaid shirt and suspender HVAC guys in Claremont and Salem," he was dismissed as intolerant.

The fact is, he forgave all that because the alternative--Trump--was worse. 

But 51% of his fellow Americans were offended enough to vote Republican.