Party grift 

To the editor:

Recent letters question how or if Democrats will win future national elections. I believe they will and it will happen organically.

The pendulum will swing back to Democrats, as it has in the past (1932, 1976, 1992, 2008 and 2020), when voters feel the pain caused by GOP incompetence and bear witness to its corruption.  Supply-side, pro-business policies employed by Republicans over the past century inevitably end in economic collapse. And, once-popular Republicans have been driven from office by scandal, corruption and taxpayer rip-offs; Teapot Dome, Watergate, Iran-Contra, S&L crisis, TARP and Covid-19 PPP.  Likewise, public outrage will grow over $TRUMP cryptocurrency as the details of this odious grift come to light.  

This organic process is underway. Most GOP House members aren’t holding town hall meetings for fear of constituent anger. Mike Lawler’s May 4 town hall in Somers, Westchester County, is a prime example.  The loss of a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat underscored voter disdain for Elon Musk. Following that defeat, he was sidelined and forced back to his day job at Tesla.

Trump’s approval is underwater in every swing state, even below 50 percent in Texas and Florida. His worst polling numbers (<40 percent) are among a major MAGA-base component — senior citizens. They see their retirement accounts losing money it took them a lifetime to save; they are also fed up with tax cuts (like the one Trump is currently proposing) that benefit the rich at the expense of everyone else. 

Just as the faces in the crowd deserted Lonesome Rhodes, the closest thing Trump has to a movie avatar, many MAGA adherents will one day desert Trump when they wake up to his ineptitude, wanton greed and contempt for the rule of law.

Joseph Cannisi