Bernard Goldberg: Voters Will Tolerate a Lot -- Until They Start Losing Money

"Voters Will Tolerate a Lot -- Until They Start Losing Money

Let’s begin with a question now that President Trump has crossed that traditional marker of 100 days in office: How much chaos are Americans willing to tolerate if their money is in the crosshairs?

Yes, the MAGA faithful — the ones who would jump off a cliff if the president told them to take a flying leap — are unshakable. Maybe they make up 25% of his base.

But the real story lies with the broader coalition that put Trump in office — folks who weren’t obsessed with him, just tired of being ignored. They didn’t show up for the circus; they showed up because they liked the promise: secure the border, shrink government, stop the woke madness, and put America first again.

Give Trump credit. He pretty much shut down the southern border — illegal immigration went from a flood under Joe Biden to a trickle now. And DEI is on the run. But Trump has problems: Americans have lost faith in his ability to handle the economy — and maybe more important, they’ve lost faith in Donald Trump himself...

Source:Bernard Goldberg talking about money, money, money!!!

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From Joe Walsh: Dear leader says the people only need 3 or 4 dolls. He says they only need 5 pencils. Dear leader is a communist. Way to go MAGA.

Aaron Rupar: Trump: "I don't think a beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls ... they don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five."

From Joe Walsh

Today, I had a choice as far as best available stories to talk about. And since unlike with my colleague Erik Schneider, I haven't seen any films recently that interest me, (ha, ha) it came down to a political satire piece about socialism, (1 of The New Democrat's favorite verbal punching bags) or President Donald J. Trump (MAGA, Florida) trying to make the case for communism... the extreme version of socialism. So I'm sort of going with socialist humor and The Communist Don in the same post. I hope it works out.

Before some whacked-out leftist try's to tell me that Communists don't believe in "paying more for less"... fine. I'm not actually saying that they believe that. More like that tends to happen when Communists are in power: empty store shelves and whatever is left, is too expensive for the average consumer in that country. 

As Bernard of Clairvaux so accurately said: the road to Hell was paved with good intentions. Meaning that you shouldn't just look at the intent of any policy, especially government policy, but the consequences of that policy as well. 

Communists might not want their people to spend more money for less, but in an actual Communist State, (take North Korea) that's exactly what tends to happen. Because the national government is the only source in town for the basic necessities and there's no one there pushing them to be as efficient and productive as possible. And 1 of those reasons, is the people there can't even complain to their government, (without risk of going to jail) when state-run-businesses aren't producing enough affordable goods. 

So when MAGA's Dear Leader President Donald J. Trump, tells Meet The Press Anchor Kristen Welker: 

"I don't think a beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls ... they don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five."

The President doesn't even sound like a Republican. He sounds more like a Communist, because he's telling everyone what he personally thinks, every American needs to live well... at least on this issue. And that's what Joe Walsh was congratulating (I'm sure sarcastically) MAGA and I'm sure everyone else who voted for Donald Trump last year: "Congratulations! You voted for a Communist for President!"

If Americans wanted to spend more money for less, tax hikes would not just be popular in this country, but all the Socialists in America would be emptied out of their closets... all the Socialist closets would be emptied, because leftists would no longer fear about being outed as Socialists.

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Bernard Goldberg: When Even Murder Is Tolerated

Source:Bernard Goldberg with a left at militant-left "rockstar" Luigi Mangione.

"Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Thompson’s death on a midtown Manhattan street “was a killing that was intended to evoke terror. And we’ve seen that reaction.” —AP News Report

It didn’t take long, did it? Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed, and before police finished cordoning off the crime scene, social media was on fire, turning the alleged shooter into some kind of folk hero.

To more than a few Americans, Luigi Mangione, the man arrested and charged with killing Thompson, wasn’t a cold-blooded killer, but rather a righteous vigilante standing up to corporate greed. He’s even been dubbed the “hot assassin” because of a picture that revealed him shirtless showing off his abs.

Here’s the reality: a man was murdered — shot in the back on a New York City street. You’d think that, at the very least, we could all agree that that’s wrong — without adding … but there are times when even murder is understandable." 

From Bernard Goldberg

If you are let's say a Baby Boomer (someone born in the 1940s or 50s) like a Bernard Goldberg, or older than that, or you are just someone with a solid understanding of American history, but are younger than a Boomer, then you are familiar with the militant far-left in America. Groups like The Weather Underground and the Symbionese Liberation Army, Students For a Democratic Society, and others from the 1960s and 70s. 

These groups have always believed that progress is not enough and sometimes democracy is not enough to achieve their political objectives. And sometimes you need violence and undemocratic means to achieve their goals and you need to "take a strike at The Man", even if that means murdering people, to bring attention to the issues that these groups care about. 

That's what Luigi Mangione was doing when he murdered United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson a few weeks ago. He was "striking out against The Man" to bring the attention to what the far-left sees as problems with the American health care system. They hate the facts that our health care system is private and for-profit. 

So when a Luigi Mangione, or some other militant leftist comes along and does what this guy did and he also looks like he could be a Hollywood actor, or a boybander, they celebrate him as some type of a rockstar, doing what they only had the guts to do themselves. 

As my colleague Fred Schneider said last week: 

"But there's only 1 political faction in America that could possibly believe that killing a CEO of a health insurance company, simply because they are a health insurance CEO, and the killer thinks that person is part of the problem... if not a good idea, is perhaps justifiable homicide, or something. 

And there's only 1 political faction in America that would make a murderer of a CEO a pop culture, rockstar, or something, and celebrating this man online and on social media and trying to profit off him with all the videos and the merchandise. And that would be far-left in America, which are made of of some Democratic Socialists, but militant Socialists, the WOKE Left, who believe that progress is never enough. Because it's the system that's the problem itself, who believe that we'll never achieve a "just and fair society", until we take down the system. Or as they would put it: "The Man". 

To the WOKE Left in America, Luigi Mangione is a "totally awesome rockstar", who took a brig strike at "The Man". So they've been celebrating him, at least since he's been the news and they read his manifesto. But for the rest of the country, including people who also don't approve of our health care system, but who believe in the rule of law and who are pro-life in the real sense, (meaning people who believe in protecting innocent lives) Luigi Mangione is just another famous murderer in America. And unfortunately we've had too many famous murderers in America." 

From The New Democrat

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Bernard Goldberg: Is Woke On The Ropes, Thanks to Mr. Trump?

Source:Bernard Goldberg with a look at WOKE in America.

"The cultural pendulum may be swinging back...

Now, onto today’s column…

Is “woke” on its way out now that Donald Trump is on his way back in? Is a seismic shift in American culture just over the horizon?

Ever since hyper-politically-correct culture took hold in America about 15 years ago, if you told a certain kind of joke, or God forbid, wore a red hat that didn’t say “Save the Whales”— you were practically asking to be dragged in front of the woke inquisition — if not get physically attacked.

Rahm Emanuel — the longtime Democratic insider — was on to something when he said, “The woke police don’t even have to read you your Miranda rights.” They don’t need evidence that what you said really was bigoted and mean-spirited. They just need to be offended — or claim they are — and you’re guilty.

But now it looks like we’re at an inflection point. The cultural pendulum seems to be swinging back. And Donald Trump may be why it’s happening." 

From Bernard Goldberg

To answer Bernard Goldberg's question: we don't know yet. I think as long as there are left-wing political movements, that are primarily made up of people who are very young and just in college or just out of college, who are probably rare voters, instead of part-time voters, there's going to be some movement that's either WOKE, or is called something like that. 

And unfortunately there will always be not just a Political Correctness Police, but there will be at least two PC departments in America: one for the far-left that attacks anyone who even criticizes any member, of any minority group in America. And one on the far-right that goes after people who even criticize Donald Trump, or whoever their current cult leader is, or one of their most influential MAGA members. 

As my colleague Erik Schneider said last week: 

"The negative WOKE solution here would be something like to blame the American system and argue that: "It's our racist and materialistic system that are holding people of color and others down. And you won't fix this problem, until you tear down the American system and replace it with something that's just."

I'm with Michael Shermer on this in the sense I don't define myself as WOKE. I much rather find ways to solve problems, than to look at the political calculations of them and try to blame the other side for the problem itself. Which is basically what WOKE has become. The WOKE militants seem to be more interested in exploiting the problems of America and finding ways to blame people they disagree with, including Democrats, then to actually solve the problems that they claim to care about. " 

From The New Democrat

And as far as the fact that Donald Trump got elected President again and that somehow suggests that WOKE was defeated and we're now moving back to a MAGA era... Mr. Trump only won 49% of the popular vote. Which means that more Americans voted against him, then for him. And the first MAGA person who sees this will say: 

"We don't elect our President's based on the popular vote". 

And I would probably say something like in response: 

"Thanks for the tip, Captain Obvious". That's not the point. 

Mr. Trump wasn't elected President of the United States to end WOKE or American democracy. He was elected President to bring down the cost of living. That's what most of national polling suggests, at least outside of MAGA. And he was elected to a certain extent to get illegal immigration under control. But not to end American democracy, or throw out the U.S. Constitution and our Bill of Rights. 

But not only that, but House Republicans had a very tight majority already and will have a bare majority in the next Congress. Senate Republicans won back the Senate, but will also have a very small majority in the next Congress, with a solid bloc of Republicans who aren't MAGA members.

I don't think Bernard Goldberg is suggesting that Donald Trump's 2024 election as President suggests some revolutionary change in American politics for the Right. But you would have to ask him that yourself. But Republicans right now would be looking at attempted political suicide, if they even consider going past their mandate and thinking that Americans now want a MAGA republic. What American voters want is for government to work and to do the basic functions of government. Not elect Donald J. Trump as King and all his supporters in and out of government as members of his MAGA royal family. 

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