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Sitting at a restaurant bar. Conversation with couple next to me. Trump supporters. They could tell I was, too. Celebratory. I am too. But I'm cautious. As you describe. No reconciliation from Trump over what happened in 2020, his history of poor appointments jade me. So I'm cautious.

I didn't downtalk Trump. I simply said I'm cautiously optimistic. And I wasn't optimistic at all about the other option. They asked me why, what I thought about Elon. I said I generally like him. But he has things I'm not a fan of. They were stunned at my reply. As if I shattered their image of him. I said just like Trump says he likes RFK Jr for health policy, but not energy policy, I can recognize what I like about Elon and what I don't like. They couldn't register my response.

Then they asked me about Vance. I had a similar response. Met with the same disbelief. Asked if I trust them. I said I generally like them, but both have flags for me. So I trust, but verify. I said we have to stay engaged, make sure the Rino's, Uniparty don't hijack Trump's administration. They became quiet and polite and that was pretty much that.

No, people, Trump supporters don't want their buzz killed. I didn't think I was a buzzkill, just practical, one man can't do it alone. Too many people think victory was achieved, they're spiking the football in the end zone, and want to go back to their life they understood the world as pre-2020 as if the election solved it all.

We have a lot of work to do. Inside our own camp, not just overcoming our tormentors these past four years. Sigh.

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Daisy (Kathlyn) Hinesley's avatar

Great Post. The reason I'm ambivalent and find it hard to be happy is that everything I've ever been happy about ending up turning out bad somehow, someway. I was a life long Democrat, before I stopped voting altogether in 2008 when I saw that Obama was turning out to be different than he assured us he was. I left the U.S. in 2010. When I returned for a few months in 2018, the Democratic Party was unrecognizable. For all intents and purposes it seemed to me that they'd turned into the former Republican Party, which had changed beyond all recognition too. No one seemed to have noticed either change. I'd been teaching English for many years overseas. When I saw the U.S. again, it was as if I'd not only stepped into an airplane, but a time machine as well. And, the people in the new time and place didn't notice the change. I couldn't relate to anyone, except people who had just gotten there from Africa, Asia or somewhere - like me. I felt a need to leave again, so I did. I'm relieved that Trump won, but after the Plandemic, I don't have any faith anymore that ANY official sources are telling us anything true. That's why it's hard. I love the way you communicated your thoughts - your personal form of poetry. It speaks to me. Thank you!

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