How many remember how Ted Kennedy and Tip O’Neill knifed Carter because in their esteemed opinion Carter was not up to the job and Reagan was a reasonable risk, hell, maybe even a source of personal advancement in trying times?
You can always count on professional politicians to preserve their own asses at any cost. You can always count on greatness being knocked down by jealous incompetence.
Children, that’s how we got from 1980 to 1984, if any of you are literate enough to catch the reference.
I will restrain from the curse laced rant against functional scum that I am currently fantasizing about.
In 1980 the great man and now historically established more than competent president, Jimmy Carter, was knifed by mainstays of his own party.
Tell me now: How did that work out for us by the time 1984 rolled around?
Precursors to Trump, the 1980 originators of the “Make America Great Again” meme, will tell you it went brilliantly for both 1980 and 1984.
Forty years later, how many times will the consequences of such betrayal be amplified?