The anti-Trump punditry never runs out of anti-Trump content. Whether televised, streamed, over the radio waves or online, the hits just keep on coming. I understand that. When the Republican Party was out of power I was motivated when at my desktop to scald Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and every conceivable stripe of Democrat and their policies.
The problem now is, with Donald Trump firmly and with my approval in power, it’s more challenging to find angles to express myself. Being the loser in a political election inspires the work of a partisan political writer in the quest to thwart and undermine the opposition winner. Being a member of the winning camp, after writing to that goal for years, having to continually opine after having reached your goal becomes a matter of too much winning, and too much writing.
It's true that reciting the virtues of politicians you support is also within the purview of the political opinion writer. I’ve extolled John McCain, Ronald Reagan, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin and even Mitt Romney in conservative media both obscure and well-known for over a decade. In my writerly file cabinet is a piece entitled, “GOP Should Not Rule Out a Trump Presidential Run,” published by the Portland Oregonian, dated March of 2011. I’m not new to the Trump camp.
So, with Trump satisfactorily steamrolling the barricades of the woke left, the deep-state globalists, and the open-border American apologists, the mind wanders. I tried moving away from politics from time to time at PJ Media, and was promptly shown my Google Analytics. My political content was averaging around 50-60 thousand views—once topping 100K when Rush Limbaugh referenced one of my columns on his show. When I submitted non-political content, like the time I wrote about how emerging rockers Van Halen upstaged Black Sabbath at the Oakland Coliseum, my numbers failed to crack even 5000 views. The table was set for contributors, and red meat was strongly encouraged.
Why didn’t I submit my work to a music site? Once you’re “out” as a conservative, good luck getting a paid position, let alone considered. Beyond that, I’ve always veered to the subject I found most compelling, the future governance of my country.
Make no mistake. I could churn out an anti-left or a pro-Trump column every week. But Trump is humming along, and the Democrats seem woefully defeated. That could change, but I find prognostications about how Trump only has until the midterms to achieve his agenda to be either facetiously portentous or grist to keep the public engaged. I understand Sean Hannity’s dictum, “Always play as if you’re defending the goal line in a close game and the clock is running out.” But Trump has made a momentous goal-line stand against the forces of the left. I don’t see the Democratic Party in its current iteration winning back anything.