First off, I need to thank you (and several good and like-minded friends on Twitter) for watching the debatea, so I don’t have to. I generally go to sleep around that time of night, plus I’ve come to expect (more so in the pre-Trump era) dreary affairs that were often little more than mutual press conferences.

The reaction of the hive media is a good way to judge how well our guy did. If Benny and the clucking (cucking?) hens of CNN are reduced to outrage, tears, and the use of scatological nouns, then I have to guess that POTUS did all right. Pray tell, when Ben-Shap uses the word “literally,” does he pronounce it like a grown-up, using four syllables, or does he speak in the pretentious manner of the post-adolescent high school debater and use only three (LIT-truh-lee), as comically sent up by Rob Lowe, playing a chuckleheaded small town bureaucrat, in the tv show Parks and Recreation?

Perhaps the idolaters of Democracy will someday realize one day that Trump wasn’t traducing the rules of their much-preferred system, that he was merely taking that system and its rules as he found them, providing the citizens of a democracy with what they want and making sure they get it, in Mencken’s memorable words, “good and hard.”

I believe you’re right when you say that a few yucks at the expense of Biden and a few tears shed by Anderson Cooper are about the best we can expect anymore. It’s the Left’s own fault. They ran out of good ideas a long time ago and now the best defense they have amounts to lies, hoaxes, and bogus accusations (“you’re a racist!!”). I would rather see genial gentlemen like Ron Paul or Pat Buchanan making thoughtful points against, I don’t know, Dennis Kucinich maybe, but, sadly, democracy fetishists took care of that possibility years decades earlier.

Barring peaceful secession or real states rights (yeah, right), discussion of which is of course banned from the public square, I fear civil war is inevitable, unless the right simply surrenders unconditionally, hoping for the best. Maybe we are at the close of a long historical cycle and the world will need to undergo a long Dark AgeS period, before civilization can begin anew. To trust Oscar Wilde on the subject of civilization (and why wouldn’t we?), America never had one anyway.

So in the meantime, go Trump! Apres Trump, Le Deluge.