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November 16, 2022

After a week of brooding about the Red Ripple midterms, my First Husband walked into the kitchen.

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“We’re all being played for fools!” FH said. “And I blame Donald Trump for making it worse!”

“So, you’re joining the Trump scapegoaters?” I asked.

FH scoffed. “You don’t get it. Trump himself is playing into the hands of the people who hate him. He’s his own worst enemy! He knows nothing about politics and yet he thinks he’s smarter and tougher than the professionals.”

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“And yet he won.”

“He won because barely enough voters hated Hillary more than Donald. For the country, his win was a fortunate fluke. He saved us from four more years under the Clintons. But, instead of seeing his victory for the lucky break it was, he took it as a sign that he was right all along about politics being easy. Today, he still thinks he’s immune to the rules of a ruthless game.”

“That’s what you thought, too, when you took that job with Mayor Jones.”

FH sighed. “Okay, I admit that it took me a while to learn the ropes. But I found out in a hurry that politics is a lot harder than it looks from the outside.”

“But now you’re disappointed in the midterms, and you’re blaming Trump.”

FH sighed again. “Let’s start with basics. Trump’s enemies are truly evil. These are the people who corrupted the FBI, the people who turned Antifa brownshirts loose on American streets. They have granted themselves permission to undermine our criminal justice and electoral systems. In short, chaos is their friend.”