You know, back in 2016 I thought a lot about potentially voting for Trump. Not as a Republican but on the conservative line. Not because I love or embraced his ideas, but I like how he’s different, he gives the system a much needed kick in balls, he gives knocks liberals down a peg with a dose of reality. You can want to do something, dream about something, but ultimately if you want to do something, you just got to do it.

I think history proves that outside of the acts done by political mastermind Mitch McConnell, President Trump was an abysmal failure. Like a bullied weak child who punches the bully in the knee, Trump ended up with a black eye and a broken nose when the bully responded. As a convicted criminal myself, I like the idea of a convicted felon as President. It really knocks the whole system and it’s fake moral superiority down a notch. It exposes the raw nature of power.

I do cringe a bit thinking about the public policy proposals put forward by Trump, many are not to my liking. I mean, he’s the man who appointed Jeff Sessions, whose most famous remarks are “Good people don’t smoke pot.” I like smoking pot.  I think his ideas and publicly proclaimed positions on trade are disasterous and should not be implemented. His ideas on criminal justice, immigration, renewable energy and the cities are equally bad. But he’ll be good on guns and keeping all our public lands from getting locked up as wilderness with roads and campsites closed. A lot of people I respect and admire are embracing the Trumpster.

I don’t think the world is coming to an end regardless of who becomes President. And it’s not like with the Electoral College my vote in New York counts for much at all. It will be discarded. If Trump’s elected, maybe there will be somewhat slower progress on adoption of renewable energy, some tweaks to public policy,. On the ordinary level, I doubt there will be much change to every day life whoever becomes President. He might cause a few years of indigestion to evening TV watchers, but that’s a bout it. It’s only four years, time goes by quickly, before long we will be talking about Election 2026 and 2028.