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 I don’t mind Trump.  He’s not a politician, and he doesn’t act like one which I think turns off some people.  My wife couldn’t stand him for a while until she realized that he wasn’t full of shit as much as the media would like you to believe.  She had a hard time with how he spoke, but she also came to the realization that he was relentlessly attacked from many angles and decided that she’d be all bent and lash out if she were being attacking like he was and still is.  I have to agree.

Is the guy perfect?  No, but he’s a hell of a lot better than the opposition which seems to have come unglued.  They can’t win on policy so they have to steal and deceive in order to “win.”  This isn’t to say that the Republican Party doesn’t engage in dirty politics.  Politics, by nature, is a dirty game.  By the same light, I have often said that conservatives don’t really like conflict and generally won’t speak out unless we are really forced to which has helped lead to some of the problems we’ve got.

I do like your dream team.  We might just get that.  It’s a wild time, for sure.