One of my favorite political pundits and moderator of “Meet the Press” on Sunday mornings was liberal Tim Russert. Hard hitting (on both sides), fair, probing, presenting great questions and insights, he was a wonder to behold and nobody since has come close to his fairness and even-handed treatment of guests and issues.

I once was a Democrat (I voted for both George McGovern and Jimmy Carter (twice!)). I was set in my liberal ways and not thinking clearly. After starts and stops in my factory career based on economic conditions through the prism of federal initiatives (more taxation) and me being at the entry level, I was constantly being laid off – six months on, thee months off, six months on — for a few years it remained.

Then Ronald Reagan appeared and was voted in as president. I didn’t vote for him the first time, but did the second time because I saw what his initiatives produced — more jobs, lower tax rates (helping everyone), more opportunity, opening a market of pent-up demand, resulting in more jobs, and more raises. I remember the 1980s well, the decade of the American Dream realized.

I’m not going to argue with those thinking opposite mine. The facts speak for themselves; I and most others I knew were prospering and advancing. If you weren’t, you either weren’t trying too hard or on drugs.

Now we have, after two consecutive stretches of ineffective presidential terms (both Bush and Obama) a person who is outside of the Washington Swamp, not a politician, nor wanting to be, but was so sick of the downslide of the country and thought it was time he put up or shut up. He put up himself to media ridicule and hate mongering by the left and the left leaning media.

Nobody, but nobody, thought he had a chance, but he took his campaign to the people who were looking for a leader and they supported and voted for him in fly-over country (every state between the left and right coasts) and he won what he had to win to secure the presidency. Economic growth exploded after him taking office (pent up demand again) and told CEO’s to bring their businesses back home. He encouraged manufacturing instead of saying those jobs are never coming back (thanks President Obama!). He opened up areas to drill for oil. He lowered taxes. And what happened — the same thing that always happens when taxes are lowered — more economic activity, thereby increasing tax revenue and opportunity for everyone to get a job.

But now there are those on the extreme left; nut-jobs known as Antifa. I don’t know what these people do, but not much brain activity is present when they speak. Vile, hate filled speech, threatening to kill or harm the President Donald Trump.

Antifa, as I heard, was created because of the lies surrounding two shootings — one by a civilian tasked with patrolling the housing area in Florida, checking on a suspicious person he didn’t know in the area. He was jumped and struck by the suspect and pummeled to the ground. It was observed by a nearby person the suspect was “grounding and pounding” the helpless person beneath him. Trayvon Martin was killed for his actions after George Zimmerman pulled his concealed weapon and fired, killing Martin.

Then in Ferguson, Mo., Michael Brown was killed when he was shot six times in the front (not in the back as reported by Brown’s friend, with his hands up saying “don’t shoot”). He tried to wrestle the officer’s weapon from him while the officer was in the patrol car and unsuccessful, fled, then turned and charged the officer once he started to pursue Brown.

Of course, President Barack Obama also piled on the racial animus when he commented the police “stupidly” reacted and cuffed Harvard Professor Louis Gates, when Gates couldn’t get in his house, a neighbor called police saying there was a man trying to break into the house, not evidently knowing the person “breaking in” was the owner Gates. When the police arrived, they placed Mr. Gates in cuffs, per procedure, until it was unraveled what happened and he was the person who owned the house.

It was blown up as a racial arrest, even though Mr. Gates tried to get into his house without his keys and it appeared to who called someone was breaking into the Gates house. What would you do as an officer arriving on the scene, not knowing the situation?

Antifa was born on lies, because they needed something to use as a hate tool, even though these killings and arrest of Gates happened under the previous administration. Antifa is classic unhinged leftist hate and ignorant of facts. But leftists never let facts get in the way of a good riot. And who are the young whites marching with Antifa and why aren’t they kicked out as wannabes?

The bloodletting in Chicago continues, but how can that happen? No shootings can happen because there aren’t handguns allowed in Chicago! How many deaths does it take to bring in experts to handle the out of control situation? When will Chicago get smart and quit electing the same idiots that have run the city for decades?

Before you attack the messenger, have you been to Chicago lately? I think President Trump called it right for some countries as defecation holes – they are, as are many places now in America – San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and many others run by the same Democrat party that keeps the poor downtrodden and with no hope of getting out of the s-holes these cities have become.

You want to keep up the charade and say there is nothing to see here,  move on?

The rotting of America from within continues…