The Eight-Year Itch
Politics is volatile and unpredictable, but one iron law prevails: The pendulum always swings back the other way.
The last big swing was 2010. That was the first mid-term after the stunning election of a new kind of President whose first two years in office drove his opponents bonkers – and to the polls.
2018 is the first mid-term after the stunning election of a new kind of President (to say the least) whose first two years in office are driving his opponents bonkers – and to the polls.
North Carolina politics today has a lot of Republicans who rode in with the 2010 tide. Some of them think the world will always be this way.
Not.
Some of them know the pendulum will swing. Which explains the constitutional amendments aimed at gutting all future Governors and making the legislature all-powerful.
But, as former Republican Governor Jim Martin warned in opposing the amendments, “The pendulum can always swing back the other way.”
It can. It will.
The Eight-Year Itch
Politics is volatile and unpredictable, but one iron law prevails: The pendulum always swings back the other way.
The last big swing was 2010. That was the first mid-term after the stunning election of a new kind of President whose first two years in office drove his opponents bonkers – and to the polls.
2018 is the first mid-term after the stunning election of a new kind of President (to say the least) whose first two years in office are driving his opponents bonkers – and to the polls.
North Carolina politics today has a lot of Republicans who rode in with the 2010 tide. Some of them think the world will always be this way.
Not.
Some of them know the pendulum will swing. Which explains the constitutional amendments aimed at gutting all future Governors and making the legislature all-powerful.
But, as former Republican Governor Jim Martin warned in opposing the amendments, “The pendulum can always swing back the other way.”
It can. It will.