I'm always interested when big media visits Allentown...they usually get it wrong. Last year the New York Times did a story on the revitalization of Hamilton Street. While impressed by the $billions of new buildings, they failed to comprehend the taxpayer funded, privately owned real estate scheme...they assumed the Potemkin Village was actually teeming.
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal did a story on the upcoming 7th District race and the Hispanic voters. They think that the Hispanics put Ryan Mackenzie over the top in 2024, but that they may not support him for 2026. They blame that divorce on Trump's heavy handedness with ICE. I don't disagree with their analysis, but think that they overestimate the Hispanic vote. The WSJ was here for one or two days, I've here since what the NYT referred to The Latinization Of Allentown decades ago.
I believe that a Democrat will flip the seat back to that party, but not just because of the Hispanics. The Hispanic flip will be bigger than the Journal foresees, because that new detention center in Berks County will need detainees. But Ryan will lose because the bread and butter MAGA's turned out for Trump, not him. More than the Hispanics, he'll lose because the independents are fed up with Trump's dictatorship. Ryan will bet on the Trump support and campaigning, and not speak out enough to save himself.
Dead horse, meet this blog.
ReplyDeleteanon@3:11: While there has been a falloff in the number of comments presented, readership has remained the same. The combination of receiving slightly less comments, and rejecting more of those received for publication, creates the illusion you just referred to.
ReplyDeleteAs a conservative independent, many of my readers are Republican. As Trump's popularity declines in the polls, our local Republicans are circling the wagons. Both Mackenzie and McCormick recently put up memes praising Trump. That is their choice, whether conviction or cowardice. My choice is to speak out...
My comment at 3:11 has nothing to do with the number of comments you receive or allow on this site.
DeleteIt has to do with the daily repetition of the same post day-after-day. You’ve found your dead horse, and you continue to beat it.
I suppose we could debate the effectiveness of continuing on such a course of action, but it’s your blog. All I know is that liberal white Karens found out in the 2024 election how much the country enjoys constantly being told what to do.
But maybe you’ll have better success using their tactics.
Tell us, oh wise one: What, exactly, has President Trump done to affect you negatively that you positively cannot recover from?
ReplyDeleteanon@7:10: Off the top, I don't care about party, only policy.
ReplyDelete1. He has disassociated us from NATO, the UN and even our adjoining neighbors, Canada and Mexico. You may defend that these were arrangements that needed adjustment, but he's no diplomat with real alternatives.
2. Although he rightfully closed the border, his implementation of ICE has become gestapo.
3. Venezuela and Greenland are mineral grabs which has alienated the world.
4. He has no policy, just transactions and reactions which are no deeper than the gold leaf he has put on everything.
5. Enjoy yourself, you'll meet reality next November.
So, you will be happy if proven correct in that Mackenzie will be voted out of Congress. I’m perplexed as to why you interpret that as a good thing?
DeleteMike the WSJ is just a one sided rag propaganda machine like our local rag, is it owned and published at the same jersey printer as our local too? You ain't going to publish this because the answer might sway your narrative with the written spin you have put into your articles lately.
ReplyDeleteanon@7:34: you're correct that normally I don't print all the nonsense I receive. The WSJ and MC have very different owners with a very different POV. I doubt that you read either or anything.
ReplyDeleteanon@8:16: Up to this week I have been urging Mackenzie to speak out and stand up. However, his recent meme praising Trump shows where he has decided to bet his chip. Meanwhile with Crosswell entering the race, I perceive an alternative for my vote. I would like to see some checks and balances against the executive branch.
ReplyDeleteSince you're presenting Crosswell as an alternative to Mackenzie, perhaps you could tell us where Crosswell and the other democrat candidates stand on democrat priorities like:
ReplyDeleteDefunding and abolishing ICE;
Reversing the Trump tax cuts;
The rule of law and the legality of sanctuary cities, counties or states (he was a former prosecutor, right?);
Rights for transgender individuals to participate in women's sports;
Protect the environment by increasing regulation and driving up the cost of gasoline.
That would certainly help us when comparing him to the other democrat candidates and Mackenzie.
anon@10:42: My posts are actually on different topics: WSJ on Hispanic vote, Ryan Crosswell, detention center west of LV. What is the same are the sycophantic comments defending everything under Trump.
ReplyDeleteWhen a president holds up an infrastructure project like a train tunnel under the Hudson, unless they rename Penn Station for him, that may be leadership to you, not me.
anon@11:01: Nothing will help you...you're voting for Mackenzie no matter what.
ReplyDeleteI suspect neither Crosswell or the voters will find everything as black and white as you do, but I won't answer for Crosswell, only myself.
I would fund Homeland Security, including ICE, but I don't support an ICE army as was deployed in Minneapolis.
I'm against sanctuary cities
I'm against transgenders in sports
I'm for some environmental safeguards, and against stealing minerals from other countries.
I would expect Crosswell to be more of a centralist, than left leaning
At this point he is not being supported by the Pa. Dem party, who seems to be backing Bob Brooks.
Future questions about Crosswell's views will NOT be printed. The post is about the coming Hispanic midterm vote.
I’m sure Hispanics, like all responsible citizens, want all criminal illegal aliens removed from their neighborhoods. If they are paying attention to reality and not propaganda news outlets, they understand this is what’s really happening with ICE activities. Making neighborhoods safer.
DeleteWhat percent of Allentown Hispanics of voting age individuals go to the polls?
ReplyDeleteThe conversation is nonsense.