Saturday Politics : Trump Can End the Democrat/Progressive 'Reign of Terror'

Saturday Politics is sometimes about American conservatives. We conservatives are a quiet lot. We have turned our other, often Christian, cheek so many times that we have become doormats. Leftist/Progressives call us right-wingers, backward, uneducated, racist, anti-women, dangerous gun toters, and Bible-waving fanatics. But, they never call us what we are -- the American Majority. ~~~~~ American Thinker website gave a polling summary this week that proves this. George Washington University announced on April 25 its latest Battleground Poll. The single most repeated result in the history of that poll has been the "persistent conservative majority." The responses show that 55% of Americans identify themselves as "Very Conservative" or "Somewhat Conservative," while 40% call themselves "Very Liberal" or "Somewhat Liberal." Excluding those who don't know or won't respond, conservatives constitute 58% of Americans. American Thinker reports : "Every GWU Battleground Poll over the last sixteen years has shown the same overwhelming conservative majority in America. The size of the conservative majority has varied a bit over the last sixteen years, but the existence of a strong conservative majority -- sufficient to provide a landslide in any national election -- has not changed at all." ~~~~~ The Battleground Poll agrees with Gallup polls. Every Gallup state-by-state poll has shown that the vast majority of states have more conservatives than liberals. In its last seven state-by-state surveys, Gallup found that conservatives outnumber liberals in at least 47 of the 50 states. ~~~~~ SurveyUSA in its February 50-state poll found that 40% of Americans consider themselves either "Very Conservative" or "Conservative," while only 21% of Americans consider themselves "Very Liberal" or "Liberal." ~~~~~ State polls, typically conducted by state media, agree. Presidential "swing states" show the same breakdown. In Nevada, 37% call themselves "Conservative" and 19% "Liberal." In Colorado, 32% call themselves "Conservative," and 21% call themselves "Liberal." In the 2015 Florida poll, 35% of Floridians called themselves "Conservative" and 20% called themselves "Liberal," and in 2016, the poll found that 42% called themselves either "Very Conservative" or "Conservative," while 23% called themselves "Very Liberal" or "Liberal." Purple states, which Republicans often view as out of reach, have conservative pluralities. In Michigan. 39% call themselves "Very Conservative" or "Conservative," while 30% call themselves "Very Liberal" or "Liberal." In Oregon, the 2014 poll showed 27% calling themselves "Conservative," while 21% called themselves "Liberal," and in the 2015 poll, 27% called themselves "Conservative," and 24% called themselves "Liberal." Minnesota, considered the most "Liberal" state, when polled four consecutive times by KSTP-TV in Minneapolis during 2014 to 2015, had the same results : "Conservatives" outnumber "Liberals" by amazing pluralities, starting from earlier polls to the most recent : 33% to 18%, 35% to 17%, 35% to 14%, and 33% to 17%. Perhaps most surprising is California, considered the breeding ground of Progressives. In two 2015 and 2016 polls sponsored by SurveyUSA, "Conservatives" slightly outnumbered "Liberals." This result agrees with polls in California over the last decade that show there are as many "Conservatives" as "Liberals," or even slightly more, in this state so essential to the success of the Left in American politics. ~~~~~ Dear readers, one reason Donald Trump appeals to American conservatives is his plain talk about a GOP timidity that first angered and then outraged them. GOP voters, donors and party volunteers see their national leadership, especially in Congress, as cowardly -- so afraid of the Leftist mainstream media, as well as of verbal and physical political correctness enforcers, that they let media-protected Democrat Progressives walk all over them. At last, they have a champion who they believe will end the Reign of Democrat-Progressive Terror -- and give their Washington leaders courage.