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As the Trump presidency recedes into history and while Trumpism as a political force is in abeyance between elections, it is urgent for his opponents to have an honest reckoning with their own past. Anti-Trump forces threw their whole might into defeating him and the fact of victory doesn’t mean that every tactic was effective or necessary. Indeed, some of the anti-Trump manifestations, like the cults that grew around former FBI director James Comey and special counsel Robert Mueller, seem especially dubious and counterproductive.
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PEORIA LEADS THE STATE IN COVID VACCINATIONS: As of March 4, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health, 84 percent of county residents 65 or older had received a first dose, two times the rate for Chicago and Cook County.
On Feb. 24, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said that if Peoria County were a state, it would be No. 2 in the nation for total doses administered per 100,000 residents. Surprised? So was Monica Hendrickson, public health administrator at the Peoria City/County Health Department.
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Cassandra usually turned out to be right. So has David Shor, the Democratic Cassandra who was fired last June from his job as a poll analyst for the Joe Biden polling firm Civis Analytics for tweeting, after rioting broke out from a Minneapolis suspect’s death in police custody May 25, that violent rioting in 1968 cost Democrats enough votes to lose that year’s presidential election.
That was a message the woke Twitteratti didn’t want to hear; they wanted to cheer on the “mostly peaceful” (i.e., often violent) riots in cities across the country. But it turns out Shor’s point was well taken. Democrats’ cheers for last summer’s violent riots and their support of “defunding the police” cost Biden precious votes, nearly enough to defeat him despite his 7 million popular vote plurality, especially among non-white voters.