I will start by pointing out the intended specificity related to the “soft” modifier used above to limit the target of this post to a sub-section of those who occupy a broader section of the American political spectrum. I will leave to the reader to decide if he (in the universal sense) is included or not.

It should not surprise me (or anyone) how quickly after the November 5 election the Soft Center Right has made itself known. That has been an unavoidable hallmark of the Republican party that resulted from the big-tent-ism of the first decade or so of this century. It was that period that gave us an ever-expanding “tent” – annex after annex – to incorporate any and all who couldn’t really explain “conservatism” but knew they were not as bat-$&!# crazy as the Pelosi-wing of the Democrat Party so, by default, they must be Republicans. (For the record, I believe Peak Big-Tent-ism occurred during the 2012 campaign when Mittens clearly appeared to be mindlessly mouthing concepts from classic conservative texts that he had been spoon-fed after frenzied focus group sessions. But I digress.) Unfortunately, a large portion from the feel-good-ism of this big tent fell hook-line-and-sinker for the (then less refined but anti-Bush) narrative journalism pushing undefined “Hope and Change”.  With any luck, the new ” big tent” reconstructed by those with a more active strain of American Liberty in their DNA around the figure of Mr. Trump will prove to be a more robust and reliable entity. Time will tell.  (More on that another time.)

It seems to me that the remnants or that aforementioned overexpanded tent of pretenders is now worried about what may be their pending irrelevance to the political discourse of these times. For the time being at least, this has manifested itself in an irrational fear of the recess appointment. Well, not really the “recess appointment” per se, just President Trump’s desire to make his constitutionally declared power a relevant tool in his coming battles with an irrational minority party that has a long history of functioning in less than good faith…a reliably predictable trait in normal times, this is clearly going to be amplified to eleven in the second act of the Trump Era. 

Without getting into the irrationally juvenile details of it (covered a couple of dozen times in the conversation here and more specifically and succinctly debunked here), my working theory here is that there is that nagging fear that the incoming President will cultivate a relationship with the Republican Senate leadership that will result in…well, I will call it anti-McConnellism (still looking for a better term). This would essentially look like a Senate that works hard to coordinate 51-49 victories for the cause of American Liberty (formerly covered largely by the term “conservatism” but that has been rendered meaningless by an embarrassing marketing gimmick using the “compassionate” modifier and two and a half decades of Bush, Cheney, etc. …) instead of the orchestrated 49-51 close losses of last decade’s Failure Theater used so effectively to string along the Soft Center Right for all those years leading up to 2016.

The other issue I see coming that will be used by the Soft Center Right to enable the Progressive forces against Trump is playing on a false equivalence between good faith execution of the laws and the “lawfare” practiced by the Progressive Left against Trump and others in recent years. You will likely see this manifested in the insistence that any form of “payback” against anyone who actually and blatantly broke the law and/or mis-used the governmental power entrusted to them can only be seen as the same form of “lawfare” as coordinated against Trump from the DNC, the Obama Oval Office,  the Speaker’s Office (Pelosi), and the FJB Oval Office   Those other guys are counting very much on the Soft Center Right to blur that very line to protect the guilty and limit the impact of efforts to clean up the fully corrupt Ruling Class. As with the previous example discussed above, watch for the willful destruction of even the simplest concepts associated with the American Constitutional Republic as expressed in the English language. It is being done on purpose.

That is the way I see it. Your mileage may vary.