This past Thursday, August 5, former Andover state rep and current chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party Jim Lyons and his wife met with former president Donald Trump at Trump's private golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
After the meeting, Lyons sent a message to everyone on the party's email list. "Today," it said, "Bernadette and I had the opportunity to spend some time, one-on-one, with President Donald J. Trump.
"We talked about the pay-to-play cabal's $1 million bribe to 'cancel' my chairmanship of the Massachusetts Republican Party. (This was a reference to a group of prominent Massachusetts Republicans who have publicly committed to raising a large amount of money for the party if it dumps Lyons.)
"I told him about our efforts to reform the MassGOP so that it works for you, the grassroots, and not for the elites and the connected class on Beacon Hill.
"We talked about putting Republican principles first. I thanked him for fighting for all of us, for taking on the corrupt DC swamp, and for his absolutely fearless leadership.
"President Trump told me he's with us all the way. He's seen the work we're putting in to bring a voter ID requirement to Massachusetts, ensure election integrity, and grow the grassroots.
"President Trump knows what it's like to take on the establishment. He knows we're in the fight of our lives over the future of not just the Massachusetts Republican Party, but our commonwealth in general, and he's willing to extend a helping hand."
The message concluded with an appeal to donate to the party.
"...every donation," Lyons wrote, "no matter how small, helps us put Republican principles in Massachusetts ahead of the elite special interests class."
It appears to have been a brief meeting. Main subjects: Lyons's fight to remain as chairman amid continuing, serious internal opposition; the party's (doomed-from-the-start) quest for a Massachusetts voter ID law; and the need to increase membership in the party, with the standard complaints about the "swamp" in Washington and the Democratic lock on the Mass. legislature thrown in for good effect. In other words, it was a totally predictable Lyons product.
But is anyone really looking to the Lyonses and Trumps of the world, in a summer when the northwest is dry and burning out of control, the southwest is even dryer and withering in unendurable heat, and we in the northeast see smoke from forest fires 2,000 miles away, to break out of their political molds and say something meaningful about the world's biggest issue?
Please check out (but not before trying to go to sleep tonight) the new analysis by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:
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