Should Trump run again, and should we support him?
In the spirit of the old Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times.”, it is interesting that we have such an incompetent administration in the White House, and interesting to watch them stumble around and lie and spin, and bungle so many things important to Americans. So what to do?
It is clear Trump wants to run again, most likely to face Hillary again. But should he?
If one looks back at his 4 years in office, one sees a record of great accomplishments. Whether foreign or domestic, his administration took on seemingly impossible tasks and won.
We had relatively secure borders.
The economy was booming.
Inflation was nil.
Interest rates were low.
Unemployment was at record lows.
We got a COVID vaccine in record time.
Our relationships with other nations greatly improved.
North Korea and Russia were talking to us.
Our trade was greatly improved, and China trade deal renegotiated.
NAFDA was dumped and a new trade agreement signed that was more fair to the US.
So why would we not re-elect this guy? Answer: The media.
We lived through 4years of Trump in the White House with the media nipping at his heels the whole time. Trump never had a real chance to govern without lies, rumors and innuendo following his every step. He not only had to fight the Dumocraps, there were the false Russian collusion charges, the false dossier, the false inditement of Trump staff, lies and misrepresentations galore, false impeachments and an American public divided, rightly or wrongly, as never before.
I support Trump, and I believe that his record and accomplishments will stand up against anyone’s. In addition he has shown that he can get the job done. He deserves a second term. But what concerns me is that the Cabal, the Deep State, and/or his opponents and the media will pick up where they left off in January 2021, and we will have another 4years like his previous 4 years with fabricated lies, distortions and fabricated scandals as then promulgated by a corrupt leftist media and the socialist/communist Dumocrap Party.
So here’s the question; if we know that Trump will be slandered and face the same opposition and baseless accusations as in his previous administration, would you vote for him in 2024?
It is clear Trump wants to run again, most likely to face Hillary again. But should he?
If one looks back at his 4 years in office, one sees a record of great accomplishments. Whether foreign or domestic, his administration took on seemingly impossible tasks and won.
We had relatively secure borders.
The economy was booming.
Inflation was nil.
Interest rates were low.
Unemployment was at record lows.
We got a COVID vaccine in record time.
Our relationships with other nations greatly improved.
North Korea and Russia were talking to us.
Our trade was greatly improved, and China trade deal renegotiated.
NAFDA was dumped and a new trade agreement signed that was more fair to the US.
So why would we not re-elect this guy? Answer: The media.
We lived through 4years of Trump in the White House with the media nipping at his heels the whole time. Trump never had a real chance to govern without lies, rumors and innuendo following his every step. He not only had to fight the Dumocraps, there were the false Russian collusion charges, the false dossier, the false inditement of Trump staff, lies and misrepresentations galore, false impeachments and an American public divided, rightly or wrongly, as never before.
I support Trump, and I believe that his record and accomplishments will stand up against anyone’s. In addition he has shown that he can get the job done. He deserves a second term. But what concerns me is that the Cabal, the Deep State, and/or his opponents and the media will pick up where they left off in January 2021, and we will have another 4years like his previous 4 years with fabricated lies, distortions and fabricated scandals as then promulgated by a corrupt leftist media and the socialist/communist Dumocrap Party.
So here’s the question; if we know that Trump will be slandered and face the same opposition and baseless accusations as in his previous administration, would you vote for him in 2024?
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that he got done as mush as he did is to his credit
what we do not is is another politician that is 100% out of touch with reality, with We the PEople as almost all are
we now see Teed Cruz lying about how bad Jan 6th was
If you want the Full Monty on this vital point - principle vs. pragmatic fluff (and worse, tribal collectivism) - I recommend to everybody who's interested in the Trump question and in what the GOP needs to do - nay, must do - to clean up the gargantuan mess we're in, that they read these essential analyses. And if you agree with them, bookmark and disseminate them to all in your networks:
Edward Hudgins' 2006 piece "Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party:
https://www.atlassociety.org/post/cri...
Robert Bidinotto's award-winning 2007 piece "Up From Conservatism":
https://www.atlassociety.org/post/up-...
Mr. Bidinotto's 2016 follow-up "The Republican Crack-Up, Revisited":
https://bidinotto.blogspot.com/2016/0...
And his two scathing but important statements on Trump and the 2016 GOP race, "A Vote for #Neither"
https://bidinotto.blogspot.com/2016/0...
and "In the Wake of the 2016 GOP Convention":
https://bidinotto.blogspot.com/2016/0...
My own perspective on Trump's term: Yes, he managed to get a few things done that were positives. But as we are seeing in vivid, scratch-and-sniff 3D clarity, not a single one of those momentary accomplishments lasted beyond his term. Why? They were tied to his range-of-the-moment pragmatism, not to any deeper animating principles. Principles like Individualism, for example. Or human rights. Or the morality of capitalism and immorality of collectivism. Or the fact that government - every government, at any level, is potentially, perennially, the single greatest threat to human life in existence.
For those who were around then, recall that President Reagan, for all of his own imperfections, succeeded not only in putting these principles into practice in his policies, but succeeded in imbuing American culture with those principles as well. To use the lingo of that RINO cipher George H.W. Bush, Reagan had "the vision thing." Trump did not, and does not. He's a finger-to-the-wind pragmatist, not a beacon of principle. And one thing we know with absolute certainty is that - thanks to that absence of philosophic grounding - he is not and cannot be an activist for Founding principles, much less an activist for the radical reforms which should now be considered mandatory for any Republican officeholder.
To run through a short roster of the vital reforms he left untouched, and which utter default is biting us now in a big way:
- He did exactly nothing to end, decisively, the absolute war the Democrat-Socialist Party has been waging against American election integrity since November of 2000. After four years of sitting on his hands he had the audacity to act surprised that the 2020 election was riddled with large-scale fraud. The reason? Trump's inaction;
- He did exactly nothing to end the domination of the Howard Zinn / Albert Gore fraud within American education - finally latching onto the wishy-washy haze of something he called "Patriotic Education," not on January 20, 2017, but after those four years of inactivity, in the midst of his failed 2020 campaign;
- He presided over the descent of America and the rest of the world into this Covid-cloaked global totalitarian putsch - leaving it untouched and fully intact through 2020, when he should've been identifying it as a CCP bio-weapon attack on the world, organizing the nations of the world to call for the abolition and dismantling of the Communist Chinese regime on that basis. Not likely to happen, but as I've said before, politics is a pendulum-swing; the side that pulls the hardest sets the entire context of debate, and this Covid putsch should have earned Xi and his brutal thugs a global blowback to send them reeling. Instead we got, from Trump, the sound of pins hitting the floor. Zilch. At the very least he should have taken a flamethrower to this whole grab-bag of mask mandates, the lockdowns, the virtual shredding of the First Amendment, and the Nuremberg Code-violating neo-Mengele vaccine mandates. But... zilch. Just nothing. Trump. Let. It. Stand.
- Similarly, the entire framework for Obamacare - which ought to be identified as a human rights violation to its core - remains intact. Again, utter inaction from Trump. He let it stand when it was - is - imperative that it be repealed and dismantled to its every word, as the vastly superior candidate Ted Cruz put it.
I'm up against the 5000 character limit, and that's just scratching the surface.
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Trump brought Peace to the Middle East
among other things