Why Are We Making This So Damn Hard?
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| H/T Pem Schaeffer |
by Pem Schaeffer: Lots of hair is on fire, hands are being wrung, and teeth are being gnashed as November 3rd approaches. (note that I did not say “election day;” it's no longer possible to say when the actual election begins and ends)
The commentariat elite are afflicted with these symptoms, and are doing their crooked best to spread them to the rest of us....the little people....who in theory choose the President for the next four years.
They are needlessly complicating a choice of our Constitutional Executive that should be exceedingly obvious and simple. Let me explain.
In 2015, Donald Trump announced that he would be running for President as a Republican, and the whirlwind began. He was a real estate entrepreneur, a successful TV star, and a celebrity in every sense of that word. But one thing he was certainly not – a worthy and proven politician in the formal elective sense. Many, if not most, would say, including me, that this was and is his most appealing strength.
He was up against more than a dozen challengers in the primaries. And up against thousands in the elite ruling class who sensed an immediate threat to their futures. “Never Trumpers” sprang up like weeds in sidewalk cracks. Establishment demi-gods, like Bill Kristol, argued continually and with increasing vitriol, that no sane American could support Trump. Bill used to run a magazine called The Weekly Standard, which he managed to run into the ground in the process. He and his fellow guiding lights in the nobility simply could not believe that any self-respecting American could even think of supporting Trump. The term “swamp” increased its popularity in political discourse as Trump flushed out the muck-dwellers, and their underlying methods and pathologies became clearer.
Trump decimated his primary challengers one by one like so many pins on a bowling alley with guard rails instead of gutters. He laid out a series of promises and commitments that rapidly generated a movement of dedicated supporters. He struck a chord with Americans looking for something and someone new to believe in – someone who would “clean house” in Washington, and voice a rallying cry for getting back to the fundamentals of the American design.
As his support grew, and he became a 'force of nature,' few among the glitterati took him seriously, even as the whirlwind swept wider and wider. Opposition research on all fronts increased, digging up old dirt and creating new dirt out of whole cloth when the old dirt didn't seem to have much effect.
Still, it seemed impossible that Trump could be victorious. He was a bozo, a bully, a liar, the beneficiary of inherited wealth, and so much more. But that didn't really matter, because he was running against the smartest and most competent woman in the world: Hillary Clinton. An entitled and anointed politician if ever there was one, she was a master at erasing the dark spots in her record, and lining up the worshipful support of the ruling elite and all who rub shoulders with them, including Hollywood, the media, and more. No blot on her record was too big to ignore, no challenge was big enough to take her down; certainly not the oaf Donald Trump. The swamp dwellers, those who feed them and clean the scum from their waters, and the vast armies of the ruling elite class ordered in the Champagne and Caviar, and played parlor games guessing what titles each would ascend to in the new Hillary regime. They could stay out late and break any rules they wished, because in mere weeks they would take the elevator ride to move on up in the governing aristocracy. Rap sheets if any would be purged, and all would begin life in the gilded age of HRC.
Then something happened; something impossible, illegal, corrupt, outrageous, unnatural, inconceivable, unimaginable, unthinkable, preposterous, unreasonable, and in a nutshell: out of the question.
Something that would “end life as we know it.” That's right, Trump won the election (at least until the swamp zombies overthrew it, which they never did.) And thank goodness he did, and ushered in a new American age.
It turns out that while Hillary and the members of her Court were getting pedis & manis on the taxpayers, Trump and his growing legions of supporters were out on the stumps doing what Presidential Candidates are supposed to do – campaigning and drumming up enthusiasm so that your voters show up and vote for you. And that's what they did.
They believed Trump's promises and vision for our future, and they applauded his explanation of what was wrong with the elite ruling class and the establishment.
Then, once he got elected, he did the unthinkable: he set about keeping his promises and implementing his vision for our future. Now he has the temerity to think he should be elected to a second term.
Why? Just because he's kept many of his promises and is at work on the others? Because he lowered taxes, reduced regulations, and built the strongest US economy ever? Because he drove down unemployment to the lowest levels in memory, especially for women and minorities? Because he drove household incomes higher in his first term by multiples of the increase in Biden/Obama's two terms? Because he's brokered beneficial trade deals and peace agreements? Because he's strengthened the Military? Because he's taken out the vilest terrorists on the globe? Because he supports parental choice in schools for their children, so they can get the best education possible? Because the stock market has reached higher levels than anyone might expect, driving IRA's and other forms of personal retirement accounts to record highs?
Some say he should not be re-elected to a second term, in spite of these achievements, which they pooh-pooh with a hand wave.
They say Trump is vulgar. You mean like “Barack buddy, this is one big effin deal” vulgar?
They say Trump is racist. Compared to “if you aren't voting for me, you ain't Black?” Or opposing school choice? Or “are you a junkie, Man?” Or “you have to have an Indian accent to shop in a 7-11 in Delaware?”
They say Trump is a liar. And Biden and all who worked under him engaged in no lying in their efforts to undo the election of Trump that began while he was still the sitting VP, and continued unabated until this year? And Biden hasn't lied about his policy positions, or about his son's trading on his father's high office? You mean Biden's fabrications about his law school class rank and the “Historically Black” college he attended aren't lies?
They say Trump is a bully. You mean the leftist sympathizer fires, rioting, beatings, mayhem, public and private property destruction, and homicides aren't bullying? And threats to “burn the system down if our demands are not met” aren't bullying on a grand, national, existential level? You mean presiding over attempts to block the appointment of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court wasn't being a racist bully?
They say Trump had/has no plan for how to deal with the pandemic. You mean the near immediate Trump ban on travel from China that Biden labeled xenophobic? You mean the sending of a fully equipped Naval Hospital Ship to New York City to deal with their surge in cases, which ship was not utilized? And the conversion of the Javits Center to an emergency hospital which also was all for naught? You mean the record setting escalation of production and distribution of protective gear, testing supplies, vital medical equipment, and the research and testing of vaccines and therapeutics? Do you mean you prefer Biden's “national plan,” which would mean that rural states like Wyoming, Montana, and Maine would be subject to the same regulations and restrictions as every other state, including the most populous, like Texas, New York, and California?
Yes, Trump has the temerity to think he should be elected to a second term. And I completely and thoroughly understand why. And I agree with him, as do so many of those I know and don't know.
But more than anything, I can't for the life of me understand why there are so many trying to make this a “tough choice” or a “hard decision.” It just isn't. It is an incredibly easy choice.
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Pem Schaeffer is a retired engineer who progressed to a position in business development leadership in defense electronics. He lives and writes in Brunswick, Maine, and blogs ot The Other Side of Town.
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