Month: June 2018

We are hearing a lot about “un-civil” discourse in our society. The images of Maxine Waters calling for the harassment of Trump administration officials coupled with the expulsion of two Administration officials from restaurants has caused a great amount of conversation.

And, inevitably, the left has blamed Donald J. Trump.

But how did we get here? How did we get a volatile, aggressive bomb-thrower like Trump to win the last election? The answer is simple…..

We, as Conservatives, decided to “fight fire with fire” and put our own bomb-thrower into the arena. For years, the liberal left has smeared the pinata-like nominees for higher office presented by the Republican Party. For years we have heard Republican nominees characterized as “racists”, “bigots” and “misogynists”. We have heard baseless accusations of Republicans wanting to kill women, hang blacks from trees and cause children to starve in the streets. Those accusations did not come from pundits or talking heads on cable television…they came from actual elected representatives of the Democratic Party. And after eight intense years of race-baiting from the Obama-ites, the conservative right was ready to hitch their wagon to someone who would fight back and take no prisoners. The person we looked for would respond to a shovel full of dirt by backing up the truck and dumping a load of filth on the other side.

Frankly, nobody else on the Republican side would have been able to beat Hillary Clinton. The rest of the “politicians” would have followed the same path of denying the claims and responding in highly political language. We were looking for the “street fighter” who would go toe-to-toe with the bomb-throwers.

In Donald Trump, we found our man…and the left abhors being the recipient of the slurs, snarky accusations and belittling comments foisted on them by a person who never backs down.

Nice to be on the other side for once!

 

The above is the most important question of our time.

We see a huge swath of America – the “fly-over country” as it is known – that supports the bombastic, less-than-political resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This current President has propelled the markets to record highs, empowered businesses to expand and hire more workers, allowed businesses that were on the cusp of going under keep the doors open (and saving those hundreds of thousands of jobs), lit the fuse of increasing wages and cut thousands of needless regulations from the Federal Register of Regulations. Water is NOT dirtier….air is just as clean as it was before the current resident. Add the tackling of the major security issues of the day – NoKo and ISIS – and you have a man of achievement.

We also see a deep, blue streak along both oceans of strident opposition to the current resident of the White House. These denizens look to the more ethereal values as the measuring stick of acceptance. They value the emotional values of being “liked” and exuding a countenance of being “cool” and “hip” and other red carpet values. For the eight years of the last resident of the White House, we saw stagnant wages, the lowest labor participation rate in history, the majority of new jobs being part-time, foreign powers boldly blowing past our “red lines” and terrorism metastasizing around the globe. The urban elites, however, believe this incompetent President was the “be-all, end-all” who embodied all of the virtues they adore. Of course, these elitists live in a “Facebook” society where the measure of a person is how many “likes” and “followers” they have amassed – not what they have accomplished in life.

And that is the basic choice:

Do you want a person who will ruffle a few feathers but produce benefits for millions of Americans – making their lives better and providing a future for our children?

Or do you prefer the posing, incompetent who mortgages the future to implement policies glorifying non-achievement through give-aways to those who don’t work, runs from confrontation and leaves the heavy lifting (North Korea: Would any true “Leader” slink out of the White House while informing the next administration their most pressing issue is NoKo nukes – an issue he deliberately avoided) for those that follow?

The answer seems obvious.