Bad Boy Trump
Former President
Donald Trump is being cast as the villainous “bad boy” of American politics who
dared to contest the results of a dubious presidential election. His loud, “in your face” New York personality
is being used to characterize and define his “unfitness” to be president again.
Starting on the
escalator at Trump Tower in 2015, Donald Trump has been persecuted mercilessly
by his left-wing enemies. He continues to be persecuted for supposed
infractions that democrats have walked away from with impunity. The media continues to pillorize him, and
even the conservative Murdoch based media have turned against him. Candidates backed by Trump in the mid-term
election have generally fared poorly.
Trump is currently politically a persona non-grata.
With Trump
announcing another run for the presidency in 2024, with multiple New York State
and U.S. government charges against him, and with a “special prosecutor”, (or
inquisitor}, just appointed by Merrick Garland, it should be an interesting
election season, to say the least. We’ll
be lucky if the republican party doesn’t disintegrate.
Forgotten or
glossed over, now, and in both the 2020 and 2022 elections are the statistics
from Trump’s previous tenure, the 1.5% inflation; the $1.80 per gallon gasoline
price; the stable southern border; the relatively low crime rates; the
Abrahamic Middle East accords; the stable foreign relations (with no wars);
Covid vaccines in 9 months; and myriad other accomplishments. What’s remembered is his big mouth; his
halting response to the Covid pandemic; and, of course, January 6th,
blown all out of proportion by the hatred of his leftist enemies.
I personally
never liked Trump all that much during my twenty plus years working in New York
City. His ostentatious nature and
personal foibles turned me off. I
disliked the “Trump” signs all over “my city”.
I did not follow his career closely, and I did not watch his reality
shows. I became more positive about
Trump after his accomplishments as president became apparent.
Trump’s popular
appeal was evident from the start of his political career. He did not cast himself as the rather spoiled
and mercurial New York playboy, but instead as the anti-establishment champion
of the “little guy”. He flew in the face
of the 12 or 13 primary candidates on that stage in 2015, and cut them to
pieces with his biting, unwashed, proletarian rhetoric, applying satirical
nicknames to many of them.
Trump’s defeat
of Hillary Clinton literally drove the democrats to tears, and established an
illegal fifth column in the DOJ and FBI to bring him down. Republicans had a majority in both houses of
congress for the first two years of Trump’s presidency. That they did not accomplish very much can
probably be attributed to Trump’s political inexperience, as well as to the
wasted machinations of the Russia Collusion investigation.
The democrats came
to congressional power in 2018, and the next two years were wasted by Nancy
Pelosi and her minions mounting two impeachments against Trump for issues that ultimately
will prove trivial. Trump and the
republicans presumably lost in 2020, and the democrats spent trillions of
dollars, under the cover of Covid relief.
By their mismanagement, the democrats threw the country into inflation, high
crime, open borders and general chaos.
SCOTUS revoking
federal Roe vs Wade, and a massive democrat propaganda campaign to “save
democracy” in 2022, resulted in a democrat-controlled senate and a marginally
republican controlled house. “Gridlock”
seems to be the prediction for the next two years, but republican control of
the house means that Hunter’s laptop and the Biden crime family may finally be
exposed. The “big guy”, Joe Biden could
be impeached for corruption. Again, an
empty gesture, since the senate will never convict him.
And, into this
mix, comes Trump, once again. He has
been cast as the “bad boy” of politics before, and prevailed. One cannot forget his controversial
personality and personal foibles. But
one should also not forget the considerable accomplishments during his administration.
Were it not for the Covid pandemic ruining the economy and Trump’s presidency,
we would have a completely different world.
Low inflation, low crime, energy independence, a stable southern border,
no Ukrainian war, respect from world nations, - and many other benefits of a
strong presidency, rather than the weak, mewling Joe Biden and his sophomoric
handlers.
Trump’s run for
the presidency in 2024 may split and ruin the republican party. All I can say, is if we allow this to happen,
we deserve it. Trump may be
controversial, but he is a strong leader with a business background. Other than the internal machinations of the
republican party and the political scene, there is another fundamental question
that this country must answer.
Are we to
remember Locke’s and Burke’s principles of liberty and freedom that formed our
country and kept it alive and great in the face of fascism, communism and other
corrosive philosophies, or are we to succumb to the movements seeking to
destroy us? Are we to continue to adopt identity
politics and “wokeness”, the racist and socialist teachings of Critical Race Theory,
and the far left communist/socialist philosophies hiding behind “social justice”
and “environmentalism”?
This is hoping
that American values and common sense has not been completely over-shadowed in
our young people and minorities by the leftist indoctrination infesting our
schools and colleges, and being further embellished by our dishonest left-wing
media. And also hoping that there is
enough of middle America left outside of the Acela, West Coast, and democrat
run inner cities, to revive and sustain our founding values.
Ray Gruszecki
November 21,
2022
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