I’ve been had.
I admit, I bought into it. They had me going.
I have wasted boatloads of time and energy deflecting, explaining and dismissing Trump’s traits as idiosyncrasies or insignificant quirks of character. I did it because I thought those specific mannerisms were what drove the Democrats and the media mad. Some of you have read my remonstrations on these pages.
I even had lots of fun pointing out their hypocrisy because they overlooked the foibles of prominent people on their side while making a federal case out of Trump’s flaws. Some instances were so obvious that everyone with half a brain knew they were spinning, fudging, and lying. Now, I know that they couldn’t care less what anyone thought. Don’t be fooled like I was. All the clamor about Trump’s rude tweets, compulsive lying, supposed mental deficiencies, boorish behavior, confusion in his cabinet, even his supposed misogyny and alleged racism—these actions, irksome or loathsome as they may be, were never at the core of their opposition.
Why have they done it? It’s simple. The left was dealing in street cred versus abstruse concepts. They knew that average people could understand and be sickened by these crabby behaviors. They knew they could whip up hatred, anger, and loathing by hammering on these flash points. It has all been orchestrated for the public consumption. Ask the average Trump hater on the street and he or she will cite the president’s lying, racism, vulgar traits as the reason for their hatred. Haters will name his purportedly praising of white supremacists, his locker room talk disparaging of women, charges that he called Hispanic immigrants rapists, and that he referred to Central American youths as animals. Plus, they hate his orange, coiffured hair. And, his workaholic ways. Yes, the focus on his crude personality has played very well.
It’s all a gigantic smoke screen.
Their opposition has little or nothing to do with his personality. The real reason for their hatred for Trump is all about his policies, his worldview, his political philosophy and his core beliefs. They’re much more frightened of his views than his tweets. They despise everything he stands for because it represents a massive rollback of the new world order that progressives, leftists and liberals have been working to establish over the last fifty years. They have essentially dedicated their entire lives to blunting American influence abroad, emasculation of the military, promotion of diversity at the expense of national unity and patriotism, installation of justices who were not strict constructionists, exploitation of racial divides, instilling college and university students with a negative view of the founding fathers, shaping the concept of social justice, undermining the economy, promulgating globalism and the United Nations, and laying the foundations for socialism. They do not see Trump as a mere nasty, embarrassing occupant of the office president for four or eight years. That they could stomach. Rather, they see him as detonating a nuclear bomb in the middle of a precious, vast, world-changing program. They cannot—at least in their minds—afford to have one man come along and wreck the work of thousands. They are not about to simply throw up their hands and walk away. They have way too much invested to let him get away with this. Horror and nausea overwhelm them thinking about the following Trump accomplishments:
- Moving America’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
- Pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal.
- Pulling out of the Climate Change Accords.
- Ending our association with the World Health Organization.
- Neutralizing hostilities with North Korea and averting possible war.
- Taking out two notorious terrorist leaders.
- Defeating ISIS in Iraq.
- Freeing hostages.
- Dismissing of crippling regulations to business.
- Fracking and renewed oil exploration and drilling.
- Achieving energy independence.
- Appointment of two strict constructionist Supreme Court justices.
- Escaping the condemnation of the Mueller Report.
- Acquittal of articles of impeachment.
- Lowest unemployment rate in years or in history for minorities.
- Largest tax cut in history.
- Historical highs in the stock market.
- Ending NAFTA and creating USMCA trade agreement.
- Bringing huge structural changes to the Veteran’s Administration.
- Creating Opportunity Zones for Black Communities.
- Creating SpaceForce.
- Enacting prison reform.
- And much, much more.
If it weren’t for Trumps policies, his behaviors wouldn’t take up more than a few seconds of broadcast time or a few lines of print. His America first viewpoint is the sticking point. This man clearly threatens the left’s grand design to reshape the world, making America a much smaller player than it was in the twentieth century. It is why George Soros and others like him have pledged to do everything possible to turn him out of office, legally or otherwise.
It took me far too long to figure this out. They say it is his awful words. It’s a lie. It is his policies they hate.