Posted on 03/08/2023 2:46:15 PM PST by Starman417
I’d like to offer some advice to Donald Trump. This offer comes from someone who in November talked about following him into a raging inferno then in January questioned whether supporting him was worth the fight.
How does one go from being such a rabid fan to sitting on the fence in such a short period of time? Messaging. As I mentioned in my January piece, Trump’s embrace of the grifters running the GOP suggests that he might be taking his eye off the ball. As such, I’d like to offer three bits of unsolicited advice to the former and hopefully future president.
First, stop focusing on the stolen 2020 election and focus on America today. Not that 2020 wasn’t important, it was. But it’s 2023 and we’re 20 months away from the next election. There simply isn’t time to fix 2020, and any energy spent trying to do is that much less energy going into saving the country in 2024. Given the trajectory of the country, if we’re not victorious in 2024 there will likely be no more America as we know it by 2028.
Second, to stop taking credit for the vaccine. The more Americans know about it the less they like it, and many of us hated it from day one. While putting the development in motion was understandable at the time, the fact is that it was used as a cudgel to coerce the American people into submission, and may have terrible long term consequences to come. It’s an issue best let go as his supporters hate it and his enemies wouldn’t give him credit for it regardless.
Third, and most importantly, focus on issues that impact Americans where the proverbial tire hits the road. Here are seven.
1) Immigration: Promise to build a wall. Guarantee that the first thing he will do in office is begin the process of building a wall from Brownsville to San Diego. No nation can be a nation if it doesn’t have a border, and the invasion on our southern border is far more of a threat to Americans than anything going on in Ukraine. We’ve seen the virtual elimination of our border since Joe Biden was installed as president and watched as over 5 million illegal immigrants walked in virtually unimpeded. At the same time, we’ve seen 100,000 deaths a year from Fentanyl overdoses and are forced to watch as cartels bring their violence to American streets and mimic Mexico by bringing their infrastructure here and having comrades take powerful positions in government. He should promise that if Democrats and activist judges throw roadblocks along the way again, he will use the military to patrol the border where no wall exists until the wall is actually complete.
2) Wokeness in government: He should promise to eliminate every element of the racist Critical Race Theory in government along with the DEI “diversity, equity and inclusion” treachery. He should tell America the government will stop operating programs based on race and will stop setting various groups of Americans against one another in the name of “equity” and victimhood. The police power of government will no longer be used to favor any group over another or to use demographic data to achieve “diversity” objectives. He should promise that every single element of the federal government will be agnostic as it relates to immutable characteristics.
3) Energy independence: Promise to return the United States to energy independence. He will stop the demonization of fossil fuels in and by our government. We will stop having the nation’s economic well-being taken for granted and sacrificed at the altar of the “climate change” hoax. He will stop wasting American tax dollars pursuing the fiction of green energy as the destruction of the environment associated with the mining and production of materials used in car batteries, solar panels and wind turbines is far greater than that associated with the production of natural gas and oil.
4) Return to gender normalcy: Eliminate every element of the federal government that blurs the lines between men and women. While there may indeed be a tiny number of Americans who actually suffer from “gender dysphoria” the reality is, men are men and women are women. This has been a fact throughout all of human history, and remains so today for 99.995% of human beings. Our government should no more base public policy on the desires of .005% of the population who genuinely suffer from gender dysphoria than they should base it on the slightly less frequent existence of Siamese twins. And he should promise to pass a federal law outlawing “gender-affirming poison and operations” for children under the age of 18.
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Sounds good to me.
Trump is NOT a conservative. He just dislikes DC politicians. He likes big government types that do what HE likes.
He puts America First. That is very conservative. Vote for Biden you loser.
Let Trump be Trump. We need him so badly now.
Trump pushing vaccine availability at warp speed saved many millions of lives in USA for older people with comorbidities. My wife being one of them.
He's not conservative?
Well, he's "common sense". That's his description.
And he's close to it, IMO.
Trump is NOT a conservative. He just dislikes DC politicians. He likes big government types that do what HE likes.
Where do you get this crap that you post.
You think China-azz-kissers are conservativce? If not, there are no more than 4 conservatives in DC.
Your picture of him is the perfect picture of every "Conservative" in DC and in state houses around the country, as well as right here on FR! Conservatives tend to LOVE big government, so long as it's THEIR big government. This is evidenced in the anti-cannabis sentiment among "Conservatives". There should be a law! No, no there really shouldn't. But Conservatives are more than ready to vote for someone that would stand against it and legislate against it if at all possible. This makes Trump an absolute Conservative!
Kaiser8408a pulls it out of his rear end.
And don’t hire ANYBODY.
Give all the advice you want. As for me Trump is #1 and DeSantis #2. All the rest can take a f’n hike.
“He puts America First. That is very conservative.”
Oof. Are you a very young person? Or have you just forgotten that it wasn’t too many decades ago when there were actually liberal Democrats who also “put America first”?
It’s a good value, don’t get me wrong, but it’s no test of whether someone is a conservative or not.
> He puts America First. <
Trump is quite liberal on some issues, and quite conservative on others. But what you said, that’s the bottom line. Protect the border, avoid foreign wars, bring industry back. What’s not to like?
Hard pass.
All is lost if the 2016 electoral supernova is not crammed back down the Donkey Party’s throat with extreme prejudice.
One of what, exactly?
Person saved from death, Person with Comorbidities, or both together?
If the latter, how is it that you know her life was saved by her having been vexxationationally not-a-vaxxed?
He needs to explain why he failed to build the wall the last four years with a Republican congress. He can’t promise to build the wall again unless he has the receipts to guarantee it. And knock it off with the mexico will pay for that t. They told you no. So forget that.
4) Quit sniping at Ron DeSantis. That gimmick worked against Ted Cruz back in 2016, but Ron DeSantis is no Ted Cruz, and you lose major points every time you insult Desantis.
He gets it from the GOP-E!
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