Posted on 11/01/2020 3:50:34 AM PST by Kaslin
In 2016, I was not a Donald Trump fan. I’d fully planned on writing in some joke name or whatever because, well, I didn’t trust Trump. There was no way on God’s green earth I was ever going to vote for Hillary Clinton, and third parties are pathetic. I lived in Maryland, so I could justify it to myself as it not really mattering in the grand scheme of things – Maryland is so blue it would vote for Stalin.
I also believed, as did most everyone else, that Clinton would win. In the primary, I was originally a Marco Rubio supporter, then a Ted Cruz fan as the field winnowed. I never dreamed this guy whose TV show I’d been a fan of could do anything but humiliate himself and the party. I was wrong.
Before election day, I did some soul-searching. My wife was pregnant with our first child and I knew a Hillary Clinton presidency would be horrible for the country. Democrats had big plans to “fundamentally transform” the country, ruining much of what made the country the envy of the world in the name of “progressive” politics. What would I tell my child about life before, about the country before? And what would I tell them about what I did to try to stop it.
In a column that went viral, I’d changed my mind. I knew I had to do everything I could, including voting for someone I didn’t think would be a good president but was the only realistic alternative, to register my opposition to the damage to come.
I was as shocked as anyone when Donald Trump won.
After that, I thought it would be four years of working to mitigate the damage he would do, peppered with a few good things. I was wrong.
Three Supreme Court Justices, countless needless regulations repealed, tax cuts for everyone, unthinkably low unemployment, a booming economy, no new wars, Middle East peace deals, ISIS decimated, NAFTA gone, and American pride rising. I was very wrong.
Sure, there were tweets I wished weren’t sent, points that could have been made clearer or more directly – I’m not going to agree with anyone 100 percent of the time except me. But Donald Trump, quite simply, has been an excellent president of the United States.
Most surprisingly of all, and evident in his overall accomplishments, he was easily one of the most conservative presidents we’ve ever had. Whether it was, as some never Trumpers whine, all an act, I couldn’t care less. Results matter, and the results are beyond dispute.
When it comes to 2020, were it not for coronavirus, President Trump would coast to victory. Democrats and the media would still have coordinated all their lies and attacks, but they would’ve been seen clearly as the pathetic character assassinations they are.
The fog of the pandemic has clouded everyone’s vision, empowering left wing lies. Joe Biden, Democrats, and the media gleefully accuse the president of being responsible for 200,000 deaths.
It’s an easy attack, and a cheap shot. But when the media memory holes the fact that Dr. Deborah Birx said back in March that we would experience 200,000 deaths “if we do things almost perfectly,” as NBC News did, it makes it an even easier lie to tell.
These people, who’d exploit the pain of loss of American families for their political advantage, sickly promising their loved ones would still be alive if only Democrats were in charge, deserve every ounce of scorn human beings can heap upon them.
Add to that the demonization of treatments, the belittling of vaccines, and the contempt for hope and I’m left with only disgust. These people cannot be allowed anywhere near power.
So this time, I will vote against Democrats with just as much eagerness and even more urgency now that their party has moved even further to the left and embraced even crazier, anti-American values. The difference is, this time I will vote for Donald Trump with a level of enthusiasm I did not in 2016, with a level of enthusiasm with which I’ve never voted for any other candidate before. The record is too good, the stakes too damn high, and the alternative too damn crazy and corrupt to do anything else.
Join me, and bring friends.
Simple, Trump had all the right enemies.
I went to the Trump rally in Connecticut in 2016 as a skeptic, I left as a believer. After seeing him in person, I realized how wrong my impression of him was and I knew he would win.
In the 2016 Primary I voted for Cruz. Trump’s general mannerism turned me off. In some ways still does.
But
He is THE MAN . He has done an amazing job leading this Country. He doesn’t have to placate anyone. He doesn’t owe anyone a favor .
No other Republican candidate could stand up the the withering attacks he has had to overcome.
Frankly I don’t know how he does it.
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Please read and spread.
“my vote isn’t so they can all get high. My vote is to deny the Mexican cartels a source of income”
Amen!
She voted for Trump this time. "It's hard not to like him" she said. :-)
Does hand carrying the mailed out ballots back to county election headquarters count as voting in person?
I don’t understand why people object to his tweets. Trust me, he is mild for Twitter, the home of the Internet tough guy.
Very much so. USPS not involved
Still does.
I do admire his taste in enemies...
Count me and my nonagenarian mom in.
Not permitted to in my town
Keep up the good fight, Nully! I am counting on you!
PING!
Not me, I was a big fan of Donald Trump from the moment he made illegal immigration a top issue of his.
Does the county allow the election headquarters to receive hand carried ballots? (I’m assuming the county seat isn’t in your town)...
I am but a humble messenger.
After two of my picks quit early or imploded, I voted FOR Trump in the general.
My husband cast his first vote for Reagan and his 2nd and 3rd for Trump. He never went with me to vote before, and he says he just never felt strongly enough about a candidate since Reagan to bother.
Mom is gonna be 88 in February.
Cent’Anni to both of them!!
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