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Three Supreme Court Justices, countless needless regulations repealed, tax cuts for everyone, unthinkably low unemployment, a booming economy, no new wars, Middle East peace deals, ISIS decimated, NAFTA gone, and American pride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.
The train commute the next morning was the quietest commute I ever experienced..lots of stunned and saddened people yet I'm dancing in my seat quietly. I was probably cranking the Concert for New York version of Won't Get Fooled Again.
I am hopeful Trump can do it again. Even if Biden steals this one, Trump awakened Deplorable America from her slumber.
Nothing is over until we decide it is, indeed...that can't be bottled.
Anecdotal also, but:
My sister and her husband are hard-core brainwashed Democrats. They always have CNN on at their house.
They have hosted Thanksgiving for the family for _decades_.
This is the first year they have decided not to do it, because of their fear of coronavirus.
Actions tell the story.
I also remember seeing a motorcade headed north on I-95 just past the Port Chester station. I was never able to confirm it but it looked like it might have been Bill Clinton getting the hell out of Dodge.
Good for Derek
Nice post
Something to carry us into Election Day
Vote
Get out the vote
Yes, I think it does.
I supported Cruz before and at the start of the primaries due to his obvious Christian constitutional conservative positions and track record of defending the Constitution. IMHO, he stood head and shoulders over Bush, Rubio, Kascich, Paul and other assorted GOPe RINOs, globalists, amnesty pushers, establishment hangers on and unknown newbies, etc. I didn’t care much at all for Trump. Thought he was an untrustworthy chameleon and charlatan. Wrote him off completely.
Pandemic has near zero result on this election. I cannot imagine a single Trump supporter switching to Biden on account of a worldwide black swan event that nobody had any control over. As if Biden, who spent most of the year huddled in his basement with a mask on would have handled things better!
This describes me to a tee. I was a Cruz guy and very suspicious of a NY billionaire claiming to be conservative, but a Hillary presidency was unthinkable. Now, I’m going to crawl on broken glass to get to the polls on election day, and I’m going to wear the colors of old glory to “trigger” all the bedwetters.
“Simple, Trump had all the right enemies.”
DING DING DING! We have a winner! ;-)
I did not expect very much out of him. I figured that if he did one or two things I agreed with that I would come out ahead.
he has surpassed my expectations.
And earned my vote.
I was a Trump skeptic at first too.
It was my next door neighbor at the time that got me to start paying attention to Trump.
My neighbor was a violent criminal that had spent 15 years of his life in prison, but when he had a child, did a hard 180 and went stubbornly solid citizen.
And he was a huge Trump fan.
He did so much as VP during the swine flu epidemic.
Where "so much" is defined as "exactly nothing"...
It’s meaningless to compare them ...
Best thing I’ve read regarding this subject
Thank you
Awesome post!!
Having worked with businessmen for many years...I knew Trump would do good things...never thought he would be THIS good, though.
AND, also...he was NOT a lawyer!!!
Initially, I was in Cruz’s camp...until Trump came down the escalator, announced and stated he would defend the border from the illegal alien invaders.
I was in from the very beginning...unlike Derek Hunter and many freepers.
Sometimes it takes time for reality to sink in for those who lack insight into the core issues & person.
I think there are millions of Trump skeptics who are now enthusiastic supporters. Some voted for him against Hillary, some didn’t. Now, the Trump skeptics are strong Trumpers.
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