Posted on 07/30/2022 10:36:27 AM PDT by conservative98
I recently wrote a column about why I believed Trump should not run in 2024. I was wrong. I allowed my distaste for Trump’s personality to override his virtues, which are considerable. Some people want Trump without his vices. I was among them -- until yesterday, when I watched and listened to Tom Klingenstein’s speech titled “Trump’s virtues.” It was masterful and shamed me that I did not make the distinction between Trump's character and his virtues, the former being deeply flawed, the latter being almost perfect. I need to man up in my defense of the former President's virtues. The speech was among the most pointed I have heard and deserves some exposure. Klingenstein says:
Other Republicans say some version of “I like Trump policies but I don’t like the rest of him.” This gets it almost backwards. Although Trump advanced many important policies, it is the 'rest of him' that contains the virtue that inspires the movement… Trump was born for the current crisis, a life and death struggle against a totalitarian enemy I call woke communism... that control all the cultural and economic powers in America…
[Trump] revealed, not caused, the divide in this country. In war, you must make a stand… Trump is a manly man... traditional manhood, even when flawed, is absolutely essential… Trump plays to win... There are no clean hands in a fistfight…Trump is unreservedly, unquestionably pro-America… Trump is a refreshing break from the guilt and self-loathing that marks our age…
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/07/i_was_wrong_about_trump.html
Gives you something to think about.
Mike drop!
These very things are what the Left hate, yet it is not their favor we need to care about. They will not embrace anyone on the Republican ticket and certainly not one they cannot bully. We need to stop worrying about acceptance of our candidates by the Left or they will have won.
Republicans, however, should not forget that it is his support and the spirit they embrace that have become the life force of the Republican party. Among the talked-about alternatives to Trump I have not yet seen anyone who possesses or even understands Trump’s virtues. Nor have I seen anyone with his backbone and fortitude. One does not appreciate the strength of relentless gale-force winds until one is in the eye of the storm.
…which is exactly where Trump and we are at this moment. We have to prepare for the gale-force winds we will encounter. To not do this is to ignore the lessons of the recent past and it will be forever to our sorrow to ignore them.
His virtue must be the standard by which we judge other candidates.
Amen and amen. We don't have to like his personality but his virtues far outweigh it. I humbly stand corrected and offer my mea culpa.
Yep!
It’s amazing how a little different perspective reveals
everything sharply in bright light.
He reveal it...
I appreciate Matthews candor here.
Sounds like a decent honest man.
It is SICKENING to have to watch people who claim to be on our side go through their ‘learning curve’ on Trump at the expense of the country - and that also includes people like Cruz and Levin.
There are men who have left positive fingerprints in history, but in various ways were rather imperfect.
The left and the media have done their best to magnify and to manufacture Trump’s flaws.
yet another grifter writes his daily 10 thousand empty words.
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I sick of pussy little babies that can’t take some tough, true talk
Things you say that prove you’re an idiot from planet idiot.
“I like Trump policies but I don’t like the rest of him.”
Recovering effin' idiot. What is Trump's vice .... pissing off RINOs, Democractofascists and other deepstaters? That is not a vice, that is a feature. Clueless twit - and now he wants forgiveness or something - before he takes the 12 steps.
works for me. 4 years of peace and prosperity
Quite honestly, I like Trump’s nasty side. I’m sick of pussies and cowards. This nation needs massive toxic masculinity.
Say what you want about Trump’s personality he didn’t mind pissing people off which is a trait lacking in most other Republican politicians.
Name a politician that you do like? Who cares if I “like” them or not. What do they do? That’s all that matters.
Trump is simply more transparent, he says what he thinks publicly, whereas politicians say things even much worse behind closed doors. With Trump “What you see is what you get”.
Trump is the best President in my lifetime. His personality not only doesn’t bother me but is a breath of fresh air. He and other like him are exactly what we need.
Yep
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