Why Do They Hate Him?

The intensity and volume from the anti-Trumpers truly baffles me.  I can’t get my head around why people so despise this President.  You might think that he traveled around the world bowing to foreign kings and emperors, apologizing for America   No, wait!  That was Obama.  Or you might think that Trump paid the Iranians $150 million in cash and looked aside while the Iranians paid terrorists to attack us.  No, wait, Obama too.  Maybe you’re thinking that Mr. Trump refused to send military aid to our embassy in Libya and left 4 American diplomats and warriors to be slaughtered by the mob.  Nope, that was Obama, too.  Signed legislation making it a crime not to buy health insurance? Obama.  Passed a heath care bill that drove health insurance premium costs up by 200% or more?  Not Trump either.  Left about 40 million Americans without health insurance?  Not Trump.  Over saw the weakest economic recovery since the Depression? Presided over the worst employment situation since before the Second World War? Obama, too.  Let Moslem terrorists form their own country? Nope, wrong again. 

Looking back over the first three years of the first Trump term, I really have a problem understanding the vitriolic hatred.  The Trump bashing in the media began election night with some knucklehead on MSNBC or CNN suggesting that since Trump won the election, the only option left was impeachment.  They were still counting ballots and the fools were floating impeachment.  The anti – Trump protests began with Code Pink and the “pussy” hats before the inauguration. Think about it for a minute – before the last ballots were counted and before the man is even inaugurated there were protests and talk of impeachment.  Before he was legally the President there were protests! 

There are those anti – American, anti – Trumpers who want to blame Trump for the division and the strife and the hatred burning up America.  But I think that the previous paragraph does a good job of pointing out that it was not Trump nor Trump supporters who are fanning the flames of sectarian and racial violence in America.  The riots that continue unbated for 4 months in major American cities are organized, equipped, and paid for by Antifa and Black Lives Matter, Inc. – NEITHER OF WHICH are Trump supporting groups.  Antifa is not a devil spawn love child of Donald Trump. Modern antifa politics can be traced to the emergence of neo-Nazism in Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall.  Ain’t got nothing to do with the Trumpster.

Similarly, Black Lives Matter, Inc. (not to be confused with the humanistic and Christian ideal that “black lives, like all lives, matter”) had its origins in 2013 following the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.  BLM came to prominence during the unrest in Ferguson, MO following the police shooting of Michael Brown, by Ferguson police.  Again, BLM, Inc., like Anita, predate the Trump presidency and are leading the violence, not reacting to some other act of violence brought against them.  Let me also point out that the two murders that hatched BLM, Inc, happened during the Obama years.  Again, nothing to do with Trump.

Let’s also point out that the cities that are seeing rioting here during the Summer and Fall of Covidiocy are cities that have been run by DemocRat politicians for decades.  Chicago has been in thrall to the corrupt Cook County DemoRatic machine for nearly 100 years.  In each of the cities that have seen weeks and months of rioting, there is a DemocRat mayor and a DemocRat Governnor.  It is completely foolish to blame President Trump for either the police brutality in multi – generational Democrat cities, or for the riots in those cities.  Put the blame where it belongs.

Never in my life have I seen this type of behavior toward an elected president.

I think back to the start of Mr. Trump’s administration and I must wonder why his 2 major efforts have generated so much angst.  The first thing Trump talked about when he started running in 2015 was to build a border wall and get control of illegal – note ILLEGAL – immigration.  It was why so many people voted for him.  Why was anyone surprised?

But let us consider the desire among “Deplorables” to close the border. Leftists, liberals, progressives and other anti – American types want to claim that the desire for controlled immigration is based in our “racism” and “xenophobia” (fear of foreigners), but these have nothing to do with it.  Among the “Deplorables” and the “Great Unwashed” is a deeply held understanding that the thing that ties all Americans together is our nearly universal understanding that we all must follow the laws.  A great many “Deploreables” are deeply, deeply troubled when our governments do not follow the law.  We have watched Congress after Congress pass border controls and immigration laws; and we have watched President after President sign these laws and pledge to close the borders only to watch millions of people come pouring into our country, ignoring our laws.  It is not racism nor xenophobia – it is our deep-seated respect for the concept of a nation of laws.

Donald Trump ran on a simple economic platform; cut taxes, simplify regulations, free the entrepreneurs, and renegotiate trade deals that hurt America.  He did all these things and before the ill – advised (and stupid) shutdown, the American economy was doing better than it had ever done in peace time in the history of our nation.

More Americans were working than at any time in 70 years. For several months before the “Covidiocy” our nation was at full – employment.  Unemployment rates for blacks and “Hispanics” were lower than they have ever been. And even in the pandemic, unemployment rates are now, October 2020, back down to where they were in the Obama – Biden years. 

It’s not just good economic policy and governance, that Trump turned the economy around in 2017, and that is driving the recovery again.  There is something else, something that the “progressives” and the sophisticates can’t understand, and it is this:  Donald Trump believes in America and in Americans.  Like most of us “Deploreables, Mr. Trump believes in America, in American greatness, in the American Spirit, in American Exceptionalism.  We, like the President, believe that we can make America great again – for all Americans.  There has not been this kind of faith, belief, and trust in the American people in the White House since Ronald Reagan – that, is what lit the economy on fire and it is the only thing that will pull us out of this self – imposed recession.

I really wish you anti -Trumpers would give some serious thought to all of this before voting for Senile Joe and the Ho.