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| Donald Trump |
The Donald Trump phenomenon has been
useful in bringing to the debate some important issues, issues
that have been suppressed in the name of globalism and the New World
Order by the elitists. Now that Trump is the GOP's presumptive
nominee, having accumulated record numbers of votes, the voices of the
candidate and his supporters are being heard. This suggests that many
Americans are tired of having their concerns ignored and disagreeable
and evil policies thrust upon them by their supposed betters.
(Disclosure: I was a Ted Cruz supporter until he dropped out of the
race, so I'm a bit late to the Trump train. I like Cruz's outsider
perspective and conservatism.)
But Donald Trump is the vote-getter,
with an admittedly populist message that deviates from Cruz's
conservatism. The GOP can ill afford to ignore the voting results.
The voters' concerns ought to be those of the great majority of the
GOP constituency, for these concerns have been ignored too long. For
Republicans of the #NeverTrump movement, I say this: If you prevail,
the US could very well be done in by the Obama-Clinton monstrosity
you would allow into office. A third-party run could do that.
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| Hillary Clinton |
There are many reasons for Trump's
appeal, among which is that Trump would be a far, far superior
president to Hillary Clinton. She represents the continuation
of Obama's socialist/fascist attitude that is destroying freedom day
by day. She represents those who want “free stuff” with as little
individual effort and responsibility as possible. She represents
those who want to force upon our nation every kind of sexual
immorality and perversion they can. She represents those who want to
embrace the Muslim invasion, the illegal immigration, and the
anti-Christian attitude. She represents those who literally want to
take away all guns from citizens, and has said as much. She
represents those who want to anoint climate change as the number one
priority when in fact it is an evil hoax designed to empower
government and impoverish the citizens. She represents the anti-life
agenda of Planned Parenthood and Obamacare. She would pack the
Supreme Court with “progressive” (read: socialist) activists who
would dismantle the Bill of Rights in the name of “social justice”
and judicial supremacy.
Trump has indicated that he would
appoint conservative justices to the Court, starting with someone to
replace the late, great Justice Antonin Scalia. Hard shoes to fill, but it
must not be with an activist liberal.
Trade, one of Trump's core issues, is
an area where he will need conservative advice. Tariffs will not help the economy, nor
will they bring jobs back. The way to do that is, as much as
possible, get government out of the way, promote real free trade, and
get out of those awful entangling globalist agreements. Trump wants
us out of WTO, NAFTA, TPP, etc., and that's good. If he wants “fair
trade,” establish real free trade with the government stepping in
only to prevent trade abuses such as dumping below-cost products in
America to gain a market foothold.
I think Trump will build the wall he
has proposed, and it will be a bargain whether Mexico pays for it or
not. Gaining control of our borders is essential to immigration
reform and national security. It is not at all unreasonable to place
a moratorium on all further immigration pending the repair of our
system, and it seems imperative that we prevent the proposed
thousands of “refugees” from entering our country. A temporary
ban on all Muslim entry into the US is not out of the question. As
for the deportation issue, Trump's proposal to deport all illegals
certainly is feasible, and makes more sense than Obama's policy of
releasing convicted criminal illegals into the population to kill,
steal, rape, drive drunk, etc. even further. And the Border Patrol
needs to be allowed to do their job. Hillary Clinton, of course,
would do none of this. Nor does she have the first clue about how to
grow the economy or create jobs. She could only, like Obama, grow
government and create more regulations and taxes.
Foreign policy is an area where Mr.
Trump would need good advice and help. America First is a good
starting point. Based on his foreign policy speech, he seems to be
mostly on the right track. He knows it is very important that we rebuild our military, since Obama has been determined to gut it. I believe he would treat our allies better
and deal with our adversaries far better than Obama and Clinton have
done. Together, they have created the biggest mess in the Middle East
in years, with prospects for improvement steadily diminishing. Syria,
Libya, Iran, Iraq, and ISIS show their abject failures. Trading high-value
terrorist prisoners for an accused Army deserter, and lying to the
families of the Americans killed in Benghazi, are two of the most
egregious scandals on the Obama-Clinton record. It wouldn't take the
world's greatest statesman to do better than this. Trump did not
build his business success without getting advice and help from good
people along the way. His stress on competence is good, but he also
needs some encouragement in downsizing government. I would be
optimistic about a Trump Administration, and near despair if it's
Clinton or Sanders.
I believe that for Republican leaders
and officials who still believe Trump must be stopped at all costs,
your days of inflluence in the GOP are likely numbered, just as the
anti-Goldwater people seemed to fade from the party after 1964, even
though Goldwater lost big. The GOP leaders whose main contribution in
recent years has been to fund Obama's agenda and refuse to stand up
to him, need to see the light and either change their ways or be
shown the door. While Trump certainly would like to unite the party
and smooth things over a bit, a Trump Administration will be a rebuke
to government incompetence and malfeasance on the part of either
party. Hopefully, Trump will see the truth of Reagan's 1981
statement, “Government is not the solution to our problem,
government is the problem.” Much can be accomplished simply
by getting government out of the way and focused on its legitimate
functions, which do not include controlling absolutely everything
Americans do.
Trump represents the triumph of
American nationalism over globalism and the assertion of an “America
First” economic and trade policy. Sounds good to me. Even if Trump
is a less-than-perfect president (they all are), we can be put on a
better track than what we're on now, and begin to see something
positive out of government instead of pure negativity. I will be
happy to vote for Trump and pray that he wins.
