Let Me Be Clear: I Support Donald Trump
Freedom Has A Better Chance With Trump Than With Harris
I have in the past stated my preference for remaining more or less non-partisan on political matters. A major aspect of this has been my desire to present issues from as objective a viewpoint as possible. I firmly believe that grounding debate and discussion in facts and evidence is the best approach to discussing any issue.
Yet as we have seen this political cycle unfold, neutrality has become by degrees first a luxury and then an impossibility. Even when one is striving for a dispassionate treatment of issues grounded in facts, there are times when the objective dispassionate conclusion tilts one way or the other.
For me, that tilt has been progressively towards Donald Trump.
I will say that I am not supremely enamored of Donald Trump, either as a person or as a political candidate. The criticisms I made of him at the beginning of this year I still stand by in every particular:
I was less than impressed during the 2016 election over the Billy Bush tape episode.
I’m frankly not too impressed with the entire “classified documents” nonsense.
I consider him to be directly responsible for allowing the Pandemic Panic Narrative to run amok in this country in 2020, directly leading to a recession, massive violations of civil liberties and Constitutional rights across the country. His “Operation Warp Speed” gifted the world with the toxic and deadly mRNA inoculations which are demonstrably worthless against the SARS-CoV-2 virus while wreaking as yet unknown levels of damage on the human body.
I am far from enthusiastic about the prospects of a second Donald Trump Administration in the Oval Office.
Donald Trump is hardly an ideal politician. He is hardly an ideal politician from a Constitutional perspective, or from a libertarian perspective, which is to say he is not ideal from my perspective.
Yet Donald Trump is not the worst politician, and from a Constitutional and libertarian perspective there is the comfort that his previous term of office was surprisingly Constitutional in nature (at least up until the Pandemic Panic of 2020). It surely says something about the nature of his candidacy that the Democrats have gone to such lengths in their lawfare strategy to deny him even the opportunity to run for office—a strategy that has been called out by both Federal judges such as Aileen Cannon as well as the House Judiciary Committee.
It is difficult, if not impossible, to constantly write in defense of Donald Trump’s civil liberties as regards these contorted trials the Democrats concocted and not be pulled closer into a Trumpian orbit. It isdifficult if not impossible to comment about Donald Trump’s strengths as well as Democrat weaknesses without moving closer to the tipping point of actually supporting his candidacy.
That tipping point has been Joe Biden’s abrupt (and artlessly staged) withdrawal from the election. Watching Kamala Harris take the reins of as the presumptive Presidential nominee, it is not possible to view that as anything but a soft coup d’etat. Political power within the White House has been shifted—perhaps even seized—without regard to the expressed will of Democratic primary voters.
Simply put, I do not want to live in a world where that level of political duplicity, deviousness, and deceit are normalized. I do not want to participate even as a voter in a political process where that level of political duplicity, deviousness, and deceit are normalized. I do not consent to a government or political system where that level of political duplicity, deviousness, and deceit are normalized.
Politics will always have its share of duplicity, deviousness, and deceit, but we are not required to embrace and accept those vulgar qualities. Kamala Harris might think she was being clever for having manipulated the situation the way she apparently did, but “clever” is only the most charitable (and the only printable) characerization.
Thus I find myself at a point of wanting Donald Trump to win in November. I find myself looking at what Kamala Harris’ campaign, and Donald Trump’s campaign, and contemplating what Donald Trump needs to do in order to win.
I am no longer in a frame of mind where I can even pretend to remain detached from the campaigns. If I were to pretend to be detached, I would not be honest, and you, my loyal readers, deserve better than that from me.
Since I cannot even make credible pretense of objectivity, I choose to do the next best thing and declare my position openly, that there be no doubt. For all my reservations and doubts about Donald Trump, and for all my apprehensions about a Donald Trump Presidency in 2025, I have concluded that he is the best candidate in the race.
He is, in my estimation, the one most likely to govern with an eye on being faithful to the Contitution.
He is, in my estimation, the one least likely to involve the US in endless and illegal foreign wars.
He is, in my estimation, the one most likely to succeed in purging the US government from the cronies and corruptocrats who have made a pig’s breakfast of the US government for far too long.
I like to think I am a free man (in most regards, at least), and I hope our Constitution endures another 248 years.
In my estimation, freedom has a better chance under Donald Trump than under Kamala Harris. Our Constitution has a better chance under Donald Trump than under Kamala Harris.
Kamala Harris will of course run her campaign, make her campaign promises and policy statements, and I will naturally critique them, bringing what I know of the Constitution, economics, law, and history to bear.
Donald Trump will do likewise, and I will have similar commentary regarding him. Where I disagree with his statements I will say so. Where I agree with his statements I will say so.
Yet there should be no doubt about where my bias lies at this point. I want Donald Trump to win. I support Donald Trump. From here on out, I am officially on the “Trump Train 2024”.
He ain’t perfect, but he’s the only game in town.
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