Let Me Be Honest With You

I did not support Donald Trump in 2016. I believed then as I believe now that character counts and to this day I have issues with his character. When I decided to support President Trump in 2020, my reasoning was straight forward — I don’t fault anyone for sitting it out because they are disgusted, but I voted third party in 2016 and felt it a waste; the reality is that it'd be Biden or Trump; it is not in my nature to sit out an election; as much as I had issues with Trump personally and some of the behavior he provokes, I much preferred many of his policies to what I’d get from the Democrats and the Democrats provoke equally deplorable behavior to which much of the press turns a blind eye.

After endorsing Donald Trump in 2019 for his 2020 re-election, not a week went by that I did not wonder if I had made the right decision. January 6th was an awful and direct consequence to his sustained campaign to undermine the election after November. I agree with the use of the word “insurrection.” I an appalled at those who pretend it was no big deal.

But yesterday confirms for me that, notwithstanding my strong objections to behaviors and character issues, Joe Biden losing would have been far preferable to what we are getting now.

Yesterday, Joe Biden posited that January 6th, a day when the only person killed was a Trump supporter, was the greatest attack on our democracy since the Civil War. Lee Harvey Oswald and a group of terrorists aboard Flight 93 might laugh at that from the depths of Hell.

On top of that, while the Democrats insist otherwise, we continue to have ongoing mobs burning down cities across America who are of the left. Portland, OR gets little attention, but is still under assault by the left. On a weekly basis, leftwing mobs threaten and shakedown American businesses, burn cities, and obstruct daily life.

The federal government continues to send mixed and discredited messages about COVID and mask wearing while undermining the integrity of the vaccine process with reckless behavior, conflicting messages, and conflicting voices that walk each other back.

Progressive wokes continue to keep black children from going back to school, while teaching white children they are the problem. Cancel culture has been emboldened. The Biden Administration is embracing Marxist derived critical theory.

During Biden’s speech last night, he made the case for ever more expansive government, tax hikes that will punish small businesses in the name of taxing “the rich,” and massive growth of a welfare state that will further disincentivize work.

His current policies are making it even harder for existing businesses to find workers, while also now trying to force these businesses to raise wages during tough economic times. His border policies have encouraged a run on the border. He blasts white supremacy as terrorism, while refusing to designate Mexican cartels engaged in human trafficking, drug smuggling, and violence as terrorists.

Part of this rush to more government is a recognition by the Democrats that the Republicans will take back the House next year. The GOP will control the drawing of a majority of congressional district lines and the party out of power does well in the midterms. The Democrats will have to maximize their use of reconciliation to bypass the filibuster as they attempt to move their agenda forward as quickly as possible.

That rush to socialism, coupled with the emboldened terrorists of Woke-O Haram, will push more people to the GOP even as Democrats and the press engage in a ruthless messaging campaign trying to convince everyone the GOP is a racist, dictatorial, anti-democratic party.

As in 2020, the media will be hard pressed to carry the Democrats’ water as Americans fear for their lives in a growing crime way; their businesses in the face of more riots; their children in the face of woke indoctrination and closed in-person schooling; and their futures in the face of inflation and federal bankruptcy.

I hope for a better Republican candidate than Trump in 2020. But more than that, Republicans need to settle their differences ASAP to take back Congress and more state legislatures next year. We may not be able to stop Biden till 2024, but he can and must be contained and restrained.

PS — as much as the Democrats scream “Orange Man Bad,” they have for year now covered for Governor Andrew Cuomo who is nothing more than a high class serial killer. As I have long said, they’d get their own Trump and never admit it. They got worse. They got a governor who actually did cover up COVID data as he let senior citizens die while sexually harassing his staff.