Like most Americans, I did not pay one bit of attention to the Iowa Caucuses. Not only because I feel Iowa is The Gateway To Kansas, but because the conclusion was foregone months ago.
No suspense, nothing. Why bother? It’s like watching the Cowboy/Packer game. Why bother? You already know that the Cowboys are going to meet the 49ers in the NFC Championship game, right? Ooops, bad analogy.
Seriously, did anyone doubt that President Trump was going to run away with this bogus caucus thing? I didn’t.
The waiting and watching was more about how well Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley did. Again, who really cares about either one of them? I don’t.
I have resigned myself to the fact that Donald Trump will be the Republican candidate and I definitely have mixed feelings about that.
Policy-wise, I am totally ok with Trump and know that if people looked past the inherent hate that they all have for him, they would see that this guy acts in America’s best interests. At home and abroad.
That is all you can hope for from a leader. He acts to make things better for his constituents. I think that Donald Trump did just that during the first 36 months of his first term.
The economy, prior to the start of the pandemic, was going gangbusters and it was doing that with minimal help from the Federal Government. No trillion dollar spending packages here. Just an administration that believed if you gave people the freedom to build and create, without onerous government oversight, they would. Unemployment was trending lower. The underserved part of the economy were doing better proportionally, than any other segment. The lower middle income segment was rising and more people of color were employed than any other time in our history.
He has the simple business mans approach to the macro picture. If everyone is working, everyone is spending and if everyone is spending, everyone is making money.It’s called capitalism.
What stops Donald Trump from being considered a very good if not great President is Donald Trump himself. He is pretty close to the most unlikable human being that God has ever put on this Earth. The list of his negatives is much longer than the list of his positives for sure but while it’s not unimportant, I think what is important is that during his administration our borders were secure, our enemies, while maybe not afraid, at least respected the fact that our leader was unpredictable. Keeping an enemy on his toes sometimes is way more valuable than actually showing them the reason why you should fear him. Look, Ronald Reagan took down the USSR without firing a shot. Your enemies don’t fear what they know, they fear what they don’t.
Trump failed the biggest challenge that he had however. Covid 19 and the way the President dealt with it did him in. He came off as insincere and at times ignorant and that was all the media needed to trounce on him. Even though it was his push to get the vaccine developed quickly and his push to resupply America with masks and other medical equipment, it didn’t matter, the virus overwhelmed every avenue and caused incredible loss to the World.
Not in defense of President Trump but just an honest assessment afterwords. I don’t think any leader from any era would have been able to handle what was happening. Please do not tell me that Joe Biden rescued the country or that Obama would have handled it differently. It was a cataclysmic situation that had no modern day solution.
Yet, the media and the fence sitters decided that Donald Trump failed them at the most crucial time and voted him out.
Now we are in a position to put Donald Trump back in office. No matter what is thrown at President Trump, he has used it to his advantage. Each charge, each claim, every time someone on CNN or MSNBC (is that still even a network?) complains about him, his numbers go up. It is obvious that the electorate is tired of the direction that the Biden(Obama) administration has gone. It is more and more obvious each day that President Biden should not be the Democratic candidate in 2024. Yet, the facilitators and puppet masters want him in there, still.
Like the 2020 election, if the Democrats lose the White House, they will only have themselves to blame. Joe Biden should have been told early on, “We will not back you, do not announce, retire to the beach in Delaware”.
Hate me or not, I believe that if the Democrats had put up and 100% backed a different candidate, they would retain the White House and possibly a few more seats in contested Senate and House districts.
As it stands now, no matter what happens in November, the Democratic party has blown it.
If they win, the country will not forget the damage the President has done, will do in the following four years. This damage will stick with people for quite a while and Republicans will slowly but assuredly win back the Senate, retain and build on dominance in the House and they will regain the White House.
If they lose, it will be more about President Biden’s loss of competency than about Donald Trump’s mandate.
One thing I think is very telling in this election year. It seems more and more Democrats are embracing something the Republicans have always believed in; A strong and secure border. There are a number of moderate Democrats who are risking the far left’s ire and rethinking their positions on the open border that they have created. Will it turn into some powerful anti open border policies? I don’t know but, like rats on a sinking ship, they are moving towards the safest spot in an election year and that may save them come re-election time.
I just hope we have a Trump win in November, great insights.I just hope they come reality.
Ernie