One sunny day back in 2015 a guy stepped out onto 6th Avenue and walked straight down the middle.
And then he looked over his shoulder and discovered that half of America was following him...
The "Avenue of the Americas," it was, in Midtown Manhattan. And that guy was Donald J. Trump. Famed developer, television star, womanizer, serial entrepreneur, philanderer, braggart, paparazzi-vacuum and more recently, politician.
From the moment he came down that Golden Elevator and proceeded to talk straight to us Americans, he became our Sir Galahad. Our Samurai warrior. Our Wyatt Earp.
It was Woodrow Wilson who brought "Progressivism" to the White House, and decided that America was rich enough to start giving preference to non-performers over normal, everyday taxpayers. And started taxing the "Makers" to reward the "Takers." And we've been paying for it ever since.
Put simply, America had been on a glideslope to mediocrity ever since. We'd lost our preeminence. Our sense of God-Given specialness. Our sense of pride. In ourselves, our Flag and our Country.
And then came Trump. And he united the previously ignored and put-upon. He gave them a reason to hope once again. And he rode that hope all the way to the White House.
He became our "Rooster Cogburn." Without the alcohol, of course. A flawed character with a heart of gold and a spine of steel. A guy who said what he means and means what he says. So rare in politics in general and Washington, D. C., in particular. The guy who singlehandedly kicked the Bad Guys' asses and saved the town. Roll credits. Just like him.
We all know what happened next. On his Inauguration Day the New York Times called for his impeachment. Front page. None of the Democrat Congressweenies attended his inauguration ceremony. Clinton bought and paid for the "Pee Dossier" and our own FBI and CIA worked with Obama and those infamous 51 "Intelligence Specialists" to try and jail him.
All that is known. And yet he still managed to lower our taxes, rebuild our military, start building a border wall, create the "Space Force," caused NATO to pay its fair share, opened a dialog with North Korea, moved our Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, initiated the "Abraham Accords," slapped major tariffs on China, and made sure there were no wars and no aggression anywhere in the world.
Think what you will of Donald Trump. But if you consider how hard the Democrats are working, and how much they're spending, to try and imprison him, for the rest of his life, you get an idea how much they fear running against him. Because, I suggest, they believe they will lose their stranglehold on power.
Because Trump might have enough $money left, even after they've tried to bankrupt him, that he still won't need to sell out to Russia, and Ukraine, and China, and everywhere else that throws a few $million his way.
Unlike the current occupant of our White House...
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