Every election is interesting, but the coming midterms are fascinating for a reason most commentators forget to mention: The DEMOCRATS have no issues.
The economy is booming and America’s international position is strong. In foreign affairs, the U.S. has remembered in the nick of time what Machiavelli advised princes five centuries ago: Don’t seek to be loved, seek to be feared.
The contrast with the Obama years must be painful for leftists. For future generations, the Kavanaugh fight will stand as a marker of the DEMOCRAT Party’s intellectual bankruptcy, the flashing red light on the dashboard that says “Empty.”
This has happened before, but then the financial crisis arrived to save liberalism from certain destruction.
Today leftists pray that Robert Mueller will put on his Superman outfit and save them again.
For now, though, the left’s only issue is “We hate Trump.” This is an instructive hatred, because what the left hates about Donald Trump is precisely what it hates about America.
Leftists hate Trump’s vulgarity, his unwillingness to walk away from a fight, his bluntness, his certainty that America is exceptional, his mistrust of intellectuals, his love of simple ideas that work, and his refusal to believe that men and women are interchangeable.
Most of all, they hate the fact that he has no ideology except getting the job done.
His goals are to do the task before him, not be pushed around, and otherwise to enjoy life.
In short, he is a typical American—except exaggerated, because he has no constraints to cramp his style.
Trump lacks constraints because he is filthy rich and always has been and, unlike other rich men, he revels in wealth and feels no need to apologize—ever.
He never learned to keep his opinions to himself because he never had to.
He never learned to be embarrassed that he is male, with ordinary male proclivities.
His opponents worry too much about what other people think. I would like to have the esteem of the citizens of other countries, but I don’t lose sleep over it.
Trump is no genius, but if you have mastered the obvious and add common sense, you are nine-tenths of the way home.
This all leads to an important question—one that will be dismissed indignantly by the left: Is it possible to hate Donald Trump but not the average American?
I believe that the Trump-hater truly does hate the average American—male or female, black or white. Often he or she hates America, too.
Those who voted for Trump worry about the nation, not its image. The president deserves respect because America deserves it.
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