The 2024 presidential race has begun and Donald Trump comes spoiling for a fight. Trump drew the battle lines when he spoke to over 50,000 Texans for 80 minutes Saturday night at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds outside Conroe, Texas. It was an intense ride.
The Trump rally was smack dab in the middle of these voters who voted 70 percent for Trump. Who showed up? The dispossessed. The blue-collar worker. The small business guy. The patriots.
Greg Abbott came out to speak, seeking to shore up the goodwill he lost when he implemented mask mandates. The crowd was mostly polite save for a couple of hecklers. Abbott will likely win with no problem, but his waffling on COVID did him no favors and voters aren’t in a forgiving mood. His speech ended with him leading a Trump chant.
Every speaker’s subject? Trump. There were policy ideas thrown in here or there. There were allusions to Texas independence.
There were odes to “Come and Take It!” but this was a Trump rally and those who were there were team Trump and all about Trump.
The voters are watching and, if this rally is any indication, they are enraged.
gross abuses of power and taxpayer dollars have not been forgotten and served as the populist catalyst we see today. The elites in D.C., the media, corporations, and education have only gotten more recalcitrant and inflexible.
With COVID, the divide has expanded. The Trump rally attendees believe that 2020 was rigged. The biggest chant? “Fix 2020!” This refrain was repeated over and over. These voters feel disenfranchised and robbed.
Trump’s speech lasted for over an hour but was the quickest time at the rally. His son Don Jr. came out and spoke earlier and gave a fine speech, filled with humor and goodwill. Trump’s speech and his audience were more serious, grim even.
The January 6 people were overtly talked about for the first time and Trump mentioned that should he run and win, they’d be pardoned.
The Southern District of New York came up, too. Trump talked about how the attorneys there, and partners in Clinton’s law firm who have taken leaves of absence to investigate him, are on a mission to find evidence of a crime not yet stated. This, of course, is opposite to how it’s supposed to work. The audience knew what he was referring to. The crowd hung on to every word, nodding along.
The biggest cheers came in surprising places. When Trump mentioned moving the capital of Israel to Jerusalem, the audience erupted positively.
Otherwise, it was all business.
What does this all mean? No one has the natural political charisma of Donald Trump.
On the one side, there are FBI agents and attorneys in the Department of Justice and BLM and Antifa criminals and Hillary Clinton and Marc Elias who are above the rule of law, who can tear the country apart, and who will never, ever be subject to consequences.
On the other side, there are the common businessmen and women and individuals who must serve them, work through the pandemic, take on risk every day, and who will spend years in prison if they walked through the Capitol on January 6.
People are mistaking patience and tolerance for acceptance in the United States. It was plain at the Trump rally that there is little acceptance for what the regime are forcing on their citizens.
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