This year, I still have the luxury of casting a protest vote for a third party or for simply not voting for anyone for President but I am not going to do so. I am voting for Donald Trump. It is not that I think Trump has gotten better; it is that Democrats have gotten so much worse. I feel the morally responsible thing to do, is to cast my vote against the Democrat Party and a movement that I think would destroy America. The embrace of cultural Marxism, the move to defund the police, and the Green New Deal must be stopped.
Maybe, things like the Green New Deal and defunding police and Medicare for all would not be enacted anyway. Maybe, once the Democrats has power, they would regain some common sense and become more responsible. Maybe they would not control the House but for two years and would be unable to accomplish much. Maybe. But, I am not certain of any of this and don't want to take the chance and trust them with power. More than just the specific policy positions that I fear, however, is the movement that has taken over the Democrat Party. I do not think America is evil. I don't think "systemic racism" exist in America, and I do not embrace the cancel culture and I love my country. As much as I am voting for Donald Trump I am voting against an evil movement.
I have often been less than pleased with Trump as president. I am not comfortable with his apparent affinity for dictators for one thing and then there are basic policy differences I have with Trump. I am pleased he has tried to slow illegal immigration but his attempt to cut legal immigration and some of his rhetoric on the topic does not please me. I am pleased he is attempting to level the playing field on trade with China, but not so pleased he bans import of aluminum from Canada. I am not pleased that he governs just like president Obama with a "pen and a phone," subverting the power of Congress and grabbing power never intended for the executive branch.
Perhaps more than policy disputes, my problem with Trump is his personality. He is jerk and a bully, lacks empathy, will not take advise, and will never back down or admit when he is wrong. He is often his own worst enemy. Recently he had a chance to distance himself from the nutty and dangerous Q-Anon movement. He didn't accept the gift and instead he demurred claiming he really didn't know much about them. Maybe he doesn't but I can't believe he has not been briefed on them but maybe he tuned out the briefing as critics say he often does. In any event, I am disappointed. In the big scheme of things, however, that is minor compared to what is at stake. Trump often disappoints me and he may not even be a nice man, but he is so preferable to the movement that would destroy America.
The above video pretty much sums up my view of the choice facing us during this campaign. Below is the text of the video.
My name is Tom Klingenstein. I am the chair of the board of the
Claremont Institute which is a conservative think tank, managing partner of a New York
investment firm and playwright.
I wish to make three points. First, Trump is the perfect man for these times, not all times,
perhaps not most times, but these times. Second, Republicans are not doing a good job
explaining the stakes in this election. They must explain, and this is my third point, that
the Democratic Party, which has been taken by its radical wing, is leading a revolution. This
makes the coming election the most important one since the election of 1860. Let’s begin
there.
Unlike most elections, this one is much more than a contest over particular policies—like
health care or taxes. Rather, like the election of 1860, this election is a contest between two
competing regimes, or ways of life. Two ways of life that cannot exist peacefully together.
One way of life, I’ll call it “the traditional American way of life,” is based on individual rights,
the rule of law, and a shared understanding of the common good. This way of life values
hard work, self-reliance, volunteerism, patriotism, and so on.
In this way of life there are no hyphenated Americans. We are all just Americans.
Colorblindness is our aspiration.
The other way of life I call multiculturalism. Others call it “identity politics” or “cultural
Marxism” or “Intersectionality”.
The multicultural movement, which has taken over the Democratic party, is a revolutionary
movement. I do not mean a metaphorical revolution. It is not like a revolution; it is a
revolution, an attempt to overthrow the American Founding as President Trump said in his
excellent Mt. Rushmore speech. Republicans should say the same thing. Republicans
everywhere, at every level, and at every opportunity.
Multiculturalism conceives of society, not as a community of individuals with equal rights
but as a collection of cultural identity groups—defined by race, ethnicity, gender, and so
forth. According to the multiculturalists, all these identity groups are oppressed by white
males.
Their goal is to have each identity group proportionally represented in all institutions of
American society. As should be immediately clear, achieving this proportional representation
requires a never-ending redistribution of wealth and power from some groups—and not just
from whites—to other groups. Such a massive redistribution can only be achieved by a
tyrannical government and like in all tyrannies, one where dissenters are silenced.
In order to achieve this proportional representation, the Democrats require not just endless
affirmative action but genuine socialism, open borders, unrestricted trade, seizing guns,
sanctuary cities, and much more.
The Black Lives Matter/Democrats understand (which Republicans seem not to), that if they
are to achieve this policy agenda they must get Americans to change their values, their
principles, and the way they understand themselves.
They must get us to believe that national borders and colorblindness are racist; that we are
not one culture but many; that the most important thing in our history—the thing around
which all else pivots—is slavery. More broadly, the multiculturalists must get us to believe
that we are unworthy—not just that we have sinned (which of course we have)—but that we
are irredeemably sinful, or, in the language of today, “systemically racist.” And sexist,
homophobic, Islamophobic and all the other “ists” and phobias. Simply put, multiculturalism
must get us to believe we are bad.
This suggests one way to frame the coming election: as a contest between a man, Trump,
who believes America is good and a man, Biden, who is controlled by a movement that
believes America is bad. I do not think it is any more complicated than that.
For the multiculturalist to change traditional values and principles they must destroy, or
radically restructure, the institutions that teach those values and principles. The most
important of these institutions is family, but also very important is religion, education
(which they have mostly destroyed already) and community life, replacing the latter with
government bureaucrats. It is here—in these value-teaching institutions—that we see the
underpinnings of the Revolution. This is where the real action is. Republicans seem to be
missing in action.
Republicans need to explain that BLM and their Democratic enablers wish to destroy the
traditional mother-father family. To substantiate this claim, Republicans have only to point
to the BLM mission statement. The mission statement, written by avowed Marxists, also lets
us know that BLM holds transgenderism to be the burning issue of our time.
Republicans must also explain that religion, because it teaches American values, is also on
the chopping block.
Republicans also must make American see that the taking down of statues is not about
removing a few confederate generals; it’s about destroying America’s past, as is the New
York Times 1619 Project. The rioters, and their BLM-Democrats enablers, are tearing down
the statues even of people like Frederick Douglass who fought against slavery. This is not an
accident. It is not collateral damage. Frederick Douglass was a great American. He believed
that America in her soul was not racist. He believed in hard work and self-reliance. And
because of his embrace of American values the BLM-Democrats have to get rid of him.
They must also get rid of Abraham Lincoln, for it is he who best explains what we should
aspire to. And it is he who is the best defender of the American Founding.
In one sense, this
election is a referendum on the Founding. Whether America was founded in 1619, as the
BLM-Democrats contend, or, in 1776 as Lincoln, and, until recently, all Americans believed.
Republicans must make more of political correctness and cancel culture, which, as we have
seen so vividly of late, brutally punishes apostates.
Who does Twitter think it is, censoring an American president? Republicans simply cannot
stand for that.
And Republicans must explain, as I earlier explained, that the multiculturalists are trying to
get us to believe that we are systemically racist so that we will surrender to their policy
agenda. This too must not be allowed to stand.
The American people need to hear what
they know in their hearts: they are not racists. Republicans should stand up and say, “no,
America is not racist.” Period.
If Americans are systemically anything, it is a systemic commitment to freedom and equal
rights for all.
Perhaps most importantly, Republicans must say over and over that America is “incredible,”
to use President Trump’s adjective of choice. They must remind the American people that,
as a friend of mine is fond of saying, America has brought more freedom and more
prosperity to more people than any country in the history of mankind. Most Americans
know this, but this too they need to hear from their leaders.
In order to make the case that the Democrats are leading a revolution, Republicans must
delegitimize Black Lives Matter—the organization, of course, not the sentiment. To BLM and
their Democratic enablers, Republicans must say: “Absolutely, black lives matter. They just
don’t matter to you. You don’t care about Mr. Floyd, the black businesses you have
destroyed, the blacks who are getting killed because you have forced the police to back off.
You’re here for destruction. Not black lives, not any lives.”
After delegitimizing Black Lives Matter, the next step for Republicans is to tie BLM’s
revolutionary agenda around the necks of Democrats.
The BLM wing of the Democratic party has captured the entire party. Run-of-the-mill
Democrats may not agree with all of the BLM agenda but they go-along, so they might as
well agree. Joe Biden is one of the go-along Democrats.
So do not expect all Democrats to sing the BLM tune; even so, most will kneel before them.
Listen to Biden. On one occasion Biden said, “Let’s be clear, transgender equality is the civil
rights issue of our time.” A year ago, Biden may not have even known what transgenderism
is. He does not seem to know it, but he has been radicalized.
Biden now regularly talks about “systemic” racism. On one occasion Biden said, though
without evidence, there is “absolutely systemic racism in law enforcement.” “[But] it’s not
just in law enforcement,” he continued, “it’s across the board. It’s in housing, it’s in
education . . . It’s in everything we do.”
He is wrong on every count, but if indeed he believes that racism is in “everything we do,”
that it is systemic, then he believes, whether he admits or not, that the system must be
overturned. Biden does not realize it, but he is calling for the overthrow of the American
way of life. I presume that is not his intent, but when the words he is reading off his BLM
teleprompter get translated into policy, that will be the consequence — the destruction of
the American way of life.
Biden demurs. There is nothing to fear from Biden says Biden: “Do I look like a radical
socialist with a soft spot for rioters?” No, he does not, but what he does look like is a sap.
Republicans must make it clear that these are the “Biden riots.”
This brings me to my last point: Trump. I know President Trump has many faults. I myself
sometimes cringe listening to him. Sometimes he is his own worst enemy. He is a braggart,
often misinformed, petty, sometimes even vengeful. And more.
And yet, we are very lucky to have him. I am almost prepared to say that having him is
Providential. How else to explain that we find ourselves with this most unusual, most
unpresidential man who has just the attributes most needed for this moment.
At any other
time, he might well have been a bad president. But in these times—these revolutionary
times—he is the best president we could have had.
He has the indispensable attribute of a leader: courage. As a leader must, he goes where
others are afraid to go. And he has common sense, which means he generally wants to go
to the right place.
Above all else, and above anyone else, Trump is committed to America. He is unreservedly,
unquestionably pro-America. He feels no guilt for America’s past. He makes no apologies.
He concedes nothing. These may not always be the attributes one wants in a President, but
in this day of woke guilt they are the most essential things. And Trump has unlimited
confidence in America. In this time of national doubt, this too is just what the doctor
ordered. He thinks our culture is “incredible” and that’s the way he wants to keep it.
Trump not only thinks America is incredible, he knows we are in a fight for our lives.
And despite what one hears ad nauseum from the Democrats, Trump is perhaps among the
least racist presidents we have ever had. Trump is not defending the white way of life; he is defending the American way of life, a colorblind way of life which is open to anyone who is
willing to embrace it.
If we want to save our country, then we should support him—unequivocally. I am. I think
this election is that important, and I think Trump is that good. I hope you agree.
Remember, Trump versus Biden is the choice between a man who believes America is good
and a man who is controlled by a movement which believes America is bad.
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