Why I Love Donald Trump and Why His Demonization Continues
Published in Marietta Daily Journal April 2, 2017
Last November I voted for Donald
Trump partly because I didn’t have much choice.
Just before the November election, however, I had begun to warm up to
him. The more I listened and learned,
the more I came to believe his critics were wrong.
There are several reasons why I have
come to love the man. I use the word
love because that’s what I mean and because I believe that when affection is
developed slowly it is probably more real and more reliable.
The main reason I love the President
is his authenticity. Can anyone argue
that there is even an ounce of pretense or “put on” in this man? Does he ever
put on airs?
For a decade of my life I was in the
Georgia General Assembly as a state representative and as an aide to the
Speaker of the House. The experience was
quite a positive one because the majority of legislators were good,
down-to-earth people. Those who put on
airs and allowed position and power to go to their heads were few, but on
television and in the minds of voters, the few can become the face of all
politicians everywhere.
It’s interesting that having
academic degrees and elective positions can puff us up in ways that having
money never does. President Trump has
both degrees and money, but he is not puffed up or egotistical as so many claim. Neither is he condescending to ordinary
citizens. Good grief; he won their
hearts and their votes. Those who
consider Trump’s supporters unwashed and uneducated are the ones who are
condescending and egotistical.
I
also love the man because his children love him. What we see in his sons and daughters is not
fake. They love and respect their
dad. He obviously loves and respects
them. The muckraking media has been
unsuccessful in getting the mothers of his children to slam the President. They have actually praised him.
The
third reason is I’ve waited all of my adult life for a national political figure
who would set the media on their heels.
Donald Trump is doing just that – confusing them and angering them. Unlike no other candidate we’ve seen, he
questions the question and the questioners, driving the questioners to their
pre-suppositions.
ABC’s
Sam Donaldson made a sport of yelling at and taunting President Reagan. The cheerful President stood and took
it. He should not have. Television reporters ceased reporting decades
ago, instead asking questions in such a way that an 8th grader could
discern their intent. The press likes to
be tough with press secretary Sean Spicer, but when Spicer is equally tough,
they become cry babies.
Another
reason I love the President is his work ethic.
The man is 70 years old, yet his pace is remarkable. Individuals who have visited him during
working hours testify that in discussing policy he displays sobriety and
optimism. In regard to personality, he
is described not as irascible but charming.
So
far, none of my reasons have included political experience. Donald Trump doesn’t have any, and that’s
good. Elective politics is demanding,
but it is not a particularly difficult art to learn. Our country was designed to have citizen
leaders, not a political class. Career
politicians are killing us. Their chief
contribution has been a regulatory nanny state. Its only solution is term
limits at every level of government.
Because
he is confident and is not intimidated by the media, the President will
continue to be demonized. Skittish,
waffling Republicans will continue to praise him one day and distance
themselves from him the next. Content to
let Lois Lerner and Hillary Clinton off the hook, the media will continue to
refer to the “Liar-in-Chief,” probably for the next four years.
And
of course the media doesn’t like Trump’s foreign policy. Fearing their own loss of credibility brought
on by Trump’s election, they feed us dark natterings of how Trump and Putin are
buddies. Since the Trump hurricane blew
in, it’s liberals who fear change and hate Russia. Liberals have always loved Russia, pestering
Reagan for calling Russia the evil empire.
The
demonizers don’t like Trump’s family one bit and probably don’t care for G.K.
Chesterton’s take on the role of the family: “The family is the only check on
the state that can renew itself as eternally as the state and more naturally
than the state.”
Trump’s
detractors place the state above the family.
Today they are the ones who speak somberly of the dangers of change.
But
Trump is a changer, and that’s another reason I love him.
Roger
Hines
3/29/17
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