So it is to be President Trump.
Like many others, I didn’t foresee this, except
that looking at the attendance at his rallies and those at Hillary Clinton’s,
as well as the views expressed on my Twitter timeline, it was clear to me that
he was always going to do better than the heavily biased main stream media (MSM)
were projecting. Of course my
Twittersphere is bound to lean more towards GOP so …
Trump wouldn’t have been my choice for the GOP
candidate. That was Ted Cruz. It was discouraging to see that many of the
other GOP Primary candidates didn’t get behind Trump in the run-up to the
election, though Cruz did have the grace and class, to actively campaign from
the Trump/Pence ticket. Hope for the
future, I trust.
In writing this, I was tempted to ignore the
post-election whining from the losing Democrat Party and its supporters in the
MSM, however, that would be remiss of me.
Just as with Brexit, in the UK, so the ‘experts’
are analysing and ‘slicing and dicing’ the results to see why they got it so
wrong. Here is my advice to them. Review your own output, see just how much of
it was media and people inside the election bubble, talking and pontificating
to themselves rather than talking to real people. It was always ridiculous and incredibly
over-simplistic to simply label Trump’s supporters as racists, xenophobes, sexists,
misogynists and uneducated.
These people simply didn’t buy into the
‘political correctness’ that says that love of your own country makes you a
racist or makes you automatically hate any and all foreigners. That supporting Trump, who was accused of long-ago
sexual assaults, makes you a sexist woman-hater. These people were concerned about the economy
(Bill Clinton had it right with ‘It’s the economy, stupid’) they saw jobs continuing to bleed to cheaper
labour countries. They saw that
globalisation just wasn’t benefiting them or their children. That Obama’s jobless numbers were fake or at
best mis-leading. They heard that the
level of economically inactive had climbed, significantly. Simply put, if there
was economic growth – they were not seeing or feeling it. Belatedly, the MSM have woken-up and started
asking steel workers in Pennsylvania towns that have been decimated by cheap
imports and coal miners that have been impacted by mine closures brought about
by unproven climate pseudo-science, why did they vote Trump? These people then tell them what they could
have known months ago, had they gotten out of their ‘bubble’.
At some point, these ‘journalists’ and the
pollsters will also get around to asking Blacks and Hispanics why they voted in such numbers for
Trump. The narrative that these
minorities had so much to fear from Trump was clearly ignored by the people,
themselves.
It is interesting listening to the comments of
some of the losing Democrats. I hear
strong echoes of the UK Labour party after their somewhat surprising 2015
General Election loss. Especially, when
they say ‘we lost because weren’t left-wing enough’.
No, no, no!
Hillary Clinton lost and other Democrat party candidates lost in House
and Senate and Gubernatorial races because you were too left wing and you
simply had nothing to say to Americans, that they wanted to hear. Telling a Veteran that the USA needs to bring
in more refugees and give them $1,700 a month, when the Veteran gets less than
$1,200 is, I would suggest, NEVER going to get that Veteran’s vote.
Of course, a major factor in Clinton’s loss is
very likely to come down to trust. She
was seen as corrupt and being protected by the ‘elite establishment’. I wonder just how many of the young people
protesting have ever read any information on Hillary?
·
How she defended a child rapist
and destroyed, on the stand, his victim?
·
How she was fired from one of
the Watergate investigations because of her dishonesty?
·
How $6 billion is unaccounted
for, from her time as Secretary of State?
·
How she stood in front of the
coffins of the 4 dead from Benghazi and lied to the families, when she blamed a
video while knowing the cause was the Obama administration’s abandonment of its
own people?
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How it is that so many people
around her die in what can only be called ‘suspicious’ circumstances (try Vince
Foster, just for one)?
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How, while Secretary of State,
she solicited significant contributions for the Clinton Foundation?
·
How she has taken large
speaking fees from Wall Street firms while pretending to be the voice for the
little man?
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How she deleted e-mails from
her illegally used private server?
·
How she colluded with others in
the Democrat National Committee, to cheat and work against Bernie Saunders and
then, with the aid of a compliant MSM, cheated on the Presidential Debates?
The list goes on and on.
Frankly put, America dodged a bullet.
It is important though that President Trump
ignores the siren calls of those who say that it is time to heal the nation and
that fulfilling his campaign pledge to ‘lock her up’ would be divisive. President Trump must appoint a Special
Prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton.
Some of the work will be to go over already ploughed land but that’s
okay. She shouldn’t be cut any slack. Remember General Petraeus wasn’t! Democrats continue to castigate the FBI and
its Director Comey. My beef with him is how, after detailing, back in
June/July, blatant law-breaking by Clinton, as regards her illegal use of her
personal server, he then said there would be no prosecutions. Note to MSM and Pollsters – another reason
why Americans didn’t vote for Hillary – they don’t like the ‘one law for them,
another for us’ that was plain to see.
So, finally, I get to the subject matter!
I am really happy that America has a Republican
President, Republican House and Republican Senate. I am though a little worried.
My worry is that the House and Senate include
Republicans that are RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) and they will be scared
to implement full-throated conservative policies. That they will ignore the clear steer that
they have had from the people of America, that America wants a roll-back of the
state and an end to the cancerous policy of political correctness. That they will, out of self-interest, seek to
‘water-down’ term limit legislation.
That they will forget that America has elected them to represent the
interests of Americans – first, second and third. That they will weaken the repeal of Obamacare
– the non-affordable Affordable Care Act.
That they will continue to fund Planned Parenthood – a grossly mis-named
organisation if ever there was one.
There’s lot to be done and all three –
President, House and Senate – need to hit the ground running. The next two years are critical – economic
regeneration policies need to be implemented, without delay, so that they have
a chance to bear fruit by the time of the next round of elections. Similarly, the appointment of a replacement
for Justice Scalia, needs to be fast tracked.
Who knows, maybe Ted Cruz would be a candidate? As an ardent constitutionalist and great
orator, he would certainly add great weight to the Supreme Court (and some
needed youth!)
So to President Trump and Speaker Ryan and
Majority Leader McConnell, I say, get
moving now. America and the World
needs leadership, no more dithering, no more leftist leanings, no more
pandering to every minority and ‘wack-job’ group. Strong leadership and
positive action to return the free world to the conservative path. You have around 70 days to plan the strategy
and then, come January 20, 2017, you start implementing and doing so,
mercilessly. There’s no time for
half-heartedness or seeking to build a consensus – get on with the job you were
elected to do!
To those that still want to protest – carry on,
that’s your right but understand that if you break the law, then you will face
the consequences – that’s what living in a democracy means. And if or when you post tweets advocating the
assassination of the President-elect, don’t be surprised if you feel the hands
of the Secret Service on your shoulder!
Incidentally, how come Clint Eastwood, a Trump supporter, is banned from
Twitter by Twitter, but not these criminal hate-mongers and anti-democrats.
