Trump wins! Republicans now seem poised to control the White House, the Senate, the House, and the Supreme Court – all three branches of government.
How did a truth-challenged narcissist, with an off-putting personality, win the presidency? Is it because people love Donald Trump?
No, it is not. Trump is a vindictive, angry old man, who cannot stay focused. He drifts from one subject to another without any rational reason. He fibs, he exaggerates, and seems not to know the difference between the truth and a lie. He is a vain, self-centered, authoritarian, who admires dictators. He threatens to use the military to strike down anyone who dares to disagree with him.
It’s not that people admire Trump, most don’t. He won because a majority of Americans don’t trust the Democrats. The Democratic Party must do some deep soul-searching. It seems that its ultra-progressive ideas no longer appeal to most Americans.
Vice President Kamala Harris refused to accept any responsibility for the inflation that has devastated the middle-class and lower-income groups. Sure, inflation rates are getting better, but it’s too late. The damage has already been done.
Harris refused to accept any responsibility – or to offer even the outline of a genuine plan to keep inflation rates low. Massive, inflationary government spending, especially spending that smacks of bribery — to buy votes with free stuff — simply does not sit well with most Americans. If it did, Kamala would have won because she offered massive free goodies to millions of us.
As border czar, she stood by and watched as the influx of immigrants became an unprecedented crisis. She never acknowledged that the border was out of control, and she failed to offer any plan to stop the flow of immigrants both those coming illegally and those seeking asylum.
Harris failed to acknowledge that a majority of Americans considered themselves better off under Trump than under the Biden/Harris regime. More importantly, she and the Democrats failed to contemplate why.
Some “diversity, inclusion, and equity” is not a bad idea, but when carried to extremes, it loses its allure. Harris could not even bring herself to say that a person with full male equipment, should not be competing against women in sports. Nor could she bring herself to condemn the minority of antisemitic, Hamas supporters in her own party.
Finally, our adversaries, China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, respect strength and exploit weakness. The Biden/Harris Democrats have shown weakness at every turn, from the disastrous way we left Afghanistan, exposing millions of Afghan women to the predations of the Taliban, to slow-walking the weapons Ukraine needs to defeat President Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
If this election was nothing else, it was a rejection of much of the progressive left’s basic policy positions. It would seem that the Democrats need to engage in some serious introspection.
Richard Stacy lives in Highlands Ranch. The Reagan appointee is a lifelong Republican who voted for neither Trump nor Harris by writing in Nikki Haley.
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