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Is America Ready For A Return To Greatness?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Richard Truesdell via American Greatness,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

In the aftermath of yesterday\u2019s assassination attempt,\u00a0I find myself asking: Why all the visceral hatred of Donald Trump?<\/strong><\/em> It manifests itself everywhere but is most visible among Hollywood elites and members of the Fourth Estate (the press and most of the\u00a0mainstream media<\/a>) and especially on\u00a0social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What did this man with the orange hairdo do to these people?<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

First, I want to say that I am not a raving MAGA Trump supporter, not that there is anything wrong with being one. Some of my best friends are MAGA proponents. Despite what some of my friends and professional colleagues think, I\u2019m pretty centrist in my political philosophies: conservative on some issues (staying out of needless foreign wars, putting reasonable limits on abortion), liberal on others (maintaining individual rights, being a staunch supporter of the First Amendment). I\u2019m pretty much a \u201clive and let live\u201d kind of guy.<\/p>\n

I think that as a nation, that\u2019s where most Americans lie,\u00a0from slightly left of center to somewhat right of center<\/a>. Most of us lack a sense of ideological purity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But I think Trump\u2019s victory in 2016 was a reaction – to years of often invisible far-left control of the institutional levers of power – rather than any sort of revolution, January 6th\u00a0notwithstanding. Trump was the vessel through which many centrist Americans vented their long-simmering frustrations.<\/p>\n

But I digress\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Getting back to Trump, I believe his real troubles began in 2016 when this political upstart\u2014who had previously been a liberal-leaning New York City real estate developer and popular reality TV host\u2014defeated the anointed one, Hillary Clinton, the candidate destiny had chosen to be the first female president (funny how it seems that title has unofficially fallen to \u201cDr.\u201d Jill Biden).<\/p>\n

That triggered a reaction that has been unprecedented in our almost 250 years as a nation. It was best manifested in the fake news, a pre-printed Newsweek special edition proclaiming Clinton as Madam President.\u00a0125,000 copies were printed and had to be recalled<\/a>. (It should be noted that there was no pre-printed President Trump special edition; it was rushed into print after the election because Clinton\u2019s election was a foregone conclusion up until about 11 p.m. on Election Night.) Why waste ink and paper when it was going to be Clinton\u2019s hand on the Bible on January 20, 2017?<\/p>\n

From the minute that Donald and Melania came down the escalator, Democrats and the far-left tried to destroy Trump.<\/strong> It started with the\u00a0Clinton- and DNC-funded Steele Dossier<\/a>\u00a0that was at the heart of the three-year-long RussiaGate scandal that was repudiated by the embarrassing Mueller Report. It continued right after the election when Deep State activists illegally surveilled Trump appointees, especially Michael Flynn, who was forced to resign as Trump\u2019s National Security Advisor, hobbling the Trump administration during the transition period and beyond until Trump left office in 2021.<\/p>\n

Working in conjunction with its handmaidens in the media, it was non-stop Orange-man-bad throughout Trump\u2019s administration that accelerated after Republican losses in the 2018 midterm elections that allowed for two politically motivated impeachments where Democrats, especially in the House led by partisan clowns like\u00a0Adam Schiff<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Jamie Raskin<\/a>, flexed their political muscle in ways not previously seen.<\/p>\n

These activities culminated in the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election, when any reference to the\u00a0New York Post\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Hunter Biden laptop story was blacked out by the mainstream media. It spread to social media, where Trump was banned while intelligence community stooges were able to peddle the narrative that the story was a Russian disinformation operation. We, on the right, call them\u00a0the 51 Spies Who Lied<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then we have the unprecedented lawfare deployed against Trump during the Biden information, carefully coordinated by Biden\u2019s completely\u00a0corrupt Department of Justice led by Merrick Garland<\/a>, the\u00a0forum-shopped Alvin Bragg\u00a0<\/a>prosecution, and\u00a0two Jack Smith\u00a0<\/a>prosecutions\u2014the Florida documents case and the other in Washington, DC\u2014and you wonder how Trump was able to respond. Throw in two more completely politically motivated trials\u2014the outrageous\u00a0Letitia James<\/a>\u00a0fraud prosecution back in New York City and the\u00a0apparently compromised Fani Willis election interference case in Georgia<\/a>\u2014and you have a legal onslaught that would have destroyed a lesser man.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, after failing to remove Trump from the 2024 race that polls now say he\u2019s winning handily, a 20-year-old assassin took the election into his own hands. But this is not surprising when you watch\u00a0this post-assassination-attempt compilation video posted on TikToK<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I saw the cover of the June issue of the\u00a0New Republic<\/em><\/a>, the one with the AI-generated composite image with the faces of Hitler and Trump merged, it disgusted me. Trump is many things (not always ethical in his business affairs, bombastic, subject to exaggeration, a serial philanderer), but he is not a fascist. Far from it. His first administration proved that. He didn\u2019t lock up Hillary Clinton or send Rachel Maddow to a reeducation camp (although, in the eyes of many, he should have done both).<\/p>\n

As with all administrations, Trump\u2019s first period in office had many upsides and a few significant downsides<\/strong> (the COVID responses under his watch were very damaging, he tolerated too many Obama holdovers for far too long, and he did not reform our armed forces as promised).<\/p>\n

I would, however, highlight five significant Trump achievements that should make a rock-solid case for his second term in office:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Energy independenc<\/a>e was arguably Trump\u2019s greatest accomplishment. In under three years, our unleashing of oil exploration made America a net energy exporter, bringing the world into our bounty. Affordable energy is key to a higher quality of life, and you can thank Donald Trump for standing firm against environmental extremists and radicals in the Democrat Party who work hard to keep energy costs high. During Biden\u2019s first week in office, bowing to environmental extremists based on the far left, the Keystone pipeline was scuttled, and exploration, especially in Alaska, was curtailed. The net result is that we now import rather than export petroleum.<\/em><\/p>\n

2. Securing our borders was always going to be difficult, given the multi-generational push from the left to provide sanctuary for non-citizens.\u00a0Trump\u2019s DHS ensured that immigration laws were followed<\/a>, the flow of immigrants was managed, and those who did not meet the criteria were kept in Mexico until their asylum cases could be heard. Humane, practical, and effective. Unlike today, under the leadership of Biden and his incompetent Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, immigration is a catastrophe. We have no idea exactly how many aliens have illegally entered the United States during the Biden administration. At a minimum, the number is eight million, but it could be as high as 12 million or more.<\/em><\/p>\n

3. The creation of the\u00a0Abraham Accords of 2020<\/a>\u00a0was a miracle. Imagine having a host of Arab countries sign a normalization agreement with Israel, thus putting aside generations of aggression in the name of Abraham of biblical descent. By mismanaging the response to the October 7, 2023, Gaza attacks, Biden has thrown this away and alienated both Israel and the Palestinians, as well as much of the Arab world that was considering stronger ties with Israel.<\/em><\/p>\n

4. Supreme Court appointments tend to define a presidency in perpetuity. Trump\u2019s three appointees (Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett) allowed for a moderate balance within the Court. It provided an opportunity to shield America from the left, using the Court as a way to push agendas that would not have withstood the legislative process. If re-elected, Trump will almost surely appoint\u00a0two more justices to replace Justices Thomas and Alito<\/a>, and conceivably two more to replace Sotomayor and Roberts, who will both be in their seventies if Trump serves to the end of a second term. Trump\u2019s impact will last long after he is out of office.<\/em><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Politicians, particularly Democrats, love to start wars<\/a>. Not Donald Trump. Under his leadership, there were no new interventions, no new foreign invasions, and no new threats to our homeland. Due to the crisis on the southern border that has been boiling over for over three years, we have no idea how many terrorists have slipped across the border to do us harm. His America First agenda served as a warning to bad actors around the world: Don\u2019t mess with the Orange Man.<\/em><\/p>\n

Compare these accomplishments to those of the current inhabitants of the White House.<\/strong> There is nothing there to warrant giving the Biden administration more opportunities to, in the words of Barack Obama, \u201cf*ck things up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump, like all of us, is a flawed man. Yet despite Saturday\u2019s assassination attempt,\u00a0he is on the cusp of being formally nominated to run for reelection by his party. If re-elected, as polls and Biden\u2019s debate self-immolation would seem to indicate, he will be only the second president in US history to serve two non-contiguous terms. If he gets to that point, Trump will have surmounted unprecedented obstacles.<\/p>\n

What can we expect from a second Trump term? Everything that the Biden administration is not:<\/strong>\u00a0an<\/a>\u00a0America First governing policy<\/a>\u00a0(not the Project 2025 manifesto endlessly parroted by Democrat shills in lockstep with their stenographers in the compliant mainstream media), enforcement of federal law (imagine that!), and a renewed accountability of government to its citizens. It\u2019s morning in America once again.<\/p>\n

Only the most\u00a0rabid partisans<\/a>\u00a0would claim that Trump is an authoritarian, a dictator, or a fascist. Those voices are sounding tired now, after three-plus years of one of the most authoritarian administrations in our history that has censored our speech, imprisoned its enemies, ignored the law, embraced non-citizens, enabled our enemies abroad, and created chaos in our cities. Those voices are fading into irrelevance. They are fading into a history we will remember as one of the most challenging times for the American experiment, and lucky for us, we have a way out.<\/p>\n

America is ready for a better quality of life. America is ready for justice. America is ready for a return to greatness.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remarkable words from Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n

‘Trump has won the election. Even Democrats respect his courage.’pic.twitter.com\/jcuJoz335J<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) July 15, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n

America is ready for the return of Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 07\/15\/2024 – 23:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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