Donald Trump is an avatar for Americans who yearn for normalcy. One can deride his supporters as “MAGA” extremists, but the tens of thousands who went to hear the former president in Wildwood, New Jersey over the weekend and the tens of millions more who support him around the country want a normal America, something that Joe Biden and the Democrats are working to make disappear.
Donald Trump is quite a colorful fellow. His history is replete with sordid stories, one of which showed up at his trial in N New York last week. But behind the mean tweets and the braggadocio is a man who very much wishes that the NY Times write nicely about him and that his political enemies like him. Those who will come after him will not care about either and will be junior Terminators in their focus on fixing what’s wrong with America.
And most Americans believe that there is a lot wrong with our country. For example:
*Most Americans do not want guys with wigs beating their daughters in sports.
*Most Americans want controlled immigration and a closed border.
*Most Americans want voter ID to guarantee that only those who are allowed to vote, vote—and only once.
*Most Americans want less expensive goods; the president’s comment that Americans “have the money to spend” for very expensive food and goods does not wash.
*Most Americans would be pleased to see foreigners who violated their visas in their participation in campus mayhem be sent back to their third-world homes.
*Most Americans would expect universities to expel students who violated explicit school rules and promoted genocide against Jews.
*Most Americans would like to see criminals stay behind bars so that the rest of the citizenry can enjoy the country they support through their work and taxes.
*Most Americans would like to see armed forces that frighten America’s enemies.
This list could go on for pages. There are so many things in American society that in decades past were obvious and understood that today have been stood on their head. And people are sick of it. Independents appear to favor Trump. Battleground states are polling in Trump’s favor. Joe Biden, his coterie, and the professional left have—as always—gone too far. Homeless encampments in some of the most beautiful cities in the country, pornographic books in school libraries, women forced to share locker rooms with guys: Donald Trump is the physical embodiment of people screaming, “Enough! Stop!”
The disgust with Biden and the left goes far beyond America’s borders. Tony Blinken cannot finish a sentence without demanding that Israel send in more and more trucks with humanitarian aid. Can someone in the comments below please tell me of one war where one side was compelled to feed the other side during active fighting? After the war is a different story altogether. There is the famous story of the Japanese starving after their defeat. MacArthur knew of the massive food stores assembled for the planned November 1945 invasion of the Japanese home islands. The war was over and the food was not needed. MacArthur asked for the food and was denied, as Washington still saw the Japanese as the enemy. So MacArthur asked for millions of bullets and said either send the food or the bullets to deal with the hungry Japanese. In the end, the food was released and given to the Japanese—after the war was over.
If it weren’t for Israel’s worries about “What will they say in Washington?” the war would be fought as it should: no humanitarian aid to the enemy, complete destruction of Gaza until Hamas and other terror organizations are either destroyed or surrender, and Israeli control of Gaza until a reasonable alternative appears in a decade or so. But Israel cannot fight that war because those in the West demand a war that has never been: no civilian casualties, food for Hamas and its supportive citizenry, not touching Rafah in order to save Hamas and Joe Biden to fight another day. A war that should have been over in two months is now entering its eighth month with a lot of work left to do.
What people in Western democracies want is not revolutionary. They want a good, safe, prosperous life for themselves and their families. Europeans watch as Muslims uninterested in being Dutch, French, British, or Swedish come to their countries and make it clear that they plan to make Sharia the law of the land. They are telegraphing their intentions without any fear of someone stopping them. It is not bigotry to want controlled immigration or foreigners who become part of the local social fabric. My mother showed up at public school in 1938 in New York and there was no dual language track for a girl who spoke only German. She became a proud American citizen and never forgave the Dodgers for leaving Brooklyn.
In 2016, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton and others could not understand the popularity of Donald Trump. They did not understand that people couldn't care less about his personal foibles. He presented an image of a country where jobs are kept at home, the border and immigration are controlled for America’s benefit, meritocracy is the currency of the realm, and America is respected abroad. Assuming that nobody convinces the Bidens to forget about a second term, I would not be surprised if Trump wins by a landslide. I doubt that in today’s America he can take 49 states as Nixon and Reagan did, but the hatred of what the left has done to America and its world standing is no less intense than in the days of McGovern and Mondale.