Explaining Trump Appeal

Detractors Are Blind

Presidential elections are probably the least democratic system ever devised. The political parties have complete reign. Judges can try to remove Trump from primary ballots but it will just lead Trump to be nominated through caucus. And if Trump is taken off the general election ballot, pandemonium and the whole concept of presidential elections will go down the drain and perhaps result in a Constitutional convention. So how to explain the whole Trump phenomenon, particularly in Nebraska with the likes of former State Senator John McCollister, Jeremy Aspen and David Kotok who see nothing but chaos in partisan politics?

I remember my angst when Mitt Romney received the Republican nomination for president in 2012. Here was this nice guy liberal Democrats said they could embrace and yet, they attacked him and tossed him to the winds. To add, voters are not going to vote for progressive-lite Republicans when they can vote for the real thing with progressive Democrats. So under Obama, the progressive forces won and gathered power.

Trump was friends of the Clintons. While Trump had flirted with the Reform Party, the leftist news media adored him as an entertaining billionaire. But once Trump ran for President, the left went nuts attacking him and was especially upset with his attacks on Hillary. Conservatives were flummoxed as to why he was running as a Republican but the conservatives had played too nice with Democrats and now were a victim to their own strategies. Republican candidates had become so scripted to avoid insulting their own precious lobbyists and it showed.

History is full of momentous actions of change. Martin Luther nailed his ideas to a church door. George Washington rejected becoming a king. Ronald Reagan went to the Brandenburg Gate. Donald Trump went down an escalator.

Trump is not a blueblood American. His ancestors are recent immigrants (https://www.history.com/news/donald-trump-father-mother-ancestry). As a billionaire, he was seen as part of the polite and civil elite. Yet Trump cared about the average worker, the forgotten man. Trump is a traitor --- to the elite classes. He exposed the elites, their strategies, and their country club attitudes. He openly mocked them and insulted them.

In many ways, Trump has tapped into America’s Quaker heritage and advocacy where every person is of value and in no need of overbearing hierarchies. The Committee to Unleash Posterity released a report “Them vs Us” (https://committeetounleashprosperity.com/reports/) which polled the elite, showing how they opposed individual freedom. With such a report, you can see how Trump’s attacks on the elites resonate with the public while upsetting the elite establishment.

Trump also has extraordinary political talents. Scott Adams’s saw Trump’s talents early on. His book on Trump is now available for borrowing on the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/winbigly0000unse/mode/2up?view=theater) His attacks on the news media is legendary and he has ruined their reputation by exposure. Now, the legacy media is being challenged in every way, every day. The reason elites and news media throw so much vile at Trump is he cannot be shamed to comply with the demands of the powers which be. He is also too wealthy to be bribed.

Through all the attacks, Trump delivered tax cuts to the working class which paid for themselves (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2683640/its-official-trumps-tax-cuts-paid-for-themselves/). His appointment to the Supreme Court justices has changed the course of the country. They try so hard to paint Trump out to be an extremist but as Ben Shapiro, a conservative points out, Trump is the moderate candidate in 2024 (https://rumble.com/v4gffif-ep.-1915-the-dirty-secret-trump-is-the-2024-moderate.html)

Trump continues to push tax cuts and is firing back at Bidenomics with MAGAnomics (https://rumble.com/v4gvmu8-maganomics-3-2-24.html). And in his spare time, he does what any businessman does: invests, make money and sell products such as shoes to the common man.