By Rob Meyne
- Aug. 31 2024
- 5-min read
A recent article from a North Carolina columnist sums up the views of many anti-Trumpers.
His arguments are well-worn and widely accepted, but so are a lot of things that don’t rely on facts.
Tom Campbell has written a lot of good columns. His latest is not one of them. (His work can be found by searching for Tom Campbell & North Carolina.) His basic point: “Trump sucks,” (not his exact words), so how can anyone support him?
The author’s tactic is typical of those used by many politicians, commentators, and average people; attack the person, not the policy. If the left/media (but I repeat myself) can convince you that Trump is a threat to the nation, and people who support him are mindless zombies who worship him, they don’t have to discuss policy. This is very convenient for people who have records that are difficult to defend, or who are running against a president under whom America did well. That summarizes the 2024 election.
Biden and Harris have been a disaster. Harris and Walz favor Marxist policies, which threaten our freedom and economic strength. And most Americans realize Trump performed well as president, even if they don’t like him.
The ONLY tactic that is likely to succeed against Trump is to claim he is so dangerous literally a threat to the survival of the nation, while avoiding discussing issues, and lying when forced to confront your record.
Every time someone says YOU are a mindless cultist, what it really means is they can’t explain why they support Harris. Count on it. As has been said many times, in general, leftists win by lying, conservatives win when they tell the truth.
Campbell writes that Trump’s commitment to making America great again is “all show.” Apparently, he can read minds and possibly predict the future. Remind me to ask him what the next winning lottery number will be.
Trump entered politics as a rich, famous, successful employer in the private sector. He had taken a small family business and built it into an iconic global brand. Leading Democrats – Harris, Biden, Clinton, Obama, Pelosi, Schumer – spent all or most of their lives on the public dime and grew rich through selling influence and insider training.
Trump also delivered policies that helped mainstream Americans. If that is “all show” I’ll take it.
Trump’s personality, combativeness, and pettiness are a turn-off for many people. We get it. The question is what is most important to you? If it is more important to have a president who doesn’t send mean Tweets than, for example, to prevent nuclear war, then vote for Harris. If the future of the world is more important than personalities, vote for Trump. Decide what is most important and you’ll know what to do.
Campbell says, “And please help me understand why his cult seems willing to forgive his crimes, his outlandish conduct, absence of morality or his incessant lies and still pledge allegiance to him.”
Accusing people of “pledging allegiance to a candidate” is the accusation made by anti-Trumpers who can’t defend their policies and want to vilify you and me. When someone accuses you of being a cultist or of pledging allegiance to a person it proves they are, themselves, bigoted. They accuse you of doing what they are doing.
As for accusations of Trump’s alleged crimes or corruption, you can also take the following to the bank. The crimes Trump has been convicted of were clearly political prosecutions that never would have been brought against anyone else. No one in New York has ever been charged with those kinds of crimes.
Biden sent the number three person at the Department of Justice to prosecute the case. If that doesn’t prove that the White House was behind the whole thing, it is hard to imagine what would. People rightly disregard the whole prosecution and believe it will be reversed on appeal.
Most Trump opponents don’t know that much about public policy, don’t know President Trump’s record, or have blindly bought into many unfounded accusations repeated so often they have taken on a life of their own. Even conservatives have bought into many of these stories.
Most people who vote for the GOP are not very loyal to the party itself. We are patriotic constitutional conservatives. We care more about the values, policies, and records of a candidate than about the party to which they are affiliated. Trump happens to be the only conservative-to-moderate person in the race. Who else would we support?
OF COURSE we support Trump rather than the Senate’s most liberal member and her Dem/socialist running mate. Why is that surprising? Why does that mean we are mindless members of a cult? It doesn’t, of course.
The DNC lineup – their heroes – include a former president who paid nearly a million dollars to settle a sexual harassment charge, was praised as an “unusually good liar” by a fellow Democrat, was credibly accused of rape, and committed perjury in a federal court. There was also a former president who assassinated American citizens with drones, used the DOJ to silence reporters, sent the IRS after conservative groups, and whose Attorney General was held in contempt of Congress.
It has been proven, through bank and IRS records uncovered in congressional investigations, that Biden’s family has received seventeen million dollars from China, Russia, and the Ukraine for doing no actual work. He openly defies the Supreme Court, has a history of racist remarks, gave tens of billions in weapons to terrorists, and paid at least fifteen billion in cash to the world’s number one sponsor of terrorism. He makes Nixon look like Fred Rogers.
Does this sound like a group that should be lecturing us?
If one believes Trump lies excessively, they clearly haven’t looked at his opponents. Even assuming ALL the accusations that Trump lied are true, which they are not, it makes no sense to look at them in isolation.
That isn’t the same thing as saying it is all right to lie. The point is that holding one side accountable while ignoring the other is a dishonest way of looking at the campaign.
Would it be nice if we had better candidates on all sides? Sure. Give me a call when you get back from Fantasyland. Conservatives reside in the world of reality.
The accusation that people “pledge allegiance to” Trump, and the concomitant accusation that any who would vote for him are “cultists,” boils down to nothing more than sophomoric name-calling. If you cannot win by discussing facts and issues, you attack your opponent on a personal level. That’s the core of the anti-Trump world.
It is nonsense to call someone a cultist just because they support the only moderate/conservative in the race.
