I recent read a piece about Donald Trump “might be our first dictator” and while there is strong opinion about Donald Trump, we saw that after four years of a Trump Presidency, being a dictator was not one of them. The Trump administration was full of chaos, hardly did we ever sink close to a dictator ship. It can be argued that we have to fear the present administration more and its violations of civil liberties including working with social media to censor stories. We saw during the end of the Obama administration, our FBI pursuing an investigation to keep Trump from winning the election and then later, uses the same false story of Russian collusion as the basis for impeachment. The FBI continued the investigation despite knowing the story was false as did President Obama and Vice-President Biden. Of course, Hillary knew since she was the one who started the false stories.
In the Biden administration, we have seen pro-life arrested on the flimsy of excuses or parents viewed as domestic terrorists and of course the massive censorship efforts on the Covid. I could go on, but you would be hard press to find a similar record during the Trump administration for it was Trump who was the victim of the Deep state machinations.
There is the charge of cult of personality and while many Trump supporters are willing to back their candidate with all the indictments, but the reality is that there are enough legal thinkers including Jon Turley who question the validity of many of cases against Trump and certainly we have seen two tier system in which Republican are getting prosecuted for crimes that Democrats don’t. Joe Biden abuse and mis handled classified documents since he was a US senator, and the Obama DOJ gave Hillary a walk on her internet server despite the fact that James Comey admitted that she violated the law, but she didn’t really mean to do it. Yeah right.
Matt Margolis wrote that there is enough evidence that Joe Biden wanted Trump out as a candidate including stories from the New York Times and his own words. Matt noted, “And yet this wasn’t the only time Biden has made it clear that his administration was going to go after Trump to prevent him from becoming president again. Biden told a reporter he would use “constitutional” means to “make sure” Trump wouldn’t return to the White House.” (This was after a reporter asked, “How do you reassure [world leaders] … that the former President will not return or that his political movement, which is still very strong, will not once again take power in the United States?”) You can decide who is acting more like a dictator and who is not.. Is This Proof That Joe Biden Ordered the Indictment of Trump? – PJ Media and New Questions Raised About Joe Biden’s 2022 Remarks Regarding the Prosecution of Donald Trump – RedState
We are witnessing a government that has essentially declared war on the Middle Class in so many ways, beginning with the policies that denies them gas grills, poor water heater, outlawing their combustion engine car and authors like Carol Roth and Joe Kotkin had detailed the war on the middle class and small businesses in their writing. Joel Kotkin noted, “Nearly two-thirds of Americans feel their economic prospects have diminished over the past two years. Housing purchases are suffering huge declines as costs have reached the highest levels since 2007, and that’s before the onset of what many predict could be a serious recession. Overall, in the six months from June (2023), American households lost a remarkable $2.3 trillion in value, according to Redfin.” For Kotkin, it is about property rights and the Middle class has lost ground, “The key issue is property. The changing class dynamics are reflected by patterns of land ownership. House prices have grown three times faster than household income over the past two decades, as the OECD noted in 2019…These trends have been exacerbated by a climate-driven housing policy that seeks to pack people into dense urban areas. Such policies are reversing 75 years of expanding property ownership in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia as well as other high-income countries. Property ownership, widely seen as key to middle-class status, is morphing into a rich man’s game. In the decade from 2010, the proportion of real-estate wealth in the US held by middle-class and working-class owners fell substantially, while that controlled by the wealthy grew from 28 per cent to 43 per cent. In this period, high-income households enjoyed 71 per cent of all gains from housing wealth, while the shares of middle- and lower-income families declined precipitously.”
There is are reason to be oppose Donald Trump, but for many in the Middle Class and much of Middle America viewed Trump as the one politician who gets them and certainly they can’t trust the Democrats who have no interest in securing our southern border, or fights the left climate change policies that have raised both food and energy prices and they are not sold on supporting Ukraine for they may view another endless war. They wonder why we care more about Ukraine borders but not our own. As Kotkin noted about the environmentalist movement impact on the average American and many of the younger generations, “The middle class is also under pressure from green ideology. Perhaps the once aspirational middle orders will resign themselves to renting – a future where they will ‘own nothing and be happy’, as the gnomes of Davos suggest. Maybe so, at least with sufficient drugs and videogames. But as the younger generations age, they won’t be able to fall back on their own assets, and instead will have to rely on the state…Nor can they count on a reliably growing economy, the traditional engine of upward mobility. Today’s green theology, adopted by both the bureaucratic clerisy and oligarchic elite, has little room for the robust economic growth that might sustain a comfortable middle class. Meanwhile, the elites’ wealth continues to rise regardless, thanks to asset inflation. In the US, recent impressive job-growth numbers came predominantly in lower-wage service professions like restaurants and hospitality. In the past three months, almost two-thirds of all new jobs occurred in historically low-paying sectors.”
One serous problem of Trump was his performance during the pandemic which crushed a growing economy and it was a disaster and he backed it. What did he learn, and would he repeat it? Certainly, his criticism of DeSantis pandemic response rings false and voters have to decide if his legal problems even if they feel that the charges are bogus will hurt his re-election changes. The Trump is a dictator is pure nonsense since we have seen four years of Trump in action and can easily compare them to the present President, and a better case can be made that Biden is moving our country to a China style dictatorship.
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