To vote for Trump or not to vote for Trump, that is the question. As someone who voted for Ron DeSantis in the Iowa Caucus, I viewed it as a time for a change and DeSantis earned my vote through his performance during the Pandemic and his governing of Florida. I helped to elect Trump in 2016 and supported his efforts in 2020, so I have done my duty for Trump and will vote for him because we can’t have four more years of Biden. For many voters, it is a case of voting for the lesser of two evils and Joe Biden is the worse choice. After nearly four years of his administration, we should no longer have any doubts about another four years of Biden being a complete disaster.
The Biden’s administration has been one disaster after another beginning with his foreign policy and his botched withdrawal from Afghanistan which left billions of dollars of equipment in the hands of our enemies and for many veterans, they saw twenty years of sacrifice wasted. Putin invaded Ukraine because of the Afghanistan withdrawal and his view of Biden weakness and let us not forget, the Obama-Biden foreign policy allowed Russia to take Crimea and portion of Ukraine in 2014. While one can make the case for aiding Ukraine (and let not forget Trump administration provided Ukraine with offensive weapons), Biden has done a poor job of doing just that.
His Middle East policy is turning into a complete disaster that has gone from bipartisan support for Israel to stabbing Israel in the back as Democrat Party has shifted toward out right antisemitism. Senator Schumer demand for Israel to replace government to allow peace to move forward along with the two-state solution is one example of this. Schumer demands of Israel (which we assume had the White House blessing) destroyed a bipartisan support for Israel and put the Democrats on the side of Hamas being left in power and able to declare victory. Somehow we must preserve the border of the Ukraine while allowing Israel to put their own security at risk and leaving our own border undefended against what can only be described as invasion as Biden administration allows unlimited illegal immigration.
Let be real and understand that while Trump handling of the Pandemic was bad, Biden’s policies were worse, and Biden did inherit a growing economy that was escaping the fallout of the lockdown. In spite of Trump Pandemic bumbling, the last six months of his administration featured a 20 percent increase of GDP growth and close to 55 percent of job losses due to the lockdown had already been recovered and it would take two years for Biden to complete the job.
Biden also inherited a world somewhat at peace with Middle East stable and the Abraham accord uniting Israel and many Sunni states against Iran who was suffering financially from the sanctions. Ukraine was at peace, and we focused on China as a main threat. Biden inherited an economy recovering from the lockdown and more stable world. He could have done nothing with the economy and kept Trump policies in place on foreign policy, maybe the Middle East would not be exploding, and Europe still would be at peace. On the economic side, if Biden did not nothing and allowed the economy to recover, he would have an economic expansion without inflation and the middle class would actually have seen their income go up. He would easily be on his way to winning an election rout over Trump instead of being neck and neck with Trump.
Biden record on civil liberty should be a red flag for we know that the Biden administration worked with or coerce social media to remove any individuals whose views didn’t correspond with theirs, the DOJ have gone after pro-lifers and treated parents who showed up at School board meetings as terrorists. And the persecution of Donald Trump is nothing more than banana Republic stuff in which we are still looking for a real crime in the “91” indictments just as the two impeachments were impeachments in search of impeachable offenses. What Biden has done is a real war on democracy. My own view is that many within the GOP or the conservatives who no longer support Trump might be concern over Biden’s lawfare against a political opponent.
As for Mike Pence recent proclamations that he won’t vote for Biden and won’t vote for Trump, leaves me to ask, who is he going to vote for? The problem with Pence thoughts is that Trump populism he fears can be combined with traditional conservatism. Henry Olsen wrote a book on Reagan combining populism and traditional free market ideas (The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism: Olsen, Henry: 9780062475268: Amazon.com: Books)and Victor Davis Hanson discussed that there are different kind of populism and not all populism is bad (Dueling Populisms | Hoover Institution Dueling Populisms.) Trump in his first term that one can combine Trump populism with Reagan conservatism. Mathew Continetti acknowledge that Trump has put together a new coalition which has added many Hispanics and Black voters. (America’s Political Realignment Is Real (freebeacon.com)
As I have written, Republican governors are busy showing that ideas of tax reform, getting government spending under control, school choice and allowing parents to have more say in their children education as well as looking closer at what is taught in school. These ideas are working, and many Republican run states are having an influx of people moving in and many Democratic run states are seeing many escaping their policies.( Update jobs recovery – by Tom Donelson/ F of F (substack.com) and Grand Strategy – by Tom Donelson/ F of F (substack.com)
My question for Mike Pence, what was so conservative about how his Covid task force in which he ran? Much of our freedom ended up under siege and while it is true that Trump was the President and the buck stops with him, Pence did nothing to change policies that we know of. Pence has never stated on foolishness of the lockdown. He must along long with Trump answers for those mistakes.
I am sympathetic with many who view the Trump-Biden rematch as battle of which candidate is the worse, but it leaves the question, who do you vote for? We know that four more years of Biden means less security abroad, less economic freedom at home, and our civil liberties will be under siege. Trump is a flawed candidate and a flaw human being, but he is certainly better than Biden. He and Pence botched the pandemic by allowing the lockdown to happen and not quickly reversing policies, but Biden approach was much worse and at least Trump allowed a federalist approach to happen which many Republican governors ignored Fauci’s science and opted for actual science. Much of the recovery over the last six months of the Trump administration can be traced to these governors who ignored the Fauci’s approach.
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