It's not in those traffic jams disguised as Biden campaign staff pep rallies. It's in the
soul-searching of columnist Derek Hunter.
Before election day, I did some soul-searching. My wife was pregnant with our first child and I knew a Hillary Clinton presidency would be horrible for the country. Democrats had big plans to “fundamentally transform” the country, ruining much of what made the country the envy of the world in the name of “progressive” politics. What would I tell my child about life before, about the country before? And what would I tell them about what I did to try to stop it.
In a column that went viral, I’d changed my mind. I knew I had to do everything I could, including voting for someone I didn’t think would be a good president but was the only realistic alternative, to register my opposition to the damage to come.
Four years on, he's seeing some good things, and still fearful of the damage to come if he doesn't oppose it.
Three Supreme Court Justices, countless needless regulations repealed, tax cuts for everyone, unthinkably low unemployment, a booming economy, no new wars, Middle East peace deals, ISIS decimated, NAFTA gone, and American pride rising. I was very wrong.
Sure, there were tweets I wished weren’t sent, points that could have been made clearer or more directly – I’m not going to agree with anyone 100 percent of the time except me. But Donald Trump, quite simply, has been an excellent president of the United States.
Most surprisingly of all, and evident in his overall accomplishments, he was easily one of the most conservative presidents we’ve ever had. Whether it was, as some never Trumpers whine, all an act, I couldn’t care less. Results matter, and the results are beyond dispute.
His claim stands up irrespective of how one evaluates the president's response to Wuhan coronavirus, which is behaving like a novel virus and confounding experts no matter what nostrums they try. Meanwhile, the so-called progressives are back, and scarier than ever. (And why not? Today's Democrat elders started building their reputations at the blame-America-first 1984 convention in San Francisco, nominating Walter Mondale and fretting about that mean Ronald Reagan calling the workers' paradise an evil empire.)
I will vote against Democrats with just as much eagerness and even more urgency now that their party has moved even further to the left and embraced even crazier, anti-American values. The difference is, this time I will vote for Donald Trump with a level of enthusiasm I did not in 2016, with a level of enthusiasm with which I’ve never voted for any other candidate before. The record is too good, the stakes too damn high, and the alternative too damn crazy and corrupt to do anything else.
The battle is also joined at
National Review, where once upon a time the editors and staff devoted an entire issue to arguing Donald Trump was
no conservative and
ought be excommunicated before he got to Cleveland to be nominated. Conrad Black
offers an observation; the editors preface it with a bunch of links offering a variety of perspectives.
Only a Trump victory will suitably chasten the many sensible and somewhat highbrow Reagan Republicans who deserted Trump for reasons ranging from outright treachery to tactical misjudgment to mere snobbery. They deserve to be shamed and given an incentive to repent. They do not deserve to ululate in victory over the elevation of a pathologically mediocre aspirant to the presidency and a vice president whose constant refrain is to burst into inexplicable peals of uproarious laughter: an enervated old wheelhorse who has faced in every direction on every issue, and a chucklehead, standing together on a socialist platform and shored up by disreputable elements.
The country is called to choose between a very effective executive whose behavioral foibles are sometimes outlandish and the dual personification of weakness and vacuity.
Finally, dear reader,
note the statement from the editorial board of Pittsburgh's
Post-Gazette.
Mr. Biden is too old for the job, and fragile. There is a very real chance he will not make it through the term. Mr. Trump is also too old but seemingly robust. But in Mike Pence, Mr. Trump has a vice president ready to take over, if need be. He is a safe pair of hands. Sen. Kamala Harris gives no evidence of being ready to be president.
This newspaper has not supported a Republican for president since 1972. But we believe Mr. Trump, for all his faults, is the better choice this year. We respect and understand those who feel otherwise. We wish that we could be more enthusiastic and we hope the president can become more dignified and statesmanlike. Each American must make up his or her own mind and do what he or she thinks is best for the community and the republic. Vote your conscience. And, whatever happens, believe in the country.
The editors refer to some elements of the Democrat platform as "Cuckoo California dreams." I wonder what logic they employed to endorse Walter Mondale in 1984. The existential danger from the current crop of San Francisco Democrats, though, is real.
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