by Robert M. Traxler

El Presidente of Mexico has come out on the side of President Biden and is degrading Governor Ron DeSantis; indeed, the Mexican President has also come out against all Republicans, no need to wonder why. The Mexican economy is solidly in bed with the narco traffickers and those being paid, sometimes referred to as “coyotes,” to help migrants (or illegal aliens or undocumented persons, whatever is the currently politically correct term) cross our border for a fee. 

A trip to and across our mostly open, unprotected border can cost from $1,500 to $15,000 (2019 estimates), depending on the starting point. 

According to Quora, a Mexican citizen can make darn near $250,000 per year working in the illicit drug industry. A quarter of a million a year and no taxes!  Not bad work if you can get it. 

According to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, drugs bring in from $45 to $55 billion per year to the Mexican economy in 2011 dollars. We can add an enormous amount to the ledger some 12 years later. The cartel that runs the State of Sinaloa pulls in some $40 billion per year. The people of Sinaloa average $15,000 for every person in the entire state of Sinaloa; a family of five’s portion is $75,000. One does not have to be an economist to see why the Mexican President wants President Biden back for four more years and a majority for the progressive/socialist party in our government.

Mexico gets some $150 billion from drugs, human smuggling and money being sent back to Mexico from people working in the United States, and many estimates triple that number. No need to ask why the government of Mexico loves the Democrats and supports the socialist party. 

In the Huffington Post, an opinion piece predictably headlined, “No one is more dangerous for the White House than Ron DeSantis — including Donald Trump,” and it went on to parrot the currently growing feeling that the Florida governor is “more informed, tactical and calculated, which makes him way more dangerous.”

Hell is indeed freezing over; former President Trump is not Satan personified? He was called the most evil person ever to have lived, more evil than Adolph Hitler, Mao Zedong, or Joseph Stalin combined. The three socialist leaders have a well over an 85,000,000-body count, but they are not as evil as Governor DeSantis? Go figure. 

Research the profit from drugs, human smuggling and Mexicans sending money back to Mexico from the United States, and the numbers are from 1% to 14% of GDP, (14% is 2.5 trillion, 1% is 250 billion). We may never know the true figure, let it suffice to say it is enough to cause the Mexican president to want the status quo to remain, thus supporting the socialist party.

This column still feels that President Trump is too old to run for office, as is President Biden, but the choice between the two aged leaders is an easy one. President Trump is far more lucid and energetic, he is not an insider who plays the game of Washington payoffs to the extended families of the powerful.

It will be a few months before the Republican primary shakes itself out, but I am looking more and more at Vivek Ramaswamy. He is the only candidate besides Trump who is not to some extent spawned from the primordial ooze of the Washington swamp. 

My opinion, disagree if you wish, and you will not be called a degrading name.