President Donald Trump is being called a populist by a mostly single-minded media. Now a reasonable and prudent person would ask, what is wrong with being a populist?
A definition of populism:
“A supporter of populism, a political philosophy urging social and political system change that favors ‘the people’ over ‘the elites,’ or favors the common people over the rich and wealthy business owners.”
The American left is in a strange place; they are now condemning President Trump for practicing one of the bedrock principles of socialism. The good folks in the fourth estate are so blinded by hate — I do mean hate — that they can’t see the forest full of trees for hugging one tree, the tree of irrational disdain for President Trump.
The folks who desire a nation that follows a historically failed system, socialism, that spawned the world’s most vile despots, should be happy with a populist. The problem in the minds of pure socialists is that President Trump failed to denounce nationalism and religion.
The American left and the media applauded President Obama when he called for nationalism and when he asked for God’s help; strange how that works. The news scribblers believe in situational ethics: one person’s beauty is another’s beast; one person’s passion is another person’s poison. President Obama’s children were off limits to the media, but President Trump’s young son is being excoriated in the media; Google his name to see for yourself.
The American royalty in the Hollywood, media and political elite detest an outsider, even an outsider who is a social liberal, as they are. Just who do those folks in the middle of the country think they are, electing Trump? The media will parse every word, condemn every action, and destroy every supporter of President Trump. The media elite told us “President Trump can’t be allowed to become president”: the New York Times.
Let’s look at one of the areas our President is condemned for — The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). NATO was formed when Europe was in horrible economic and military shape after World War II. What would later become the Warsaw Pact (the Soviet Socialist’s Republic allies) was the largest and the most powerful military alliance in the world, and NATO was formed as a balancing force. The Soviet Socialist Republic fell apart, the Warsaw Pact fell apart, but we still hold on to a NATO in which only 20% of the countries who are members are shouldering their fair share of the cost. President Trump has simply stated they need to live up to the treaty commitments.
Politics makes strange bedfellows; the left hated NATO until President Trump came out against it, now they tell us we can’t live without it.
President Trump is a populist, Secretary Clinton was an elitist. The choice should have been an easy one; Hollywood, Wall Street, media and the self-proclaimed intellectuals were all in for Mrs. Clinton. The elite are outraged that the unwashed masses in the middle of the country had the audacity to disregard them, to think independently and not play follow the leader.
Stand by for a media broadside, carpet bombing, torpedoing and strafing the ship of state; the attacks will be personal. The elite, the cream of the crop are, for the most part seriously deranged.
The elite establishment Republicans (Senator John McCain), Democrats, media and chattering class are against a populist president; we will be bombarded with cluster munitions by every media outlet, even many of the Fox News folks hate President Trump. Oh, and they also hate those of us who voted for him.
Folks, never forget most of us in Hopkins, Dorr, Martin, Wayland and Moline are deplorable and unredeemable in the eyes of the elite.
Bring on a populist, a President Trump who has the audacity to believe in American exceptionalism.
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