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As a Trump supporter, I don't casually dismiss the polls
that consistently show he's behind. But I am cautiously optimistic he's going
to win, for many reasons.
Trump won in 2016 against overwhelming odds, the
formidable Hillary Clinton machine and almost-unanimous predictions of his
defeat.
Though Trump was a well-known public figure, people
didn't know whether he would fulfill his campaign promises and govern as a
conservative. Many were skeptical, especially on social issues, based on some
of his past positions.
Sure, his outsider status was a major part of his appeal,
and, yes, Clinton's unlikability helped, but I'm unimpressed with the theory
that Joe Biden will defeat Trump because Trump has baggage and Biden doesn't
have Clinton's negatives. Biden has plenty of negatives thus far strenuously
shielded by the media, and they're becoming more apparent daily. His main
negative, of course, is that he is not even a candidate but a hapless
placeholder, a puppet in the Democrats' sinister scheme to implement a Bernie
Sanders agenda under cover of "centrist" Biden.
Meanwhile, we've never seen a Republican president
generate more enthusiasm. He has an electric bond with his supporters, who
rightly recognize that he is uniquely situated for these turbulent times.
Conservative, patriotic Americans and everything they
hold dear have been under relentless bombardment by the militant left in all
sectors of our society -- culture, academia, Hollywood, the media. Everywhere
they turn, they're told that America sucks; that they are racist; that they are
uncompassionate Christian bigots, homophobes and sexists. They are vilified as
intolerant by the most intolerant of people and censored by those waving the
banner of free speech.
Most people have no way to respond to the bullying.
They're often too intimidated to share their opinions for fear of being
demonized. They have their talk radio and television defenders, but they've had
no one in elective office to stand up for them and their essential goodness and
dignity. No prominent public official has stood athwart this fraudulent, toxic
narrative and said, "Enough is enough." But in Trump they've found
their fearless, tireless advocate. What other Republican president would have
had the guts to stand against this high tide of political correctness and
challenge the left's divisive ideas, as when he recently banned federal
sensitivity training on so-called white supremacy and critical race theory?
Trump has given freedom-loving patriots a voice, and they
will never forget it. Despite efforts to portray him as a carnival barker, he
has proven his sincerity on the things that matter to his supporters. They see
his genuine love for America and his steadfast commitment to their shared agenda.
Trump hasn't just paid lip service to his ideas, which is
as far as many politicians ever go. While Trump's opponents cast him as an
inveterate liar, he has kept his campaign promises perhaps more than any modern
president. He has produced: on the economy, rebuilding the military, defending
life and religious liberty, his stellar judicial appointments, his restoration
of America's energy independence (which Biden wants to reverse through his
quixotically reckless promise to eliminate fossil fuels) and his decisive
rejection of the Democrats' nationally suicidal Green New Deal agenda. Indeed,
Trump has vigorously resisted enormous pressure from radical environmentalists
to surrender our sovereignty to international bodies guided by pseudo-science
and a Marxist worldview, hellbent on returning us to the horse and buggy.
He has also kept his promise to secure more favorable
trade deals for the United States, and even Joe Biden recently admitted that
the USMCA is better than NAFTA. He has studiously protected American
manufacturing jobs, which is not lost on American workers. Unlike his
predecessors, he honored his promise to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.
Granted, some single-issue border-enforcement Trump
supporters were frustrated for a time when he was unable to secure Democratic
approval for even modest improvements to the southern border wall. But despite
gratuitous Democratic obstruction, Trump is proceeding with the wall and has
made substantial progress.
Though the Democrats and media have savaged this
president every day for four years, falsely accused him of unspeakable acts,
mounted ceaseless investigations and impeachment proceedings against him, and
given him no favorable coverage, he remains undaunted and presses forward.
On top of all this, America is under siege by leftist
street radicals who are fomenting racial tension and turning our cities into
hellish war zones, not to advance the cause of racial justice but to dismantle
America root and branch and fundamentally convert it into a Marxist state.
Don't tell anyone, but minorities also care about law and order and jobs and
are slowly awakening to Democrats' taking them for granted.
President Trump stands as a towering figure against this
lawlessness condoned and often enabled by Democratic governors and mayors. Some
polls (e.g., Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler's tanking approval ratings) have begun
to reflect even Democrats' outrage at this anarchy and their recognition that
Biden and the Democrats own it.
The public can't help but notice that a man the left
depicts as erratic, unpredictable and unstable has been a steady hand throughout
the pandemic (notwithstanding Democratic propaganda to the contrary), the riots
and the endless personal onslaught against him.
Democrats are so confident they have irreversibly
tarnished Trump that they believe they can defeat him with a candidate who's
already ripe for the 25th Amendment. They are brazenly hiding Biden in the
closet with the media's reprehensible complicity.
Dubious polls reinforce their arrogance, though it's not
hard to imagine that when prudent people are afraid to wear their Trump hats in
public, they may not answer polls forthrightly.
So, take heart, Trump supporters. We have a strong
candidate with a remarkably successful record, running against a Democratic
Party that bears little resemblance to the party of JFK. This new party has no
real candidate, no constructive solutions, and a stubborn insistence on
dividing Americans based on their group identities and tearing America down.
There are surely enough patriots left to ensure President Trump's reelection.
David Limbaugh is a writer, author and
attorney. His latest book is "Guilty by Reason of Insanity: Why the
Democrats Must Not Win." Follow him on Twitter @davidlimbaugh and his
website at www.davidlimbaugh.com.
