We won’t be shut out of the system

President Trump, a white man with blond hair stands behind a podium wearing a blue suit and a red tie.

President Donald J. Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence and members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, giving his remarks at a coronavirus (COVID-19) update briefing on March 18. Photo Courtesy of The White House / Shealah Craighead

The D.C. swamp, including Fox News, has once again blathered that President Donald Trump is toast and there is no way he can win the presidency. We have seen this movie, and we know how it ends: with more Trump derangement and resistance. 

Win or lose, it doesn’t matter if Trump gets re-elected: The Trump supporter is not going away! That’s even if former Vice President Joe Biden somehow gets elected, which I don’t see possibly happening when a Rasmussen poll is predicting Trump will win nationally. 

Even if Biden wins, there are long-term crosscurrents both political parties need to address. One, there is a huge cultural shift happening, where people that live in Blue urban areas are fleeing to states like Arizona, Texas,, and Tennessee to take advantage of the libertarian low-tax environment but want social policies such as legalized marijuana, plans to protect the climate and reproductive health rights. Colorado and Virginia were traditionally conservative states but have been voting Democrat since 2008, and many red states are now becoming swing states like North Carolina and Florida. While these states may end up re-electing Trump, they are in danger of going the way of California. 

This also brings a long-term dilemma for Democrats, as the wealthiest corporations and citizens flee the high taxes of the Blue States, such as New York and California. This will, in my opinion, leave them with poorer and less educated people that pay little taxes and create jobs. As revenues and property values decline, fewer people will want to support Democrats who want to run everything from their capitals and statehouses instead of reducing regulations and creating a tax structure that will grow the economy. When people see their economic prospects decline these, blue states will become like Indiana and Kentucky—redder than a Christmas tree. 

These cultural shifts are why America is at a breaking point. The young millennials want to remove the old guard against power, but unfortunately, the young guns do not understand how the machinery of politics works. The young think they can do idealistic things such as vow to take away guns, make healthcare a human right, or tear down statues they believe are offensive without repercussions or consequences. While it sounds idealistic to redress historical injustice, what Leftists are doing is going into gun owners’ homes in Alabama or Mississippi and confiscating their property in the name of racial equality. 

While many in the Washington, D.C. area have PhDs and advanced degrees, very few have emotional intelligence. They are robotic as the computers they sit behind. They are slaves to data, stats, and numbers and can’t measure human behavior. It’s easier for people of privilege to call Trump supporters “deplorable” instead of addressing the shifting of our political landscape. Most Trump supporters are not bigots or anti-immigrant; they are struggling to survive in a pie that keeps shrinking. 

Immigration is nothing more than the competition for resources. Those that virtue-signal about immigration are usually wealthy elites that don’t face competition but see those that have to compete for everything from living space to wages as intolerant bigots. 

As someone that lived through the “Silent Majority” of Richard Nixon as well as the “Reagan Revolution,” I saw the enthusiasm for former President Barack Obama but nothing compares to the Trump movement. They say he’s losing but when you get away from the emotion, how is Trump behind when polls suggest he’s winning in Texas. Arizona was supposed to be a swing state, and Trump is either slightly behind or leading.  

But I think national polls are misleading because the people they poll are concentrated in populated urban areas. Groups like Trafalgar do polling at a state and county-wide level which can give a more accurate and unbiased snapshot of where the election is going.

This is one angry electorate and they are going out to send a message “Open Up America or Else!!!”

They say Trump may lose but it will be hard to convince me when you see crowds that are better suited for sporting events than a president. Trump has a “rock star” status. Not even Teddy Roosevelt or John F. Kennedy was as beloved as this president. 

None of us Trump supporters care for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell or the Republicans. But I see American politics as a choice between the Titanic and Lusitania: America headed for an iceberg but at least one has lifeboats and preservers. With Trump, you have a chance, with former Vice President Joe Biden and California Senator Kamala Harris, kiss this country goodbye.

Jeffery McNeil is an artist and vendor with Street Sense Media.


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