Why Trump Matters
Sometimes Donald Trump sticks his foot deep in his mouth, and I wonder, what the hell was he thinking? It seems pretty obvious, he wasn’t thinking much at all. That should be troubling, and it is. It’s also one of the reasons why Trump matters.
It’s pretty clear that mainstream republicans and the party regulars pray silently for someone to intervene, another, more mainstream republican, perhaps, someone who will seize the day and delivers us from both Trump and Hillary and return us to the quiet days B.T. (Before Trump.) I guess it’s better to lose silently than become a laughing stock, they seem to be saying.
There is another view, however. For most Americans, politics is not their life, their families are. Racial quotas and ethnic debates happen at the margins. What they care about are jobs, decent paying jobs, that don’t suddenly bloom like a rose and die just as quickly. A career maybe, with long-term benefits, so they can buy a house and raise a family. But this has become increasingly rare.
They don’t want their sons to be used as a global police force, dying at the hands of madmen to protect billionaire sheikhs and oil potentates. They don’t want to share the bathroom with people of the opposite sex who happen to be confused about their gender or else be called bigots and haters. They don’t want to be pitted against one another by politicians and an increasingly divisive media with Black vs. White, Straight vs. Gay, transgender vs. gender normative, native vs. immigrant, sliced and diced into ever smaller, more isolated versions of America. What they want is an America free from the grip of leaders who want to tell them what to eat, when to eat, what light-bulb to use, what car to drive, how far they can drive, where they must send their kids to school—even if that school is a hell-hole—or go to jail.
That’s why Trump matters. Trump is America stepping up to the bat one last time, pointing to centerfield and swinging ferociously for the fences. Not sitting or lying down for a sold-out media and handpicked, paid for politicians.
So, a Trump with his foot in his mouth is still a better choice than a Hillary who’s been bought and paid for by our enemies. Or one more status quo republican who is likewise on the take. And, if my fellow republicans don’t get that, they are the problem. Because their fellow Americans, certainly do.
Mark Magula
It’s pretty clear that mainstream republicans and the party regulars pray silently for someone to intervene, another, more mainstream republican, perhaps, someone who will seize the day and delivers us from both Trump and Hillary and return us to the quiet days B.T. (Before Trump.) I guess it’s better to lose silently than become a laughing stock, they seem to be saying.
There is another view, however. For most Americans, politics is not their life, their families are. Racial quotas and ethnic debates happen at the margins. What they care about are jobs, decent paying jobs, that don’t suddenly bloom like a rose and die just as quickly. A career maybe, with long-term benefits, so they can buy a house and raise a family. But this has become increasingly rare.
They don’t want their sons to be used as a global police force, dying at the hands of madmen to protect billionaire sheikhs and oil potentates. They don’t want to share the bathroom with people of the opposite sex who happen to be confused about their gender or else be called bigots and haters. They don’t want to be pitted against one another by politicians and an increasingly divisive media with Black vs. White, Straight vs. Gay, transgender vs. gender normative, native vs. immigrant, sliced and diced into ever smaller, more isolated versions of America. What they want is an America free from the grip of leaders who want to tell them what to eat, when to eat, what light-bulb to use, what car to drive, how far they can drive, where they must send their kids to school—even if that school is a hell-hole—or go to jail.
That’s why Trump matters. Trump is America stepping up to the bat one last time, pointing to centerfield and swinging ferociously for the fences. Not sitting or lying down for a sold-out media and handpicked, paid for politicians.
So, a Trump with his foot in his mouth is still a better choice than a Hillary who’s been bought and paid for by our enemies. Or one more status quo republican who is likewise on the take. And, if my fellow republicans don’t get that, they are the problem. Because their fellow Americans, certainly do.
Mark Magula