President Donald J. Trump attends a Fourth of July celebration Friday, July 3, 2020, at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, S.D. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)
Lending Credibility to the Campaign
Donald Trump might be the most unsuitable candidate of any major Western political party in living memory, let alone leader of its most powerful state. Brazenly dishonest at times, fond of extreme and reckless rhetoric and disdainful of most political conventions, he’s also the funniest politician in decades, so writes the Spectator US.
But then there is Kamala Harris, late-term abortions and LGBTQ indoctrination in K-12 public schools, including transgender ideology, and increasingly repressive censorship. There are some other uncomfortable issues, here’s what you’re voting for with Harris:
- A Uniparty, deep-state machine that has brought us deindustrialization
- The collapse of stability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe
- Uncontrolled mass migration into Europe and the Anglosphere from failed nations,
- “Green” policies that have done nothing but harm ordinary households while empowering monopolistic corporations and government bureaucracies.
Will President Donald Trump “put the whole system at risk?” Edward Ring scoffs in American Greatness, “What system is that?”
(A system) that continues to engineer the decline of the economic and moral fabric of our nation? The destruction of our national identity? The fragmenting of whatever remains of our unity as a people? Apart from those Americans who only turn to sources such as ABC News for their information, or personally profit from the process while it destroys the rest of us, who can possibly support such an agenda?
Mr. Ring starts by examining Elon Musk. Libertarian canards accuse Musk of taking advantage of government subsidies.
So what? There isn’t an industrialist in American history who hasn’t taken advantage of government subsidies.
The more pertinent concern should be, what did he do with the subsidies? Elon Musk has brought the cost of launching a payload into near-earth orbit down by more than an order of magnitude. He has single-handedly pushed the American commercialization of space ahead of where it would have been by at least a decade. Musk is a giant, who will be remembered as a peer to America’s greatest industrialists, and he has only begun to make his mark. Don’t forget, Democratic Party contributors use their subsidies because it is a criminal waste of taxpayer money.
In California, a Homeless Industrial Complex of subsidized developers is spending up to $1.0 million per unit to build housing for the homeless, all the while making donations to Democratic legislators who keep pushing additional billions into their pockets.
Save your principled ire for subsidized enterprises that waste money, not for businesses that drive technology forward ten times faster than government programs ever could. Now let’s look at former Democrat Robert Kennedy, Jr. Is he bonkers? Perhaps. To say he is a bit eccentric seems more apt, but does not “diminish the credibility of Kennedy’s passion.”
You don’t have to be an isolationist to appreciate that maybe there are some geopolitical hotspots that we didn’t have to aggravate, and that maybe sometimes we’ve done more harm than good with our interventions.
Kennedy has compelling concerns: How about the safety of our food and the general health of our population? (Ever been to Disney or any amusement park?) Hard to dispute his attacking the pharmaceutical industry in general and the excessive use of vaccines in particular.
Moving to Tulsi Gabbard, the former Congressman from Hawaii, who eviscerated Kamala Harris in a Democratic primary debate.
Since then, just like RFK, Jr., she became increasingly disillusioned with the Democratic Party. In October 2022, she finally had enough. Read an excerpt from her speech, where she announced that, after 20 years, she was leaving the Party:
From Tulsi Gabbard:
“I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms enshrined in our Constitution, are hostile to people of faith and spirituality, demonize the police and protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, are dragging us ever closer to nuclear war.”
Edward Ring thinks Tulsi, who is actively campaigning for Trump, is needed to compare to Kamala Harris.
Consider their respective performances in front of the media or live audiences. Harris reads from a teleprompter and, when unscripted, usually resorts to rehearsed sound bites that don’t answer the specific question or even address the topic. Despite having a blatantly supportive media, she avoids interviews and doesn’t give press conferences. Gabbard, by contrast, speaks with extraordinary clarity and authenticity and has no hesitancy to engage with an often-hostile media.
Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley, both of whom happen to be descendants of immigrants from India, “something only worth mentioning since Kamala Harris has catalyzed her political career by loudly identifying as a ‘person of color,’ partially due to her mother immigrating from India,” are prominent supporters of Donald Trump, These articulate advocates for Trump are at a level that renders Harris’s unscripted performances an embarrassment by comparison, faults Mr. Ring.
Musk, Kennedy, Gabbard, Ramaswamy, Haley, collectively, represent a cross-section of America’s elites who have realized our federal bureaucracy and the politicians they control have betrayed its own people, continues Mr. Ring:” Each of these people brings extraordinary credibility to their endorsement of Trump.”
Coming from diverse backgrounds and speaking for diverse constituencies, they have united to elect the disrupter candidate.
In opposition to a Uniparty that has coopted characters across a spectrum of sleaze that ranges from Adam Schiff to Dick Cheney, their support and the message it sends to American voters might just make the difference this November.
The Spectator says of Donald Trump: “Arguably, is the most unsuitable candidate of any major western political party in living memory, let alone leader of its most powerful state.”
Brazenly dishonest at times, fond of extreme and reckless rhetoric and disdainful of most political conventions, he’s also the funniest politician in decades.
Edward Ring is a senior fellow of the Center for American Greatness. He is also the director of water and energy policy for the California Policy Center, which he co-founded in 2013.
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