There Has Never Been A Better Description Of Trump In The History Of Ever.

David Gelernter wrote a piece for the Wall Street Journal that is an absolute MUST READ.  In it, he describes Trump as “the average American in exaggerated form.” Is that not the most perfect description ever??

The piece is titled, “The Real Reason They Hate Trump: He’s the average American in exaggerated form – blunt, simple, willing to fight, mistrustful of intellectuals.”

Gelernter is an author and computer science prof at Yale, and the way he writes about Trump resonates SO MUCH with me. He talks about the fact that Democrats are running issue-less; in other words, Trump is scoring major victories all over the place, so all the Dems have is their hatred of Trump to fuel their election energy. The booming economy? That’s Trump’s.  The low unemployment?  Trump’s.  The wins are numerous.  And if all they have is their hatred – that’s a pretty pathetic platform. And, as Gelernter writes, “…what the left hates about Donald Trump is precisely what it hates about America.”

OH. FREAKING. SNAP.

He’s so right. Think about the very foundational values that make America so great. The Left hates all of them – our exceptionalism in particular being Public Enemy #1. They hate the idea of personal responsibility, of capitalism, of earning your way. They shun Christianity, the sanctity of life, the first and second amendments, and the idea that a country isn’t a country without borders.

Here’s how Gelernter describes the Left’s hatred of Trump:

“…the leftists I know do hate Mr. Trump’s vulgarity, his unwillingness to walk away from a fight, his bluntness, his certainty that America is exceptional, his mistrust of intellectuals, his love of simple ideas that work, and his refusal to believe that men and women are interchangeable. Worst of all, he has no ideology except getting the job done. His goals are to do the task before him, not be pushed around, and otherwise to enjoy life. In short, he is a typical American—except exaggerated, because he has no constraints to cramp his style except the ones he himself invents.”

Seriously, HOW MUCH DO YOU LOVE that comparison?  Trump is literally the everyman, except for the way he swims in money and is absolutely unapologetic about it.

He goes on:

Mr. Trump lacks constraints because he is filthy rich and always has been and, unlike other rich men, he revels in wealth and feels no need to apologize—ever. He never learned to keep his real opinions to himself because he never had to. He never learned to be embarrassed that he is male, with ordinary male proclivities. Sometimes he has treated women disgracefully, for which Americans, left and right, are ashamed of him—as they are of JFK and Bill Clinton.

I love the reminder about womanizing presidents.  It’s amazing how the Left manages to forget that Trump certainly isn’t the first president we’ve had who’s been a playboy.

I also love how Gelernter describes the inner conflict he sometimes feels about the Trump presidency:

I am sorry about the coarseness of the unconstrained average American that Mr. Trump conveys. That coarseness is unpresidential and makes us look bad to other nations. On the other hand, many of his opponents worry too much about what other people think. I would love the esteem of France, Germany and Japan. But I don’t find myself losing sleep over it.

Exactly.

And then he says it.  Out loud.

The difference between citizens who hate Mr. Trump and those who can live with him—whether they love or merely tolerate him—comes down to their views of the typical American: the farmer, factory hand, auto mechanic, machinist, teamster, shop owner, clerk, software engineer, infantryman, truck driver, housewife. The leftist intellectuals I know say they dislike such people insofar as they tend to be conservative Republicans.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama know their real sins. They know how appalling such people are, with their stupid guns and loathsome churches. They have no money or permanent grievances to make them interesting and no Twitter followers to speak of. They skip Davos every year and watch Fox News. Not even the very best has the dazzling brilliance of a Chuck Schumer, not to mention a Michelle Obama. In truth they are dumb as sheep.

You know he’s right.  That is EXACTLY what the elites think of average Americans. It’s their snobbery, their arrogance, and their air of superiority that Hillary Clinton personified that turned people out to the polls in DROVES to vote for Trump.  Gelernter said it best when he said it’s a battle between “plain average Americans of every type vs. fancy ones.” 

He also offered this reminder:

 Many Americans were ashamed when Ronald Reagan was elected. A movie actor? But the new direction he chose for America was a big success on balance, and Reagan turned into a great president. Evidently this country was intended to be run by amateurs after all—by plain citizens, not only lawyers and bureaucrats.

Don’t even get Daisy started on lawyers. 🙂 We talk on our show a LOT about Trump’s appeal as a businessman, instead of yet another career politician/lawyer.

Gelernter’s conclusion is the bomb:

Those who voted for Mr. Trump, and will vote for his candidates this November, worry about the nation, not its image. The president deserves our respect because Americans deserve it—not such fancy-pants extras as network commentators, socialist high-school teachers and eminent professors, but the basic human stuff that has made America great, and is making us greater all the time.

YES YES YES YES AND HELL YES.  America First. Country before Image.

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