Peter Heck of Kokomo Indiana, was quoted by Rush on his show at 2:10 PM today 6/7/2020
---- Opinion: President Trump can win in 2020 by doing this 1 thing
by Peter Heck · Jul 6th, 2020 4:44 pm 35
Last Updated Jul 7th, 2020 at 1:43 pm
Everyone seems to be ready to write President Donald Trump's electoral epitaph. Not that I blame them, given the current chaotic state of the country. Race riots have crippled our cities, a global pandemic lingers and has become dangerously politicized, the once roaring economy has been intentionally, even if necessarily, stifled, and there isn't a single individual at any mainstream press organization that believes Trump is ever worthy of receiving the benefit of the doubt.
And while it's true that the polls proved to be spectacularly wrong in the 2016 election, the current numbers are far more convincing for the Democrats than they ever were for Hillary.
But it's not over. The president's speech at Mount Rushmore convinced me of that. After seeing it, despite all of his shortcomings, I honestly think there is one thing that President Trump could do that would guarantee his re-election. One thing that would completely change the narrative of a frenzied and overmatched provocateur fiddling while his country burns.
That one thing? Focus like a laser on being the only thing standing between America and the leftist revolution.
Forget insulting Joe Biden over his lack of mental fitness. People can see for themselves and don't like elder abuse.
Forget defensively chiding and reacting to those who criticize the country's COVID response. Monday morning quarterbacks annoy more people than they persuade.
Forget bragging about the economy pre-coronavirus. That was then.
What the majority of people are about is their ability to live safe, undisturbed, and profitable lives. They like this country and want the stability and security it has always afforded them.
Believing their own riot-fomenting media allies, the Democrat Party has dreadfully overplayed its hand in recent weeks. Maybe it's more a matter of having created a Frankenstein and now not being able to control it. You certainly get that impression when you watch Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer uncomfortably don Kente cloth for a photo op before totally butchering George Floyd's name in floor speeches.
The brakes have come off on the left, and the train they are beckoning America to climb into is hurtling towards a cliff unable to stop its dizzying momentum. Robert E. Lee statues must go, then Abe Lincoln monuments, then one of the country's most beloved, enduring landmarks, Mount Rushmore itself.
Being ideologically paralyzed to the point that you can't defend memorials to Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, or even Teddy Roosevelt, the founder of modern progressivism, is bad enough, but it's only the beginning.
Democrats in Congress have proven they are unwilling to even join a non-binding resolution condemning mob violence as destructive and un-American.
The political left has made the catastrophic error of believing America is like the Twitter mob. They aren't.
All President Trump has to do is make the 2020 election about this. All he has to do is run ads demonstrating the lawlessness that is ruining lives, families, communities, and cities, and then ask his opponent if he condemns it.
All President Trump has to do is run videos of white Black Lives Matter radicals screaming the "n-word" in the face of black police officers who stand resolute and dignified in the face of the hate, and then ask his opponent if he condemns it.
All President Trump has to do is ask his opponent if he believes defunding the police is a wise idea or one that would lead to the loss of a disproportionately large number of black citizens' lives.
All President Trump has to do is tick off the names Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and ask his opponent to condemn those who would deface, desecrate, and destroy their memorials.
All President Trump has to do is make this election about the unfolding leftist revolution. Pelosi and Schumer can no longer pretend to control it and Joe Biden will be even less capable than them. All it requires is discipline and focus.
In short, Trump must embody the very essence Fox host Tucker Carlson laid out in the most prescient moment on cable news in some time.
Trump has the bully pulpit to do this. But does he have the discipline? We'll know in November.
> https://disrn.com/opinion/opinion-president-trump-can-win-by-doing-this-one-thing
Biggest problem that I see here the media will not PRINT they will not allow ADDS and our twitter,FB or any other liberal entity will call foul and erase anything he has to say. This is something the people in this country needs to realize and vote republican all the way so we can get rid of these parasites
Couldn't help but think of this:
AND HE IS TOTALLY RIGHT!!!!!!!!
FB and Instagram (which is owned by FB) are banning/removing Trump ads along with people's personal posts in favor of Trump. And the major media outlets are also censoring him. Plus Google is working to sway the election in Biden's favor according to research psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein. Google wants to make Trump's presidency a blip in history: https://youtu.be/tFqLAgHsDMU. T
President Trump and his supporters are not going to be able to depend on social media or MSM to spread the word. We have to find another way. And I agree with the article's author, if Trump focused his campaign on all those things mentioned, he'd surely win. Ordinary citizens appreciate this country. We want to live free, safe, undisturbed, profitable lives. Edicts issued by our governors and mayors in response to the virus have robbed many of us of that, while those same governors and mayors do nothing to stop the carnage caused by the rioting and looting and lawlessness. (I posted in another thread about an 8-year old girl who died in her mother's arms after being shot by BLM protesters in Atlanta. Then just yesterday, I learned of a young mother shot in front of her 3-year old by a BLM thug.) Some citizens have already quietly expressed their support of Trump because of current events.
@Drenathor - I love that meme because it's so true. The elites and power grabbers like Clinton, Pelosi, Soros and others only hate Trump because he threw a monkey wrench in their plans. They want full control over our country, its people and resources to further line their pockets and increase their global power, and Trump is in their way. I'm not even a Republican (I'm a registered independent with some conservative views and some libertarian views), but the way I see things right now in our country, our best case scenario is a Trump victory and a Republican House and Senate to help stave off the toppling of our Democratic Republic. For all his faults, I believe Donald Trump does love this country. I wish we could plaster that meme everywhere to help wake people up.
Yeah I'm in sort of the same boat. I'm registered as a republican because typically I find they have a better shot of winning and seem like the lesser or two evils. But I've been genuinely encouraged by Trump. Seeing him call the media, democrats and republicans to task, not backing down in the face of extreme adversity, and fulfilling campaign promises that presidents have been making for decades (like moving the embassy to Jerusalem). I've seen memes going around showing 3 party logos, the democrat donkey, the republican Elephant and the Trump lion and I think that if Trump retired from his presidency and founded a 3rd party that could allow us to distance ourselves from all those do nothing republicans that care more about their own political futures than the good of the country I'd switch in a heartbeat. Trump has his faults and I was initially opposed to him becoming president. But at this point I can't think of a greater president in my lifetime and I'm going to be sorry to see him go... Funny how things change.
I wasn't a fan of Donald Trump either when he announced his run. Although I, like many, admired him as a businessman, I thought he was unpresidential. I didn't even take his run seriously. Then I started hearing reports from media and friends about him being racist, sexist, etc. and believed it like so many others. For awhile I had a bit of Trump Derangement Syndrome. However, after doing my own research when the whole Russian collusion thing started, I discovered that much of what the media was saying was not only false, they weren't reporting on the many good things Trump had done for our country. Like you said, it seemed he started on Day 1 working to keep his campaign promises, which is more than can be said of most presidents. I'm going to be sorry to see him go, too, but I will definitely be voting for him in November and am praying enough people do the same so we can at least get 4 more years. I would absolutely love to see a Republican House and Senate voted in as well. What Democratic leaders are doing to our country right now at the state and federal level is appalling. Some of it borders on criminal (something else I've been looking into).
@Drenathor @dee.king64
It looks like both of you and I are on the same page on all you mentioned in this thread. My hope is that Trump stays in office and by that gives the people a chance to grow an army and pursue some paths that can turn this ship around. I think that can happen. If Trump does not win re-election, then it will be much harder to pull it all together.
I think that we are going to have Donald Trump around until 2024. At which time, regardless of who succeeds him, he will continue to be a force to be reckoned with politically, maybe more so after his tenure as President. I think facing the violence as a tenet of the Democratic playbook is important to the success of his campaign. We all must continue to demonstrate how the liberal policies will be enforced through violence and intimidation. To ask Democrat politicians if they condemn it should be repeated often and in every race.
I know this may cause a loud and raucous discussion, but I am going to go out on a limb and throw this out there. I personally think that Donald Trump should deregulate marijuana sales on a federal level. The States are doing it anyway. It would reach out to many young "pothead" voters and allow the individual, State legal businesses to operate more efficiently on the financial market. It would be a small move on a Federal level, but would have a tremendous wavelike impact across the States.
I personally don't believe potheads are going to vote conservative. I really doubt they are reading the Constitution and other founding documents along with the history behind them.
Thus I really doubt that legalizing pot would help Trump at all.
But I do think the potheads of the 60's, along with the socialist radicals, are the Democrats in Congress now. I lived through it, and can see it now. The liberal and socialist bastion universities then, are worse now. Pot did not make them better.
Many of the new legal marijuana businesses are run by legitimate business people who believe in capitalism and the free market. Many vote conservative. It is difficult to run a business without the means to use federal financial institutions.