"Oh, Trump. Fuck that guy. What a joke. He's a fucking Democrat, did you know that?" I shook my head. "Yeah, he's not gonna go anywhere. We're gonna have another Bush in the White House."
Just so all of my readers are aware, my cousin now sings mostly praises to our sitting Commander-in-Chief, even if it's preceded by "I can't stand the guy." But it does raise a lot of interesting ideas about our President, and our political atmosphere.
The title may be a little misleading. I don't necessarily consider Mr. Trump to be full on Democrat, but he's definitely no Republican either. I spent a lot of time in 2016 researching Candidate Trump and mostly what I see him to be is a down the middle centrist that's spent nearly 60 years playing jump rope with that center line. Even now, as he sits in the highest office of the country with an R next to his name, he is still on one side of it just as often as he's on the other. One day it's defeat Obamacare, eliminate regulations, lower taxes, and the next day it's grow the government, replace Obamacare with another big government program, and move more power to the executive branch. In spite of the fact that he holds views of both sides of the aisle, The Donald remains to be one of the most hated human beings in Washington DC. Additionally, if we listen to the mainstream media and the activists, Trump is the most hated man in the world, in spite of the fact that he swiftly won the Electoral College not even a year ago.
Trump's feud with Former Secretary of State Clinton is a very new event, which is part of the reason that most people considered him to be a Democrat from the start. Donald and the Clintons are known to be long time friends prior to the events of in November this past year. Trump, himself, referred to himself as a Dem in the 80s and 90s, but again, it seemed nearly every year he changed sides. While no one can know what's in the real estate mogul's head except for him, I can say that it seems like he officially aligned himself fully with the Republican Party at the beginning of the Obama years. While I didn't know it until deep into the 2016 election cycle, Trump was apparently one of the leading voices in the birther movement against Barack Obama. Some of the videos and articles that I have seen suggest that there was a deep, mutual rift between our Former President and the present. Many people will remember the 2011 White House Correspondent's dinner which appeared to be an excuse for Former President Obama and SNL star Seth Meyers to roast Trump on a very public platform. According to many, this was the event that put Trump's eventual Presidency in motion. It may not be the perfect explanation as to why Mr. Trump chose to enter government with an R next to his name
Mrs. Clinton is releasing a book shortly laying out what happened that made her lose the 2016 Presidential race. While most of the subject matter seems to continue to revolve around racism and Russia, but I think the real reasoning why she lost aligns with the reason that a lifelong big government Democrat was able to run and win as a Republican. You see, back in 2007, Mrs. Clinton was the favorite to win in the primaries against a little known Illinois Senator named Barack Obama. Hillary espoused classic Democrat views that appealed to blue collar union workers, and she was likely to keep a balanced budget, and curb spending enough to give us a surplus, just like her husband did. However, as the primaries continued on, Clinton continued to lose popularity to a smooth talker with a socialist agenda. In the 8 years that followed, Mr. Obama and his followers forced the ideology of the Democrats into a Socialist progressive movement that went further to the left every day. In 2016, the former Secretary of State again started a campaign on traditional Democrat Values, but quickly began to lose her steam to another far-left, progressive socialist. Then Hillary herself suddenly began to espouse highly socialist ideas. The Donald, however, never wavered on his centrist views. These views, when held up against the views of Barack Obama, and especially against the wildly radical ideas of Senator Sanders, move from center to an almost radical level of right. But, Mrs. Clinton completely changed her agenda to pander to a voting base that would have considered her to be a right wing extremist, and Trump unapologetically held onto these beliefs, and they aligned with blue-collar workers, small-business owners, as well as big-business guys. And everyone knew exactly what Trump wanted to do, even if they didn't all agree with it. With such a major flip-flop halfway through the primaries, no one really knew what agenda Hillary was going to bring to the table. So the people voted what they knew they were going to get.
There is one last item about Trump that may have sealed his place in the Presidency even if no one really knew which side he was on. There is a contingency of people who have sworn up and down that they voted down ticket, but left the top spot blank. I'm no stranger to this. I've mentioned in a previous article that I completely abstained from the 2008 election because I, myself, could not get behind either Presidential candidate. It was initially how I felt as I saw The Donald gaining ground across the country. But I was very proud to fill in the blank for Trump, and he's already fulfilled the only election "promise" that I cared about. Donald Trump broke a glass ceiling that's needed to be broken for several decades. A complete political outsider was able to not only get elected late in life, but he went straight to the top, having never held so much as a school board office prior. While Mr. Trump hardly represents the common American person, he does represent the idea that a person doesn't have to be primped and preened his entire life in order to hold a government office. We were promised a government by the people for the people in the late 18th century. Yet over my entire lifetime, the vast majority of people that I've seen in government have been people who started in government in their early 20s and stayed in government positions for 60 years. We've managed to re-create a feudal system of Lords and Ladies, even though we rebelled away from such a system to form this country. While Trump is a belligerent, boisterous man and no one really knows who's side he's on, he represents an uprising by people like you and like me to start trying to primary some of these career lawmakers out of the government, paving the way for people like you or me to take their places. 2018 may see a few primary runs and some no names across the ticket from lawmakers, but I think a successful Trump economic growth sees every single congressional seat that's up get challenged, and that's why so many career politicians on both sides are so eager to see Trump fail. If he does fail, we go back to the old status quo of employing career politicians to make all of our decisions for us.
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