The Trump Card

Just when I think Donald Trump has said something that will end his run for President of the United States, his poll numbers rise.  If they do not rise, they appear unaffected by the statements he had made.  This has led me to question what we have all become so used to assuming.  How can a candidate say non-politically correct statements, or even offensive statements to some, and seem to escape with the upper hand?  In the years past, we have saw candidates for President who have said things that have often led to their declining poll numbers, and ultimately ending their run for office.  However, in this cycle, we are beginning to see the opposite, enter Donald Trump. 

Most of us are familiar with the term “the perfect storm”, so let me take that term and run with it for a moment.  I believe “The Donald” has entered the race for President during the perfect storm, or at least a point of the storm where all the cards are in his favor.  So many Americans, including myself are absolutely fed up with political correctness.  It has torn away at the very fabric of society, slowing eating away at our rights under the Constitution, while the majority of us felt as though there was nothing we could do to stop it.  Donald Trump has tapped into that pipeline of anger and goes against anything and everything that is politically correct.  In doing this, he is able to portray to Americans that he too is tired of it and will do all he can to stop it.  He has proved this time and time again by doubling down on his statements after he has been confronted about them.  While he doubles down, other candidates cater to the politically correct by asking them what they prefer them to say.  Donald Trump doesn’t care what you want him to say, he says what is on his mind, and at the moment, that just so happens to be what is on most other Americans mind as well.

Most of us too are tired of the current administrations handling of so many situations, both in the homeland and in foreign affairs.  We sat back and watched as the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) passed without anyone knowing what was in it.  Don’t believe me?  Just ask Nancy Pelosi.  We watched as the controversial trade deal passed, and as the Iran nuclear negotiations transpired.  All this while millions of illegals crossed the border, Ferguson and Baltimore burned to the ground, cuts were made in military spending, trillions added to the deficit, and ISIS grew by leaps and bounds.  We asked ourselves, “Who is going to stop this?  Who can we elect that will attempt to alter all this wrongdoing?”  Again, enter Donald Trump…

In the eighties Donald Trump started speculating of a bid for the White House, then again in the nineties and more recent, 2012.  I can’t help but wonder, is he too fed up?  Did it finally reach a point to where he too is tired of seeing the United States get torn apart from the inside?  Did he wait on the perfect storm?  If he had said some of the things four years ago that he is saying now, he would have gotten nowhere in his campaign.  Being wealthy was a negative for Mitt Romney four years ago, and he tried not to talk about it.  Trump on the other hand not only embraces the fact he is wealthy, but flaunts it, leaving many Americans to wonder if he could do the same with the Country and its assets? 

Lastly, let me add in a valid point on one of the attacks flying his way.  Many in the media, and now others seeking the highest office, are quick to point out that Donald Trump was at one time a democrat.  OH MY!!!!  “How can he be on your side?  How can he be a conservative when he was at one time a democrat?”  Well, let me answer that…The democrat party was much different then.  They were nowhere near as far left as they now are.  My grandfather was a democrat, and you know what else he was?  A Southern Baptist Evangelist!  He wasn’t for abortion in any way, and believed in keeping the homeland secure and safe.  He could care less about being politically correct.  He believed in a smaller government and taking care of our allies such as Israel.  He didn’t like handouts, fought for our country during WWII and worked for everything he had.  He believed in transparency and the Constitution and condemned socialism.  That’s kind of a stark difference from the party as we know it today…As Ronald Reagan once said after he became a Republican, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me.”