Donald Trump is an American product. He is the leader of a revolution but he is not the maker of that revolution. He is the Presidential candidate for the Republican party, a position that many people say he does not deserve. Donald Trump is the voice and the hope of many American citizens who feel shut out of their own country.
During the election primaries many said that Donald Trump could not succeed. The Republican party had seventeen candidates for President. In Trump’s own estimation, they were the brightest and best of the politicians in the USA. His task would be to defeat each one in the public arena and to motivate everyday American voters to get up, get out and to vote for him. He succeeded.
It was no small task for Donald Trump to best his adversaries. He is not a politician but he is a successful businessman who was associated with wealth and glitz, hotels and gambling, penthouses and golf courses. His opponents were Governors, Senators and Congressmen. But Donald Trump the billionaire is also a man who liked everyday people. He is a man who appreciates the hard work and dedication of hundreds of thousands of his employees who are partners with him in the success of the Trump enterprise. People said that he would never be able to communicate his genuine affection and profound respect for working people. He succeeded.
Going into the Republican National Convention many doubted that he could produce a meaningful political gathering worthy of a Presidential candidate. Weeks of newspaper, TV and radio reporting said that the convention would be a meaningless show of glitz and entertainment. They predicted a big battle of different ideas that would tear the fabric of Republican unity and leave the party shredded and in tatters. That did not happen. The convention was meaningful, and it was entertaining. It was calm and it was eventful. It was a good old fashioned American political convention. Once again Donald Trump succeeded.
It was the Democrat convention that was in turmoil. It was mired in the scandal of Emails from the Democrat National Committee that revealed a plot to derail Bernie Sanders in every underhanded way possible. It was further damaged by the raucous and unruly attendees who shouted down speakers and carried such a threat to the DNC that they erected fences around the outside and around the inside of the arena in order to keep the people away from mauling the presenters.
Convicted of her complicity with the Emails, the chairwoman of the DNC resigned in disgrace only to be immediately rewarded by the Clinton campaign with a new paid position on Hilary’s team. This scene was played again the following week when other high ranking officials of the DNC were forced to resign in disgrace for their part in underhanded dirty politics against Bernie Sanders. All of this turmoil indicated a Democrat party controlled by one family, the Clinton family. It revealed a powerful dynastic elite that would allow no true opposition to former President Clinton’s wife. It proved that beyond a doubt, the Democrat party members would vote for Hilary because she was a woman and because they said she deserved to be President.
This sense of entitlement and privilege is the true story of the Democrat party and of the Democrat nominee. Just being a woman was touted before the nation as unique and worthy of our admiration- not mention that such an attitude for the rest of us is called sexism, male chauvinism, and workplace harassment. And the sense of privilege and wealth was repeated display by Mrs. Clinton twelve thousand dollar pants suits. Clothing that she is able to get because of $250,000 fees for a one hour stage appearance at the haunts of the bankers, industrialists, special interests, lobbyists, and Saudi Arabian desert sheiks- sheiks who behead homosexuals and force woman into household slavery.
Ultimately, Trump who has been elevated by this new American political revolution will face the crucible of the election. It will be an election like no other because it will determine whether the old guard of entrenched political careerists like Hilary Clinton will be allowed to cement another eight years of crooked cronyism and privileged power brokers into the institutions of our nation. It will determine whether we will suffer from the packing of the Supreme court with Clinton’s arrogant liberals who will infect the fabric of our nation with the poison of atheist socialism. Lastly, it will determine whether America, as we all have known it, will be allowed to flourish again. Donald J. Trump has been declared by the patriots of this new American political revolution to be their voice and their champion. He is one man. But he is a man with a vision of a great nation once again standing tall in a world of craven terrorists and arrogant opportunists.
Will he succeed? Yes, he will succeed. But it will only be possible if the warriors of this revolution do not lose heart but keep constant focus and commitment to the principles on which we stand. America needs a change, a change from the old ways of politicians to the new ways of a free and proud people.
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