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1) I started the year 2020 as your middle of the road conservative. Although I disliked Hillary Clinton and her venal Democratic apparatus in 2016, I was not happy about Trump's victory. I thought he was too rude, too crude, too ignorant of the issues.
2) I supported his Middle East diplomacy, which I thought was Nobel worthy but thought his tariffs and his opposition to free trade was harmful and passe. I was raised by Holocaust survivors, two very modest people. The ostentatiousness Trump displayed went against my grain
3) To be honest, I thought the Southern Baptist crowd who thought Trump was the second coming, struck me as crazy. My thinking was more or less in line with the Bill Cristol crowd - Republican "never Trumpers". Then 2020 happened. The more I read about Covid, the more I realized
4) how much bullshit we were being fed by the media. Somewhere around April it hit me like a bolt of lightning: I'd been a blind snob. Trump had be been right! The media lies about everything. The whole DC political apparatus WAS indeed a swamp. It suddenly became obvious to me:
5) Donald Trump may not be the most eloquent or elegant bearer of the message - but the message was 100% correct. There was this colossus of media, social media, Silicon Valley oligarchs, internationalist nincompoops who worshiped at the altars f the UN and the WHO
6) and Trump was the guy who spoke for the people. For people like ME - unbelievably enough. People that didn't have a lot of money, people who believed in individualism and hard work, immigrants like me who thought the US is an amazing place to live, people who believed in merit
7) This foul mouthed rich New Yorker spoke to people like me way more clearly than Marxist ideologues (Sanders) or polished old style Republicans (Romney) I've always disliked Obama and his bootlickers intensely but until 2020 had not understood it was Donald Trump
8) that formed the last barrier between true freedom, true American values and leftist chaos. No matter what Trump said, you always knew he meant it. That is his main appeal: rude, sure, but totally honest. In April 2020 I saw how much he wanted to open the country up
9) only to be stymied by the establishment weasels, Fau-Xi and Birckenstock. I still believe today that had he put his foot down and opened the country up, he would have saved America and the world from the farcical and profoundly tragic Covid theater we have all endured
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