The general public attitude toward Trump - some love him, some hate his guts, some approve of his policies, some disapprove - is much healthier than the phony aura of reverence and "unification" the media builds around Democrats.
Demands for "unity" are always unnerving. We're NOT unified, except in rare moments of great national crisis. And that's not inherently bad or unhealthy. Free people are liable to profoundly disagree about important subjects. We benefit from spirited competition.
It's especially laughable to see someone like "Put Y'All Back in CHAINZZZ" Joe Biden pushed as some kind of unifying figure, at the head of a deeply totalitarian party with an entirely compulsive agenda. They couldn't stop telling us how "dark" and evil we all are.
But nobody else is, or should be, presented as some great unifier either. We have some great and significant divisions to work out. We have to learn how to live with some disagreements that may be irreconcilable. We deserve better than to be patronized as squabbling children.
Our public servants are supposed to be just that: SERVANTS. They don't settle our arguments and force some phony manufactured "consensus" on us. They don't get to decide whose inalienable rights should be alienated. Free people don't need a national Mommy or Daddy.
And you can't get around how bitterly divisive the Democrat agenda is, how even NOW they refuse to denounce political violence for the "right" causes. They're not looking for "unity," they're hoping for a conquest. There's nothing in life they don't want to politicize.
Trump is more honest about what a politician is, and the overall public reaction to him is healthier. And for all of his bluster, all his rhetoric, he's a fundamentally HUMBLE chief executive. The most unlikely messenger of humility imaginable, sure, but these are unlikely times.
Trump respects the boundaries of his office more than most of his predecessors, and he damn well lacks the hubris of his predecessor. Trump lashes out at his adversaries - far more than he really should - but he always speaks of the American people with reverence.
The clarifying moment of 2016 was Hillary's ugly "Basket of Deplorables" crack, and it's the clarifying moment of 2020 too. Her party absolutely still sees America that way. They just spent several days proving it at their condescending, arrogant convention.
You won't find a speck of real humility in that whole DNC, aside from the odd transparently phony rhetorical jab at loving America, using stale rhetoric that was probably first banged onto mimeograph paper with a manual typewriter 50 years ago.
The entire Dem platform is about what a broken country America is, how it can only be fixed through their wise stewardship, how we can't be trusted to make ANY of the important decisions for ourselves, how we're all guilty and need punishment, how only they can bring "justice."
An awful lot of what the elite sneeringly deride as populism or nationalism is really humility - above all the fundamental humility of understanding that an American president's solemn duty is to the American people, ALL of them.
All I hear is Democrats telling us that foreign nationals are better than we are, that they should have our jobs and enjoy taxpayer-funded benefits, that we should obey some "world community" instead of pursuing our own interests, that our history and culture are garbage.
Not a one of them would be capable of saying the sort of thing that comes to Trump easily about the value of America, her people, her history, economy, and culture. Trump could annihilate Biden in a debate just by daring him to say those things.
Unlikely agent of humility indeed! It's hard to think of many people who have a higher opinion of themselves than Donald Trump. But he keeps saying he has an even higher opinion of America, and he sounds like he means it. More importantly, he ACTS like he means it. /end
