Editors Note: This series resulted from a conversation with Barbara Landers. She is a thoughtful conservative who supports Trump. I haven’t yet arrived at that place, but was genuinely interested in how she came to be a Trump supporter. I suggested that she might consider sharing her journey with our readers. This is one of several parts in the series. I think you will find them interesting and informative.
#2
I support Trump because the leaders of the European Union hate him. They have been supporting their socialist EU experiment with American taxpayer’s money and they know that if Trump cuts off the money stream they will be forced to finance their own armies and social programs; it will bankrupt their system. I support Trump because ex-president of Mexico Vicente Fox hates him. Fox well knows that Trump can build a wall (and force Mexico to pay for it) and when the cash flow from the USA to Mexico becomes a trickle the Mexican uber rich elite will be forced to finance their own government and deal with their own social problems. I support Trump because establishment Republicans and big GOP donors hate him. Trump is a totally outside of the Republican crony capitalistic system which enriches the insiders and keeps them in power. Entrenched legislators, consultants, bureaucrats, lawyers, media elites and corporations sucking on the government teat fear a return of government to the people and to Constitutional rule; they fear loss of their strangle hold on power.
If you think all these groups don’t hate Trump just listen to the news stories about all the ways they hope to undermine him.
All of Trump’s political positions on hot button issues are available on his website along with details on how he plans to accomplish his goals. https://www.donaldjtrump.com/ It is a wish list of issues dear to the hearts of conservative Republicans.
Trump has pledged to enforce immigration laws and to build a wall which will be paid for by Mexico. He has pledged to repeal ObamaCare and replace it with health care savings accounts. He plans to renegotiate international treaties to benefit the American people rather than foreign governments, to reform the Veterans Administration so it once more serves the men and women who fought for their country, to protect Second Amendment Rights and to reform the tax code in order to cut loopholes serving the wealthy and give relief to the middle class. Trump has asserted again and again in his speeches that he plans to rebuild the military. He has published list of potential Supreme Court nominees which has been widely praised by conservative pundits.
All of these goals, of course, must be accomplished with the cooperation of a Congress which never took any measures to rein in Obama’s abuses of the law and the Constitution. This same Republican controlled Congress seems to be hell bent on reigning in rather than supporting Trump. He will need our support to accomplish his goals.
#3
Voters who declare they are reluctant to vote for Trump or will never vote for Trump do not generally argue with the conservative positions Trump takes on the issues but instead assert that they just don’t believe him. He gave money to Democrats, he is too late to the pro-life position, and he’s not a “real” conservative. They are welcome to their opinion, but I hold a different opinion.
Donald Trump has been criticized for contributing to a wide variety of politicians. My father-in-law, an upstanding, church-attending, honest Christian gentleman who ran a construction business in NYC considered payola to the cop on the beat, the union leaders, the site inspectors, local politicians and a legion of others as the cost of doing business. It is the way business works in NYC and nobody stays in business if the system isn’t followed. The Democrat Party dominates NYC and Trump could have accomplished nothing if he had not paid to play.
My husband and I both were from NYC and we had family there, so we kept up on City news. I eagerly read Trump’s first book where he discussed the famous Central Park Wollman Ice Skating Rink debacle. The Donald showed early in his career that he knew how to work with and around government bureaucrats. The rink, which was built in 1949, was closed in 1980 for a proposed two years of renovations at at a cost of $9.1 million. Six years and $13 million later, after the problem-plagued work was still not completed by the city, Donald Trump persuaded Mayor Ed Koch to let him complete the work. Trump offered to pay for the renovations himself with the stipulation that he be allowed to run the venue and an adjacent restaurant and use the profits to recoup his costs. The rink was ready for business in four months at a cost of $2.25 million.. The Trump organization still runs the rink.
This story is 30 years old and The Donald has learned plenty since then. If you think he can’t build a wall on the southern border or that he won’t do it, think again.
*** Barbara Landers *** is a Conservative activist, author and business woman
