An Uphill Climb
A couple of reasons why Mr. Trump still faces an uphill climb to the Presidency this year
I recently wrote that, even given Joe Biden’s enormous blunders and increasing unpopularity, and even given the large margins of victories in primaries and seeming surge in his direction, I still believe Donald Trump faces an uphill battle to victory this November. I’m certainly going to support Trump, but we accomplish nothing, and we only deceive ourselves if we aren’t painfully honest with the situation and ruthlessly examine it as accurately as possible. Nothing but the truth will lead to victory, and we must face the truth, and realize the obstacles. If we don’t, that is a sure road to defeat.
I have a few reasons that I believe Mr. Trump’s climb back to the White House is still uphill, but not impossible. Let me enumerate a couple.
1. Perhaps Trump’s greatest hurdle will be Democratic Party cheating. They are going to cheat as much as they can, they are an utterly corrupt, immoral political party, and power is the only thing they care about. Thus, they will do whatever is necessary to win the election—as they did in 2020. The Republican Party leadership knows it, but acts like it didn’t happen. They are part of the Deep State, of course, that is the source of what little power they have, so McConnell, et al, will allow themselves to be led by the nose wherever the Deep State wants to take them. And the Deep State does not want Donald Trump back in the White House, and will sanction and support as much Democratic Party cheating as necessary to ensure Trump’s defeat. This is one reason I support Trump. He isn’t the most moral man in the world, but he is far better than any Deep State rat. Which tells us just about everything we need to know about the current condition of the American government.
The Republicans have done nothing to offset the possibility of Democratic Party cheating this year. Ronna McDaniel, thankfully, has resigned, and hopefully the new RNC Chair will be better. But that’s problematic, at best. And, anyway, the Democratic Party controls the levers of power in most of the states where they will need to cheat to win, so it would be difficult for Republicans to counter it. But they can expose it, they need to expose it, they must expose it—in advance—and not bury it like they did after 2020. If the Republican Party plays the Deep State’s game again in 2024, they will lose again. Repetition leads to the same results.
2. The increased leftward direction America is heading in. This is not 1980 when a strong conservative candidate, Ronald Reagan, faced an incompetent, failed Democratic opponent. In one sense, that parallel does exist in 2024. But the country has moved in a decided leftward direction in the last 40+ years, and Mr. Trump may be the victim of that this year.
I think we all realize that the 1960s changed America. The Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, drugs, free sex, hippies, spaced-out music—the culture simple shifted as young people rebelled against the perceived materialism and other long-held traditions of their parents. This radical Leftist throng never grew up, and became the teachers and college professors of the 1980s and beyond. America gave its education system to these Saul Alinsky-trained extremists, and the last 40 years of students have been indoctrinated in their Leftist propaganda. Parents and churches were blindsided by what was going on. They sensed something was wrong, but couldn’t finger it. This was America, surely this couldn’t be happening here. But it was happening, and it did happen, and we are suffering mightily for it right now.
Today many Americans see clearly what transpired. We lost two generations. They have been stolen by the Left. The Democratic Party has been the political benefactor. It is obviously no longer the party of Truman and JFK.
The question is—and I have asked myself this question countless times and still do not know the answer—do enough decent, “traditional,” God-fearing Americans still exist to push back and defeat this growing tide of gross immorality, this humongous, Democratic Party-led “hate America” movement, this lazy swamp of useless no-goods who would rather live off the labor of others, and think they have a “right” to do so, who are draining the wealth and the resources of the nation? Of course, there are many, many Americans who just have no clue what is happening in their country, and really don’t care very much. Are there still enough decent people left to save America? I don’t know. I just know the other side is gargantuan, united and committed, and it is something Donald Trump faces this year. And if the illegals vote in certain states, then Trump has no chance. It IS a different country now, and our margin for error here is very small.
There are other reasons Mr. Trump faces an uphill climb, and I may consider them later. But I think these two are very important. And I really have no answer as to what to do about them—except to do what I do, which is try to educate as many as possible before it is too late.