I’ve been reminded just recently that I was not a Trump supporter in the 2006 election initially.
Well….. long time readers will know that’s true. At the time, I would have much preferred Ted Cruz to take the nomination. To this day I think he would have made a fine choice. Thankfully he continues to serve our country well, and I would like to see him run again.
That said, I have also been very public about my changing my stance about Trump once he had taken the nomination. At that point it was a completely different choice.
I said at that time…
That is, up until the point where he won the nomination. At that
point, it became a choice between handing the White House to someone who was and remains as crooked as a Nigerian railway, and who would have undoubtedly finished this country off, completing the national
destruction that Barack Hussein Obama started.For me, the nomination was the tipping point, with the driving
question being, what conservative values would be served by handing the White House over to the wicked witch of Little Rock?To me, while I still firmly believe that he is not a conservative, Donald Trump has been a pleasant surprise in terms of how far he’s been able to move the conservative agenda forward, as Ronald Reagan before
him.
The truth is I was pleasantly surprised by Trump’s performance in office and since, despite the tooth and nail (and often illegal, to say nothing of immoral) efforts to derail him, from the Democrats. Over that time I became a Donald Trump supporter. I will not argue with success, as I said at the time.
Even assuming half of what the left was saying about Trump at the time was true, (it wasn’t) Hillary Clinton was still the unconscionable choice.
I found it interesting and educational that a lot of Democrats agreed with my position the time.
There’s no excuses necessary for the position I held then, nor is there apologies necessary for changing that stance. You see, one of the hallmarks of being an adult is the ability to change one’s stand and one’s direction when new facts or conditions emerge.
The new facts that emerged of course were that the attempts to derail, arrest, and assassinate both Trump’s character and his person, were ultimately viewed by the American voter as bald-faced and probably criminal political power grabs.
And I wonder, with the Trump presidency a done deal now, I wonder if we’re going to see the people suffering from Trump derangement syndrome… some of which I’ve chronicled here… change their minds when they see that all the fear mongering that’s been set out by the DNC doesn’t come true.
Will they have the integrity to admit that, when all of the stuff they’ve been fed from the party leaders doesn’t happen?
For the time being I’ll regard it as an open question.
