“and I am not being melodramatic when I say that his election to the presidency saved us from destruction.”
I live in a very liberal part of the country. Everyone around us was laughing at Trump, “no way can he get elected”. Even my wife didn’t think he had a chance. But I tried to explain that you don’t get HUGE audiences at your rallies just because you are some billionaire “entertainer”. I was hopeful, but also was not convinced that he would get elected - so it really was unbelievable when it came down to the very end. What a night! We dodged a bullet - but there is still so much to be done.
My wife was from NJ, and I lived there for 8 years in the 1980’s - so Trump was often in the news. Neither one of us cared for him back then either (we were both raised with more humble mid-western attitudes).
But if you get beyond the “attitude” and some of the quips from his TV days and speeches - he really did speak to the ideas of straight-talk, integrity, hard work, freedom and no BS politics that is the heart of fly-over country.
But if you get beyond the “attitude” and some of the quips from his TV days and speeches - he really did speak to the ideas of straight-talk, integrity, hard work, freedom and no BS politics that is the heart of fly-over country.
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Agree. Also, I think we Deplorables see him as a real person and not some cardboard cutout who wants to say the “right” things just to keep a cushy DC lifestyle. I love that he hits back at the media instead of apologizing. Some of his tweets make me wince, but I love that he says things that I would like to say to the elites in the media and in politics.