TRUMPISM AND HOW IT’S GOOD FOR YOU

Sir, 

“In reality, they’re not after me, they’re after you. I’m just in the way.” Donald J Trump. This is one of the many quotes spoken by one of the most misquoted and hated (by the leftist media) presidents in living memory. Here he was talking about how progressives , Marxist and the socialists left are not only after our freedom, but even our rights as people. Yet many do not see that and still vilify and gobble up the hate the media spreads about him.

A major part of the mainstream media’s strategy has been to preserve the perception of its neutrality and keep its role as hidden as possible. Conservatives have long criticised the media because of its liberal bias, but never by a sitting president with such effectiveness. By treating the media for what it is—a belligerent in the culture war. Trump has done it irreparable damage.

The media, the whole world is supposed to be a neutral participant. Mind you, Trump can still be president since the electoral college is the one that gets to decide and there are still cases being filed by the Trump campaign. Who knows , States like Pennsylvania and Arizona might be back in play considering the overwhelming evidence of voter irregularities like dead people voting, over 350 000 ballots that should be discarded in Philadelphia, poll ‘glitches’ etc.

Report

The media’s job is to report the news to us. If there is indeed some kind of philosophical, theological and economic battle being waged for the soul of the world, we would certainly want to know if those responsible for filtering information to us are doing so in an objective fashion.

If people knew for a fact that the media was taking sides, the jig would be up. The media would lose much of its ability to influence the outcome. This is what lies behind the media’s fear and loathing of the president. It wants desperately to advance an agenda, but knows that to do so effectively it needs to be perceived as impartial. In other words, the media cares nothing about reality—only the perception of reality. Though the president has repeatedly condemned white supremacy, killing of black people, looting, reporters keep asking if he is willing to do so. 

And who could forget the evidence-free claims, repeated for more than two years, that the president was colluding with Vladimir Putin, or was himself a Russian agent? For four years, Trump has shined a piercing light on the media’s bias. He has blown the lid completely off its cover. And despite relentless attempts  to discredit and destroy him in response, he has survived and even gained momentum.

His victory over Hillary Clinton stopped Democrats from replacing the late justice Antonin Scalia with a liberal activist, saving the US Supreme Court’s conservative majority. In short, if you are against abortion and other conservative ideas, Trump did a great job. But if you favour abortion (even at nine months like Hillary Clinton and Biden in what’s called partial assisted abortion, well Trump did a de-service for you there).

He signed the first comprehensive tax reform in three decades; removed the wet blanket of Obama-era regulations smothering the American economy; scrapped the Trans-Pacific Partnership that advantaged China and brokered new trade deals with Mexico, Canada, Japan and South Korea. 

Before the coronavirus pandemic, unemployment reached record lows, including for blacks and Hispanics. And even in the midst of a pandemic-induced economic crisis, 56 per cent of Americans say they are better off now than they were four years ago.

Trump delivered for African Americans, passing criminal justice reform, creating opportunity zones to rebuild our inner cities and securing permanent funding for historically black colleges and universities.

He signed off and sex-trafficking legislation, and a new ‘Right to Try’ law giving dying Americans access to experimental medications. He implemented the Protect Life Rule, which prohibits federal family-planning funds from going to abortion clinics, and defended the religious liberty of the Little Sisters of the Poor.

Superpower

He made the United States an energy superpower. He drove the Islamic State from its caliphate and killed its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Unlike Obama, he twice launched military strikes against Syria for using chemical weapons against civilians. Trump withdrew from the disastrous Iran nuclear deal and reimposed crippling sanctions on Iran, forcing the regime to cut funding for its terrorist proxies — and he took out Iran’s terrorist mastermind Qasem Soleimani. He moved the US Embassy to Jerusalem and brokered three Arab-Israeli peace accords — the first in more than a quarter century.

He shipped Javelin antitank missiles to Ukraine, got NATO allies to spend billions more on our common defense, withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and launched a cyberattack on Russia to deter its 2018 electoral interference. He increased defense spending and created the Space Force. 

He took on China’s predatory trade practices, signed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, and sanctioned Beijing for its suppression of the Uighurs. His tariff threats forced Mexico to crack down on illegal immigration, and he freed more Americans from foreign captivity in four years than Obama did in eight. And he is the first president since Ronald Reagan not to start a new war. In a Biden world brace yourselves for a new era.

Response

Even his COVID-19 response looks a lot better with the mute button on. What has hurt public perception of the president’s pandemic performance is not, primarily, what he has done, but what he has said — that has been amplified by the media.

But what about his actions? He shut down travel with China in January, saving countless lives.

But well what can I say, I’m just a liSwati citizen observing from afar. So go on, let the media embrace Biden, who for some reason won more votes than Obama and for that without even campaigning. And funny how the virus just disappears (Biden supporters who couldn’t go out to vote out of fear of COVID-19, but party the whole night when the media announced results) and a vaccine is announced right after the election. 

Forty-seven years in the senate, eight years as Vice President and numerous times trying to be president but failing...hmmm I wonder what Joe has in store for Eswatini.

Skinner Dato

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