You never explained what Trump pushed back on that made you loyal to him.
Everything that the Left has become. Their wanton hatred for various demographics to which I belong, and which escalated dramatically once Trump announced his candidacy back in 2015. Their ongoing campaign to overthrow our longstanding Republic and its constitutional order in a de facto slow coup by illegally importing future voters (either the migrants themselves or their children) who will vote for one party, and by creating an ideological monoculture from all traditional voices of authority that Americans look up to, so that everyone is convinced into thinking the party can do no wrong and its enemies can do no right.
Their support for efforts in Europe and elsewhere to make free speech non-existent, such as France throwing the founder of Telegram in jail and a willingness to do the same to Elon Musk if only he were to visit the UK, reports that the UK is about to throw J.K. Rowling in jail for comments she made about an Algerian Olympic gymnast, Brazil's attempts to shut down Twitter in the country because there's nothing more dangerous to "democracy" than platforms where people are allowed to speak freely without censorship, etc. Brazen comments by Tim Walz, soon to be Vice-President of the United States, that whatever the party dubs "hate speech" or "misinformation" is not constitutionally protected by the First Amendment.
The party which you support is pure unadulterated evil, and even if every single dubious claim the left has made about Trump over the last 9 years were all true, I'd still have reason to vote for him.
Since Trump came along we no longer expect our politicians to be:
The civility you espouse is of no real substance. Biden and Harris are backed by a limitlessly cruel and sociopathic propaganda apparatus that, on a given Tuesday, matches or even exceeds the nastiness of Trump. Trump, in contrast, is his own sole advocate. Yeah there's Fox, but at this point everyone knows they're partisan hacks. WashPo, The Guardian, CNN, etc. are no less so but there's a systematic effort to gaslight us into thinking that they're somehow impartial.
If Biden wanted to "take the high road" in any way that mattered, he would've gotten together with the party bosses 4-5 years ago and convinced them to let up on the omnidirectional partisan attacks on Trump. Said attacks would've then ceased. Since this didn't happen, it's laughable to speak of a meaningful distinction in tone between Trump and Biden. Perhaps there technically is one, but why should anyone care?
Also, this weird cult of personality around the President of the United States which has sprung up since WW2 ought to end. He's not some benevolent, all-wise father of the nation. He's a mortal man who heads one branch of the federal government, which originally wasn't intended to be that much more powerful than a given state government. The White House is physically smaller than the Capitol building for both practical and symbolic reasons.
I'll give you this one. Still better than senile, but just barely.
You're talking about the guy who, without a day of political experience in his life, waltzed onto the scene and wrested control of the GOP nomination from the son and brother of two former Presidents (Jeb Bush) and two popular and fairly well known Senators from Texas and Florida respectively, and then strategically targeted the states few people assumed a Republican would win to carve out a victory over Hillary Clinton. Then he was sworn in as President of the United States.
Since you're accusing him of being an authoritarian dictator-wannabe anyway, I might as well compare his career to that of Alcibiades, of whom it was once said: "You should not rear a lion cub in the city, but if one is brought up, accommodate its ways."
Much of what the media calls "Trump lies" is Trump hyperbole. Some of what he says is indeed a lie, but again, he's his own sole advocate. Biden has (or rather, had) the luxury of shutting up and letting the media lie for him, like when they continually dismissed concerns about his age as far-right misinformation, up until the point where they could no longer hide that he really does have a problem.
And Dems are not respectful of our Republic. What's your point?
The President of the United States is elected to serve the American people, not foreign peoples. Foreign heads of state are elected to do the same, and indeed most aren't nearly as tolerant of illegal immigration on their own soil as America is on its. Trump believed that his approach best accomplished this.
- To stand up for our allies
And in practice, Trump has done nothing to prove that he wouldn't.
- To stand up against dictators
Trump took a harder line against the dictators of China, Iran, Venezuela, and Syria than any Democrat has.
I'm curious what he did in your eyes to offset all of that .
I wanted him to serve two terms, and to keep Republican politics within the mainstream going forward since constant presence breeds a sense of normalcy. I wanted the mere fact of him serving to disprove doomsday predictions floated by the left, and for everyone to remember the wolf-crying with Trump the next time they weaponized this same rhetoric against another, preferably moderate Republican.
Sadly, he only got one term, which is why we're rehashing this election again in 2024.
