REAL CLEAR POLITICS
I believed that Republican voters were ready for a new post-Trump chapter of the America First movement. I now believe I was wrong.
Those of us who backed Ron DeSantis – or the other Republican candidates – should read the room. Former President Trump winnowed the field effortlessly and then crushed the remaining three candidates in Iowa. He leads in the polls everywhere else. It is time to coalesce and unite behind the clear preference of the GOP grassroots, Donald John Trump.
We do not have the luxury of further internal strife and instead must gird for an epic battle this autumn against our opponents who are inflicting daily damage upon America. Any further time, capital, and effort spent attacking the frontrunner, especially with Democratic Party-like talking points, only dilutes the power of our cause as we head toward November.
Why do these patriotic voters rally so overwhelmingly to Trump?
Clearly, they admire the resilience of this outsider who is so reviled by the ruling class that has nothing but contempt for everyday Americans. Voters still see in Trump a fighter and champion for the forgotten and ill-used citizens of the United States.
Americans also rally to his side as he faces an onslaught of corrupt persecutions from politicized, dirty prosecutors and undemocratic efforts to remove his name from state ballots.
We confront a perilous moment in U.S. history. Our country suffers from sky-high violent crime, the ravages of an effectively open border, a subversive educational system, and the anxiety of an economy that punishes workers – all brought about, deliberately, by Joe Biden and his allies.
At such a flashpoint in history like this one, political unity among conservatives is an imperative. A second Biden term would risk the permanent loss of our republic as we know it. Moreover, the very plausible scenario of Vice President Kamala Harris taking over for a weakened Biden makes the already troubling outcomes even more bleak.
Regarding the border disaster, December marked a new monthly all-time high for migrants crossing into our homeland, over 300,000 of them. This lawless chaos extends far beyond incompetent mismanagement and instead represents a purposeful move to effectively vaporize the border and the idea of American national sovereignty.
The border crisis, in turn, worsens the economic calamity inflicted by Biden and Harris. Millions of new workers compete unjustly and illegally in the labor market against American citizens. Those hard-working Americans have already seen their real wages decline markedly since Biden took office, meaning pay adjusted for the costs of inflation. Under Biden, Americans work harder to get poorer.
In addition to restoring the buying power of regular workers, we must resurrect Americans’ self-confidence. In a Wall Street Journal poll, fully 78% of Americans said that future American generations will not live better, by far the worst pessimism ever recorded in the survey, which goes back three decades.
Since the Biden team and media allies realize that running on such a record presents massive hurdles, they choose to demonize not just Trump, but the tens of millions of Americans who gravitate toward his can-do message of hope.
So, they enlist shamelessly partisan prosecutors to concoct sham charges, all the while pretending that what’s really happening is a far greater violation of their precious “norms” than anything Donald Trump ever did. Their scheme is to have prosecutors employed by his Justice Department, or big city Democratic Party hacks attempt to jail Biden’s chief political opponent. This from the political party that rails endlessly about “threats to democracy”!
Yet that has been the theme pushed by the Democrats and their media allies since before the 2022 midterms. In his notorious and menacing “Red Sermon” speech in Philadelphia, Biden essentially slandered half the country who supported Trump in 2020 as having “fascist” tendencies. He then escalated those attacks with his Valley Forge speech only last week.
Unable to persuade voters on the merits, the Biden-Harris team…
