By oldedude October 31, 2024 7:49 pm Category: Politics (0.0 from 0 votes)
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If this makes any difference at all. I think it's pretty funny. Written by a woman in USA Today... The full article is cited below.
I don't like Trump, but I'm voting for him. Here's why many Americans will, too.
I'm a Republican, but I don't like Donald Trump. I also don't identify with MAGA Republicans, especially the cult-like following the former president has here in Texas.
The riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, that Trump encouraged was the watershed moment that forced me to rescind my previous support for him. It was an egregious incident in American history.
However, I will vote for Trump this election. About 75 million Americans, perhaps more, also will vote for him. Here's why.
Donald Trump's stronger on policy
When I was young and idealistic, I cared about a bevy of issues. As more of a purist then, I would have probably written in a candidate if Trump had been on the ballot when I was able to vote in my first or second election.
But I think that's shortsighted and silly now. There's so much at stake. Three things matter to me in this election: foreign policy, the economy and border security. Trump has shown he can handle all of these.
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris' economic plans are abysmal. They reflect purely socialist ideas, including handing out down payments for homes and a slew of "free" programs. America will go bankrupt trying to pay for Harris' planned bloated bureaucracy.
Foreign policy is another crucial matter. Under the Biden-Harris administration, the United States has looked weak. From Israel's war against Hamas, enabled in part by the Biden administration's decision to lift sanctions on Iran, to the withdrawal from Afghanistan and Russia's war against Ukraine, the world is dangerously unstable.
Kamala Harris is too extreme
I can't vote for Harris. I don't know how even moderates can.
The Democratic Party spent the past four years scolding Trump for undermining democracy, but then replaced our duly elected, aging and incoherent president as its nominee with Harris after the primary season had ended and she didn't win a single Democratic vote. It's the Democratic Party that has fractured the democratic process.
Three kinds of people will vote for Trump in this election, and it's important liberals and the mainstream news media − but I repeat myself − understand this.
Voters like me are conservatives who don't like Trump because we think he doesn't represent true conservative ideas. I'm also repulsed by his character flaws and legal troubles.
The second category of Trump voters are right-center Americans who can't find their values or ideas represented in the far-left version of the Democratic Party that Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, represent.
The last kind of person voting for Trump are those who like him − a lot.
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