Being “MAGA” has been in the news recently. Most notably during Joe Biden’s anti-MAGA speech on the “Red Stage™”. It seems that MAGA people are what’s wrong with this country. We are destroying “democracy” and we’re destroying “the planet” like we’re some weird cross between Mussolini and Thanos but mostly the problem is that many of us like Donald Trump, a supervillain worse than either Mussolini or Thanos.
Some who have been reading my ramblings might get the impression that I’m a Trump “fanboy”. Well, I have to admit, I do think Trump ranks in the top 20 of our presidents, but it wasn’t always like that.
I mentioned in the subheading that I’m not a Republican. I’m not. Up until last year, I was. Now I am “unaffiliated”. The 2016 presidential primary was the last primary I voted in.
When Donald Trump took that fateful escalator ride on June 16, 2015, I had him pegged as a celebrity buffoon. He was the star of the “Apprentice” reality show where his most famous line was “you’re fired”. I had always seen him larger than life, and most of it appeared to me to be narcissistic publicity -seeking.
When I voted in the primary election, Trump was my 15th pick. He was directly ahead of George “the walking political dead” Pataki and Lindsay “scumbag” Graham. But during the campaign, I watch him. He had almost a natural understanding of publicity and how to accumulate it for free. Every time he opened his mouth, or tweeted a tweet, he’d get piled on by the media. There is a saying: “there is no bad publicity” and Trump took advantage of it.
One by one, he knocked his opponents out of the running beginning with ¡Jeb! and finally knocking out Ted Cruz (who I had settled on).
I had decided the major criteria for who I supported was - they had a track record of doing what they said they were going to do. Three candidates fit that criteria. Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders (and I certainly wasn’t going to vote for him) and Donald Trump. When trump won the primary, I sighed, and put my support behind him. He was like the guy on the plane when the pilot has a heart attack who thinks he can fly the plane and is willing to step up. The other is a woman who claims to have flying experience, but she’s wearing a Kamakazi headband.
So I held my nose and voted for Donald Trump for president.
Everyone told me I was making a huge mistake. Up until recently, he had been a Democrat. And he had donated to Democrat campaigns. He’s putting you on! I stuck to my pledge to vote for someone with a track record of doing what he said he was going to do, and I loved what he said he was going to do from securing the border to protecting the unborn.
I was not disappointed. Up until Trump, from all the presidents in my lifetime, Ronald Reagan had governed the most conservative. I believe Trump was more conservative than him. He appointed 3 originalists on the Supreme Court who recently overturned Roe v Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood. If that was the only accomplishment, I would count him a rousing success.
But I’m not a total Trump fanboy. He behaves like a moron on Twitter. He’s combative, rude, crude and obnoxious. The Democrats have always treated politics like a street fight, while Republicans like to stick to the Marquis of Queensbury rules. Trump was not afraid to gouge some eyes and kick some balls. But this made him of-putting.
Joe Biden’s speech has solidified me as his political enemy and the enemy of every candidate in his party. I want all of them defeated. Not only defeated I want them crushed, I want them driven before us. I want to hear the lamentation of their women!