The road to the Presidency of Donald J. Trump did not begin with his announcing his candidacy; in my opinion, it began many years earlier. 

I was born and raised in a Pennsylvania county that was primarily Republican. It was not far from Philadelphia, a city run by Democrats. In my early years, I did not pay much attention to politics but I still remember adults talking about “Rizzo’s Raiders”, a term that referred to the police department in Philadelphia. Frank Rizzo was not the left wing lunatic of today’s Democrats, but he wielded his authority unapologetically; first as police commissioner then as Mayor of Philadelphia. When he was re-elected, adults quietly squawked that he won with the votes of everyone in the cemetery. Those complaints were back in the 1970’s. 

Through the years, people began to question the results of many elections; it did not matter if they were local or national, the chant was the same – everybody in the graveyard must have voted for so-and-so. The result was that people began to feel as if their vote did not matter and so they stayed home. Those who voted simply chose what they considered to be the lesser of two evils. Most elections are won with less that 25% of eligible people voting. That is not a mandate. It is sad that so many feel disenfranchised. With fewer people voting, it became easier for less desirable candidates to win. It did not matter what party they represented, they made promises that were never kept. Years of disappointment in their leaders and their failed promises brought us a candidate that made no promises except for “hope and change”. Many were intrigued with his charismatic approach. 

In 2008 America elected its first apparently black president. His mother was white. It seems you do not brag on that fact when you are trying to garner black votes. Under his watch, the national debt was more than doubled, taxes increased, quantitative easing was used three times – which deflates our currency, and every incident that included a black person was used to attack our law enforcement officers. In most cases he berated the law and drove dissent into the people with insinuating rhetoric. The calm evolution of America’s racial differences was disappearing, and violent dissent returned during his administration. Statements he provided always blamed the police in spite of evidence to the contrary. Verify this by searching stories about:

     1. Beer Summit 2009  “police acted stupidly” 

     2. Hands up don’t shoot 2014  was a lie spoken by Darien J.

In the major newsworthy events, after blaming law enforcement officers, he would call in his DOJ, run by Eric Holder, the only AG to be held in contempt of Congress, to investigate. Investigations would drag on for months during which time multiple riots occurred. The atmosphere in the country was tense but Obama gave no defense of law enforcement and his nuanced comments seemed to approve of the lawlessness. There were so many incidents during his administration from his “Apology Tour” to “Fast and Furious” to “The Iran Nuclear Deal” that might cause one to question his loyalty to America. And while we may have disagreed with him, we did not use violence. 

In 2009 the TEA Party began a grass roots effort to stand for conservative principles. As their rallies grew they attempted to apply for the IRS certification that would allow exemptions, the same certifications that liberal organizations already had. Their requests were met with a disarming amount of wait times, unnecessary forms and various other boondoggles.

This was one of the first massive acts of weaponizing a government agency. Another group called ‘True The Vote’ formed in 2009 in Houston, Texas; Catherine Engelbrecht saw some discrepancies within the voting process where she lived so she made an effort to secure integrity within our voting system by forming “True The Vote”. Soon afterwards, she was audited by the IRS first for her personal returns and then for her business returns, then OSHA came to call on her business. Another government agency used against its people. It was obvious that Obama was weaponizing government agencies against citizens who did not agree with him. Holly Lobby and The Little Sisters of The Poor were threatened with huge fines for standing on their faith. During the Obama administration Christians were persecuted in a country built on freedom of religion and Judeo-Christian beliefs.

In 2012 America was shocked when an attack in Benghazi, Libya killed our American Ambassador and three heroic Americans. Hillary was our Secretary of State and with Obama at her side, they blamed an obscure  video and lied to the families of the assassinated heroes. This was just one more scandal on top of many that followed the Clintons, particularly Hillary,  since they first emerged on the political scene in Arkansas. If she had any conscience at all, how could she think that she would ever become president. Well, there is always voter fraud that might work; or perhaps a political insurance policy yet to be determined. 

When Donald J. Trump announced his candidacy, the first step of the political machine and the media was to ridicule him. They laughed at his chances and the pundits predicted defeat based on their records of people who had voted in past elections. Elections in which people had not bothered to vote for years. But as candidate Trump began to speak at his rallies, he used the same words that the people would have used, he expressed the same feelings that they had, he did not use the double talk of most politicians, and he spoke of his love for God and his love for America and the American people. As his rallies grew in size, the media continued to ridicule him until all of them were repeating the same insults word for word. They were like the schoolyard bullies who garnered more chanters because no one had the courage to disagree, fearing the bully would turn on them. But, candidate Trump did not back away from their taunts; he communicated with the populous via ‘twitter’ thus avoiding the possibility of being mis-quoted by the press. This infuriated them, so they invented lies, and in defending himself, he called them out as “fake news”, another truth that we, the people were not supposed to be smart enough to know but had known for years. He verified everything we suspected. 

The political pundits still predicted a loss for candidate Trump based on their “expert opinions”. Their mistake was they failed to consider, as they had through the years, what the American people really wanted. Citizens were tired of the same promises made during each election cycle and broken once their candidate was in office. They were tired of paying more and more for their tax burden while seeing it spent on frivolities or worse yet losing their money to schemes that failed like Solyndra. (By the way, what happened to the half billion dollars that was lost?) They wanted their voices to be heard and Donald J. Trump was listening. He was expressing their thoughts not with flowery promises, but with language that they clearly understood. And, I think, when Hillary called the people “a basket of deplorables”, she sealed her own fate and the fate of every politician who deems themselves smarter than the taxpayers who are paying their salary. 

Donald J. Trump was finally a candidate the people could wholeheartedly endorse. And endorse him they did. People who had not voted for years came out to cheer what he was saying and, furthermore, they believed he would honor his word. He was, after all, not a double-talking politician, but a straight-talking businessman. President Trump’s heart is with the American people. We can literally feel his kind, caring patriotism and generosity of spirit at the same time we feel the disdain from his detractors. His critics describe him as a racist, but anyone who has looked at his record knows he is not a racist. The only thing our genius  President Trump seems not to abide is stupidity; which comes in every form. He has defended America against: democrats, never-Trump-republicans, enemy-of-the-people news media, and the “deep state” which has infiltrated many of our most respected agencies. He carries on knowing he is doing what is right for America; and the American people love him and all of his family.  My feeling is, if you are against this President, you must be really stupid.

God bless our President, Donald J. Trump, our First Lady, Melania, and his entire family as they serve America to MAGA.