Why I’m voting for Donald Trump for the first time

In 2016, I just didn’t think Trump was a conservative and like a debt hawk whose vote didn’t count much in the indigo state. CaliforniaI voted for the only general election candidate committed to entitlement reform: Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson.

In 2020, I was pleasantly shocked by Trump’s otherwise conservative tenure as president, ignoring his refusal to reform entitlements and the most successful foreign policy record of my lifetime. But Trump’s deference to the draconian, unelected executive bureaucracy during the coronavirus pandemic and his self-obsessed and ultimately “too online” campaign didn’t exactly convince me that he wanted my vote, let alone earned it. So I, then a resident of Washington, DC, positively sat outside in 2020, foolishly, pathetically, delusionally believing Joe Biden’s lie that he would at least try to restore the norms and decorum of a bygone era.

Instead, Biden blew up the fragile but peaceful geopolitical order carefully constructed by Trump, unlocked a secure border by executive fiat to admit 10 million illegal immigrants from around the world, and produced the worst inflationary crisis in recent memory. 40 years.

Voting against a candidate that is worse than the alternative is necessary, but not sufficient. By the objective metric, the tenure of Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris was clearly more disastrous than Trump’s. Real disposable income per capita fell 4% under four years of Biden and Harris. By contrast, real disposable income per capita rose 12% under the Trump presidency, including an 8.5% increase even excluding the pandemic. Trump has also sterilized Iran, utterly decimated the Islamic State, scuttled Russia while empowering Ukraine, and set the stage for diplomatic and economic normalization not just between Israel and its Islamic neighbors, but also Serbia and Kosovo.

But this quantifiable record of success isn’t really why I voted for Trump. It is necessary, but not entirely sufficient.

When Trump was accused of playing politics with Ukraine, Congress impeached him, and ultimately Trump released funds authorized by law to Ukraine in accordance with federal law. When Trump claimed he had actually won the 2020 election, 97 percent of Republican appointees to the federal judiciary voted against legal challenges to the 2020 results by him and his allies, and 83 percent of all Supreme Court votes on the matter were thrown against Trump and company.

Instead, when the courts ruled against Biden and Harris’ attempt to buy votes by canceling student loan debt en masse by executive fiat, Biden and Harris went ahead with little pushback from their own party. They were celebrated as the Biden Justice Department initiated criminal proceedings against Trump. And after rigging the Democratic presidential primary so that challengers were off the ballot, the party replaced the Democratic nominee with Harris, who has never won a single national primary vote in more than four years of campaigning for the job. top.

And all the while, the entire state and national press corps applauded this charade. In other words, January 6th was a terrible day after two months of en masse incarceration by the federal judiciary, while the Democrats’ multiple effort to rig 2024 through legal warfare, denying challengers, including Trump, access to the ballot and an eleventh-hour bait-and-switch with a candidate none of us ever voted for was a four-year success.

To that, I have to say enough.

In tandem with his opposition’s increasingly desperate and extreme moves to hold on to power, Trump has never run a more serious campaign that actually depends on asking for my vote instead of asking for it. Harris, who claims he is not already the sitting vice president of the United States, proudly shouts that “we are not going back,” but Trump promises to bring back at least some of the growth, power and security of just half a decade. ago. “Make America Great Again,” as a slogan, may have fallen a little short of the relative banality of the Obama years and when Trump was an incumbent during the unprecedented chaos of COVID. But after four years why the hell was that? Sign me up.

As a white, college-educated, working woman living in the suburbs (technically in the Virginia half of metro Washington), I am a member of the swing demographic that has swung from the neocon security moms aughts. at the vanguard of the #Resistance. The Karen contingent, which Harris is gambling will turn out to be an abortion-obsessed, single-issue voting bloc, will surely wonder how an ostensible equity feminist can vote for any man who said what Trump said about women.

Beyond the logical reasons to vote for Trump’s record and against the Democratic Party’s four-year plot to imprison Trump, silence reporting on Biden’s decline, and disenfranchise their own primary voters, I vote in truth for women.

It should be enough to vote against the opposition Harris has teased and against the legislative filibuster he has promised. The most important issues for women should be restoring the stability and strength of the green ticket and the private sector, resealing the southern border, and ending the catastrophic experiment that was the multipolar world order, with America’s global leadership in limbo. But in case that’s not enough, I need to elaborate on who I mean when I say I vote for women.

I vote for Shani Louk, Amit Soussana and countless other Israeli women whose corpses became ground zero for Hamas’ declaration of war on the world’s only Jewish state on October 7, 2023, an incursion that would never have happened without Biden and Harris paying back the Iranian regime.

I’m voting for the nearly 300 Ukrainian victims of sexual violence by Russian soldiers identified by Ukraine’s attorney general since the start of the war with Russia, a war that didn’t happen under Trump and probably never would have without his disastrous withdrawal Afghanistan’s Biden and the subsequent green light for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

I am voting for the women and children destroyed by the transnational human trafficking crisis, hailed by the opening of the US southern border by Biden and Harris. I am voting not only for our own women and girls killed by illegal immigrants – Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Morin and Ruby Garcia, just to name a few – but also for the unknown number of victims abused during the journey that has been industrialized and commercialized. for worldwide entry and promoted on social media. I vote for 676 victims of sexual assault while walking the dangerous Darien Gap that MSF reported to have negotiated in 2023, and I am voting for the 328 negotiated in the first two months of this year alone.

I’m voting for Donald Trump because, regardless of my misgivings about his deplorable rhetoric and his personal foibles, my own pearl-picking and fragile feelings matter far, far less than the life and death of millions of Israeli civilians , which Democrats would abandon. destroying Hamas even after the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. My feelings matter less than the chance to negotiate a quick end to the carnage in Ukraine, than the risk of nuclear escalation, than the 320,000 lost migrant children trafficked into the abyss of our own increasingly lawless land, and than the threat to our dollar… losing reserve currency status to an axis of our enemies.

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I’m voting for Donald Trump because, unlike in 2020, I’m no longer idiotic enough to think that the Democratic nominee will support any of the bumper bars that have proven successful in controlling both parties, and unlike in 2020, the Democratic candidate is no longer pretending to follow those rules, a truly appalling moment of masquerading that cannot be rewarded with complacency lest the Democrats go from packing the courts to outright codifying their disdain for the third branch of government.

And unlike in 2020, the stakes are too high to sit back and bet that Democrats won’t screw up the world’s economic engine and global stability too badly over the next four years. Unlike in 2020, Trump has proposed affirmative policy prescriptions for multiple issues produced over the past four years. I don’t agree with every proposal, nor will I stop being a terrible team player and continue to focus friendly fire on my fellow conservatives when criticism is deserved. But after surviving two assassination attempts and four murderous raids orchestrated by his political opponents, should Trump become president again, he will win with a resounding mandate to make America great again because we’ve never needed her in the 21st century before.