Donald J. Trump. I really didn’t want to write this op-ed. The final result always stays the same. No minds can be changed. The usual name calling and battles begin in the comments, but the end result is always the same. However, it was written anyway because of the 2024 Presidential election.
Let’s not start. I feel like I’m wasting time by typing this.
The 2024 election will be the (next) “most important presidential election of our lifetime,” and it is my fervent hope — and should be the hope ofAll constitutional conservatives — that the Republican Party does not snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, wasting a perfect gift on a silver platter: the disastrously failed presidency of Joe Biden and four years of radical leftism in Congress, courtesy of the Democrat Party.
The subject at issue is Trump — the potential fly in the 2024 ointment.
The former president, who has referred to himself at various times as a “very stable genius,” a guy with a “very, very, big brain,” and a “very smart man” who “has good words,” simply cannot handle even the slightest of critiques — including constructive criticismOr AnythingHe disagrees with them.
For argument’s sake, let’s accept that. Donald Trump just can’t handle criticism. Fine. Trump’s stance on immigration is something that a greater number of Republicans don’t accept. Respond to criticism — including constructive criticism, or anything with which he disagrees — and simply will not let go of the past.
Where most “very stable geniuses” with “very, very, big brains” (William F. Buckley, Thomas Sowell, and Walter E. Williams come to mind) might respond to criticism or disagreement with measured intelligence and factual rebuttal, Trump cannot help reducing himself to Sophomoric name calling. Three cases are highlighted by Just the News Sunday.
One of Trump’s recent targets, as reported by Just the News, was Rich Lowry, former editor-in-chief of National Review, who recently wrote an op-ed for Politico urging the Justice Department not to indict Trump on January 6 related charges — particularly based on Nancy Pelosi’s illegitimate show “trial.” Lowry correctly argued that the January 6 committee is attempting to pressure the Justice Department.
This is a woefully misbegotten idea on every level, and if pursued, will represent a catastrophic misstep by Trump’s enemies — comparable to taking the country down the rabbit hole of the Russia collusion investigation for years.
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Trump is steadily losing ground in the communication battle for January 6, 2020 and the 2020 elections. [That is correct.]However, an indictment would enable him to move from obsessing on a past injustice to him to fighting against an arguably actual injustice to him now.
“If you believe that an indictment of the most likely candidate to run against Joe Biden in 2024 by the president’s own Justice Department would be considered anything but a politicized travesty by about half of the country,” Lowry wrote, “you haven’t been paying attention.” That is also correct.
Trump’s response? We’ve seen it before. It’s always the same. It’s not a reply; it’s an attack ad hominem.
As transcribed by JTN, the former president dismissed Lowry as nothing more than having “destroyed the once wonderful and influential National Review, the pride and joy of the legendary William F. Buckley.” Last time I checked, National Review was alive and well, with respected columnists like Victor Davis Hanson, Andrew McCarthy, and others.
Trump went after Peggy Noonan as well, an ex-speechwriter for Ronald Reagan. Multiple conservative pundits including this one have also taken issue with Trump’s actions. Please refer to the following.
Trump took a different tack, calling Noonan a “weak and frail RINO,” with “RINO,” in TrumpSpeak, meaning Any Republican — conservatives included — who disagrees with him on AnythingOr with whom he is not in agreement.
All of them are great! Foolish! PeopleLiving in an era gone by is common for people like Peggy Noonan, a weak and fragile RINOWho? Ronald Reagan was a lot less successful than her claims.He said negative things about his speech and ability to talk.
Trump next went after George Will. Will is a former conservative and has gone totally off-the-wall in recent years. But again, while I’d happily debate Will onEverything but the Chicago Cubs — for whom Will and I share a great affinity — Trump instead takes the zero-substance low road, saying the Washington Post columnist’s “mind is decaying with hatred and envy before our very eyes.”
I’ll say it again. The issues must be the focus of 2024. It is not about name calling, ad hominem attacks and relitigating 2020. Donald Trump is simply incapable of doing these things. All of it. Of “RINOs” — his definition — he wrote on Truth Social:
These people are from where? They don’t even know the MAGA movement, nor do they have a clue about America First. This is essential, if not vital, for saving our country.
Such people areYou are a tyrant, jealous and unintelligent.. They criticize and complain but they talk. don’t have the ability or talent to get anything done.
They do. shortsighted ‘losers,’You will not understand the importance of making America great again!
Maybe “they” don’t understand what it takes to make America great again, but here’s something we AllShould understand that MAGA will be returning, it is imperative for the Republican Party to position itself to take over the White House from Biden or the Democrats.
Let’s get to the bottom of it:
The 2024 presidential election is going to make 2016 and 2020 (sans the aftermath) look like child’s play.
From the Southern border to the future balance of the Supreme Court, to the abuse of America’s children by public schools more interested in “drag queen story hour” and “gender self-identification” than quality education, and more, regaining Republican control of the White House could not be more critical.
In my not-so-humble opinion, while Donald Trump delivered on nearly every issue for which I voted for him — twice — including delivering Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court and finally making the overturn of RoeTrump’s ability to achieve this is a fact. He lacks intellectual discipline and he can’t get out of his own way.
Ad hominem attacks and sophomoric name calling, as well as relitigating 2020 to the end of the world, must all be abandoned in favor of a nominee who is focused on the future. ThisThis is how to make America great again.
Donald Trump, in simple words, is his worst enemy.
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