In (Unlikely) Praise of Donald Trump: Embracing America's Shadow

I guess this is an apology to Donald Trump. I felt sick when Trump was elected president. As a liberal, I despised everything about Trump, everything he stood for, everything he said, everything he was, every policy he was likely to enact. In 2019, I have to face a stark fact. It was necessary for America to elect Trump in 2016, and it's necessary for America to re-elect him in 2020.

Trump has been fantastic for America for one very simple reason: he has been nothing like a conventional politician. What Trump has achieved - an incredibly significant accomplishment - is the death of political business as usual. The age of lazy, complacent politicos feathering their own nests and doing nothing for the people is over. You would never believe that the people are the true masters of politicians, those that elect them to their positions to represent the people's interests, not anyone else's. Instead, politicians seem interested in anyone other than the people. They are especially interested in the rich donors that fund them. These are deemed of far high priority than the piffling people, too poor to give the politicians the lifestyle to which they aspire.

What is now apparent is that the entire political class is morally bankrupt and pointless. Politicians are useless. They are mindless bureaucrats, functionaries and groveling sycophants to their rich donors, the true puppetmasters.

Trump was the necessary corrective. He has shown how things can be done entirely differently.