The Real Reason They Hate Trump ( Opinion by David Gelernter )

President Donald Trump sits in the driver’s seat of a semi-truck in Washington, D.C., March 23, 2017. 

The Real Reason They Hate Trump

 He’s the average American in exaggerated form—blunt, simple, willing to fight, mistrustful of intellectuals.

 by David Gelernter

Every big U.S. election is interesting, but the coming midterms are fascinating for a reason most commentators forget to mention: The Democrats have no issues. The economy is booming and America’s international position is strong. In foreign affairs, the U.S. has remembered in the nick of time what Machiavelli advised princes five centuries ago: Don’t seek to be loved, seek to be feared.

The contrast with the Obama years must be painful for any honest leftist. For future generations, the Kavanaugh fight will stand as a marker of the Democratic Party’s intellectual bankruptcy, the flashing red light on the dashboard that says “Empty.” The left is beaten.

This has happened before, in the 1980s and ’90s and early 2000s, but then the financial crisis arrived to save liberalism from certain destruction. Today leftists pray that Robert Mueller will put on his Superman outfit and save them again.

For now, though, the left’s only issue is “We hate Trump.” This is an instructive hatred because what the left hates about Donald Trump is precisely what it hates about America. The implications are important and painful.

Not that every leftist hates America. But the leftists I know do hate Mr. Trump’s vulgarity, his unwillingness to walk away from a fight, his bluntness, his certainty that America is exceptional, his mistrust of intellectuals, his love of simple ideas that work, and his refusal to believe that men and women are interchangeable. Worst of all, he has no ideology except getting the job done. His goals are to do the task before him, not be pushed around, and otherwise to enjoy life. In short, he is a typical American—except exaggerated, because he has no constraints to cramp his style except the ones he himself invents.

Mr. Trump lacks constraints because he is filthy rich and always has been and, unlike other rich men, he revels in wealth and feels no need to apologize—ever. He never learned to keep his real opinions to himself because he never had to. He never learned to be embarrassed that he is male, with ordinary male proclivities. Sometimes he has treated women disgracefully, for which Americans, left and right, are ashamed of him—as they are of JFK and Bill Clinton.

But my job as a voter is to choose the candidate who will do best for America. I am sorry about the coarseness of the unconstrained average American that Mr. Trump conveys. That coarseness is unpresidential and makes us look bad to other nations. On the other hand, many of his opponents worry too much about what other people think. I would love the esteem of France, Germany, and Japan. But I don’t find myself losing sleep over it.

The difference between citizens who hate Mr. Trump and those who can live with him—whether they love or merely tolerate him—comes down to their views of the typical American: the farmer, factory hand, auto mechanic, machinist, teamster, shop owner, clerk, software engineer, infantryman, truck driver, housewife. The leftist intellectuals I know say they dislike such people insofar as they tend to be conservative Republicans.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama know their real sins. They know how appalling such people are, with their stupid guns and loathsome churches. They have no money or permanent grievances to make them interesting and no Twitter followers to speak of. They skip Davos every year and watch Fox News. Not even the very best has the dazzling brilliance of a Chuck Schumer, not to mention Michelle Obama. In truth, they are dumb as sheep.

Mr. Trump reminds us of who the average American really is. Not the average male American, or the average white American. We know for sure that, come 2020, intellectuals will be dumbfounded at the number of women and blacks who will vote for Mr. Trump. He might be realigning the political map: plain average Americans of every type vs. fancy ones.

Many left-wing intellectuals are counting on technology to do away with the jobs that sustain all those old-fashioned truck-driver-type people, but they are laughably wide of the mark. It is impossible to transport food and clothing, or hug your wife or girl or child, or sit silently with your best friend, over the internet. Perhaps that’s obvious, but to be an intellectual means nothing is obvious. Mr. Trump is no genius, but if you have mastered the obvious and add common sense, you are nine-tenths of the way home. (Scholarship is fine, but the typical modern intellectual cheapens his learning with politics and is proud to vary his teaching with broken-down left-wing junk.)

This all leads to an important question—one that will be dismissed indignantly today, but not by historians in the long run: Is it possible to hate Donald Trump but not the average American?

True, Mr. Trump is the unconstrained average citizen. Obviously, you can hate some of his major characteristics—the infantile lack of self-control in his Twitter babble, his hitting back like a spiteful child bully—without hating the average American, who has no such tendencies. (Mr. Trump is improving in these two categories.) You might dislike the whole package. I wouldn’t choose him as a friend, nor would he choose me. But what I see on the left is often plain, unconditional hatred of which the hater—God forgive him—is proud. It’s discouraging, even disgusting. And it does mean, I believe, that the Trump-hater truly does hate the average American—male or female, black or white. Often he hates America, too.

Granted, Mr. Trump is a parody of the average American, not the thing itself. To turn away is fair. But to hate him from your heart is revealing. Many Americans were ashamed when Ronald Reagan was elected. A movie actor? But the new direction he chose for America was a big success on balance, and Reagan turned into a great president. Evidently, this country was intended to be run by amateurs after all—by plain citizens, not only lawyers and bureaucrats.

Those who voted for Mr. Trump, and will vote for his candidates this November, worry about the nation, not its image. The president deserves our respect because Americans deserve it—not such fancy-pants extras as network commentators, socialist high-school teachers, and eminent professors, but the basic human stuff that has made America great, and is making us greater all the time.


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Unfortunately, this author missed much important information. First of all, Trump was asked to run for the Presidency by the high military officials because otherwise, they were going to perform a military coup to force Obama out of the office and keep Hillary out of office. Obama worked very hard to destroy our Constitution, piece by piece, prepare for WWIII by selling pure uranium to our enemy nations to be used against us in WWIII, many false flag events which involves shootings, like the one that took place in Orlando, and giving stand down orders to the police so that as many people as possible could be killed without police intervention so that Martial Law could be called and take away people’s guns. Obama, Hillary, Democrats, the Deep State, and the Cabal developed a plan which includes most of Obama’s administration and the Democrats and Rhino-Republicans, so that Hillary would become President and complete Obama’s plan to call Martial Law, take away everyone’s guns, get into WWIII with Russia for the purpose of destroying the USA, destroy our Constitution, and weaken the USA to the point that the New World Order would come in and bring forth a Luciferian dictatorship over the USA and the whole world, destroy all nations’ economies and force a One World Economic System, and a One World Religion (Luciferian). (See Revelation 13). Trump has the information regarding all the criminal and treasonous actions of our national, state and local politicians, justices, pedophiles, human and child trafficking for sexual purposes and for Satanic human and child sacrifice, promoting illegal drug trafficking, pay for play activities and far more. People do not realize what the plans were for Hillary to complete during her presidency. The Dems and Rhino-Republicans, Many Hollywood types, many CEOs like Amazon, Apple, Social media, mainline news media, etc. hate Trump because he and those militaries who are working with him have all the information about their crimes. They can’t just go and arrest them and prosecute them because too many FBI, judges, police, etc. are corrupt themselves and justice would not be served. Unless people understand the history of the past Presidents and corrupt governmental officials, you cannot understand why people hate Trump so much. Trump is a great threat to them. He knows their political games and he doesn’t play their games. He and his administration are working their plan so that at some point, these criminals and treasonous turkey buzzards shall be arrested, prosecuted and punished to the greatest degree. This includes the pedophiles and hopefully those who are a part of the Satanic ritual abuse of children and adults, Satanic child and human sacrifice. Open your eyes. The news media are liars and provide fake news. They are controlled by the Cabal and receive the information that they are to report each morning. Trump is highly intelligent. Yes, he is vulgar sometimes and says things that are total ‘socially’ inappropriate. However, he is one of the few people who has the power and strength to do what is necessary to fight these wicked people and their wicked plan to destroy this nation and the Patriots of this nation.

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