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I was born in 1957.\u00a0 My father and uncles fought in World War II and the Korean War.\u00a0 I was raised to believe that Americans were the good guys.\u00a0 And then Walter Cronkite and John Kerry said we were the bad guys in Vietnam.\u00a0 A few years later Lyndon Johnson told us we were racists.\u00a0 A decade later Jimmy Carter told us to let the enemies of the United States do as they pleased because we had sinned against them.\u00a0 And every day the Media and the Left did everything they could to tear down our country and our spirit.\u00a0 We had stagflation (stagnant economy and 20% inflation), the Iran Hostage Crisis and the Carter Malaise.\u00a0 That was a low point.<\/p>\n

And then a miracle happened.<\/strong>\u00a0 Ronald Reagan told us we weren\u2019t the problem and that we really were the good guys.\u00a0 And it was like a cloud drifted past and the sun was shining on us again.\u00a0 And like magic, everything got better.\u00a0 And Americans were proud and happy again.\u00a0 And even the lousy leftists seem to remember they were Americans a little and it was morning in America again.<\/p>\n

And George H. W. Bush said it was his turn to be President and he had learned his lesson and he would be just like Reagan only smarter and kinder.\u00a0 And we wanted to believe him and compared to Mike Dukakis he could have been John Wayne.\u00a0 So he got his turn.\u00a0 And we got a New World Order complete with higher taxes, NAFTA, shuttered factories, high unemployment, recession and Middle East War.<\/p>\n

And that got us Bill Clinton and Hillary, Don\u2019t Ask Don\u2019t Tell, Monica, Dot Com Bubble, Al Gore, more shuttered factories, Chinese trade imbalance and moral rot.<\/p>\n

Everything was a muddle and a mess.\u00a0 When George W Bush said he was a Christian Conservative from Texas we hoped that he would right the ship.\u00a0 Avoiding Al Gore seemed like dodging a huge bullet.\u00a0 We hoped that we could start to repair some of the damage from his father and the Clintons.\u00a0 And the 9-11 happened.\u00a0 And that was like a punch to the throat.\u00a0 And W did a lot of things right.\u00a0 He joined the country in a crusade to crush Al Qaeda and the Taliban.\u00a0 And the young men of that generation answered the call and went to Afghanistan and crushed our enemies.\u00a0 And there was hope that we could subdue the Muslim extremists and end the Middle Eastern threats once and for all.\u00a0 But a unfunny thing happened.\u00a0 W had his own vision of a New world Order.\u00a0 And it involved draining off the blood and treasure of our country to turn the Middle East into Kansas.\u00a0 And he squandered both of those precious commodities until there was nothing left.\u00a0 And when he was finished Iraq wasn\u2019t Kansas and the Democrats took the Congress and the Presidency.\u00a0 All W accomplished was killing and maiming a generation of young Americans, bankrupting the country and making Barack Hussein Obama president.<\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s presidency was like a foreign occupation.\u00a0 It was hard to decide which was worse, the injury or the insult.\u00a0 He took every opportunity to belittle and shame Americans and he did whatever damage he could do.\u00a0 Permanent double digit unemployment and wage stagnation had robbed a generation of the American dream and beggared their parents.\u00a0 Obamacare was the biggest legislative victory he scored against us but it also seemed to galvanize the country against him.\u00a0 The worst damage he did was the BLM activism that he aided and abetted.\u00a0 The other mischief he sponsored was spreading alien refugees wherever he could.\u00a0 And one other thing that he got behind was the whole gay marriage, transgender movement.\u00a0 He discovered that he had \u201cevolved\u201d to recognize a constitutional right to gay marriage and this dove-tailed with the lunacy that drove Justice Anthony Kennedy to inflict a Supreme Court decision forcing another insane assault on the American family.<\/p>\n

And so, in 2015 we had hit bottom.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t seem that anything could be done to save America from poverty and degradation.\u00a0 Our choices, such as they were, were Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Jeb! Bush.\u00a0 And we all knew neither of those two could beat Hillary.\u00a0 After all Bernie was supposed to lose and the super delegate system would make sure of that.\u00a0 Jeb was much too much of a gentleman to consider doing anything more than weakly protest at the unfair campaign attacks that Hillary\u2019s machine would unleash and then good naturedly concede defeat.\u00a0 And when Antonin Scalia died suddenly during the election year it seemed as if nothing could save us from the dismantling of the First and second Amendments.\u00a0 This truly was the political low point of my entire life.<\/p>\n

And then a miracle happened.<\/strong>\u00a0 Donald J. Trump.\u00a0 It seemed utterly impossible.\u00a0 But there were some voices that I followed who said he was the answer and our last hope.\u00a0 And interestingly they were on the Alt-Right (one specifically, Vox Day).<\/p>\n

And they were right.<\/p>\n

So twice in my adult life a leader has emerged who everyone said was crazy.\u00a0 And they said he was wrong and would cause disaster and maybe nuclear war.\u00a0 And both times he was the right man at the right time.\u00a0 And just as with Reagan it\u2019s as if a cloud has drifted out of the way and the sun is shining down on us bright and warm.<\/p>\n

And this is what I\u2019ve learned.\u00a0 Don\u2019t trust the elites, especially Republicans.\u00a0 Not in the Media, not in Academia, not in Industry and not in Washington.\u00a0 Don\u2019t be mistaken into thinking that the Left are Americans even if they themselves are convinced they are.\u00a0 They\u2019re not, they\u2019re globalists.\u00a0 America is just an inconvenient stepping stone on the way to the global hive.\u00a0 Don\u2019t trust anyone who has been in politics for his whole life and for pity\u2019s sake don\u2019t make him VP.\u00a0 Look for a courageous and confident leader who knows what the story is.\u00a0 Look for someone who is unafraid to speak the painful truth and hurt powerful people\u2019s feelings.\u00a0 Look for someone who understands how the whole dirty business works and can\u2019t be bought off.\u00a0 Look for someone who isn\u2019t ashamed to be an American.\u00a0 And then back him to the Gates of Hell.\u00a0 We may still end up crushed by the Left.\u00a0 But at least we\u2019ll know it is happening and we won\u2019t be fooled again.<\/p>\n

And remember, we got Reagan and Trump but there won’t be a third miracle, three strikes and you’re out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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