This column was started in 2014, and for over four years I wrote a column every workday, until I reached 1,000 articles. That means, though, that there has only been one other Election Day column on a presidential election day, so I went back to see what I had actually written, what pithy advice I had given, what remarkable insights I had shared with the world.
You what I wrote? Why I like cats and don't like dogs as much. I'm serious; it is right here. Election Day 2016.
So today, I feel that perhaps I might want to share some thoughts that might have a bit more relevance to the presidential (and Congressional) elections taking place today, that perhaps may end in the declaration of a winner.
I voted already. My home state has early voting, but I chose to send for an absentee ballot, fill it out and hand-deliver it to my county's government center at the Board of Elections, and verify that it was counted. I voted for Donald Trump for reelection as president.
But of course I did. I am a conservative, unapologetic indeed. I believe that the long view of our nation is one where people of all backgrounds have unlimited opportunity to succeed. I believe that view has a support net for the truly needy, but that motivates everyone to get off that net if physically possible.
I believe in a long view of the nation where government keeps us safe, both domestically and internationally. I believe in law and order, properly and compassionately administered. And I believe in the idea that we reward talent, intelligence, diligence and accomplishment as a society and an economy.
Finally, I believe that the governance of that view is the Constitution. Most particularly, it is the "powers not delegated" phrasing that effectively states that if a role is not assigned to the Federal government in the text of the Constitution (such as the national defense, the post, interstate commerce and coinage), it is the province of the states (such as, you know, education and morality). I detest Federal overreach into areas the government has no business being in.
Donald Trump can be a frustrating man to support. But the bottom line is simple. The vision of the country that I just expressed is his vision. Therefore I can be assured that his energy directed toward policy will be in the promotion of legislation and executive orders that closely align with that vision.
The opposition Democrats do not agree with any of that. Their vision is of an all-powerful centralized government run by the elites, with policies that govern the election system so as to ensure their power. It is, indeed, all about power for them. It requires a socialist system to prevent non-elites with the aforementioned talent, intelligence and work ethic to succeed and challenge them.
There is no excuse for the way this year's riots have been managed in cities and states all run by Democrats. The police are ordered to stand back and let the looters loot and the rioters vandalize and burn, even when the minority owners of some of those businesses, already ravaged by the Wuhan virus impact, protest that it is hurting them.
There is no excuse for the Democrats' impeachment of President Trump for literally asking about the potential influence peddling by the Biden family and for the Ukrainians to please look into it. I can't possibly support that incredible "judicial" overreach by the House.
There is no excuse for Obamacare, particularly the way it was rammed down the throat of our nation with the pomposity of the elites, with the notorious declaration by Nancy Pelosi that we'd "have to pass it to see what's in it." People who say things that condescending ought not to be allowed within a country mile of power. Because "what's in it" forced 63-year-old couples to pay for coverage for maternity and pediatric dentistry but stripped our own dental coverage from the plans the law outlawed.
There is no excuse for Joe Biden. The man clearly was engaged in selling access through his son and brother, and an apolitical judiciary would have no problem declaring those actions to be treasonous in that they involved our adversaries. And there is no excuse for the actions of the news media and Big Tech in stomping on the evidence of that access-selling and trying to prevent you from knowing about it.
I honestly don't care much how President Trump expresses himself. One could argue that if he weren't who he is, then he couldn't get done what he does, and there is some truth in that. It is all about what he does; and what he does is to get things done -- with achieving energy independence, with ISIS, with Israel, with the USMCA, with the removal of onerous regulations, with the cutting of corporate and individual tax rates -- the way a businessman with an eye on efficiency would.
Yes, I voted for President Trump and it wasn't even close.
Copyright 2020 by Robert Sutton
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