Does MAGA equal extremism? The Bidenites want you believe that – it’s the only strategic message likely to topple Trump in 2024 if embraced by the broad electorate. So what’s the truth?
I was there at the dawn of the modern Make America Great Again movement when Candidate Trump first laid down his MAGA principles during the 2016 campaign. At the top of his list was fair trade rather than simply free trade.
Trump was the first president to expose the massive unfair trade practices not just of Communist China. Trump also rightly called out the corrosive cheating of countries ranging from Germany and India to Brazil and Vietnam.
There was nothing extreme about President Trump imposing tariffs on these trade cheaters to level the globalist playing field and protect American workers and factories. In fact, fair trade is the most sensible policy in the world – and it was this core MAGA principle that served as the primary catalyst for Trump’s 2016 sweep of the beleaguered battleground states in America’s rust belt.
As a second MAGA principle, a “Build That Wall” Trump embraced secure borders. Today, under the open borders policies of the Biden regime, America is now undergoing the worst invasion in our history – more than two million illegals a year.
While Biden’s Democrats think every new immigrant will help turn Red States purple or blue, Trump’s MAGA supporters know this: Illegal immigrants depress the wages of black, brown and blue collar Americans; import crime, disease, and drugs; overcrowd our schools and emergency rooms; and threaten our national security.
Consider here that the latest Biden wave of illegals includes national security threats ranging from Communist Chinese military infiltrators and Islamic extremists to drug cartel kingpins and human traffickers. There is nothing extreme about securing our borders from such assaults.
As a third core MAGA principle, Trump has promised to end the kind of endless wars propagated in places like Iran and Afghanistan by RINOs like Bush and Cheney and perpetuated by Democrats like Obama and Biden.
Trump’s message of peace has been particularly well-received in blue collar, flyover country where MAGA families provide the US military with a highly disproportionate share of the cannon fodder our endless warmongers have sent overseas. Many of these sons and daughters of MAGA return without limbs. Many do not return at all. Meanwhile, Trump’s middle class MAGA taxpayers have funded these endless wars to the tune of trillions and are fed up with this drain on the public fisc.
There is, therefore, nothing extreme about opposing new endless wars like those emerging in Ukraine and the Middle East. One MAGA battle cry here is to protect our own southern border before spending billions trying to secure Ukraine’s eastern flank while our NATO allies shirk their responsibilities. No sensible American can disagree with that.
Because this Iron MAGA Triangle of core principles is so appealing to a Trump base that increasingly includes Independents, Trump blue collar Democrats, and Blacks and Hispanics, Biden and the Democrats are trying to use the hot button issues of abortion, election integrity, and VAX mandates to advance their toxic “MAGA equals extremism” narrative.
Here it is true that many MAGA supporters are pro-life, particularly in our Christian communities. Yet few even in these ranks embrace the extremist view that abortion even in the case of rape and incest should be banned.
More to the point, a significant fraction of MAGA’s rainbow coalition nation is either agnostic on this divisive social issue or pro-choice. God help us all if the Democrats succeed in turning the 2024 race into an abortion referendum.
As for election integrity, after the 2020 election, I released a three-volume report on fraud and election irregularities in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. My conclusion then, as it remains today, is that Biden and the Democrats stole the election from Trump as surely as JFK stole it from Nixon; and I have no doubt history will eventually bear that out as surely as it has unmasked the JFK-Nixon steal.
To believe that the 2020 election was likely stolen is not extremist. It is skepticism based on hard facts; and history will likely treat legacy media outlets like CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post harshly for their malfeasance in not bringing tough investigative journalism to the table.
Now here’s some breaking news: Both Fauci and Pfizer, along with the FDA, hid important data about the very real dangers of the COVID-19 vaccine from President Trump and the American people. Within this cloud of disinformation, and amid needless lockdowns and Orwellian VAX mandates, we were force fed the Big Lies that the vaccine was safe and alternative treatments like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin were dangerous.
Today, we know from an increasing flood of data that just the opposite is true: The COVID-19 jabs have killed or injured millions. Hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin could have saved millions more if physicians had been able to freely prescribe them as off-label medicines.
Who, then, are the real extremists? Commonsense Americans who refused the jab or the vaccine industrial complex that foisted their poisons upon us? What’s your answer CNN?
It will be a long and winding road to the November 2024 election. Along the way, expect MAGA nation to continue to bear the slings and arrows of Never-Trump forces using the E-word. You now know at least a bit more of the truth. Perhaps this truth will help set MAGA nation – and America – free from the chains of Joe Biden.
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