OPINION: Reflections on Donald Trump

By John Corderman

Despite my objections about Donald Trump — primarily his absurd vanity — I voted for him in 2016.

Michael Moore was correct in that election cycle, saying that voting for Donald Trump was going to be the biggest “Fuck You” ever delivered by a disenchanted majority American electorate — and so it was.

I voted for him because I agreed with his stated goals, and I appreciated him being willing to call out the bullshit of the Uni-Party which is the Republicans and Democrats — plus he was entertaining as hell. Let’s be honest, the whole thing was a fascinating spectacle that none of us could turn away from.

I think we might all agree, the Election of 2016 was not boring.

I did not expect him to get anything done, because I knew the powers that be would absolutely rip him up and confound his every effort from day one—which they did. However, despite their insidious efforts, I was pleasantly taken aback that Trump did succeed in making substantial directional changes in a number of areas, including foreign policy and trade, and also a much improved security policy on our borders. I was impressed with his ability to move the ball despite the headwinds of the national-level elected Republican and Democrat establishment and a completely hostile media.

I was surprised that Donald Trump actually tried to keep his word and execute on the ideas he espoused in his campaign. I didn’t think he’d be so intrepid.  His efforts and successes gained him the appreciation and support of many millions of Americans whose support he continues to hold today.

Then in the last year of his Presidency came the COVID tragedy and Donald Trump gave in to the Establishment, calling for fear, societal isolation and lockdowns, business closures (except Big Boxes), no early treatment, no doctor creativity, multi-thousand dollar checks sent to everybody, multi-tens-of-thousands and million dollar checks sent to businesses indiscriminately, demonstrably made-up-out-of-thin-air policies on mask mandates and social distancing, and then the massive Federal Money Spigot opened directly to Big Pharma to create and produce a novel gene therapy injectable product, and simultaneous permission to break all the regulatory rules to do it, and then a ramping-up of the Fear and Shame campaign (including mandates) to pressure everybody to be injected with the special experimental juice.

In conjunction with all this, President Trump and leaders all over the nation, allowed the States to change their voting rules, including time-lines, and verification protocols, all because of the over-hyped COVID crisis.

And here we are nearly three years later, and nothing’s been changed back to standard voting operating procedure.

Donald Trump failed in every critical respect during the COVID fiasco. He allowed himself to be steamrolled by Big Pharma interests, demonstrable medical lies regarding the disease itself, and the demonstrably wrong and destructive policy procedures implemented against it. And then, Trump had the gumption to claim — even now, in late August 2023 — that no aspect of his COVID response was poor… but that, in fact, he’s a hero for what he did, especially, as he likes to say, “creating the vaccines,” despite the fact that the only thing he did was just open wide the money spigot to Big Pharma.

Now, very few people talk about all this — at least not openly, and certainly not in the mainstream scam-media, nor in the halls of political power. Nobody wants to really contemplate how badly they were conned on the whole COVID narrative — especially if they themselves acted like a bunch of Karens and Shamers during the whole joke of a fiasco. And least of all, Donald J. Trump.

So we come full circle. It was his vanity that I was always concerned about.

Donald Trump’s COVID failures, and particularly his continued refusal to admit these failures, has made it impossible for myself and many millions of others to ever vote for him again.

And that is why in this election cycle of 2024 — despite the total tragedy, insufficiency, incompetency, and corruption of the Biden/Harris Administration — the Republicans will simply not have enough votes to win in 2024.

The Republicans are just as corrupt and bankrupt of democratic intentions as the Democrats.

Nobody talks about the many, many millions of American voters, like myself, who might be inclined to vote for a Republican, but who probably won’t even bother to cast a ballot in 2024 because, after COVID, we cannot help but make the sad conclusion that our votes mean absolutely nothing in the macro view, that the true state of affairs in the United States is actually a tyranny by a Uni-Party that has no care or concern about American democratic institutions, protocols, or values.

This game will continue because a majority of Americans still tune-in to the concocted daily entertainments of the corporate media cartoon reel which is there to simply divert attention from actual important issues and questions that affect the future of human liberty and freedom in our nation and around the world. But there is a substantial minority of Americans, like myself, who realize how badly we’ve been scammed and see with new eyes how irretrievably rotten the system is.

Buckle up, folks. We’re entering what will be a sustained time of upheaval in this country and around the world. The standard average condition of human beings during all known human history is tyranny. The American Republic has thus far been but a brief experiment in comparison.

To maintain the American variety of human liberty and freedom — regardless of its innumerable imperfections and errors throughout history — will be a herculean task to accomplish. It remains to be seen whether the American people, in large enough numbers, will have the fortitude and sense of sacrifice required to stand up against the ever-threatening tyranny.

John Corderman is a commercial real estate acquisition analyst and writer living in Phoenix, Arizona.

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