I Was Wrong About Trump

M.B. Mathews-Opinion : Jul 28, 2022
The American Thinker

"...This enumeration of Trump's virtues does not fully capture his uncommon courage and firmness of purpose. Trump is the most towering political figure in living memory... Trump inspired a movement. If properly deployed this movement might challenge the woke-comms, and God willing, save the country..." -Tom Klingenstein

[AmericanThinker.com] I recently wrote a column about why I believed Trump should not run in 2024. I was wrong. I allowed my distaste for Trump's personality to override his virtues, which are considerable. Some people want Trump without his vices. I was among them -- until yesterday, when I watched and listened to Tom Klingenstein's speech titled "Trump's virtues." It was masterful and shamed me that I did not make the distinction between Trump's character and his virtues ... The speech was among the most pointed I have heard and deserves some exposure. (Screengrab image)

Klingenstein:

Other Republicans say some version of "I like Trump policies but I don't like the rest of him." This gets it almost backwards. Although Trump advanced many important policies, it is the 'rest of him' that contains the virtue that inspires the movement... Trump was born for the current crisis, a life and death struggle against a totalitarian enemy I call woke communism... that control all the cultural and economic powers in America...

[Trump] revealed, not caused, the divide in this country ... Unlike most politicians, when Trump sees a problem, he goes out and fixes it. He fixed our porous borders ... He achieved energy independence... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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