Further Inside the Mind of a Fanatical Trump-hater
A participant in another forum, a fanatical Trump-hater I have referred to in at least one previous post - I’ll call him Dick - is given to personal, petty attacks on Donald Trump that invariably ignore the man’s massive accomplishments for America during his first term and the ongoing critical issues that will be positively impacted should he succeed in his run for a second term - issues like border security, energy independence, Chinese aggression and the war in Ukraine. Most recently - again without addressing any issue of substance - Dick has labeled Donald Trump a “vainglorious blabbermouth” who was only elected because Hillary Clinton was such a bad candidate.
Here below is my response:
So what? What has being “a vainglorious blabbermouth” got to do with Trump's actual qualifications to serve a second term as president? - especially considering we have before us, chiseled in marble, the record of his first term - what he actually did as president.
Indeed, finding a politician anywhere who isn't to some degree “a vainglorious blabbermouth” is - borrowing a phrase from one of Iain Flemming's James Bond novels - “harder than finding a Mormon in a whorehouse" - a backhanded compliment we members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are happy to acknowledge.
Vainglory and blabber are tools of the political trade. What ultimately matters, of course, is not what a politician says or how he says it, but what he actually ends up doing. Trump - actually doing what he said he would do and doing more for America in his first term than any president in recent history - passed that test with flying colors the first time around. In my view there exists no honest, substantive argument to the contrary that actually addresses the facts of what Trump accomplished for America. I have seen no such argument presented anywhere.
In Trump's case, what matters is not his personal foibles - again, he who has none, let him cast the first stone - but his unerring ability to identify, understand and focus in on critical issues facing America at a time when the continued existence of the Republic is very much at risk. I believe Trump does a better, more hard-hitting job of this than any other politician on the national stage.
Despite the massive opposition brought against him by America’s seditious and treasonous fifth column, Trump has the demonstrated ability - and the backbone - as per the record of his first term in office, to actually fight the battle, to confront and prevail in critical issues on behalf of the American people. (Check out my previous post titled “No-Brainer”.) These, I believe, are irrefutable arguments of real substance in Trump's favor that Trump-hating fanatics and ignorant useful idiots like Dick and his mindless Trump-hating ilk simply redact from their Trump-hating surreality.
However many times Trump's accomplishments are cited - achievements as president that made a real, positive difference for the country - Trump-haters like Dick simply ignore them, as if they didn't exist. La-La Land dwellers that they are, the truth is not in them, nor are the means or the desire to get at the truth. Truth - the way things really are and really work - does not serve their purposes. They have other priorities. Their ilk are the intellectual, moral and spiritual rot in the bones of America. They simple cannot get past their arrogance and mindless hate in order to enter the realm of reason.
All one need do to conclude that Dick and his Trump-hating fellow travelers are utterly without substance and credibility and should be dismissed by honest fair-minded people as vacuous, intellectually, morally and spiritually deficient clowns is apply my little aphorism to their comments regarding Trump:
The credibility of WHAT you see argued is directly a function of HOW it is argued.
Find the truth in the methodology of argument. The truth cuts its own way and can be argued for in an honest, open manner that does not insult the intelligence of those it seeks to persuade. Deceit and ignorance cannot be so argued.
Applying that test, Dick’s posts - as is true of the great preponderance of attacks on Trump - are seen to be uniformly ad hominem in nature and always empty of substance. He never credits Trump’s accomplishments, never addresses arguments presented, no matter how well supported, that challenge his biases, never offers reasoned arguments in support of his views, and never backs up his calumny with any sort of evidence - certainly nothing a thinking, fair-minded person would credit. All we see from Dick is obsessive Trump hatred.
The next time you run across an anti-Trump tirade, wherever it might appear, apply this test and see what you come up with.
When push comes to shove, that seems to be all there is to Dick. Nothing more. The same is true of the many among us who share his corrupt mindset. Imagine what lies ahead for America if our fate is determined by people like him.
Right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, reality vs. fantasy, light vs. darkness, law vs. lawlessness, justice vs. injustice, liberty vs. tyranny, good vs. evil, God vs. the Godless…
Time to choose. You will, one way or another.
If you can be fooled, you will be.
These are the times that try men’s souls…
Torquemada