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Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”
In the wake of the United States seizure of cartel gangster and illegitimate Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, the worldwide Left from Hollywood to China predictably erupted in outrage and began blustering about “international law” and calling for the impeachment of President Trump. And not just the Left – an X account called Republicans Against Trump, which has nearly a million followers (most of them probably Russian bots), posed this smug question: “Hey MAGA, still happy with your vote?”
I don’t presume to speak for the entire MAGA movement (although based on the flood of similar responses to that post on X, apparently I do), but my answer is an unreserved “Yes. I voted for this.”
I voted for a President and administration that successfully conducts laser-focused law enforcement strikes instead of losing forever wars and then abandoning billions of dollars’ worth of military equipment and weaponry for our enemies to appropriate.
I voted for a President and administration that takes swift, effective, decisive action to make the Western hemisphere, our neighborhood, safer and free of the insidious influence of our enemies.
I voted for a President and administration that renamed the Department of Defense the Department of War – not because I want us to go to war, but because I want our enemies on alert that we don’t start fights but we finish them.
I voted for a President and administration that is not buying into the failed liberal global order of “international law” and America-hating transnational institutions like the United Nations. “International law” has never been anything but a strategy of our enemies to reign in American sovereignty and the exercise of American power for American interests. If that sounds illiberal or imperialistic, I don’t care, Margaret.
I voted for a President and administration that is unashamedly reclaiming our previously unchallenged status as the reigning world superpower. (Remember when Barack Obama made sure he was photographed carrying around Fareed Zakaria’s book The Post-American World? Yeah, screw that.) If not us, who – Russia? China? The Arab Middle East? Pretending that our enemies don’t each want to be the preeminent world power is stupidly naïve. The world is not a better place when America settles for being just another player on the world stage.
I voted for a President and administration that secured our border and is conducting a campaign to remove illegal immigrants, especially repeat felons and gang members.
I voted for a President and administration that obliterates drug traffickers with targeted strikes, and then posts videos of those strikes online.
I voted for a President and administration that kills jihadists with targeted strikes who were waging genocide against African Christians.
I voted for a President and administration that champions the frontier spirit of freedom and individualism and that rejects the totalitarian “warmth of collectivism.”
I voted for a President and administration that called out the racism and anti-meritocracy of DEI initiatives and took action to root them out, everywhere from Ivy League universities to corporate Human Resources Departments.
I voted for a President and administration that stopped flying the multitude of variegated LGBTQ flags alongside the Stars and Stripes, and that pushes back against the transgender activism destroying women’s sports.
There is more, but I think my point is clear.
To be clear on another point: there are some things this President and administration have done that I did not vote for. To name a recent example: I absolutely did not vote for the pressuring of Israel to ease up on Hamas, a sadistically evil organization that Israel should have been encouraged to wipe out to the last man. On a related note, I did not vote for the U.S. to take over the rebuilding of Gaza. But in all fairness, one can’t expect to support a President’s every single action.
There are also things this President and administration have not yet done that I voted for and don’t understand what they’re waiting for, such as labeling the Muslim Brotherhood and all its affiliates terrorist organizations, or indicting and imprisoning everyone involved in the J6 prosecutions.
I have my issues with Donald Trump, but in the main, I am happy to stand with a President who is despised by all the right people: the Democrat Party, RINOs, the Iranian mullahs, the Chinese Communist regime, Communist Muslim Zohran Mamdani, corrupt Congressional cowards like Chuck Schumer, privileged Hollywood blowhards, Left-wing activists worldwide who are rallying in support of Maduro, and more. Any President who earns their ire must be doing something very, very right. Any President who earns their approval is at best an American failure and at worst a traitor.
I identify, as Progressives love to say, with the MAGA movement because after the catastrophic White House tenures of subversives Barack Obama and Joe Biden (not to mention the stumbling Dubya years), I want America to be great again. I want it to be the greatest country on earth. Whatever his flaws, Donald Trump and his team want the same thing and are taking decisive actions to bring that about, and they are indifferent to the jealous, self-righteous carping of anti-American critics at home and abroad. That’s what I voted for.
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You would think Trump sent Delta Force to arrest Starmer and Macron (Although most French and British citizens might approve.). He lawfully took into custody an illegitimate dictator and narco-terrorist responsible for directly or indirectly killing tens of thousands of Americans, working with and harboring terrorists as well as assisting Iran, China, and Russia. American Presidents have protected American interests overseas since the Presidency of Thomas Jefferson (Barbary pirates). Yet so much whining and ringing hands. This is what the war on drugs is supposed to be. Not the kabuki that we have had for the last half century.
Well said Mr. Tapson. I agree completely and will share your article with those who have ears to hear!! God bless you sir.
Every so often they do something for the middle class. The people who just want to be left alone and expect some resemblance of fairness. It’s so incredibly rare and almost always bloody and costly when the reversal finally happens. This liberation of the Venezuelan people is something that makes me incredibly happy. So much good was done for so many.
OTOH Donald did you you not see the trap that Bill Barr set when he filed the indictments in the NY jurisdiction? Why did you allow Maduro on American soil? How can you be so stupid not to have figured a way around our radical liberal judge problem by now?The liberals would have found one by now, you don’t even try. Pleading with Thune and saying someone should do something is just pouring gasoline on the fire.
This is one of the greatest things ever done by an American president. I hope it doesn’t end up being Trump stupidly shooting himself in the face once again.
A little harsh on President Trump, but I agree that sending Maduro to a NY court seems like asking for trouble. Namely, a severe slap on the wrist and a stern talking to, before acquitting him.
“….(not to mention the stumbling Dubya years….”
Dubya was the reason I left the republican party and became an independent. In recent years, I quit calling myself a conservative because most so-called “conservatives” that I know are also never-Trumpers who support the GW Bush wing of the republican party. In my book that makes them neocon.
Neocons are as equally contemptible as RINOs and hence the reason why I’m contemptuous of the republican party. In my opinion, there’s at most a thin dime’s difference between the republican party and the democrat party.
Once Trump is out it’s very likely that I will never vote for another American president. Especially if they’re a professional politician. I have more respect for maggots than I do for a politician. At least maggots serve a useful purpose.
“To REIGN in American sovereignty? ” I believe you mean REIN in.
perhaps it’s rain in ?
the king Muggs reined in control in the rain.
Then it would be “rain on.”
I think it’s reign as in the reign of King Trump, or rain like rain down hell on our enemies, or maybe rein in the Deep State.
Oh the gramma knot seas are certainly out in droves this morning.
I love it!!!!
FWIW: For people who are rather apprehensive about America’s place in today’s world, to imagine what the world would be like today if America never existed.
For starters, we’d all be speaking German and “heil Hitlering” the German flag every morning. And there would be no Jews in existence anywhere on the planet and most of the world’s population, the people that the third reich haven’t outright disposed of, would be slaves to the “master race.”
Incredibly and unfortunately, there are people today, a few in this forum, who pine for such a world.
Chickenshit Schumer seems to have forgotten he taunted Trump as a coward for not snatching Maduro during his 1st term.
We all knew these leftist dumbshits would default to hating this hard-core accomplishment (They don’t think; they emote.)
Schumer is like a cowardly rat who hides from the cat safely withing the walls and talks sh*t and brags to al the other rats about how that cat is a punk and how he’s kick that cat’s ass the next time he sees the cat but never dares to venture outside the walls for fear of running into the cat!
Schumer is the typical loud mouth liberal punk who talks a lot of sh*t but never backs it up.
Instead of flying him out Trump should have ordered Maduro be put on one of his leaky drug boats and pulled along by a rope.
Isn’t there enough pollution in the ocean?
Republicans Against Trump. RAT- a very appropriate anagram don’t you think?
Any chance Mr Trump might invade the Chagos Islands before they are handed over (the UK House of Lords has sent the agreement back to the negotiating table), and allow their indigenous people to live there? Please?
Trump rules OK, but.
As a Danish citizen I read this article of yours with great interest, as always, looking in vain for the word Greenland. Have you made up your mind about Greenland, Mr. Tapson?
I do like president Trump’s sense of humour about DK’s reenforcing its surveillance of Greenland with another dogsledge, i.e. The Sirius Patrol of Northern Greenland to show the flag with more. But humour aside, I cannot fathom the depths of Trump’s demand to rule Greenland because it’s already a NATO member along with Denmark. I hear from my government officials that USA was always invited to come forward with its military wishes and proposals. What more could you want! Nuclear bomb testing on the ice sheet, may be?
I deeply deplore our prime minister didn’t keep her word of 2019 to Trump to install radar surveillance, and further navy policing of Greenland. I think she cheated, confident that Trump would not get elected again.
Like Mr. Tapson I want to see America great again.
Damn straight I voted for this. Keep it coming. Finish the job.
Yesterday I watched a session of Parliament. and Fox Live. The Labour party pansies were whining about international rule of law. Meanwhile their country has been overrun with Muslims and nary a peep from the so-called conservatives. I believe we can ill afford to keep the UK as a reliable ally