Right now, in 2016, tens of millions of American citizens feel exactly like the citizens of these terrorized ancient kingdoms in the classic stories. They see their once great nation ravaged by terrible forces. Their leaders seem to have gone mad – intentionally leaving the nation’s borders unguarded, allowing hordes of invaders to swarm into their country, plunder their wealth and commit heinous crimes. Their supreme ruler is widely seen as hating his own country, continually betraying longtime allies while aiding her mortal enemies. The nation’s youth are corralled into ivy-covered brainwashing centers and indoctrinated into bizarre beliefs and destructive behaviors. The land’s once-robust economy has been decimated, with onerous taxes and regulations strangling businesses, and the nation’s major industries – along with the millions of jobs they provide – leaving their homeland for foreign shores. On top of all this, a genocidal, worldwide mind-control cult has declared war on their troubled nation, murdering and maiming people at will, yet their leader won’t even utter the enemy’s name, let alone fight it. Millions suspect he sides with the enemy.
Thus it is that massive numbers of good Americans are desperately looking for a champion – a rescuer – a brave, bold knight in shining armor who will fight and destroy the monster that has for too long been devouring their nation and its inhabitants.
To many, that man is Donald Trump. However, real life is not a bedtime story, and presidents and candidates are full of flaws, even great flaws. Worse, sometimes our would-be heroic figures are not at all what they appear to be.Nevertheless, the Trump phenomenon is an astonishing and utterly unique development in American history. Let’s take a fresh look.
Enter Trump, now virtually assured to be the GOP’s “champion” in November’s battle with Hillary. Every pundit has a different explanation for the “Trump phenomenon.” Some analyses are insightful, some shallow, some simply idiotic.
Though his critics denigrate the billionaire real-estate developer and entrepreneur as “a carnival barker,” “reality TV star,” “huckster” and worse, one thing is undeniable: Trump has, in some ways, already started slaying dragons. .......................................................
So, would Trump be able to vanquish the many dragons bedeviling America if elected president? While no one can foretell the future, already Trump has neutered not only the news media, but another of the intimidating beasts guarding the inner sanctum of elite power – the monster called “political correctness.”
Remember, if a Trump presidency poses reasonable questions and doubts as to what kind of president he’d actually be, a Hillary presidency poses none; she has a decades-long record as a breathtakingly dishonest, corrupt, dissembling, ambitious, soulless, left-wing political elitist who lies as easily as breathing and whose presidency would further debase the very soul of America, especially its youth. Moreover, as president, she would appoint several progressive-left, Constitution-despising Supreme Court justices, who would in turn determine America’s destiny for the next generation and inevitably result in the end of fundamental rights like that guaranteed by the Second Amendment.
Yet, to some “conservatives” in the “Never-Trump” movement, Donald is worse than all that. I think it is reasonable to describe this better-Hillary-than-Trump attitude as insane, infantile and suicidal for the nation.
Donald Trump has serious flaws. But he also has remarkable talents and abilities that many miss, or misinterpret. After all, he didn’t become one of the planet’s most dazzlingly successful real-estate developers, entrepreneurs and best-selling authors by being a stupid, ignorant, racist buffoon, as his critics would have you believe
Trump, like all other candidates, is a strange brew of good and bad qualities. Despite those defects, he has a powerful leader-fighter personality that many believe is exactly what a decimated and demoralized America needs right now. He speaks from the heart and millions strongly resonate with him.
The real question is: Is Trump’s heart good? (Most everything else can be helped out by the right advisers.)
I think it is.
Besides, Trump may just turn out to be the bold outsider – the flawed but fearless knight – who surprises everyone and slays the dragon.
And that would certainly be better than electing a new dragon in Hillary Clinton.