Thanks to the democrat love of chicanery this election cycle has been, and will continue to be, the most atypical in the history of American elections.
Some thoughts on the candidates.
Ron DeSantis
The victim of some very bad advice, DeSantis should have never entered the race. A fabulous Governor, he should have finished securing Florida while laying the groundwork to secure the 2028 nomination. If done correctly, which I believe he could have pulled off, he would have been unstoppable. He would make a great Attorney General for a Trump administration and the position would allow him to lay the groundwork for a 2028 run where he could do for America in eight years what he did for Florida.
Nikki Haley
Another victim of bad advice and perhaps more than a little bit of ego Nikki, despite what the media blathers on about, never had a serious opportunity to grab the nomination. She was a decent enough governor and as United Nations Ambassador was capable of doing as she was instructed. None of that especially qualifies her to be president. The fact is that her campaign was on life support until several dark, deeply leftist donors started pumping money into her campaign. She hasn’t worked very hard to distance herself from the full on commie goals of her financial backers and with a history of some really questionable comments one begins wondering just how much of her “conservative” persona is legitimate. In times as dangerous as these we can longer afford to speculate in that arena.
Viveak Ramaswamy
Like an unexpected breeze that flings a window open Viveak burst into the political scene. As a first generation American myself I can appreciate his love of America. He is clearly highly intelligent, has sincere conservative beliefs and has one of the most valuable assets I can think of, he never accepts the liberal premise when offered. In every arena I have seen him in the man is fearless. This is his first experience in full immersion politics and he has misstepped occasionally but that shouldn’t be surprising. I think Trump should make him Treasury Secretary. Should he continue on in politics I think the sky is the limit for him.
Chris Christie
Lets be honest here, this campaign was nothing more than a vanity project. It was perhaps the only thing that could pull him out of his favorite restaurant. Given the personal animus of Christie towards Trump his “campaign” was essentially a vehicle for him to exercise his leftist attack muscles while auditioning for a gig on CNN or PMSNBC. Never a real conservative he, like the lapdog he tends to be, did his democrat light friends (ie never Trumpers) work for them, attacking Trump in hopes of peeling off some of Trumps supporters.
Donald Trump
There is a theory that Trump as a candidate was on his way to the exits until democrats decided to make him prisoner number 6. The indictments, one after the other, on what many legal scholars consider spurious or highly suspicious charges, served to cement in the mind of many Americans the perception that only Trump could turn America around. After all, he had done it before and looking around them, they find themselves hoping he can do it again.
None of the other Republican primary hopefuls were remotely viable so I’m not going to cover them. The democrats essentially abandoned their primary process by fighting among each other to remove any challenger to Biden from the primary process.
Some political events.
The human wave assault on our border is at the top of nearly every survey taken about what concerns America the most. It should be because without a border you no longer have a country. Despite the medias best efforts to hide it, Americans instinctively understand that 10 million people from some 80 countries don’t randomly and suddenly decide to pull up stakes and bum rush the border. It takes money, a lot of money, to pay for the buses, planes, trains, food, water, maps and legal assistance to move that many people that quickly. It gets even thornier when Chinese military age men are waved in without so much as a cursory examination. The fact is no one, and I mean no one, gets out of China without permission. In China you cannot even leave your home without your cell phone or the police will track you down and your social credit score will take a massive hit. So just exactly how did those thousands of Chinese men get here?
The economy is another area where Americans have tremendous concerns. Most people instinctively understand that, despite what the Biden administration claims, jobs that were forced to disappear during covid are not newly created jobs when they come back after the restrictions are eliminated. They understand that inflation is at record high levels because even though their wages may have gone up slightly they are able to purchase less and less with those “larger” paychecks.
The charging of Trump over a series of imaginary or incredibly minor potential process crimes turned on the neon sign showing just how deep the corruption ran in both the government, media and in a surprise to many, academia. While it took some time for Americans to process all the charges flying around Trump they came to realize that charging Trump was simply an act of desperation in the save Joe Biden saga.
Which brings us to Joe Biden. His cognitive ability was always in question to anyone who was paying the least bit of attention. He survived the 2020 campaign basically on the political equivalent of muscle memory and press/deep state witness protection programs. He has spent his entire presidency being led by the nose by all the Kenyan little Barry’s minions that he kept in the government. The undeniable fact about cognitive decline is that it never gets better, one only continues to deteriorate. Biden, it would appear, is rapidly reaching the point where the medication that gives him moments of lucidity are no longer working. His public appearances are becoming fewer and shorter in length. He is increasingly calling a lid on his days earlier and earlier and his number of vacation days is rising quickly. For the shadow people running Biden it is now a race to see if they can drag him across the finish line before what’s left of his mind is completely gone and that fact can no longer he successfully hidden.
The power mad administrative state under Biden is running amuck in the lives of ordinary Americans and it can no longer be hidden or even partly covered up anymore. People are starting to understand that much, if not all, of the government has been successfully weaponized against them.
Some examples.
The IRS does not need 87,000 new, armed agents to pursue ten or twenty thousand millionaires.
The Border Patrol should not be a welfare/travel agency for illegals.
What is the value in gutting the military while the world starts the fires of war everywhere?
Exactly why does the Social Security Administration need paramilitary SWAT teams?
Why are the resources of the Veterans Administration being given to illegals when there is a backlog of nearly a million veterans in need?
Why is the government so deeply involved (with their partners in crime Google, Facebook etc) in the censorship of free speech of ordinary Americans?
Why does the FBI, now a widely considered a corrupt agency, need a massive new headquarters cathedral.
Why is the government so fiercely determined to put men in women’s bathrooms and locker rooms and pornography in grade schools?
Why is buying a Bible, the most popular book in history, considered a radical act by the government?
Why are peaceful, nonviolent abortion protestors facing a decade or more in prison time while thugs who assault police officers, shoplift tens of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise or are violent rioters given a total get out of jail free card?
I could go on and on but I think you can see the picture. America as founded is perniciously under siege and being slowly and methodically deconstructed.
Donald Trump was never my first choice. In fact I consider myself politically homeless. However, after comparing Trumps first term to the meat puppets first term, I will vote Trump without hesitation because a vote for anyone else is nothing more than the acceptance of a national suicide pact.