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Chickens, Eggs and Trump - 07/13

By Rich Trzupek
  The increasingly delusional Mainstream Media continues to convince itself that the phenomenon of Trumpism is about Trump. Pundit after expert after commentator on the left continues to cling to the idea that Donald Trump is a cause rather than an effect.
  It’s a mind-blowing combination of arrogance and stupidity. Donald Trump did not create conservative reaction to progressive excess. He was rather the product of that reaction. Tens of millions of Americans lifted Trump up because we recognized that 1) he understood how progressives were undermining the moral and equitable foundations that have made this nation great, and 2) while he wasn’t the only conservative leader willing to take on the triumvirate of Big Tech, the MSM and the Democrat socialists, he was the candidate most willing to jump into their mud-pits and play as dirty as they.
  We found Trump my dear liberal friends. He didn’t create us. You truly need to figure that out. When 2024 rolls around, me and tens of millions of people like me are going to support the GOP candidate we believe is most able to drive a stake through the heart of the socialist wing of the Democrat Party. (Looking at you AOC.) That may be the Donald. That may be DeSantis. That may be Cruz. It may be somebody else. Doesn’t matter. Any of the above is better than President Dementia and Vice President Giggles.
  The standard leftist narrative when attempting to understand Trumpism is basically this: the Donald tapped into the basest instincts of a tens of millions strong class of Americans who are basically rubes, racists and misogynists. He was and is effectively a political snake-oil salesmen, wickedly capable to tapping into peoples’ most selfish and disreputable fears in order to advance his disreputable agenda.
  For most of the left, Donald Trump is essentially the Pied Piper of Right Wing Delusion and anyone who supports him is an easily-duped, weak-minded fool.
  This kind of flawed thinking is particularly prevalent when the left considers the problem of rural Americans. The vast majority of rural Americans, no matter their race, creed, color, ethnicity, etc., identify with and support conservative candidates for public office. Why is that?
  For champaign liberals like ex-New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, farmers are basically rubes. He claimed he “could teach anybody to be a farmer” during a Democrat presidential debate. In fact, I doubt that Bloomberg could run a farm any more effectively than Oliver Douglas did on Green Acres.
  The truth is that modern farming is enormously complicated and requires a remarkable combination of skillsets. Farmers have to understand the economics of markets, where they have been and where they are likely to go. Farmers have to anticipate and react to meteorological conditions on a weekly – sometimes daily – basis.  Farmers have to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of investing in each new wave of technology that affects their business. Farmers utilize the latest tools to identify planting patterns, use fertilizers most effectively and minimize energy use.
  I’m a city rat, but farming has consistently fascinated me. And it has fascinated me because I adore science and modern agriculture combines so many aspects of disparate scientific disciplines that there is great joy to be found along the path of discovery.
  Farmers are the sort of people who don’t need to be led by somebody like Donald Trump, but who will readily line up behind a potential representative who understands and appreciate what they brink to the national table.
  So the next time you drive through rural America and see a bunch of signs praising the ex-President, traditional Judeo-Christian values and the importance of assuming personal responsibility, consider the possibility of that you are not among people who have been duped by a modern-day snake-oil salesman, but rather that you are among very wise people who are doing their best to save you from the consequences of going along with a Confederacy of Dunces.
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