Cheap Seats 2023 By Rich Trzupek

No Compromise - 04/12

By Rich Trzupek
  My dear readers,
  Townhall columnist Kevin McCullough published a piece on April 9 examining President Trump’s future. It’s worth a read if you have the time. The first three paragraphs will give you the flavor:
  “They’ve tried literally everything short of ordering a hit on him, and he still stands. They have exhausted every avenue, option, and possibility, and they are left with a bag of nothing.
  They tried a fake dossier, a made-up narrative that the media put on repeat. They accused him of a high crime for a transcript of a phone call. They accused him of advocating violence when his words said precisely the opposite. Now they are trying to say he obstructed justice when he, in fact, followed the request of the FBI to the letter. Now they are trying to say that another phone call is evidence of a felony when again, his exact words prove otherwise. Now they have indicted him for something that if a crime is even evident (and clearly it is not), the statute of limitations ran out years ago. They tried to argue he avoided paying taxes, only for the record to show he followed the tax code with precision. They want to argue now that he intends to defraud the government of what he owes in taxes, even though during his four years in public office, he refused his $400k salary and returned it in full to the government coffers.
  No elected leader has been more maligned, lied about, and attempted to be neutralized as they have with former President Trump.”
  What’s fascinating about that opening salvo is how nobody, and I mean NOBODY, will read it in a neutral, middle-ground sort of way. If you’re on the left and you routinely torture yourself in the Cheap Seats, those three paragraphs serve as proof of what a despicable, immoral, son of a bitch Donald Trump is. I can almost hear the voices: “See! See! McCullough lays out all the crap this greaseball has gotten away with!”
  For the left, the Donald was guilty of all of it. Well, there are a few who might grudgingly admit that the whole Russian collusion thing was maybe a tiny-bit exaggerated. Maybe. But something weird went on in 2016. They’re sure of it. No WAY somebody like Trump could have won outright.
  If you’re on the right, which you may have noticed I am, you read those three paragraphs and you want to weep for your country. The ridiculous, unscrupulous means the left has employed to drive this one man out of politics is reprehensible. There’s a difference between the time-honored American political tradition of trashing one’s opponent and the latter-day Nazi tactic of attempting to silence the opposition.
  It’s not yet illegal to express traditional conservative values, but we’re sure as hell getting there. Just ask Riley Gaines, assuming you can get through the mob of trans-fascists to talk to her. Just ask Aubrey Hale’s victims in Nashville. Oh wait. You can’t. They’re dead, Christian collateral damage in the first mass murder in American history where the murderer was also the victim. And yes, there are some on the left who had the courage to condemn Hale’s action without reserve, but not nearly enough.
  There simply is not middle ground any more, and I don’t see how there can be. I’m not going to call somebody with the same reproductive parts as me “a girl.” I don’t care how the fella dresses, talks, applies make up, or anything else. If you got a ding-a-ling thing and xy chromosomes, you’re a dude.
  I believe that wealth is created by work and innovation and should not be distributed on the basis of how fast a printing press can run. I believe that racism, sexism and pollution in 2023 America are miniscule compared to America in 1963. I believe that the United States is, always has been and God-willing always will be, an overwhelming force for good in the world.
  People like me don’t believe these things because Donald Trump told me to believe them. I voted for Trump once and given the opportunity will do so again because he has the guts to say that he believes in them too.
  That’s what leaders do. They stand for something. They’re not afraid of words. They’re more than happy to argue with those who disagree with them. There are times when compromise is possible and there are times when it is not. We’re living in the latter kind of era, and Donald Trump is not the cause of it. He’s the result of it.
  Sincerely,
  Rich
  Preferred pronouns: “Commodore” and “your holiness.”
 Email: RichTrzupek@gmail.com