CONTRAST

From: John Porter
To: Americans everywhere
March, 2020
by: Kathleen Dynan
       In the current, uncertain health and financial environment, Americans must remember the real, positive changes we are seeing under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump. Americans are taking their power back from the self-anointed elites. 

For instance, elites can no longer escape punishment for their crimes. A prime example is former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. He is not likely to ever see another day of freedom. New York recently sentenced him to 23 years in prison and he still faces a trial in California for more, sexual-abuse charges. Another welcome development is that elites have found that freedom-loving American citizens will not be bought. Mike Bloomberg spent over $500 million, more than $13.5 million for each delegate he won, in his quest to buy the nomination for President. He failed as a candidate because it is obvious that he does not like people and is ill-prepared to govern. Now, he’ll throw away more money to try to buy the Presidency for Joe Biden. He will fail again.

       As of March 11, 2020, the Democrats held twenty-four primaries. In this greatly divided Democrat party, “Sleepy Joe Biden”, the mentally-deteriorating, phony middle-of-the-road candidate, won 7,262,724 votes. “Crazy Bernie Sanders”, who wants Americans lives and money controlled by government, won 5,654,361 votes. As the real costs of unfulfillable promises are exposed, even Democrats are rejecting Sanders’ Socialism / Communism. As of March 11, 2020, the Republicans held eighteen primaries. Donald Trump won 9,486,212 votes. He is not being challenged for the nomination. Americans did not need to go out and vote for him, but did. Americans want him to know he is loved, respected and supported, the same sentiments he holds for all Americans. This is proven in every action he takes to defend, protect and make life better for all American citizens and legal aliens. Unity and enthusiasm for the 2020 election belong to the Republicans.

        The current health crisis is proving to all Americans the significant benefits of having a leader who: quickly analyzes situations; listens to the advice of experts in their fields; employs both government and private sector assets to help; and makes and implements decisions in a timely manner. Within weeks of learning that China is the source of this coronavirus, President Trump stopped flights into the US from the area in China where the crisis started. He has since stopped EU and UK nationals from entering the US, because now they are also a major source of transmission of the virus. He has put together medical experts to assess and recommend actions to end this health crisis and financial and business experts to help Americans through this time. The numbers will continue to grow, but the United States has the best medical care in the world and will suffer far fewer cases and deaths proportionately than any country in the world. President Trump’s early and continuing decisive actions are invaluable in protecting us.

        In contrast, it took 1,000 plus American deaths before Obama and Biden declared swine flu, or H1N1, a public health emergency in April, 2009. It took an additional six months before they declared it a national emergency. By April, 2010, Americans suffered about: 60.8 million cases; 274,304 hospitalizations; and 12,469 deaths. They are politicians, not competent leaders.

        This contrasts the importance of having a President whose strong planning, delegating, management, negotiating and decision-making skills resulted in a highly successful business in the real world. The other option, career-long, clueless, elite politicians and interest groups focused on how well they, not we, emerge from a crisis has hurt us all in the past. Keep the “American Dream” growing stronger and more obtainable for all Americans. In November, vote only for strong conservatives who support President Trump and his agenda to benefit us.

John Porter
Harrison, Arkansas.