GORDON SONDLAND: I was wrong about Trump and Democrats can't stand it

Things could, and did, get worse for America aft January 6th. I served successful nan Trump management but I withdrew my support from nan president aft that acheronian day. Four years later, I’m back. And here’s why. The Biden-Harris management weakened our power, our pocketbooks and our values. After surviving nether this reality for astir 4 years, location is nary choice: We request erstwhile President Donald J. Trump back successful nan White House. 

I’ve explained my alteration of bosom crossed nan nationalist media from MSNBC to CNN to NPR. Yet alternatively of considering nan contented of my argument, astir journalists person gone apoplectic astir my determination that supporting Republican policies is much important than punishing a erstwhile president they loathe. If Vice President Kamala Harris tin "change her mind" to soften separator enforcement, why can’t personification connected nan different broadside of nan aisle alteration his perspective? 

I can’t excuse January 6th aliases nan erstwhile president’s lackluster consequence to that acheronian day. But our strategy stood, nan riot quelled, and nan transportation of powerfulness completed. 

Skeptics wonderment if there’s immoderate benignant of insidious logic down my stance today. 

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They ask: Has he offered maine a job? No. Did he blackmail me? No. Do you deliberation he won nan 2020 election? No (sadly). Have you mislaid your civilized compass? No. In fact, my civilized compass heads owed northbound toward what’s champion for our country. 

As nan twentieth U.S. ambassador to nan European Union, I cognize and worked intimately pinch Trump. He’s a showman who likes to shock. That’s obvious. What mightiness beryllium little evident is that he’s besides a swift and thoughtful determination maker. He doesn’t hem and haw or, for illustration his opponent, request a book to enactment connected message.  And dissimilar nan different side, Trump cares astir fostering our country’s meritocracy, not mediocrity. He believes competition, not socialism, is champion for our society. 

Harris represents a statement astatine likelihood pinch this perspective. Indeed, Democrats are staging a strategical battle connected our two-party antiauthoritarian strategy and pushing policies that will further erode American prestige, pocketbooks and families. Harris has vowed to battalion nan Supreme Court, destruct nan filibuster, dramatically loosen elector regulations and empower unelected authorities labor to determine which cars we thrust and connected which stoves we cook. She wants to constabulary what our children study and really we speak. She says she wouldn’t do thing different from President Joe Biden. That’s troubling astatine best. 

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a run rally astatine Throwback Brewery successful North Hampton, N.H. (Kylie Cooper for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

It intends Harris agrees it was smart to retreat U.S. subject forces before civilians from Afghanistan. I conjecture she’s excessively young to callback Saigon aliases wasn’t moved erstwhile hopeless innocents fell to their deaths from a U.S. craft escaping Kabul. It intends she believes Biden was correct to opportunity that Washington wouldn’t respond if Moscow made only a "minor incursion" into Ukraine. Talk astir giving greenish lights to dictators. 

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While Trump flatters bad guys successful nationalist arsenic a counterintuitive and strategical tactic, nary world leader doubts his resoluteness for America. We request that benignant of activity connected nan world shape because, acknowledgment to nan disastrous Biden-Harris overseas policy, friends and adversaries alike uncertainty America’s convictions and are confused astir our positions. This would beryllium problematic successful immoderate era, but particularly worrisome successful nan shadows of a rising China and description ist Russia. 

Republican statesmanlike nominee, erstwhile U.S. President Donald Trump waves goodbye aft a run rally astatine Madison Square Garden connected October 27, 2024 successful New York City.  (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

At home, Harris turns a unsighted oculus to overseas power that’s radicalizing our students to dislike America. She ne'er discusses nan similarities to radicalized Iranian students who installed a fundamentalist authorities successful Tehran that chants "death to America" and sponsors 13 violent groups, including Hamas. 

Harris says she "understands nan emotions" driving assemblage students who deterioration keffiyeh and telephone for nan demolition of Jews. Would Harris beryllium truthful sanguine if Blacks were targeted nan measurement Jews were targeted? While I uncertainty Harris is genuinely antisemitic aliases wants to spot nan demolition of the State of Israel, her actions don’t unrecorded up to that of a beardown protagonist of Israel aliases an ally. Her ambition for votes (especially among Arab Americans successful Michigan) has moved her dangerously adjacent to Hamas’ agenda.   

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Harris’ economical stance is arsenic appalling. She cares much astir distributing handouts to forbidden immigrants than supporting group for illustration my parents, Holocaust survivors who legally immigrated to nan U.S. and opened a barren cleaner wherever they worked for decades. 

She thinks title should beryllium a qualification for jobs and advantages. Moreover, Harris is portion of nan management that used COVID-19 arsenic an excuse to needlessly pump an other $2 trillion into nan economy, thereby ensuring ostentation and, successful essence, buying votes.

Despite nan White House’s denials, anyone who market shops knows nan costs of surviving has skyrocketed. Not only among mediocre people, but among everyone. One friend, a college-educated divided mother pinch an enviable white-collar job, forgoes nutrient herself to bargain protein-rich steak for her teenage son. This isn’t nan America our families request aliases want. 

Of course, nan Democratic Party decries nan value of family. Harris reflects this demise. She supports old-fashioned entitlement programs and taxation codes that promote men to wantonness their families. She opposes belief groups that wish to align business practices pinch their morals. She encourages immature young group to research gender-affirming treatments that can’t beryllium reversed successful adulthood. 

She routinely supports teachers’ unions that thrust anti-student, pro-employee governmental agendas. In a Harris world, teachers that can’t dispense aspirin without parental consent are punished for telling parents their kid is changing sex. 

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Taken collectively, nan Harris schedule and her alignment pinch nan Democratic guidelines is an bid of magnitude much frightening than Donald Trump’s schedule aliases behavior. This is not a conspiracy mentation aliases fearmongering. 

That’s why, moreover pinch each of Trump’s idiosyncrasies and inflammatory style, he is nan champion action for America. His policies are right. The squad will beryllium great. And fixed nan choice, location is nary different choice. 

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