Trump’s the One

The silent majority is no longer silent. The forgotten Americans are forgotten no more. None shall be silenced or forgotten or forsaken in this election. None were ignored at this convention. And tonight, Donald Trump will speak to them—to us—as he accepts his party’s nomination for president.

Everything leading up to this speech brings to mind everything that happened before another speech so many years ago. Riots, war, assassinations, campus takeovers, contempt for police, an unpopular Democrat in the White House and Democrats fighting in Chicago—all this happened in 1968. The past is present again, except this time the assassination failed.

Like last time, however, we have an experienced candidate; a candidate who ran for the presidency once before; a candidate who knew and was a friend of the author of the greatest political comeback since Lincoln and the winner of the largest share of the popular vote for the Republican Party in any presidential election: Richard Nixon. And like the New Nixon of 1968, the New Trump of 2024 is tanned, rested, and ready.

Unlike any president since Reagan, Trump’s been tested in the hardest way possible. Trump took a bullet and kept fighting, proving he has what it takes; that he is a man who will “Fight, fight, fight.”

Like Nixon, Trump has the right enemies. The people who hated Nixon—the media, the professors, the radicals, the race hustlers, the violent extremists—are the same people who hate Trump. The people who sought to destroy Nixon, who wasted their lives by trying to drive Nixon out of public life, who waged lawfare against Nixon and passed laws to spite Nixon, are the same people who cheered—they celebrated!—when a gunman tried to smite Trump.

Like Nixon, Trump has the right policies. He has the right Middle East policy, for sure. Israel had a friend in Nixon, an indispensable ally in a time of war. Israel has a friend in Trump too. The Abraham Accords are a testament to Trump’s vision. Trump’s popularity in Israel is a testament to his leadership, for which no other candidate comes close.

Judge Trump by the enemies he has made. That, after all, is the standard FDR set for himself in 1932 when he said: “My friends, my policy is as radical as American liberty. My policy is as radical as the Constitution of the United States.”

Look at who Trump’s enemies are. Hamas, Iran, Antifa—they all want Trump dead. Their ranks also include renegade prosecutors, corrupt judges, and criminal politicians. So yes, judge Trump by the enemies he has made. Judge him by those who long to sit in judgment against him.

Look at what Trump’s enemies want to do to the judiciary. They want to pack the Supreme Court so as to subvert it. They want to limit how long Justice Thomas, Justice Gorsuch or Chief Justice Roberts can stay on the Court. They want to annex the Court so as to annul the rulings of the Court. They want to continue to wage war against their fellow citizens.

President Trump does not romanticize war or long to be a wartime president. He is no pacifist either. He opposes stupid wars, like the kind Obama did nothing to stop. He started no new wars while president. He will not start another forever war as president.

This Trump also trumps all past versions of himself. His speech should reflect this. No doubt he will speak to what he has learned, for he has learned a great deal; he has suffered a great deal too. In the end, it is this Trump—the dealmaker—who can bring us together. The author of The Art of the Deal is the president who can bring Republicans, independents and a good number of Democrats together.

In this respect, Trump is more like Reagan than he is like Nixon. Trump has been impeached, indicted, prosecuted, fined, and shot. The Donald does not surrender. The Teflon Don is real.

Resilience abounds in President Trump. So does humor, as he has incredible comedic timing. If he gets the better of his enemies, all the better. If he goes off script, if he improvises and does schtick, if he tells a few jokes even at his own expense, it’s because he’s a performer; for the best politicians are performers. Reagan was a performer. Kennedy was a performer. All the greats were performers.

Trump will not miss an opportunity to have fun. He had fun debating Joe Biden, or rather, he had fun watching Biden flail and fail onstage. Trump will have fun goading Biden. We will have fun too.

After four years of lies and incompetence, we deserve a performance. After four years of domestic trouble, we deserve a night of fun and tranquility. After all this, we deserve a speech that will inspire us.

In 1968, Nixon said: “This time, vote like your whole world depended on it.”

The time is now—now is the time—for us to elect President Trump. Our whole world depends not on what President Trump says but on what we do. The world we want depends on what we do to elect President Trump.

The whole world is watching what we do. Our enemies want to know what we will do. Our enemies should watch us, because we have a leader who will not appease them.

We have a president who fights to win.

We have a president who says, “Fight, fight, fight!”

Steve Gruber is the host of America’s Voice Live, which airs daily on Real America’s Voice TV