The thing that Democrats, Republican NeverTrumpers, and their media cohorts hate most about Trump has nothing to do with his rhetoric, policies, morals, or personality. Rather, they despise Trump’s highlighter. They respected Obama’s pen and phone, but when Trump first wielded his brazenly bright, blondish-orange highlighter on the 2016 primary trail—shining a politically incorrect light on issues like immigration and international trade policies—it terrified them.
Trump’s highlighter was bright and yuuuge then, but now has grayed and matured into a political tool larger and more powerful, as Trump would say, “than anyone has ever seen before.” In Trump’s hand, it draws attention not only to the problems that prevent America from becoming great again, but the facts his opponents prefer to black out or redact, rather than report on or admit.
Trump’s highlighter has also exposed the lies, hypocrisy, and propaganda. It was Trump’s “fake news” slogan that first planted into the minds of voters the seeds of skepticism of the media. Now, after years of hard-earned honing of his political savvy, Trump now uses his highlighter outside of the box, truly in ways no one has ever seen before. Most recently, riding in a garbage truck to a rally forced the media to acknowledge Biden’s Trump-supporters-are-garbage dis they preferred to hide. And it was a masterstroke.
With his highlighter, Trump has drawn a huge “Welcome!” sign on the doors of the GOP “big tent,” filling it with enthusiastic new voters and energized reliable voters. Meanwhile, the remaining NeverTrumpers have exited out the rear, and those with media platforms joined the Democrat-media complex in useful idiot positions as the resident “conservative,” hysterically warning of the dangers of another Trump administration.
His opponents mock him, try to imprison him, bankrupt him, destroy him, etc., but like a honey badger that doesn’t care, Trump doesn’t either. He holds his highlighter high, as it has ignited into a sort of torch, shining through the fog of the political battleground, blazing a trail for the millions of Americans across the demographic spectrum to realize they are not forgotten, to rise up, be heard, and vote.
At this moment, election cheating is the issue Trump’s opponents and the media work to “discredit,” “debunk,” and ward off as “conspiracy theory” and “misinformation”—without actually and fairly investigating the claims. What facts do fall through leaks in their election “fortification,” they censor or blackout reporting of them. The threat of electronic voting machine manufacturer lawsuits along with reminders of sentences served to January 6 protestors further serve to silence discussion of fraud.
Scott Adams recently posted on X: “I predict massive voter fraud will be discovered and it will confirm in the minds of the public that Trump was probably right about 2020 being rigged.” He further predicted that the Supreme Court will sort it out by January, and ended by writing “Trump will take office. The Golden Age begins.”
I imagine it will have more of a fluorescent yellowish-orange hue—the color of a glorious sunrise of a morning in America on its way to greatness.
Very nicely written and organized article, Cindy.
The enemy - which is the only way to view the Left / Democrats / Communists / Fascists confronting us - realistically - could not possibly, if they tried, care less about being honest - extending a hand across the aisle in a spirit of comity. No.
They are simply about getting, seizing power by any means possible - willing to perpetrate any horrors needed to get them what they want - if that means burning down cities, killing 40 or more people as they did with their “mostly peaceful protests” - too damn bad for us!
We should have known better, we should have known that “Resistance is futile” and gone along to get along.
So - given that is - in my opinion an incontrovertible truth - or ought to be - by now one that even a blind man should be able to see clearly? Seems to me that instead of making observations about what they’ve done, would like to do to us and the nation?
That now is the time to cease playing nicely with them - “Get medieval on their asses” as Marcella Wallace said in Pulp Fiction - and begin to plan to visit Armageddon on them - rip them apart, burn them to the ground - politically and metaphorically not kinetically.
You don’t excise a terminal cancer in the body of a person or the body politic by trying to live with it, coexist with it still ravaging with the inevitable fatal consequence the disease portends.
America must face the fact that the real enemy we have is not in Russia or even China - but the enemy within and get serious about eradicating it - not stupidly hope as we did that they would “change” as we did before the advent of Trump that caused them to think it was then safe - to rip away their Picture of Dorian Gray masks. Thinking that now, they could be their “real selves”; reveal themselves as the rabid, vicious animals, monsters in human forms that they had always been all along for over 100 years - lying in wait for their moment in the sun -hiding beneath their disguises.
No - that’s called stupid; would be, is like it would have been to hope that Hitler, Stalin or Mao would suddenly wake up, smell the reality roses of morality, humanity; develop, evidence a “kinder, gentler” face to show the world
and, wonder of wonder, miracle of miracles - decide - it was time for them to start being nice - rather than bloodthirsty, cold-blooded murderers all the live long days and nights.