You Decide…..

Just re-read a Tweet by Democratic economist, professor and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich posted on Oct 17, a few weeks before the U.S. election. It reads as follows: “When this nightmare is over, we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It would erase Trump lies, comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness, and name every official, politician, executive and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe.”

Am I suggesting there were not those guilty of dishonesty and self-serving greed within the Trump administration. Of course not! Human Beings are universally prone to such. But was his Presidency the catastrophe Reich suggests it to have been? Indeed is Trump the brazen racist the Left consistently purports him to be?

If so, why would Black “conservatives” Candace Owens and Leo Terrell insist on a recent Fox News appearance that Trump in fact did far more for America’s Blacks than Barack Obama?

Did you know that Trump helped finance Jesse Jackson’s two runs for the Presidency in the last Century; that in the 80s when Black entrepreneurs could not get financing for their projects he frequently went to their aid; that he appointed Ben Carson, John C. Taylor Jr., Lorna Mahlock, Charles Q. Brown and various other colored folks to highly prestigious posts; that he devoted approximately 20 billion dollars to enhancing the educational options of Blacks and approximately 100 billion dollars in general to Black communities; that he dated a number of Black women in his earlier life who have each averred that he is not a Racist!

Believe me, I am not a Trump “cultist” and am certainly not suggesting him to have been an ideal leader. But the avalanche of rhetoric cascading down upon his Presidency from the sanctimonious Left is absurd! Obama has consistently characterized Trump’s administration as dictatorial, racist and inhumane, his deportation of “illegals” being a prime example of such. But Clinton and Obama actually deported far more illegals than Trump. And as to his “racist” characterization of the South American “caravans” as gangs of drug dealers and rapists, just about every article on the topic grants the presence of criminal cartels with no respect for the Law whatsoever actively seeking to exploit those caravans to gain entry into the States. As for Trump’s thoughtlessly aggressive pro-America stance before the world, Obama dropped more bombs on foreign Nations than did he who, by the way, was the first President in some time not to involve the States in a new military conflict abroad.

The fact that Trump frequently expressed himself like an insensitive jerk does not justify dismissing his presidency as a “catastrophe.” Indeed the fact that the U.S. economy was healthy and unemployment among Blacks significantly down before Covid hit would seem to render that claim absurd.

In typical Leftist fashion, denunciations of the Trump years are low on facts and high on rhetoric. Ironically impugning the rationality of the relentless attacks on his border policies, even many on the Left are already lamenting the lunacy and resultant chaos of Joe and Kamala’s “compassionate” open door reception of all illegal aliens from south of the border. Of course why would the ivory tower simpletons in Washington lose any sleep over a policy chiefly impacting the lives of those in Texas several hundred miles away?