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I can’t name a single Democrat policy, they have become the anti-Trump party. Try finding one professor on campus who supports our President. Professors preach about fascism with the assumption that none of their students support the administration, ignoring the 77.3 million people who voted red. This column is a broader explanation of why that support, including my own, remains strong.

Addressing the Backlash 

During the 2024 election, our President promised the largest scale of deportations ever done and won the popular vote; that fact alone counters the narrative of American disapproval; people wanted what they voted for. President Trump has been consistent.

Nobody celebrated the American protestors who died; President Trump himself said that those two deaths “should not have happened.” But, let’s be real: what kind of a person hits a law enforcement officer with their car, causing internal bleeding? In Pretti’s case: it was not peaceful protest, but instead days of shouting curses, spitting and kicking at officer's vehicles, all while carrying a gun. The right to bear arms need not mean a right to interfere with law enforcement who are traumatized by the rise in attacks against them and their families. The two officers involved, Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez, reflect the overlooked fact that 50% of border patrol officers are Latino.

3.2 million people deported under Obama, 10 million under Bush, and 12 million under Clinton; numbers President Trump has yet to surpass. The narrative of the Trump administration creating chaos in the streets collapses with comparison. Think critically: It’s easy not to have “chaos” and protester deaths when nobody is protesting. 

Debating illegal immigrant deportations is insulting to millions of legal immigrants. People wait years for a visa and decades for citizenship; where is the fairness? Under Biden, migrants paid the cartel thousands to cross the border. A secure border is not controversial, it’s the global norm. Think we’re on stolen land? Native Americans frequently fought wars among each other and stole each other's land. 

So much attention on the Epstein files, which have only been released thanks to this administration, but nobody talks about the 300,000 children who are missing because of the Biden border crisis. Democrats are now advocating to abolish ICE but were silent about human trafficking and the deaths of Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray and the many more Americans who died because of failed immigration policy. 

Policy Wins

16 Nobel Prize Winning Economists promised that President Trump’s tariffs are dangerous. Fear mongering from economic elites about the Trump tariffs was systematic, but the President made it clear that he’s “for Main Street, not Wall Street.” There’s a deep irony in leftists being on the side of the Hollywood and Business elites. 9 of the 10 wealthiest congressional districts are represented by Democrats. 

Our economy has become totally reliant on the top 10%, and that’s a problem. The working class used to be upwardly mobile and have a larger share of the gross domestic product. But the Trump tariffs are not just about the jobs lost to globalism. There are industries so critical to national security that the United States should never have to depend on rivals to supply them. During COVID, we struggled to provide basic personal protective equipment. When China decides to take back Taiwan their domination of rare earths, battery materials, and key pharmaceutical ingredients could really hurt us; any dependencies can become leverage. Tariffs reduce strategic exposure before it’s a problem. Beyond strategy there’s morality: Why should America depend on supply chains sustained by slave wages and terrible labor practices? 

It’s refreshing to live under an administration that has brought back common sense policies. Why operate on children who can’t even legally get tattoos? What’s the point of women’s sports if trans women compete? The gender separation of sports is proof that biological men have an unfair genetic advantage. Loving trans women means loving them for exactly who they are: trans women.

It’s common sense to be anti-fraud and there should be no justifiable reason to be so triggered by any attempts to find it, especially after millions upon millions of taxpayers dollars lost to  fraud has been uncovered. 

It’s also common sense to make NATO members pay for their own defenses. During his first term, President Trump was literally laughed at by Europeans when he warned against reliance on Russian oil before Putin’s war. How can they laugh at us while relying on us to keep their countries running? Just like with USAID, there’s no reason for America to be subsidizing the world while our own nation is sick. It’s like how illegal immigrants got free taxpayer funded housing in Times Square, while Americans were homeless.

Gas prices are down even in gas-taxing liberal states, there’s no tax on tips and social security, credit card interest rates have been capped prompting backlash from bankers, hostages held by Hamas have been brought home, the trade deficit has been reduced, mortgage rates are down, multiple peace deals have been brokered and great fraud eliminated. Democrats should be thrilled about TrumpRX, with record low pharmaceutical prices.

By ignoring these serious policy debates and branding support for President Trump as fascist, the left is mirroring the very intolerance they claim to oppose. True diversity means diversity of thought and true tolerance means tolerating a difference of opinion.

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