Dakota Beacon

Fact checkers – start your computers!

Evidently the corporate media, Democrat power brokers, and assorted “moderate” Republicans teeter on the verge of insanity from their hatred for former President Donald J. Trump. Their many failures to exorcise him have altered their mental state.

Who can explain away the hatred for a president who actually did what ordinary citizens have sought from presidents for so long? President Trump upended the establishment’s march toward a uniparty system governed by elitists and run by an unelected bureaucracy. As President he rearranged the way Washington conducted business through the revolving door and the Good-ol’ Boy (and Gal) network. Strange is it not that a man, an outsider with unbounded energy working tirelessly to preserve the goodness and greatness of America, should be bludgeoned legally and financially?

Some people just don’t like the former President. Period. But what exactly was not acceptable? As President, what did he do to generate such irrational hatred for him?

Drill down with questions to illustrate the crazy hatred for Trump.

Is he disliked because he created the first meaningful peace deal in the Middle East in decades?

Is it annoying that, under his leadership, America became not only energy independent, but also the world’s largest energy producer?

What could be bothersome about destroying ISIS and reducing countless terrorists to room temperature without a major ramp up of US forces?

Should President Trump be hated because he overcame Congressional, bureaucratic, and media opposition to keep drugs, criminals, and illegals out of the US? Should he be hated because his motive was to respect, honor, and defend our nation’s borders? Is that why he is opposed?

Or might the intense dislike for Trump arise because he slashed prescription drug prices as much as 50%? Big Pharma hates him for that. Must the public hate him, too?

Maybe Trump should be hated and despised because he signed into law the Save Our Seas Act providing millions of dollars a year to clean tons of plastics and garbage from the oceans. Is that cause for hatred and rejection?

Must Trump be despised because he earmarked billions to stop the opioid crisis?

Are people irked because he loves America and puts Americans first? Is that a problem?

Maybe the hatred for President Trump stems from the fact that he appointed a homosexual man as ambassador to Germany. Later he assigned him the task of cleaning up the national security bureaucracy and declassifying multitudes of over-classified documents, much of it relating to the cover-up of repeated attempts to delegitimize his campaign and then his administration.

Maybe Trump should be hated for signing into law the Right to Try (as opposed to the Right to Die) bill allowing terminally ill patients access to experimental therapies.

Or should people revile Trump because he forced our NATO allies to pay their fair share supporting multi-national alliances? Or maybe he is resented for making other countries pay their fair share to the increasingly ineffectual United Nations.

Surely, he should be hated because he brought home over 40 Americans held captive overseas including from Iran.

Maybe Trump irritates people because he initiated the withdrawal from America’s longest war -- 19 years in Afghanistan. Maybe, to satisfy his critics, US forces should have remained deployed overseas in combat indefinitely!

How can anyone hate Trump for calling out the media challenging their lies and bias?

Maybe Trump should be condemned for his economic policies producing the lowest unemployment rates among Blacks and Hispanics -- ever.

Surely Trump must be despised for his bipartisan prison reform legislation giving former prisoners a second chance.

Finally, he must be hated for his handling of the pandemic which caught everyone by surprise. He charted a course that minimized the suffering caused by the pandemic while curtailing the suffering of the economic devastation. He knocked down bureaucratic barriers to the development and distribution of tests; treatments and vaccines; and supplies. To avoid the left’s hate he would need a “progressive” approach executed by a small band of bureaucrats exercising centralized, top down, one-size-fits-all control over the crisis. But that could never be Trump.

Trump did more to thwart powerful special interests and the Deep State than any recent President and he did it against overwhelming odds. For this he must be hated.

If Trump is hated now for all the reasons above, wait until he wins another term. If elected, his agenda will produce much more of the same. Don’t trust the corporate media to tell his story. And don’t expect the left to cooperate in any way to make America great again.

Dennis M. Patrick can be contacted at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).