Dakota Beacon

Fact checkers – start your computers!

Evidently the media, Democrat power brokers, and assorted “moderate” Republicans are poisoned by their hatred for President Trump. Their many failures to exorcise him has altered their mental state.

Can any objective person explain away the hatred for a president that has accomplished what ordinary citizens have sought for so long? President Trump has upended the establishment’s march toward a one-world organization governed by an unelected elite. He has rearranged the way Washington conducts business through the revolving door and the Good-ol’ Boy (and Gal) network. Strange that a man, an outsider, with unbounded energy working tirelessly to preserve the goodness and greatness of America should be shunned.

Some people just don’t like President Trump. Fine. But what is it exactly that is not acceptable? What has he done in public office to generate such irrational hatred for him?

Drill down with a few pointed questions.

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

Is it annoying that, under his leadership, America is 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 and criminals 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 occur 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 which provides 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 coup attempts.

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 United Nations.

Surely he should be hated because he brought home over 40 Americans held captive overseas. The last one was from Iran.

Maybe Trump irritates people because he is bringing troops home from America’s longest war -- 19 years in Afghanistan. Maybe, to satisfy his critics, US forces should remain deployed overseas in combat longer, maybe indefinitely!

How can anyone hate Trump for calling out the media and correcting 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 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.

Trump has done more, much more, against overwhelming odds and powerful special interests. For this he must be hated. If Trump is hated now, wait until he wins a second term. If re-elected, his agenda will produce much more of the same. Don’t trust the dominant 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).