www.pressrepublican.com 11/22/24
"If we give Trump no chance, we enlist for four years of animated conflict."
Editorial: Our only hope — give Trump a chance
Donald J. Trump is going to be our new president, love him or hate him. To most Americans’ dismay and perhaps disdain, that latter pair seems to include just about everybody.
No one, no matter how old, seems to remember any president that inspired such adoration and such discord at the same time. It’s simply uncanny how extreme political observers are at the mention of his name. Ronald Reagan was known as the “Teflon president” because anything he did that was viewed as negative did not stick to him for long. Trump seems to have invented a new strain of Teflon. But, as we await next Jan. 20 and the beginning of his second term of office, all Americans — both pro-Trump and con — should treat the occasion as new, unknown and with a hopeful attitude.
Because of the past decade of Trump-dominated Republican politics, most people have made up their minds that he is the savior of our republic. He won the election overwhelmingly. It was not nearly as close as most people thought it would be.
Detractors were sure that he had enough negative baggage in his backpack to deter voters from returning him to office. This baggage included the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol that, if he didn’t instigate it, as widely believed, he at least didn’t try to stop it; numerous courts finding his claim of 2020 election thievery unfounded; various findings of guilty to other charges, such as sexual indiscretion and falsifying business records in connection with a payoff to a porn star; and charges of violating a law on corporate record-keeping to reduce his tax obligation.
But, whereas his detractors believed these and other matters were enough to defeat him at the polls, his admirers paid them no heed. No matter what came up to soil his appeal, it didn’t. His appeal remained immune from harm. In fact, it may even have shone ever brighter.
So the United States faces another four years of a Trump presidency that could again devolve into bitterness and hatred among news readers and watchers.
Our only hope as a unified and prospering nation is to, as Democratic candidate Kamala Harris vowed to do, look forward, not back. Give President Trump a chance to win you over by the positive results of his policies. Try not to condemn him and those policies before they even take the floor.
Can his promised campaign against illegal immigration yield positive outcomes? Can his taxing plans wind up good for our economy and our wallets? Can his appointees, such as Elon Musk, spread the same success to all Americans that he derived for himself?
We don’t know yet. As hard as it may be, we ask opponents to disavow their contempt and first find out whether his efforts will prove viable. It will be the only way for America to restore our look and feeling of unification and togetherness.
If we give Trump no chance, we enlist for four years of animated conflict.
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