WINTER 2024—GUILTLESSLY FOR GODZILLA: SUPPORTING DONALD TRUMP IN HIS RAMPAGE AGAINST SELECTIVE TYRANNY AND A TWO-TIERED JUSTICE SYSTEM

I Will Not Be Subjected To “Trump Guilt”

I recently saw a Facebook post addressed to people who have not made up their minds about issues and controversies related to the 2020 presidential election, about what happened during the U.S. Capitol breach on January 6th, 2021. This post lamented those who have been “blinded” by “Trump lies” and called for national political leaders to start working together through “healthy bipartisan discussion and debate while conducting themselves with dignity and honor.”

I agree that it would be nice if our national political leaders conducted themselves with dignity and honor. But what I’ve noticed in my years of observing politics is that many politicians and bureaucrats who seem to behave with the most dignity and talk the most about honor are often still very capable of doing things that in my opinion are extremely undignified and dishonorable. I shall pick on a leader in my own political party as an example. I once supported and voted for Mitt Romney. However, after the first Trump impeachment brouhaha, I publicly announced that I wished for Mitt Romney to retire from politics, so weary and unimpressed was I with how he handled himself through that affair. I haven’t changed my opinion about him since. Mitt Romney is the quintessential example of a politician who puts on a fine show of behaving with dignity and honor. And yet, when it came to opposing Donald Trump in every possible way, shape, and form, I believe that Mitt Romney became prideful and obsessed with fighting against Trump even when it was undignified and dishonorable to do so. He treated Donald Trump as if he represented an existential threat to our republic, and I think that showed how far Romney had gone in allowing his priorities to get mixed up. I shall never forget watching footage of Mitt Romney being interviewed shortly before he had his chance to vote on the verdict of the Trump impeachment. I watched as this supposedly dignified and honorable politician explained that even though there might be “evidence out there” that exonerated Trump, Romney nevertheless planned on voting “guilty” simply because Trump supposedly wouldn’t allow that evidence to come forth. Incredible! In a country with a tradition of innocence until guilt has been proven, Romney announced his plan to vote “guilty” even as he acknowledged that proof of Trump’s innocence might yet exist! Unbelievable!

You don’t have to be “blinded by Trump lies” to know that Trump’s enemies have for many years been playing the game of politics against him in a manner that is at least as dirty and unprincipled as they accuse Trump himself of being. I didn’t need Donald Trump to get me to believe that his 2016 presidential campaign was spied on, that the Obama administration worked with the Clinton campaign to cook up the “Russia collusion” lie, or that the various impeachment attempts against him were completely unscrupulous and unjustified. I came to my own conclusions about those things.

I don’t have to listen to a single word at all from Donald Trump to know what I observed during the 2020 presidential election. COVID-19 was more than just a pandemic; it was a phenomenon, and an excessively manipulated one at that. COVID-19 provided Democrat governments in several key battleground states with highly unethical excuses to alter election rules in ways that, in my opinion, outright violated the laws and/or constitutions of those states. COVID-19 was used as an excuse by corrupt Democratic governments all over the country to drive up the use of mailed-in balloting in ways that were truly unprecedented in modern American electoral history. You don’t have to be “blinded by Trump lies” to know that that kind of increase in balloting by mail opens the door to all sorts of potential voting abuse. I didn’t need Donald Trump to tell me that this alone made the 2020 election a suspicious one. I suspect but cannot prove that the 2020 election was stolen, but I also know for a fact that it was rigged. Both of those things can be true at the same time, and I believe them to be true. That’s where I’m at with regards to the 2020 election, and that’s where I intend to remain until evidence prompts me in another direction.

I don’t need Donald Trump to tell me that the media used censorship to rig the 2020 presidential election against the Republican ticket. I don’t need Donald Trump to tell me that the media colluded with law enforcement and intelligence agencies to prevent news stories about Biden family corruption from ever seeing the light of day. In my view, these facts are no longer in dispute, and in some cases have been openly admitted to by perpetrators who somehow always seem to act in the knowledge that they will never really and truly be held accountable for what they have done.

I don’t need Donald Trump to tell me that I live under the thumb of a hypocritical and morally corrupt federal government that punishes and imprisons right-wingers who breach the Capitol on January 6th, 2021 after ignoring the mobbing and vandalism and rioting and looting and plundering and pillaging of left-wingers all across the country and throughout the preceding spring and summer of 2020. It wasn’t just Donald Trump who told me that something seemed fishy about the events of January 6th, including but not limited to the false reports of Capitol police killed by the mob, the inexplicable “tour guide” treatment of the QAnon Shaman, the insistent ignorance of a left-wing media establishment which refused to admit that Trump himself made an on-air call for protests to be peaceful, or the law enforcement agents who were diverted from air marshal duty and the prosecution of known child rapists to instead focus on the prosecution of “domestic terrorists” who breached the Capitol.

Donald Trump is certainly a bully, but it hasn’t been Donald Trump who has gone out of his way since early 2021 to label his political opponents as fascists, terrorists, and “enemies of democracy.” But that has been the incessant line of attack from the supposedly dignified and honorable Joe Biden, the leader of the supposedly morally superior Democratic Party.

And yet, I couldn’t help but notice…again, without Donald Trump’s help…that when the Democratic representative from New York, Jamaal Bowman, recently pulled a fire alarm in the U.S. Capitol in order to disrupt Congressional voting, he wasn’t targeted as an “enemy of democracy” like Trump and those deplorable MAGA Republicans were. And I still cannot help but notice that in the years since the January 6th day of supposed infamy, and in statehouses all over the country, leftists continue to get away with illegally breaching state capitols to protest on issues such as abortion and transgenderism.

I sincerely love and respect the author of the Facebook post I mentioned up above, and I warmly embrace any wishes and efforts to keep our politicians on their best behavior. However, if push comes to shove and the American presidential race of 2024 does indeed come down to a choice between Donald Trump and Joe Biden (or Kamala Harris or Gavin Newsom or any of the other current crop of Democratic potentials), I will vote for Donald Trump. I will not cede the moral ground on issues like the 2020 election or January 6th. I will not allow politicians who point accusing fingers at Donald Trump to avoid culpability for their own similar and far more despicable offenses. I will not be subjected to the “Trump guilt” that empowers the leftism that is destroying the things I love or once loved about my country.

Above all else, I certainly will not allow even my strictest moral scruples to lead me to vote against Trump if doing so benefits the politicians of the political party that is systematically dismantling everything that once was good about the United States of America. Many of my friends and some of my family members believe that Donald Trump is an existential threat to our American way of life. I disagree…and meanwhile, I feel the exact same way about the Democratic Party. People may be offended by this, but they’ll just have to deal with the fact that it’s what I believe: the Democratic Party is destroying America, and I won’t do a single solitary thing to help it in its destructiveness.

That’s where we’re at in our current political discourse. It is what it is. I will not allow Trump’s enemies to weaponize Trump guilt against me.

I’ll close with this assertion: politics in America right now are not all about Trump. I’m sure Trump himself wishes they were, and I know the Democrats are doing everything in their power right now to make it so. But this is one thinking and discerning American citizen who won’t go along with it.

The Country Misses Out On An Amazing Presidential Candidate In Ron DeSantis

Back at the end of January, I listened to Ron DeSantis announcing the end of his presidential bid. It was just as classy as I'd expected it to be, coming from a politician of his high quality.

It's rare nowadays to find politicians as worthy of support as Ron DeSantis is, so I don't mind spending a few minutes expressing with this post that I think the Republican Party and the American people in general are missing out on an amazing presidency by not putting DeSantis in the White House. On reflection, though, I'm not too surprised that the DeSantis campaign didn't go further than it did, and I personally think that's just a sad commentary on us, the voting public.

Oh well. In the meantime, I follow DeSantis' lead and encourage others to do the same: at this point, the Republican candidate for president will be the better choice for America no matter which of the declared candidates it turns out to be. The bottom line remains unchanged: the Democratic regime of Joe Biden is dismantling everything that makes America's greatness possible, fading though that greatness might be. We've got to reverse America's self-destruction, and voting the Democrats out at every possible level of government and influence would be a nice first step in that process.

Donald Trump Is Godzilla, And We Will All Come To Grips With Him In One Way Or Another

Back at the end of January, after I listened to Ron DeSantis announcing his campaign suspension, I thought a lot about the state of the presidential race. The following thoughts just gushed out of me, so here they are for your consideration...

Throughout the Republican presidential primary, I was very clear that I preferred Ron DeSantis to be the next leader of the free world. However, Donald Trump continues to be the force of nature he's always been since 2016. He continues to represent the erupting and deep-seeded frustrations of millions of Americans who are supporting a candidate who validates their rage at being lied to for decades. The radical and elitist leftists who have been running the Democratic Party ever since Barack Obama moved into the White House have pushed too many people too far. The global elites who have sought to force a worldwide Great Reset ever since the end of the Cold War have not only lost touch with the common man, but they have also completely dismissed the notion that they have any need at all to tolerate disagreement with their narratives, that they have any obligation to maintain protections for free speech that is critical of their programs.

Conservative political commentator Andrew Klavan recently stated that Donald Trump is Godzilla, and he's correct. Donald Trump is Godzilla, emerging in 2016 as an eruption of pent-up rage against a society run by corrupt liars who have, for at least two generations, coerced the rest of us into at least pretending in polite company to go along with their lies. These lies have had profound influences upon the ways Americans have thought about themselves and their country. For me, some of these lies bring on acute feelings of personal pain, because I've been living with and inwardly raging against some of these lies since I was just a little boy.

Too many of us have been coerced into living the lie that unfettered and unrestrained immigration is a good thing for our country, and that to stand against illegal immigration is racist. Too many of us have been raised on a diet of unending falsehoods about climate change and America's supposed guilty role in the destruction of the environment. We've been force-fed mouthful after mouthful of climate cult propaganda that denigrates prosperity, innovation, and even human life itself, and all in the name of a brand of climate alarmism that only seems to empower global elites at the expense of the working and middle classes. Our darkly foretold futures have seemed even darker still as we've been assured and reassured for decades that communist, collectivist China is the wave of the future, that America's global dominance as an economic and military superpower is at an end, and that there's nothing we can or should do to try and reassert American values and interests on the international stage. The lies have spread far and wide, crippling U.S. foreign policy with false premises and infecting our domestic sphere with evil "woke" cultural Marxist ideals...both of which have made the world a more unsafe and dangerous place. For example, we've been lied to for years that peace in the Middle East would only ever be possible if the West made nice with the Iranians, with the Palestinians, with the jihadists. And we've been lied to for years that the United States is a fundamentally and systemically racist, bigoted, and oppressive society that needs to atone for its sins by defunding police departments, brainwashing students into hating America, and raising a new generation of social justice activists who seek to craft a society in which the color of your skin matters more than the content of your character.

These are just some of the lies many of us have had to put up with since I started paying attention to politics when I was around ten years old. In spite of all my doubts about him and in spite of all my objections to him, Donald Trump came along in 2016 and opened the eyes of the world to all these falsehoods. As president, he stood up to China, clumsily at first. But when COVID-19 came on the scene, he correctly called out the Chinese for their part in the web of lies surrounding the origins of the virus. Trump stood up to illegal immigration, clumsily at first. But when push came to shove, his administration brought rates of illegal immigration down to historic lows. As president, Trump stood firm against the anti-human death cult that modern environmentalism has become. He moved our country away from self-destructive climate treaties and led a renaissance in American energy production that frankly I can only characterize as miraculous. As president, Trump oversaw a jaw-droppingly successful foreign policy in the Middle East...a policy that firmly planted our country's flag next to that of our rightful partner and ally, Israel, brilliantly sidelined the Palestinians and rewrote the relationship between Israel and its Arab neighbors, and made huge steps forward in uniting the reasonable Muslim world against the unacceptable jihadists of ISIS on the one hand, and revolutionary Iran on the other. And on the domestic front, Trump always made it very clear that he was on the side of law and order in a land he wasn't ashamed to say he loved. Trump believed in American greatness, past and present, and he had the refreshing audacity to insist that patriotism and love of country were ideals to be encouraged and instilled in the hearts and minds of the young.

And yes...for what seems like the millionth time...I acknowledge everything legitimately wrong with Donald Trump. He's led a morally ugly personal life. He's a bully. He casts aside his friends and allies for the most insanely petty of reasons. His record on COVID-19 is very mixed. He made a complete idiot of himself in how he responded to the 2020 election results. And yes...(and this is the part that bothers me most)...since 2021, Trump has become, in his bitterness, the very petty and casual liar that his opponents have accused him of being all along. As a fervent Ron DeSantis supporter, I've been especially angry at Trump for all the dishonest things he's said about DeSantis.

And yet, here I am openly announcing my support for Donald Trump's 2024 White House bid.

How can this be?

It's very simple. Even with all his ugliness and imperfections, Trump still embodies the populist rumblings and yearnings for the greater truths the United States needs to survive. The United States cannot and will not survive much longer (at least, not in the form or fashion that we are desperately clinging to in the present moment) if it continues to pay credence to the lies of the radical leftist Democrats. Most hard-working and decent Americans sense this even if they aren't yet ready to put it in partisan lingo.

That's where I come in.

I'm here to tell you that since 2021, the lies of Joe Biden and the Democrats have intensified. Their lies are far more destructive than any real or imagined dishonesty on the part of Donald Trump. They have turned our judicial system into a third-world farce, weaponizing the law in a shameful and totally dishonest display of political persecution to put Trump in prison for alleged and/or imagined crimes. These are crimes that have been similarly committed by other politicians and businessmen on both sides of the political aisle, none of whom have been targeted in the same unfair ways that Trump has. That's just a plain fact. The witch hunt against Trump is real, and it's been going on for far, far too many years. The Democrats and their allies in the media refuse to apologize for their dishonesty in the Russia collusion narrative, their dishonesty about 2020 election rigging and social media censorship, and their dishonesty about what really happened and did not happen on January 6th of 2021. They continue to lie about Biden family and Clinton family corruption, and they continually seek to muzzle free speech while disingenuously labeling Trump, his MAGA supporters, and indeed all conservative Republicans as fascists.

You don't have to like Donald Trump. But I think you owe it to yourself and your country to finally open your eyes to what the Democratic Party has become, to the magnitude of what the Democrats, as a party, have inflicted. You may not like Donald Trump, but I think you and I deserve to accept the truth: Donald Trump is not the cause of all the division and turmoil in the United States right now. He is the unlikely avenging champion of a rising tide of populist (and yes, increasingly popular) rage that emerges in any society in which the out-of-touch elites consistently abuse and exploit, and then get away with both by lying about it. Donald Trump is a metaphorical guillotine, and the elites of the American left should be grateful that his bullying tweets, his crude manners, and his petty and shallow narcissism are the worst things they have to fear about him. Donald Trump is, ironically, a testament to the great restraint and moderation inherent in the American system of republican government. Throughout human history, actual violence...actual violent political revolution...has usually resulted whenever elites have treated the rest of the population the way leftist elites have been treating their fellow Americans for the past decade. Restraint and moderation only last for so long, and in the United States, who knew that the reckoning for the failures of leftist liberalism would come in the form of an orange-haired playboy real estate tycoon and TV entertainer?

If Donald Trump becomes the Republican candidate for this year's presidential election, make no mistake: I will vote for him, and you should too. Why? Because in the fight between Godzilla and the morally bankrupt, incessantly corrupt, philosophically dishonest, and fundamentally false and virtueless society the Democratic Party is creating here in America, I'll choose Godzilla every time. We can recover from Godzilla's worst eccentricities. We can rebuild after repairing the damage. But we cannot keep the America we love if we continue giving the Democrats our permission to govern.

The Biden Regime: Shamefully Selective Tyranny Whenever Its Purposes Are Served

Joe Biden is such a piece of work. Back near the end of January, when he was asked if he's done everything he can to secure our country's borders (which would mean ending the illegal immigrant invasion of the United States currently being overseen by his own Democratic Party), Joe Biden had the audacity to complain that not only has he done everything he can do, but he's long been begging the supposedly uncooperative Republicans in Congress to give him the power to do what's necessary to fix the border crisis.

Give Joe Biden the power??? Joe Biden??? The same Joe Biden who unilaterally declared the dictatorial power to force all of us to get COVID vaccines regardless of our personal choices? The same Joe Biden who claimed the dictatorial power of forgiving all student loans and forcing American taxpayers to foot the bill without their consent? This Joe Biden suddenly could not find the power necessary for upholding the most basic and fundamental function of a government in charge of a sovereign state?

I just could not stay silent about this. We all need to condemn Biden's despicable refusal to protect our borders and defend our country. Joe Biden doesn't need more power. He needs to be taught a lesson on the proper use of the Constitutionally circumscribed power he already has, along with the duty and obligation to proactively exercise it in defense of our nation.

The Corrupt Two-Tiered Justice System In America Is Real

To anyone out there who has ever sought to condemn Donald Trump over the issue of mishandled classified documents while going out of your way to justify and excuse Democrats who are guilty of the same thing:

If you continue to defend and excuse the likes of Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden after what we learned in early February from the special counsel tasked with investigating Joe Biden’s own mishandling of secret and sensitive government materials (and let's not forget the horrendous press conference held by Biden on the evening of February 8^th, in which he brazenly attempted to publicly rejoice over his “exoneration” while at the same time savaging his exonerators for daring to label him as mentally unfit for standing prosecution and trial), I cannot and will not take you or your arguments seriously.

The government is attempting to give Biden a pass because apparently senile old men get to get away with crimes that would otherwise land people with the last name of Trump in prison.

Americans need to face the truth: the Trump witch hunt is real. The two-tiered justice system is real. This is not how a free republic operates.

--Christopher Peterson, February 24^th, 2024