I became a Trump supporter during the first Republican
Primary “Debate” hosted by Fox News on August 4, 2016. We had 16 Republican candidates including
Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, who I included as “Constitutional Conservatives”. When asked who I would support, I favored
Paul and Cruz, but said I would support whoever told the most truth.
As a Tea Party Leader, I had spent the past 5 years writing
about UN Agenda 21 and the global warming scam and all the other abuses
precipitated by the Obama Administration. Everybody lied and ignored the real
problems. I had seen the Republican Establishment enabling the Democrat agenda
and saw the globalist cartel joined by our large corporations. The US Left-wing
Marxists had already taken over the Democrat Party, the Universities, Public
Education, the Media and most federal government employees.
The European Left-wing Marxists were firmly ensconced and
in denial over the damage caused by their big government, socialist programs,
open borders, loss of sovereignty and high government debt. The Muslim refugee
problem looked like the last straw, but the European brainwashing had been
completed and US voters were more skeptical.
Trump was the Loan Reformer on the planet, except for
immediate support by Tea Partiers and other Constitutional Conservatives.
I was stunned as I watched the first debate and aghast when
I heard the questions Megyn Kelly asked Trump. I was shocked that Fox News
would fill this first debate with totally irrelevant questions.
Trump jumped on the US negative trade balance and moved on
to the immigration problem while all the other Republican candidates remained
uncomfortably silent about these issues. By the time the “debates” were over,
Trump had covered every major issue we Tea Partiers were fighting for.
Trump pre-empted everybody by addressed the most serious
problems with real facts and real solutions. These are problems the other
candidates knew about, but refused to mention. Trump destroyed political
correctness like Round-up. The other Republican candidates were left in the
dust and the rest is history.
It didn’t take long for most Republicans to fall in line
behind the Trump Agenda, but these Establishment Republicans are having a hard
time crafting their replacement for Obamacare and the Individual Income Tax
package. They need to reform their processes to abolish the 60 vote rule and
end their reliance on K Street Special Interests and Agency Wonks and write
their own simple, corruption-proof Bills.
Congress would do well to reform campaign finance laws to
reduce the corruption-enabling K Street and Special Interest funding. Allowing these folks to control the
politicians has not worked out well for the voters they ignore. The answer is
to only allow registered voters to contribute to campaigns for candidates who
are on their ballots. Special Interests
could use their own websites to exercise their “political speech”. This should
require that all candidates have websites with their complete resumes and
positions on issues. We should be able
to reduce campaign expenses by 80% by eliminating expensive attack ads. The
media deserves a revenue reduction. That
would allow elected officials to actually do their job.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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