DONALD TRUMP’S BIGGEST SIN

Markinsa · August 9, 2019

If you’re much older than 12, you know that the reaction to Donald Trump’s election and his presidency has been unprecedented, a level of screeching and squawking that has never been heard before. There’s a reason for it.

Three years ago a young Muslim gunman killed 50 people in a *** nightclub in Orlando, Florida. President Barack Obama called it “an act of terror and an act of hate,” but bristled at candidate Trump’s criticism that Obama couldn’t bring himself to call it the work of radical Islam, even though the shooter had pledged allegiance to a radical Islam group before the killing began. “Calling a threat by a different name does not make it go away,” Obama sniffed. The media took Obama’s side even though the gunman had been investigated by the FBI twice before in 2013 and 2014 and yet wasn’t arrested or even told to knock it off.

This week there were two shootings that killed fewer people than the one in Orlando, and the media and Democrats basically acted as if Donald Trump had mailed the shooters their ammunition. Trump even spoke out against white supremacy, as demanded by the media, and the media then claimed it was perfect evidence that Trump was a white supremacist.

What did Donald Trump do to deserve the kind of treatment he’s getting? In many ways before and since his election, he has committed the mortal sin of putting the lie to everything the mainstream media and Democrats have been telling us for 80 years, and that just can’t be allowed.

For 140 years until the Great Depression the United States was a place where people were supposed to find something to do, earn a living and pay their own bills. It worked quite well. But from 1930 on, that changed. Before then the federal government had spent about three percent of the country’s money (GDP, or the gross domestic product); but both Republican Herbert Hoover and Democrat Franklin Roosevelt decided government spending was the way out of the Depression. By 1939 government spending as part of the economy had more than tripled to 10%. After World War Two that percentage increased until it peaked at 24% in 2010 and now is around 20 percent, about seven times as much a fraction of the country’s GDP.

This is a monstrous, huge tsunami of money, and it all rolls into Washington DC, where bureaucrats get their cut of it before spending it on government programs and politicians, to be brutally honest, steal a big chunk of it for their own purposes. It’s so much money that the top three counties in the country for household income are right around Washington itself, leaving Silicon Valley in the dust.

Many of the people working in Washington believe they are doing wonderful things to make America a better place, and would be angered if you told them they’re wasting both our money and their time. They are convinced the country would collapse if they weren’t hard at work counting buttons and doing PowerPoint lectures.

This viewpoint may have reached its peak in a Supreme Court case in the 1940s called Wickard v. Filburn. A poor schmuck named Roscoe Filburn had been told exactly how much wheat he could grow on his small Ohio farm by a government bureaucrat, because the federal government had decided that only they could know how much wheat was needed in our economy.

Now, Filburn did what they demanded, planting 11 acres worth of wheat for sale. However, he then committed the mortal sin of planting another 12 acres of wheat to feed his farm animals and thus his family. For this reason his case ended up before the Supreme Court (Wickard was the Agriculture Secretary at the time, hence the title). The justices ruled that Filburn was in the wrong, saying that his extra 12 acres of wheat was actually part of interstate commerce even though it never left his farm.

Basically, the Supreme Court was saying that government can do anything as long as it says it has a good reason to, and of course the federal government seized that idea and ran with it. We now have about three million federal employees, not counting the military.

Donald Trump’s sin has been to say that very little of this matters—that two billion dollars sent to Baltimore has not made it a safer or cleaner place, that invading Iraq and Afghanistan didn’t make America a safer place, and that letting millions of people in without checking where they came from or what skills they have is another mistake. In essence, he has said that big government doesn’t make your life better and it may make it worse, and for that heresy he must be burned at the stake. Currently it’s a proverbial stake, but the liberals may soon change their minds.

When Trump was elected a New York Times columnist named Paul Krugman wrote that America would soon be an economic manure pile and Trump would undo all the wonderful positive things Barack Obama had done for the nation. Since that column was written the country has produced 5 million new jobs and lowered unemployment to all-time lows for minorities, exactly the opposite of what Krugman and others predicted.

And this is why they hate Donald Trump. Not because he’s a Republican—they like Republicans as long as they act like hangdog losers—they hate Trump because he’s said that THEY don’t matter, that there’s no real need for the chattering class that tells us how to think or the bureaucracy that tells us how to live.

You can see this attitude in the Trump Administration’s recent attempt to ease fuel economy standards. With gasoline now as cheap (counting inflation) as it was in 1962, the Trump people thought auto makers might want the freedom to build cars without constantly worrying about tenths of a gallon they might burn in EPA testing. Within minutes liberals, bureaucrats and even the car makers were up in arms. Don’t give us freedom! We need to set rules a million words at a time! This despite the reality that easing the rules doesn’t mean anyone CAN’T build or buy a car that gets 4 billion miles to the gallon, it just would mean they didn’t have to. What horror.

Donald Trump is not a racist or a white supremacist. He’s much worse, as far as his opponents are concerned. He’s the man who shows they aren’t needed.