Trump must thank the left
Until Friday I thought that for Donald Trump it would be very difficult to win the elections, key states such as Michigan and Florida, showed that Biden was over Trump in the polls, by 1% or 2%, but Biden was winning. Trump’s despotism, his lack of self-criticism, his attack on those who criticize him and his late response to Covid 19, left me without doubts that Trump would lose, but I am no longer sure of this.
The left, once again, driven by their emotions and not by rationality, has given Trump a fundamental element for the election. The victim position against a domestic enemy, the enemy is no longer China or Russia, “the enemy is here and you can see it.”
Trump today will be able to tell the voters that they can see in these violent groups the people who oppose him and while he says this, the citizens of the United States will be able to see how, the left of Latin America, celebrates with a certain human misery, that the chaos is today in some places in the United States. By precisely being carried away by emotions and surely due to lack of knowledge, these left movements are missing the film.
A US citizen who voted for Trump in 2016 and who was convinced that Trump had turned out to be a fiasco, sees on national television people burning the US flag, as well as being an illegal act, demonstrates disrespect for the country. This citizen may be is asking himself today, should my vote be equal to that of the people who burn the flag of my country? And there begins a patriotic dilemma and in the end he could conclude, or not, that Trump, despite everything, is more like him than these people who burn the US flag.
A Minnesota town merchant, who voted for Trump, and who has also been disappointed, is convinced to vote against Trump, however, last weekend his business was looted by people who are against Trump. This merchant, might ask, do I want to be in the same boat with these people?
This, without a doubt, is very difficult for a person driven by emotions to see, and more, if we talk about ideological emotions based on social resentment or envy.
As a human being, I regret and condemn that there are crimes due to racial issues, beliefs, origin, political affinity or sexual orientation, now, is it really the left that must make value judgment on this ?, when today in America the left eing accept and applaud the dictatorships established by Fidel Castro, Nicolás Maduro and Daniel Ortega, where they do not kill a person, like the sad and terrible case of George Floyd, these left-wing dictatorships torture, disappear and kill hundreds.
Finally, Donald Trump, must thank the left for all the chaos that has spread and that has led to delegitimizing an authentic protest against racism and turning it into pure and simple fascism. Trump must thank the left that the dictator Maduro and the terrorist regime of Iran, publicly celebrate the chaos that happens in some places in the United States, because this has simply revived Trump, who until a few days ago was losing the election.
Jose Ponte Rangel
