Now that election season is officially underway, and we are only some 70 days from the election, we have seen a new tactic being used by Joe Biden and the Democrat Party … they have taken to using the term MAGA Republican. Therefore, I thought it might be interesting to try and determine just what a MAGA Republican is since it seems that they are the people who are the biggest threat to our democracy! Not China or Russia or fundamental terrorism – no, the country is in grave danger from the MAGA Republicans!
So … just a short look back in history – the acronym MAGA, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN – MAGA emerged as the theme for the 2016 Trump Campaign. It was adopted as the campaign slogan and quickly gained acceptance by the voters.
After all, what could possibly be wrong with supporting a program whose objective it was to make America great again?! At the time that the slogan was coined, we had suffered through eight years of Obama and his socialist agenda. Little did we know that things could get exponentially worse – but I digress.
MAGA became a philosophy, a philosophy that drove policy. A political philosophy and policy that embraced a closed southern border, energy independence, low inflation and high employment rates across all demographics. There was special emphasis on the Black and Latino communities. A program that did not just hand out money but established economic prosperity zones that would allow minority business owners to prosper even in low-income communities. MAGA policies led to new trade agreements between Mexico, the US and Canada, bringing an end to the unbalanced NAFTA Agreement and replacing it with the USMCA Agreement that put American factories and farmers on an even footing with Mexico and Canada.
MAGA policy ended the unfair trading practices with China. For years, this country was getting ripped off by the grossly unfair trade balance between our countries. The number of dollars spent on imported items far exceeded the US goods being sold to China. MAGA says that this imbalance is a NO GO for America. So, if the Chinese refuse to import more goods from the United States, then the only recourse is to levy a tariff on those goods coming in from China. These tariffs brought in billions of dollars to the US treasury thereby helping, for the first time in decades, to offset the trade imbalance.
MAGA philosophy and policy were directly responsible for making our NATO Treaty partners recognize and live up to their treaty agreements. The treaty calls for member nations to spend not less than 2% of their GDP on defense. That was simply not happening. Europe had grown completely dependent on the US and its soldiers to provide their defense – while they spent their money on things like the Nord Stream II Pipeline … lining Russia’s and Putin’s pockets. This was and is the man that threatens their very existence and the attack on Ukraine made that clear. NATO is now in a very painful “catching up” program to bring their militaries back to the readiness they exhibited in the 1980’s – before the so called “Peace Dividend.”
MAGA philosophy and policy believed in law and order. Now some might cite the January 6th riot at the US Capitol as being antithetical to the MAGA philosophy and that would be hard to defend, nor will I try since we have already identified this event as an unlawful anomaly in an otherwise lawful period in the country’s history. However, there were four full years that preceded this event. During those years, there were no “smash and grab” robberies in major metropolitan areas like New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Residents did not fear going on the subway or out to dinner. They did not expect to be followed to their front doors and robbed of their valuables right where they lived. That is not to say there was no crime and that we had a perfect utopia --- we did not --- but MAGA policy did not support the defunding of the police or the bail reform laws that allow criminals who are arrested to go back on the streets. To be sure, it was not perfect --- but it was one hell- of – a - lot better than it is today.
MAGA philosophy and policy believed in energy independence and encouraged the development of all forms of energy … natural gas, oil, coal, nuclear and renewable. And with this policy, we were moving forward in all areas of environmental protection with the cleanest water and air of any country in the world. Prices for goods remained low, in part, because the cost of the transportation infrastructure that is needed to transport goods around the world and the cost of the energy needed to move this supply chain remained low. America had what it needed --- there were no shortages of baby formula. There was no shortage of computer chips for cars and other essential equipment --- it just was not a problem.
MAGA --- MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN --- The Democrats want you to believe that this is a cult of personality, Donald Trump’s personality. But that is not what the acronym, when expanded, says --- “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” … Trump’s name is not in there, but America’s name is --- make AMERICA great again is the philosophy. It is a philosophy that worked and is working in states like Florida and Texas and South Dakota.
So, I will say that if the very words MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN anger Democrats, and they clearly do, then what we have long believed to be true is true … that is, Democrats really don’t like America, the Constitution and anyone that disagrees with their ruling philosophy. If you can’t get your head around the phrase, Make America Great Again, and you use these words to demonize fully one half the population --- then I submit … you really do not love this country.
It is time for all Republicans to stand together and recognize that MAGA is a philosophy and not just one man and if we intend to prevail in the upcoming mid-term elections, then we need to recognize that and embrace the philosophy. If we don’t, the “Big Red Wave” …
… will never happen and if the Republicans do not take back the House and the Senate and stop this long slow slide into darkness, then our Republic will be lost.
The choice is simple, for me --- I am a MAGA Republican. I will vote on November 8th with the intention of saving our Republic and along with it our Democracy. The consequences for not doing so are unimaginable. Please join me in working for a better America and a philosophy that will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!