From:Ted Diadiun-member of the editorial board of cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer
From:Ted Diadiun-member of the editorial board of cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer
From:Ted Diadiun-member of the editorial board of cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer
What we decide Nov. 3 will, to an almost unprecedented extent, determine what kind of country we will live in for the foreseeable future. It would be a massive mistake for Americans to base their choice on anything other than that…
Trump has endeavored to enforce our borders and resist illegal immigration, nominated federal judges and justices from the Supreme Court on down who will follow the Constitution rather than make their own laws, installed a Secretary of Education who has tried to defang the powerful teachers unions and make it easier for poor families to exercise school choice, and has stood firm against the lawless rioters who this summer have destroyed and burned businesses from Philadelphia to Portland. And he has done this under the unrelenting attacks from the country’s liberal media, a politicized impeachment, and against his opponents’ predictable tactic of immediately finding a liberal federal judge to at least temporarily derail every executive order.
Biden has taken the opposite tack on all those issues.
From:Ted Diadiun-member of the editorial board of cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer
From:Ted Diadiun-member of the editorial board of cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer
What we decide Nov. 3 will, to an almost unprecedented extent, determine what kind of country we will live in for the foreseeable future. It would be a massive mistake for Americans to base their choice on anything other than that…
Trump has endeavored to enforce our borders and resist illegal immigration, nominated federal judges and justices from the Supreme Court on down who will follow the Constitution rather than make their own laws, installed a Secretary of Education who has tried to defang the powerful teachers unions and make it easier for poor families to exercise school choice, and has stood firm against the lawless rioters who this summer have destroyed and burned businesses from Philadelphia to Portland. And he has done this under the unrelenting attacks from the country’s liberal media, a politicized impeachment, and against his opponents’ predictable tactic of immediately finding a liberal federal judge to at least temporarily derail every executive order.
Biden has taken the opposite tack on all those issues.
After Tuesday’s debate, Trump’s enemies have been making a major issue of his regrettable refusal to repeat after them, “I condemn white supremacy.” I can’t explain or defend that stubborn reluctance, especially since he has said similar things in the past — and since. But in real life, what policies of his have supported white supremacists or advanced their philosophy in any way?
Contrast that with Biden’s own refusal to say whether he would support some Democratic senators’ vow to expand the Supreme Court in order to create a liberal majority, which has drawn not a peep of media dismay.
That unprincipled move is something we could expect from the combination of a Biden presidency and Democratic Senate, along with statehood for Democrat-heavy Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, and a concerted effort to eliminate the Electoral College. Those three threats, if successful, would be catastrophic to the democracy and virtually ensure unbroken Democratic rule going forward.
In 2016, I allowed my loathing for Donald Trump the man and my distrust that he would do what he said he was going to do to influence me in voting against him.
I won’t make the same mistake again.
Trump’s bombast aside, the country is in far better shape today than it would have been if Hillary Clinton had been elected president. And, whether I like his style or not, it will be in far better shape four years from now under President Trump than it will be under President Biden and a Democrat-controlled Senate.
Ted Diadiun is a member of the editorial board of cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer.
Contrast that with Biden’s own refusal to say whether he would support some Democratic senators’ vow to expand the Supreme Court in order to create a liberal majority, which has drawn not a peep of media dismay.
That unprincipled move is something we could expect from the combination of a Biden presidency and Democratic Senate, along with statehood for Democrat-heavy Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, and a concerted effort to eliminate the Electoral College. Those three threats, if successful, would be catastrophic to the democracy and virtually ensure unbroken Democratic rule going forward.
In 2016, I allowed my loathing for Donald Trump the man and my distrust that he would do what he said he was going to do to influence me in voting against him.
I won’t make the same mistake again.
Trump’s bombast aside, the country is in far better shape today than it would have been if Hillary Clinton had been elected president. And, whether I like his style or not, it will be in far better shape four years from now under President Trump than it will be under President Biden and a Democrat-controlled Senate.
Ted Diadiun is a member of the editorial board of cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer.