I have long argued that Donald Trump was just about the weakest candidate Republicans could have put up against the Democrats in 2016, 2020 and 2024; that any "normal Republican" (Trump is definitely not normal and isn't much of a Republican) would have beaten a despised Hillary Clinton in the popular vote by double digits, easily fended off the doddering Joe Biden four years later, and bested the inept Kamala Harris by a much larger margin than Trump did.
Going further, I've challenged my MAGA friends to identify any of the good things they think that Trump has done in the past year or so--closing the border, combating DEI and transgenderism, preserving tax cuts, repealing various regulations--that a President Haley, President Hutchinson or President DeSantis wouldn't have also done, minus the tariffs, Greenland, the Kennedy Center, appeasement of Vladimir Putin, the "Seditious Six," etc., etc., etc.
In the interest of fairness, though, I think I might have finally found something, a very important something, that Trump does that they might not have, or at least not to the same extent: employ American military force in an unapologetic manner to punish our enemies and protect...
Source: https://www.newstribune.com/news/2026/mar/09/commentary-finally-a-reckoning-for-evil/
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