Conservative journalists are starting to sound like press secretaries for Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign. Ahead of an election that will literally decide whether America remains a democratic republic or drifts into socialism, former President Donald Trump needs their support more than ever.
Last week, economist, conservative icon and Wall Street Journal Columnist Thomas Sowell wrote: “If Republicans lose the election this year – to an administration whose policies have been rejected by the public in poll after poll – they deserve to lose.”
Given the damage the Biden-Harris administration has done to the United States, the election should not be so close, he argued. Sowell said Republicans blame the media and the radicalization of students by universities, “but the fact is that a similar situation existed when Ronald Reagan won two presidential elections in a row by overwhelming margins.” Reagan won, he said, “by addressing voters as if they were adults who could understand an issue – if you explained it to them in plain English, rather than in political jargon or quick-witted platitudes.”
Sowell warned that “Republicans better step up” because “they haven’t made any arguments against Harris.”
This has become a common refrain on the The Wall Street Journal Opinion pages. On a recent visit to the site, I was stunned to see that the three “most popular” opinion pieces each took aim at Trump. First, columnist Gerard Baker opined that “Trump looks like a loser again.” The next, the editorial board asked, “Will Donald Trump blow another election?” And finally, writer Peggy Noonan told readers that Harris had just had another successful week, while Trump spent most of his time doing whatever a GOP strategist said Politico was a “public nervous breakdown”.
In response to Sowell’s post on Tuesday National review Jim Geraghty noted that inflation, the economy and illegal immigration were the most important issues for voters. “If Republicans want to gain ground,” he wrote, “it would probably help to make direct, clear arguments and hard facts on these issues.”
I understand. Trump is a human being with flaws. He is impulsive, unpredictable, selfish, and at times boorish. I would argue that these traits have made him a formidable opponent on the international stage. His temperament has kept the bullies of the world, who both respected and feared him, at bay.
Trump is also strong, smart, courageous, patriotic and one of the most successful presidents in recent history.
And America needs his leadership now more than ever.
The conservative media’s willingness to exaggerate every single misstep Trump made during his presidency has given us President Joe Biden and Harris, who have presided over a period of unprecedented decline both domestically and globally. By any measure, America has been worse off since the day this couple took office.
The world is on fire, and the Biden-Harris administration is the arsonist. Much of the chaos and unrest is due to their failed foreign policy and demonstrative weakness on the international stage. As we stand on the brink of a serious foreign policy conflict, I believe a dose of Trump’s toughness would go a long way to easing tensions.
Conservatives must focus on defeating the most left-leaning Democratic Party in American political history. That starts with enumerating Harris’s numerous failures.
Harris, for example, is as much responsible for the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan as Biden is. Harris confirmed to CNN that she was the “last person in the room” when Biden made the decision to leave Afghanistan on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. She told CNN, “This is a president who has extraordinary courage.”
As President of the Senate, Harris cast 33 tiebreaking votes. Harris ignored warnings from former President Barack Obama’s economic adviser Larry Summers that passage of the $1.9 trillion Rescue Plan for America in March 2021 would trigger inflation and cast the deciding vote for it. She is also responsible for passage of the ironically named Inflation Reduction Act in August 2022.
It goes without saying that these two bloated stimulus packages, along with the rest of the Biden-Harris administration’s reckless and unnecessary spending, triggered the worst inflation in 40 years. Harris is thus also responsible for the long series of interest rate hikes needed to cool prices, which have more than doubled mortgage rates.
And no matter how hard she tries to run away from it, she is responsible for the government’s failure to enforce U.S. immigration laws. The Biden-Harris administration’s open border policy has allowed more than 10 million illegal immigrants, including terrorists, to enter the country. It has also allowed drug traffickers to smuggle massive amounts of fentanyl across the border, killing about 70,000 Americans each year.
Anyone who believes Harris’ election-year conversion is naive. She represents the same radical positions she espoused during the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries. To name a few: She supported a ban on fracking and offshore drilling, Medicare for All, and the Green New Deal. I prefer “impulsive and selfish” to the candidate who called for donations to a fund set up to rescue violent rioters during the George Floyd riots.
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In November we face a binary decision. We can choose socialism or Donald Trump.
And yes, it really is that simple.
Elizabeth Stauffer is an employee of Washington Examiner and the Western Journal. Follow her on X or LinkedIn.