Sisters needs to understand Trump

It surprises me that after almost 10 years of Donald Trump’s political career, people, including our illustrious Editor in Chief, Jim Cornelius, still have not figured him out. Trump is not a classical conservative, or even a Republican, he is a populist. We would likely have seen more of his ideology in 2017 through 2020 but he was in a constant battle between members of his own party, the Democrats, and the media, so that much of the policy work he wished to accomplish was derailed. In 2025, Trump has apparently learned from his first term and has hired people who will advance the agenda and policies that he ran on to win the electoral and popular vote.

To suggest that the political environment in the United States is anything like The Troubles in Ireland is a hard stretch in story-telling to find a comparison. There is no tit for tat violence taking place between opposing sides in America, as political organizations form para-militaries. Jim Cornelius lists off a few of the violent actions that have occurred, but let me list some more, with most happening right here in Oregon as well as nationally, all with the explicit or tacit support of leading members of the Democratic party: The 2016 Trump riots, George Floyd riots, BLM riots, and the Anti-Israel/Pro Hamas riots. These were not simply an event like an assassination attempt, but on-going violent protests that continue today to destabilize our country. Now I will list the violent actions, other than January 6, from conservatives. Nothing. People on the left must mention January 6 as frequently as possible because this is all they have when they throw up the false equivalence of violence from the right. Four years of Biden and not a single act of para-military violence from the right.

Forget Trump the personality for a minute and focus on the policies that Trump ran on. This is not a case of a country split down the middle 50/50. Immigration. Americans overwhelmingly support deporting illegal immigrants who have been convicted of crimes, especially violent crimes. Small government, bureaucracy, and the economy. Most Americans favor a smaller government and fewer restrictions to conduct business in the USA. Justice. Most Americans want the law applied equally regardless of political affiliation or social standing. Voting. A vast majority believe identification must be presented to vote. DEI. Americans overwhelmingly support removing identity-based hiring practices to focus on qualifications and merit. Globalism. Most Americans insofar as they understand the various organizations, have real concerns about the politicization of groups like the UN and WHO. Transgenderism. Americans overwhelmingly support not medically or chemically castrating children, and not having boys participate in girls’ sports. They also do not support men in women’s prisons. Abortion. The majority of Americans believe that abortion should be illegal in the second and third trimesters with some exceptions. I suspect that these polling numbers of support for these various policies would be even larger if the media would report fairly on them and not focus on whether a rich guy gave a sieg heil salute.

Living in Sisters for a few years now I have come to understand that the progressive left is going to dominate the content of The Nugget, and I believe most conservatives in town have chosen to just read the articles and letters, shake their heads, and move on. The last time I wrote a letter to the editor, filled with references and facts to support my points, a writer responded by suggesting that I was in some death cult drinking the poisoned Kool-Aid, and who wants to live in a small town where your neighbors are suggesting this type of violence upon you? But people should understand that when they see the next progressive letter to the editor highlighting the “accomplishments” from the previous administration, or their concerns for Trump’s policies, that those writers are in the tiny minority, that will get smaller once the tell-all books are written pulling back the veil on just how corrupt and incompetent the Biden/Harris administration really was.