Дональд Трамп - Triggered

When I turned to the guys I was talking with—the other 99 percent of the British population, the ones who’d actually vote and be affected by what they were voting for—they had a different answer.

“Absolutely no way we don’t vote to leave,” one of them said. “It’s one hundred percent certain. We’re out.”

Across the golf course, there were dozens of reporters looking (or pretending to look) for the story on Brexit. When I asked one of these reporters before we left what he thought was going to happen with Brexit, he said the same thing as his buddies on TV: “We’re staying. I don’t know anyone who would vote to leave. Not a single one.”

If he had wanted to meet one, all this guy had to do was walk a few feet and talk to some regular people. But he didn’t. Neither did any of his counterparts in the British media or the United States. Then, when the unthinkable happened and the people spoke up for what they wanted, all the reporters were dumbfounded. How could this happen? How did we get it so wrong?

They got it wrong because they didn’t get out and talk to voters. That’s it. End of story. They knew the outcome they wanted and they wrote accordingly. But these words didn’t give them more of a say than anyone else. They certainly didn’t give them more of a vote.

And for all the things my father has supposedly “revolutionized” about US politics—all of which he deserves full credit for, of course—his most revolutionary tactic was a pretty simple one: he knew his voters, and he listened to them. I wish I could tell you there was some other big secret or a fifty-point strategy you haven’t heard about for winning the presidency, but that’s really it. When my father stepped out onto the stage for the first time, he was talking to people he had been working with his entire life.

No one else in the race could say that.

When my father emerged on the scene in early 2015, everyone assumed that the support of local unions and blue-collar workers belonged exclusively to establishment Democrats such as Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. By all accounts, they had strong support in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio. They were going to take the entire black and Hispanic vote easily. No one even stopped to think about why that had always been the case or whether it made any sense anymore—at least not until my father started challenging the established norms of politics and speaking to voters who’d been ignored by Republicans and Democrats alike for decades. During that campaign, we all learned what could happen if you just sat down and listened to people, then came up with policies that addressed their concerns.

As is often the case with politics, this sounds simple. But the Republican Party had managed to screw it up in just about every election of my lifetime. No party had a more stellar reputation for losing big and ignoring the issues that mattered. The Republican Party under George W. Bush and Mitt Romney could snatch defeat from the jaws of victory better than any other organization in history. For years, the party had been refusing to speak to workers in small-town America who were getting laid off by the second. They were too focused on getting more donations or getting reelected to see that there was real pain in the center of the country that couldn’t be fixed without major changes. Compared with past Republicans, we outperformed in almost every category and with every demographic despite the BS narrative the media was selling with such glee. All they had given was promises; we gave people real results.

Luckily for people like Rusty, my father came along. Now the working men and women of America actually have someone in the White House who knows what they need and how to get it for them. Ask yourself this: What politician today has a history of dealing with unions and labor in business? Who has done thousands of jobs employing union labor? Who has worked with labor and not for its leadership, as many Democrats have? Name one substantive thing that Democrats have done for the union men and women of America over the past decades. NAFTA was horrible. Democrats did a great job for other countries that wanted to build up their manufacturing base. Meanwhile, union leadership pretended that Democrats are good for union workers? Give me a break! How dumb do you think we are? As I mentioned, my father renegotiated NAFTA into a new deal, USMCA, which does so much for American workers. Unions applauded that new deal, yet now Nancy Pelosi refuses to even bring it up to a vote in the House! I wonder why…

Before he was president, my father watched as Democrats exported the American dream to our competitors while Americans—good, hardworking Americans—struggled, and it sickened him. That dream was our only substantive export for decades. He was sick of watching other countries who hate our guts prosper, while our prospects went down the drain because of Democrats’ decisions. They were exporting the American dream to people who despised our freedoms and our values, all while our citizens suffered. Donald J. Trump brought that dream back to where it belongs—right here in the U.S. of A.

After what my father and his administration have accomplished for workers in their first three years—tax cuts, raises in workers’ salaries, historically low unemployment—there is absolutely no defensible reason for a working-class voter to support any Democrat. By making ideas such as socialism and open borders mainstream tenets of the Democrat Party, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, et al, have made the United States less livable than ever for members of the working class. Instead of investing in workers, they have helped ship jobs overseas, costing the American workforce countless jobs and opportunities. They’ve also allowed thousands of people to enter the country as illegal immigrants—who take, far too often, from the system while contributing nothing. What better way to destroy American progress than by having overcrowded schools and health care systems that collapse under the strain of a growing population of dependents who won’t ever pay into our systems? Only a Democrat could possibly think that’s a good idea!

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BACK TO SCHOOL YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED AT WHAT THE MONEY YOU PAY FOR TUITION BUYS YOU.

So you disagree with someone.

Congratulations! You’ve officially taken your first step toward making the world a better place. In this country, disagreement and debate—especially in the political arena—are the two most important things we have. They are what made the United States of America great in the first place. Without them, we’d still be a British colony and learning how to curtsy to the monarch while sipping afternoon tea.

Still, this is 2019. Before you go disagreeing with someone, you should know that debate and disagreement aren’t what they used to be. For instance, if the person you disagree with is a member of a minority group and you’re not, you’re going to have to shut up. Also, if that person is a woman and you’re not, you’ll have to shut up. Oh, and if you make more money than the person you disagree with, you’ll have to shut up.

To make matters easier, I’ve compiled this handy checklist so you’ll know the rules going forward.

Don’s Handy Checklist for Not Getting Called Racist, Misogynist, Fill-in-the-Blank Phobic

Are you:

White?

Straight?

Male?

Christian?

Cisgender? (This, as I understand it, is our new word for when you “identify” as being the same gender you were assigned at birth. In other words, if you have man parts and feel like a man, or woman parts and feel like a woman.)

If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, you may want to shut up. If you answered “yes” to all five, you definitely need to shut up (yes, even if your parts match the way you feel ).