Don's Tuesday Column

            THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson   Red Bluff Daily News   9/17/2019

                  More Black, Hispanic, student support

Did you know that President Trump met with a rather supportive, visibly upbeat contingent of HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) representatives last week? As conservative, Trump-supporting Paris Dennard—an African-American—wrote in a tweet: “He is saying with a loud voice, ‘I see you, I hear you, I appreciate you, I value you and I want you all to win!’”

Since virtually all news events are seen through the lens of Trump’s reelection, this indication—that a sizable segment of the black electorate has “walked away” from Democratic, anti-Trump “resistance”—suggests historically unprecedented black support in the 2020 election. Neutral pollsters, not in the Democrat/media cabal, have analyzed the impact of a potential 15 to 20+ percent Trump vote among African-Americans and concluded that the Democratic candidate could not win a national election. “Swing states” would be tipped irreversibly Republican in such a scenario.

 Likewise, “Donald Trump’s approval among Hispanic Americans in Texas has increased by 20% since 2016. That means he has nearly 1 million new Hispanic supporters,” wrote Ronna McDaniel, @GOPChairwoman, in a tweet last week. That quote came from a piece she wrote for Univision.com: “The Hispanic community has made historic gains during the Trump Administration.”

“While Democrat candidates remain oblivious and out of touch, Americans—especially in Texas—are taking note of the positive impact that President Trump and Republicans’ pro-growth, pro-business policies are having on American families and businesses.” Reflecting the rise of traditional values—and economic prosperity—voters in that demographic, Trump’s message is hitting home. Jobs and job-creators are the keys to achieving the dream of abundance; securing the border and applying the rule of law to (illegal) immigration secures rising wages in a growing economy; and family-and religion-friendly policies support the nobility of work and a stable, productive nuclear family home life.

 “Democrats’ out-of-touch radicalism was on full display yet again last night in Houston. Despite the debate taking place in the energy capital of the world, 2020 candidates argued in favor of policies that would kill energy industry jobs. They did the same thing last month in Detroit, our country’s automotive and manufacturing hub, where they presented no plans to help our manufacturing industry. And in Miami, home to countless victims of socialism, they openly embraced the policies local Hispanic communities sacrificed so much to flee.”

Just like rising African-American support for Trump and Republicans, it won’t take even a doubling of the Hispanic vote to put Democrats out of contention in states like Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. Both Black and Hispanic unemployment has reached historic lows; tax cuts have—despite lame attempts to airbrush away the real impact on tax-paying voters—benefited both groups; Hispanic-owned businesses are growing rapidly at twice the rate of all businesses since 2012, accounting for over $700 billion each year. Hispanic women-owned businesses are the fastest growing segment in the country.

The toughest, most hostile environment—requiring the most courage in the face of adversity—faces conservative college students. GOP Badgers (@GOPBadgers), Turning Point USA (tpusa.com), Young Americans for Freedom (yaf.com) and other Republicans are ostracized, vandalized, abused, marginalized, subjected to onerous and unconstitutional free speech restrictions; they’re thriving nonetheless.

Ironically, in an environment that enforces the leftist status quo, the naturally rebellious leanings of America’s youth are inducing students, resentful of being told what to think, to inquire and think for themselves—often concluding on their own that the elite’s ideology “has no (truthful) clothes.”

I want to remind and direct readers to President Trump’s twitter page. Don’t pay attention to news media filters, partisan detractors and spinners, or even conservative voices and talk-show-callers echoing the line: “If Trump would just tone down and cut back on his tweeting.” The next time you are at a keyboard or pad, type in “@realDonaldTrump”, bookmark it/add to favorites and take a few minutes each day to review his posted tweets.

You’ll quickly see for yourself why Trump has 64.3 million “followers,” almost 1.5 million more than voted for him in 2016. That doesn’t include this and many other supporters who cannot “follow” his tweets because we have no social media accounts. He had about 53 million “followers” when I first began reading his every tweet. You will also get wise to why he was and is brilliant in providing a way for any citizen and voter to compare @realDonaldTrump to the news media, and other Democrat partisan hack, caricatures of President Trump.

Bad news for media “Democrats-with-bylines”: “Poll: Public backs criticism of journalists, Trump’s attacks ‘appropriate’” by Paul Bedard. “In the latest sign that major American media outlets are losing the public’s support, a majority believe it is appropriate for politicians to criticize reporters and hold them to the same scrutiny as those they cover.” The “majority” was over 3 to 1: 61% of voters who think reporters deserve scrutiny, while only 19% disagree. This wouldn’t happen if “news journalists” had stuck to straight-up reporting, as opposed to opinion, analysis and propaganda.

In “DNC Red Alert: ‘People generally are feeling Trump is beating us on all fronts right now,’” John Sexton summarized a Daily Beast story describing “the mood among some Democrats who are becoming concerned about the party’s ability to compete for swing voters in the general election.” They’re off the left cliff, folks, and nobody they know thinks any differently.

The New York Times broke an incredible story about then-college freshman Bret Kavanaugh exposing himself at a party. In “The New York Times Anti-Kavanaugh Bombshell Is Actually a Dud,” by John McCormack, we read that—much like accusers from the political ooze that smeared Kavanaugh at his Supreme Court hearing—she doesn’t even remember the incident cited by former Hillary lawyer, Max Stier. The Times and the networks left out what you just read—proving why they are held in low regard.