Don’t you hate it when the candidate “on your side” acts as if he’s trying to throw the fight?
I voted for Donald Trump and urged others to do the same in 2016 and 2020, and as soon as early voting opens in my state will vote for him again in 2024.
Not because he’s my ideal candidate, but because he’s the one I find least objectionable.
I vote based on the issue I’m most familiar with. Not a single issue voter, so much as a litmus test voter. For me, that issue is gun owners’ civil rights. None of us has time to gain a deep knowledge of everything a President has to deal with – including the candidates themselves, which is why I want one who’s going to establish a solid think tank for every such issue – but the issue we know is how we judge a candidate’s ability to assess issues and handle them fairly.
Only short months after crushingly defeating President Joe Biden in a debate in which the latter couldn’t hold a coherent policy thought and babbled about his golf game, I see the guy on my side dancing to music on camera for more than half an hour and babbling about a dead golfer’s genitalia. Good Lord…
In the end, I have to put policy over personality. I have to look at what they’ve done, not what they say they’ll do. Ever since he ran for the highest office in 2016, Trump has been reasonably solidly committed to gun owners’ civil rights, and more important, knows how important we gun people are to any victory he hopes to achieve. His opponent has in the past worked to ban possession of handguns, tacitly approved authorities entering homes without warrants to check on whether they’re keeping their guns secure to her satisfaction, and after promising not to take our guns says in virtually the same breath that she would happily order buybacks, which are simply mandatory confiscation of firearms with some degree of financial compensation. She has more flip-flops than a shoe store.
The next President is likely to have the opportunity to replace two or even three of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, likely replacing the two strongest supporters of the Second Amendment on that Court.
Please don’t abstain from voting or waste your vote on an unelectable third party candidate because you don’t care for either mainstream candidate. If the basic human right of self-defense is important to you for yourself, your descendants and everyone you care about, I urge you to vote for Donald Trump, even if you have to grimace and hold your nose as you do so.
I know I’m largely preaching to the choir here, but please, do all in your power to convince everyone you know to do the same.
It’s profoundly important.
Policy is the right way to vote and both candidates have a clear policy record. Guns are a litmus test for me too but I am increasingly concerned that the current regime is going to blunder into a nuclear war.
As am I.
Mas, it is also important for 2A supporters to vote ASAP ahead of possible ballot complication issues. Everybody needs to act calmly, but expeditiously. Not much extra time left now, if any.
I would add that if you don’t support the perpetual war/military industrial complex mono-party in D.C., vote for Trump. The people calling him a fascist fit the very definition of fascists.