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Americans deserve a political choice, but the Left has gone insane

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The midterm elections are rapidly approaching, and I don’t think I’m the only American who would like to be given a choice.

Because I voted for Donald Trump in 2024, people I encounter often expect me to be a MAGA supporter, a conservative, or maybe a libertarian.

I’m none of those things.

To the extent that MAGA is a cult of personality, count me out.

To the extent that conservatism means standing pat, it’s a suicide pact. There’s much in a civilization that must be conserved, but an equal need for innovation.

To the extent that libertarians embrace “experiments in living,” they can exist only as a nonconformist sect within a society anchored in traditional morality — otherwise those experimental lives will trample all over each other.

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I’m trying to say that my vote is up for grabs.

And what about Trump? Here we come to the heart of the matter.

I don’t particularly love the president.

He can be petty to his opponents even as they lie on their deathbeds.

His meandering way of talking drives me crazy — as far as I’m concerned, the man speaks a foreign language.

This is much more than a problem of style. Trump’s performance as wartime communicator may be the worst in our history.

But he is also a world-historical figure towering over an age in drastic need of change, who must be taken in his totality, good and bad, effective and destructive, and judged against those who wish to replace him rather than on some abstract standard of perfection.

In politics, it’s always about the alternatives.

So I wish to talk here to those who oppose Trump most strenuously, who hate Trump to infinity and beyond: to the people of the Left.

You are responsible for both of his electoral victories.

The radical left IS taking over the Democratic Party — and it’s the establishment’s fault

You — the transgenderists, the antisemites, the climate obsessives, the neo-communists, the police defunders, the degrowth promoters, the online censors, all magnified by the prestige media and academia and the bureaucracy at every level — are the Great Trump Propaganda Machine.

Without you, he would be a footnote, not a movement.

If that upsets you, take a moment for once to reflect on how you appear to voters like me — the politically homeless.

The Left once stood for liberation from political and economic oppression.

Some believed this could only be achieved through a violent revolution, others held out for peaceful democratic progress.

But an epochal inversion has taken place, and Leftists have become the masters they once sought to overthrow —........

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