(President Donald Trump arrives at Duluth International Airport, in Duluth Minn., Wednesday, June 20, 2018. Trump is in Duluth to speak at a rally for Pete Stauber, a Republican congressional candidate running in a traditionally Democratic district.
by Angelo Perichilli
June 24, 2018
The anti-Trump bandwagon in Canada is rejoicing after another show of, according to our media, idiotic behaviour by the American president.
I dislike Donald Trump, his bullying, and many of his policies. But I am not on the anti-Trump bandwagon.
Why? Because our Trump Derangement Syndrome blinds us to reality. It makes us forget that American fears about lax U.S. borders, terrorism, economic imbalance and the intolerance that stems from them, do not exist because Trump is in the White House.
Rather, Trump is in the White House because those issues were not addressed by his predecessors.
Don’t be misled by the never-ending media bashing of Trump. The judgment on his presidency will be made by American voters, not the New York Times or CNN, who hated Trump from the beginning.
So how did the world really get Trump? In part because after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, America’s global leadership gradually collapsed.
Both Republican and Democratic presidents were responsible for this, but it was particularly evident during the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama administrations. They allowed Russia to take over the lead political role in the Mideast and stood by while China usurped America’s traditional role of global economic leadership.
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