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May 29, 2023

A very dear friend and a former Heritage Foundation associate responded to my last column on American Thinker with the following:

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Happy to tell you in a private email why the GOP needs to dump Trump (for whom I voted twice), but it requires too many bad words that would cause my dear late mother to go for the soap for use in a public forum. For starters, let’s just say he’s a thin-skinned, immature, undisciplined **shole who is ignorant by choice, erratic in his behavior, and disloyal. And those are some of his better points. Do I hate him? No. But I hate his type.

I dearly hope he’s still my dear friend after he reads my response:

I see your point, XXXX, but I don’t give a rat’s ass about his personality. The world is loaded with megalomaniacs in charge . All I care about is what he does and did as president. Considering the fact that he has been seriously attacked and maligned since announcing his candidacy, he is not the same as he was before and much of what he has become has been a reaction to the barrage of the vilification.

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Then another political ally of mine weighed in to comment:

I voted for Trump twice. I won’t do it again. Trump today is not the Trump of the previous elections. I find the fact that he is even running to be preposterous. With all his baggage. He’s chaos in human form. The notion that he can get the votes of disaffected Democrats and Independents in a general election is a fantasy. The list of why I don’t support him is long. His disloyalty to anyone who doesn’t kiss his arse is offensive to me. Example: Mike Pence, who was so loyal to Trump. Trump doesn’t even appear to be getting the support of his wife, who is MIA on the campaign trail. I see Trump as nothing but a spoiler and egotist now. DeSantis is my choice and I think he’ll be the nominee?

Needless to say, my allies are now on a different wavelength than mine so my response to her may seal that relationship:

Everything you mention about Trump is probably what you’ve read about him. I believe nothing I read about him from both sides as it’s written with an agenda. Do you know him personally? I haven’t met him but know many who have met him including my husband. He is a flawed man but I will judge him by his actions not his tweets.

I’m sure there will be many who view my responses as coming from a Kool-Aid drinking, brainwashed Trump cultist but I have never been a crowd follower. I loathe crowds. That’s why I turned down an invite to Woodstock in 1969. Unlike many brain-dead New Yorkers, I consider my choices in any election very, very carefully.

So why has my vote for Trump morphed from reluctant in 2016, enthusiastic in 2020 and now for 2024, there is no one else.?  Donald Trump was that man in 2017 and still remains the one that the feckless global community still fears.