Donald Trump isn’t a bully. He really isn’t. What he is, is strong, and when someone hits him, he hits them back a lot harder. This serves two purposes: one, the offending party learns their lesson and typically doesn’t attack him again; and two, most of the people who see what happened learn not to attack him either. Trump rarely attacks people who haven’t attacked him first.
Imagine what it would have been like if when you were bullied, you’d had the power and ability to hit those bullies back so hard they’d never mess with you again. And in so doing, other bullies had seen what happened and decided they’d better not mess with you either. Your life would have been much easier and you’d have had to contend with far fewer attempts at bullying you, wouldn’t you? You’d have come out ahead and lived a much happier life. You’d have had respect not only from your classmates or co-workers, but most likely from the people who tried to bully you too. And you’d have had more respect for yourself too, I’ll bet. That’s how Donald Trump lives his life. He talked about it decades ago in his book The Art of the Deal.
It’s late and I have to call it a night, but much of what gets labelled hatred when it comes to illegal immigrants and gays and mandated birth control and so forth isn’t really hatred at all, but mere disapproval or disagreement. Genuine hatred does exist to certain degree, but in my experience it’s dwarfed by the number of people who simply disapprove of certain behaviors and get labelled haters as a consequence. I know quite a few people who disapprove of illegal immigration, for example, including some Hispanics who’re resentful that they paid money and applied for visas and waited their turn to get here only to see others come flooding into the country illegally and getting welfare and food stamps and drivers’ licenses. None of these people hate Hispanics (especially the ones who are Hispanic themselves), but it seems that to the left one must ignore or overlook any and all behavior by anyone not a white male or Christian, no matter how illegal or how destructive or how harmful it is, or get labelled a hater, racist, sexist or whatever. It’s ridiculous. And it’s a large part of why Donald Trump is doing so well in the polls. People are sick and tired of being lied about and called names simply because they want issues that trouble them addressed, and they’re sick and tired of politicians who don’t have the courage to do anything about them.
