MAGA hat stays on: The people choose their president, not the federal bureaucracy

OPINION:

Donald J. Trump is unlike any force we’ve ever seen in American politics.

The more he’s attacked, the stronger he gets.

Following the latest effort by the “Get Trump” establishment to destroy his candidacy through a weaponized justice system, the former president and 2024 GOP front-runner is dominating in the polls, seeing a big fundraising spike, grabbing more and more key endorsements, all while laying out his Agenda 47 to right all of President Biden’s wrongs.

More and more Americans are waking up to the existential threat posed by a two-tiered justice system, a wide open border, surging costs, growing threats abroad, and Mr. Biden’s undeniable cognitive decline.

And only one man is fearless enough, strong enough and bold enough to take down an entrenched political swamp that continues to undermine American prosperity while putting us on a path of decline.

Ever since Mr. Trump coasted down the golden escalator in 2015, his threat to “business as usual” in Washington has prompted a wave of hoaxes, lies, smears, and never-ending investigations aimed to stop him or anyone else from challenging the status quo.

The Jack Smith indictment is just the latest on a long list of election interference schemes designed to intimidate America First patriots from having their voices heard.

But that’s not how it’s supposed to work in America: The people choose their president, not the federal bureaucracy.

And it’s no surprise that whatever the administrative state and the Democrats accuse everyone else of doing is exactly what they’re doing themselves.

Mr. Trump was plagued for years by the Russia hoax when it turns out it’s Mr. Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who were doing business with shady foreign actors.

With Mrs. Clinton, it was paying for the dirty Steele dossier that was used in a FISA warrant to spy on Mr. Trump and his aides.

With Mr. Biden, it’s his family’s nefarious foreign dealings in countries like Ukraine, China and Romania.

And then, in 2020, we saw perhaps the greatest act of election interference in history when Democrats, Big Tech, and major media outlets censored the Hunter Biden laptop story — not because they thought it was false — but because they knew it was true, and that it would be devastating to the Biden campaign.

Whether it’s sham indictments, lies about Russian collusion, hysteria over a phone call with Ukraine, or whatever else, it’s all fruit of the same poisonous tree to destroy a man — and a movement — that wants to put the American people first.

An America First movement focused on secure borders, lowering costs, wage growth, peace abroad, reducing crime, free and fair trade deals, school choice, originalists on the Supreme Court, and more.

And Mr. Trump has a track record of success. We had the most secure border in history, a pre-pandemic economy that was the strongest we’ve ever seen, historic peace deals in places like the Middle East, and a vision for America that put middle-class families first, instead of big donors and special interests.

Don’t let the corrupt media establishment or other candidates rewrite history: America was in good hands under Mr. Trump.

And now, the stakes are too high to roll the dice on a rookie, a RINO, or anyone else who’s going to need training wheels to pedal into the Oval Office.

We need Mr. Trump, who is ready for this job on day one.

We’re in a battle for the future of our republic.

We’re up against a destructive Democratic machine as desperate as ever to keep its grip on power.

We’re no longer debating the nuisances of tax policy or the best way to reduce a little spending here or there.

We’re up against a cabal of corrupt bureaucrats, left-wing extremists, and powerful special interests who would love nothing more than for America First patriots to be exhausted into obedience.

And those dark forces are all-in on an agenda to open our borders, undermine American sovereignty, get us dragged into more foreign conflicts, strip parental rights in schools, and make you as dependent on the government as possible.

Even institutions like the FBI that were once respected are being exposed as just another tentacle of the swamp.

Mr. Trump is the only one ready to take them head-on — to restore American prosperity, rejuvenate the American spirit and reignite American greatness.

It’s why now more than ever, the MAGA hat stays on.

And starting in January 2025, Donald Trump takes care of all the unfinished business.

• The author is the host of “The Kimberly Guilfoyle Show” on Rumble.