OPINION:
What moves the average person to passionately support former President Donald Trump?
Mr. Trump is a lot of things, and not all are becoming of a person in the highest office of the land. He is bombastic, narcissistic and unapologetic — but most important to his supporters, he is not a politician.
That’s unsettling to many, but none more so than the career Washington elite. Less than a quarter of Americans now approve of Congress. Voters thirst for someone who is not a politician, someone who can get things done.
Unlike the entrenched bureaucrats in Washington, Mr. Trump is bold and innovative. For more than 20 years, presidents lacked the courage to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Mr. Trump did it, and without incident.
Mr. Trump also took an unprecedented approach to Middle East peace with the Abraham Accords, which would lead Palestinians no choice but to come to the table.
Mr. Trump will lower corporate taxes for those corporations that bring jobs back to the U.S. (Lots of politicians say they’ll bring back jobs, but they never share their plans for doing so.) Such bold and creative solutions have never existed in former presidents, nor in members of Congress. It’s just not in their DNA.
Mr. Trump is a proven problem-solver and a patriot. He has said “America first” hundreds of times (when was the last time you heard a politician say that?). Wearing a flag pin on your lapel does not make one a patriot. And being a fervent Trump supporter doesn’t make someone a fascist.
CHARLES EARY
Ocean City, Maryland
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