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Opinion | Why I supported Trump

Every four years, so to say, the Americans, nay the entire world, is invariably called upon to choose between two evil men as to who of them will occupy the most powerful political office in the world, the position of President of the United States of America. Every man is then left on his own to decide who between the two is the lesser evil, either to him personally or to the entire nation. This, he is required to do according to the level of his education, the outcomes of his experiences with such decision previously, his fears and hopes, his biases and the source, level and amount of propaganda which he has ingested concerning the two men.

And so it was that I was among a few Nigerians and a few Africans who decided to support Donald Trump. I knew I was one of a minority who unashamedly supported Trump regardless of taunts, mockeries and abuses from those who felt it should be anybody else but Trump. I do not know with others of my fellow travelers in the Trump camp, but I had simple reasons why I supported the man.

Trump, a straight talking fellow. Trump was not your regular Washington political wheeler- dealer. Obviously because of his background as a top-notch businessman, Trump was a straight-talking political leader who had no time for deceptive talk. It is this his non-deceptive, straight from- the- heart- talk and his let-us-get-on- with- the –serious- business-of- governance style that many mistook for arrogance and unpresidentialism and which they hated him so much for.

For some of us who prefer ability to deliver to style or formalism, we love Trump for this his unusualness. His achievement for the American economy before Covid 19 spoilt things for him is there for all to see. Some commentators have even gone ahead to pronounce Trump the worst president America has ever had. I think this is too hasty. Wait first and see what Biden and others do before you can reach such a conclusion on Trump.

As we have established, whoever White man occupies the Oval Office whether on the platform of the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, is invariably a racist. With the possible exception of Bill Clinton and J.F. Kennedy way down before him, even Democratic presidents do not think much of non-Whites, especially the Black people.

For me, I prefer Trump’s racism in that he usually told the truth to his victims, namely, that they must seek to up their game if they want to live and enjoy their life in the USA and earn dignity for themselves and their race. I prefer this Trumpian directness to Democrats tongue-in -cheek flatteries who seek to humour Blacks because of votes.
Right from Ronald Reagan, Republican presidents do and say things that are intended to help Blacks to rise to their feet.

I think this is more helpful to people of my race in the USA. That country is an imperial power with an ethos that does not favour any form of laziness but believes very much in the force of personal industry and perseverance in order to make it. Anyone who believes in welfare is looked down with extreme contempt; the society has no patience for those who cannot take care of themselves.

The fact that more recent immigrants from Asia are becoming more and more successful than Blacks who are more or less indigenous to the USA, means that our people must be told very rudely that they must sit up. The race of life may not be for the swift but it is not won by the indolent either.

Over the years, I have seen candidates of the Democratic Party for president and those of the Republican and came to the conclusion that they usually emerged from a coldly calculated common denominator factor consideration in which the least objectionable usually becomes the acceptable.

It is hardly the best who emerge. So they are invariably the same evil men who want to make America great by diminishing other peoples of the world. But in the choice between Trump and whoever emerged from the Democratic Party I made up my mind that the Democratic Party is very much like the APC in Nigeria. They promise so much and offer very, very little. Let us stick to Trump who said he will make America first and he was doing just that.

The Democrats seek to mainstream evil and call it the fight for human rights. The Democratic Party men we see these days are never like J.F. Kennedy, Roosevelt and Clinton who had compassion for the poor and vulnerable and a dream of a better world. The ones we see now are mostly aligned to, and promoters of, occultism. The image of girls and young women parading American streets campaigning for the right to have abortion and to practice homosexuality and lesbianism without stigmatization, is the height of Satan worship. They seek to glorify evil and compel others to embrace their lifestyle.
In the course of the recent campaign, Trump came out in his usual unusualness and declared that he was not a member of any occult group. I wish his opponent had made a similar declaration.

Again, and as we have shown, since the contest for the American presidency is essentially between two evil men, we people of the world have a duty to decide who of the two has which brand that will be earmarked for export and which would be contained at home for domestic consumption.

Someone posted recently that the Democrats export democracy and human rights abroad and seek to spread them through force and not the willing purchase of the consumers. I discovered that Trump’s Americanism will not be aggressively marketed abroad as it would be the case of a Democratic Party man.

Under Trump once you decide to stay in your shithole country, nursing your shithole wounds and not seek to go to America to mess with his American First vision, he will leave you alone in peace and not trouble you so much. But Biden? I am not too sure of what he will do as the experience the world had with Democratic Obama is very scary.

Obama went to a peaceful and well governed Libya to give them freedom and human rights and see the trouble he has left for the whole of Africa from Mali to Nigeria!
Very soon, Biden will start telling poor Africans to amend their country’s constitution to allow for gay marriages and such other things that are alien to us.

I also supported Trump partly in protest against his demonization by some media organisations, notably, CNN, who could not cope with his unorthodoxy. The media have become too involved in politics even endorsing candidates and playing the role of undisguised partisans in political contests. They help in propgandising the people rather than being objectively involved in conveying the messages of the politicians to the people. I find this objectionable. They did this in 2016 against Trump and in favour of Hillary Clinton and they failed and Trump emerged.

I guess that much of the American press is unhappy that Trump defied their propaganda and emerged triumphant that first time; that explains their unusual hostility towards him in all of his presidency and attempt to seek re-election. As a person, I hate to be propagandised to believe in a particular viewpoint. I regard that as a form of oppression or dictatorship. I feel that I am being made a fool of.

As an African patriot I think African leaders need to learn from the American First doctrine of Trump’s and seek to improve the fortunes of their shithole countries because if truth must be told, most of our nations are shitholes. And we must do something urgently about this unflattering fact instead of feeling bad about Trump who drew our attention to it.

At this level and pace of development in Africa we do not need those who will humour us, recruit us to be their cheerleaders and they give us a pat on the back, No. What we need now is someone who appears to be antagonistic (like Trump), who give us a loud spank on our buttocks to get up and do the needful.

I gave my prayers, I contributed some of my writings and I tried to reason some people to see Trump in a better light. I did all these because I thought Trump was the better of the two evils. I hold my head high in spite of the fact that Trump did not triumph again.

Alibi wrote in fron Abuja

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