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http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-real-reason-they-hate-trump-1540148467
The Real Reason They Hate Trump
He’s the average American in exaggerated form—blunt, simple, willing to
fight, mistrustful of intellectuals.
Every big U.S. election is interesting, but the coming midterms are
fascinating for a reason most commentators forget to mention: The Democrats
have no issues. The economy is booming and America’s international position
is strong. In foreign affairs, the U.S. has remembered in the nick of time
what Machiavelli advised princes five centuries ago: Don’t seek to be loved
, seek to be feared.
The contrast with the Obama years must be painful for any honest leftist.
For future generations, the Kavanaugh fight will stand as a marker of the
Democratic Party’s intellectual bankruptcy, the flashing red light on the
dashboard that says “Empty.” The left is beaten.
This has happened before, in the 1980s and ’90s and early 2000s, but then
the financial crisis arrived to save liberalism from certain destruction.
Today leftists pray that Robert Mueller will put on his Superman outfit and
save them again.
For now, though, the left’s only issue is “We hate Trump.” This is an
instructive hatred, because what the left hates about Donald Trump is
precisely what it hates about America. The implications are important, and
painful.
Not that every leftist hates America. But the leftists I know do hate Mr.
Trump’s vulgarity, his unwillingness to walk away from a fight, his
bluntness, his certainty that America is exceptional, his mistrust of
intellectuals, his love of simple ideas that work, and his refusal to
believe that men and women are interchangeable. Worst of all, he has no
ideology except getting the job done. His goals are to do the task before
him, not be pushed around, and otherwise to enjoy life. In short, he is a
typical American—except exaggerated, because he has no constraints to cramp
his style except the ones he himself invents.
Mr. Trump lacks constraints because he is filthy rich and always has been
and, unlike other rich men, he revels in wealth and feels no need to
apologize—ever. He never learned to keep his real opinions to himself
because he never had to. He never learned to be embarrassed that he is male,
with ordinary male proclivities. Sometimes he has treated women
disgracefully, for which Americans, left and right, are ashamed of him—as
they are of JFK and Bill Clinton.
But my job as a voter is to choose the candidate who will do best for
America. I am sorry about the coarseness of the unconstrained average
American that Mr. Trump conveys. That coarseness is unpresidential and makes
us look bad to other nations. On the other hand, many of his opponents
worry too much about what other people think. I would love the esteem of
France, Germany and Japan. But I don’t find myself losing sleep over it.
The difference between citizens who hate Mr. Trump and those who can live
with him—whether they love or merely tolerate him—comes down to their
views of the typical American: the farmer, factory hand, auto mechanic,
machinist, teamster, shop owner, clerk, software engineer, infantryman,
truck driver, housewife. The leftist intellectuals I know say they dislike
such people insofar as they tend to be conservative Republicans.
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama know their real sins. They know how
appalling such people are, with their stupid guns and loathsome churches.
They have no money or permanent grievances to make them interesting and no
Twitter followers to speak of. They skip Davos every year and watch Fox News
. Not even the very best has the dazzling brilliance of a Chuck Schumer, not
to mention a Michelle Obama. In truth they are dumb as sheep.
Mr. Trump reminds us who the average American really is. Not the average
male American, or the average white American. We know for sure that, come
2020, intellectuals will be dumbfounded at the number of women and blacks
who will vote for Mr. Trump. He might be realigning the political map: plain
average Americans of every type vs. fancy ones.
Many left-wing intellectuals are counting on technology to do away with the
jobs that sustain all those old-fashioned truck-driver-type people, but they
are laughably wide of the mark. It is impossible to transport food and
clothing, or hug your wife or girl or child, or sit silently with your best
friend, over the internet. Perhaps that’s obvious, but to be an
intellectual means nothing is obvious. Mr. Trump is no genius, but if you
have mastered the obvious and add common sense, you are nine-tenths of the
way home. (Scholarship is fine, but the typical modern intellectual cheapens
his learning with politics, and is proud to vary his teaching with broken-
down left-wing junk.)
This all leads to an important question—one that will be dismissed
indignantly today, but not by historians in the long run: Is it possible to
hate Donald Trump but not the average American?
True, Mr. Trump is the unconstrained average citizen. Obviously you can hate
some of his major characteristics—the infantile lack of self-control in
his Twitter babble, his hitting back like a spiteful child bully—without
hating the average American, who has no such tendencies. (Mr. Trump is
improving in these two categories.) You might dislike the whole package. I
wouldn’t choose him as a friend, nor would he choose me. But what I see on
the left is often plain, unconditional hatred of which the hater—God
forgive him—is proud. It’s discouraging, even disgusting. And it does mean
, I believe, that the Trump-hater truly does hate the average American—male
or female, black or white. Often he hates America, too.
Granted, Mr. Trump is a parody of the average American, not the thing itself
. To turn away is fair. But to hate him from your heart is revealing. Many
Americans were ashamed when Ronald Reagan was elected. A movie actor? But
the new direction he chose for America was a big success on balance, and
Reagan turned into a great president. Evidently this country was intended to
be run by amateurs after all—by plain citizens, not only lawyers and
bureaucrats.
Those who voted for Mr. Trump, and will vote for his candidates this
November, worry about the nation, not its image. The president deserves our
respect because Americans deserve it—not such fancy-pants extras as network
commentators, socialist high-school teachers and eminent professors, but
the basic human stuff that has made America great, and is making us greater
all the time.
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