This comment from Donald Trump in 2015 was directed at his political rival, the late Sen. John McCain, to devastating effect. McCain had made his career on the fact that he was shot down and captured by the Viet Cong, spending months in a North Vietnamese prison camp under awful conditions. His experience, which by any normal standard was heroic, served as a shield against political criticism. You can’t go up against John McCain, the conventional wisdom was, he’s a war hero. That mode of thinking blazed the trail for McCain to rise through the party ranks to serve as the Republican candidate for president in the 2008 election against Barack Obama. He was a disaster as a candidate.
Despite his failure taking on Obama, McCain attempted to position himself as elder statesman, calling the shots for the Republican elite. Trump popped that bubble. He revealed McCain’s pretense. McCain spent the rest of his life trying to spite Trump, even preventing the dissolution of Obamacare in his bitterness.
As for Trump, his comment neutralized a political foe but just added fuel to the fire of criticism that he was an oaf, coarse, ham-handed, and unfit to lead. The problem for the critics who find him so offensive, however, is that he did lead. Trump is full of bluster but behind the big rhetoric is real accomplishment – a secure border, strong economy, strengthened military, huge strides for peace in the Middle East, et al. This kind of apostasy the political elite cannot stand. Merit is not the name of the game in American politics any more, only networking, posturing, and duplicity rule the day. Thus Trump was snuffed out. If you believe the 2020 election legitimately elected Biden as president, you are either ignorant or a chump, or both.
But that’s not the point here. Trump’s seemingly unforgivable comment about John McCain is the point. For the real message behind Trump’s zinger was that success, not failure, defines the greatness of America.
In a Biden world, on the other hand, we live in a universe of losers: Creepy men who invade girls’ sports and bathrooms and creepy perverts who cross-dress and act out their miserable dysfunction for all to see while forcing the world of mentally healthy people to call it normal. Minority “leaders” who wallow in victimhood – and point the finger at ghosts of the past as their oppressors – while completely ignoring the huge strides in social progress in America over our history. Leftists who continue to try to apply the Marxist folly to real life, which over and over has proved that it just does not work with human nature and always, always results in tyranny and violence.
So, what are we going to have? Will we be defined by isolated shortcomings of our past or the brightness of our future? Are we as a people, as a country, going to be captured by negative thinking, fear, and our own sinfulness? Or are we going to throw off the bondage of weakness and be strong? With all the Lilliputians of the left each tying us down while we sleep, it will not be so easy to get back up again. But get back up we must. “Captured” is no way to live.
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