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The man and the record
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THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Oct 31, 2020“He’s unpresidential.”
Story continues below advertisement“He’s crude and unkind.”
“He’s just not a good man.”
These things, and much worse, are commonly said of President Donald Trump. His personality totally eclipses his record.
So we, seemingly, have him on the dunk tank, ready for a very cold bath.
Let’s play dump the lout.
But is this really what it’s about?
Isn’t the real question whether he has been taking the country, and the economy of this region, in the right direction these last four years?
Can we separate the man from the record?
We share the embarrassment of millions of Americans who are disturbed by the president’s unpresidential manners and character — his rudeness and put-downs and bragging and bending of the truth.
None of this can be justified. The president’s behavior often has diminished his presidency, and the presidency. Most Americans want a president who makes them proud.
We too prefer the first-class temperament and demeanor of a Winston Churchill, a Dwight Eisenhower, a Franklin Roosevelt, a Ronald Reagan, or a Barack Obama (whom this newspaper enthusiastically supported in 2008 and 2012). None of them are on the ballot this year.
Let’s look at the Trump record:
Under Donald Trump the economy, pre-COVID, boomed, like no time since the 1950s. Look at your 401(k) over the past three years.
Unemployment for Black Americans is lower than it has ever been, under any president of either party.
Under Mr. Trump, our trade relationships have vastly improved and our trade deals have been rewritten. Thanks to him, middle America is on the map again and the Appalachian and hourly worker has some hope.
Has Mr. Trump done enough for these struggling fellow citizens? No. But he recognized them. Maybe he was not articulate, but he recognized their pain.
No one ever asked the American people, or the people in “flyover,” country, if they wanted to send their jobs abroad — until Mr. Trump. He has moved the debate, in both parties, from free trade, totally unfettered, to managed, or fair, trade. He has put America first, just as he said he would.
He also kept his promise to appoint originalists to the Supreme Court of the United States. His third appointment, Amy Coney Barrett, is the best of all — a jurist whose mind and character and scholarship ARE first class. We hope she stands against both judicial and executive excess.
Finally, let’s talk about one of the most important concerns in this region — energy. Under Mr. Trump the United States achieved energy independence for the first time in the lifetimes of most of us. Where would Western Pennsylvania be without the Shell Petrochemical Complex (the “cracker plant”)?
Donald Trump is not Churchill, to be sure, but he gets things done.
He is not a unifier. He often acts like the president of his base, not the whole country. He has done nothing to lessen our divisions and has, in fact, often deepened them. The convictions and intellect of all Americans should be respected by ALL Americans, especially the president.
Has Mr. Trump handled the pandemic perfectly? No. But no one masters a pandemic. And the president was and is right that we must not cower before the disease and we have to keep America open and working.
He has not listened well to people who could have helped him. He has not learned government, or shown interest in doing so.
But the Biden-Harris ticket offers us higher taxes and a nanny state that will bow to the bullies and the woke who would tear down history rather than learning from history and building up the country.
It offers an end to fracking and other Cuckoo California dreams that will cost the economy and the people who most need work right now. “Good-paying green jobs” are probably not jobs for Pittsburgh, or Cleveland, or Toledo, or Youngstown.
It offers softness on China, which Mr. Trump understands is our enemy.
Mr. Biden is too old for the job, and fragile. There is a very real chance he will not make it through the term. Mr. Trump is also too old but seemingly robust. But in Mike Pence, Mr. Trump has a vice president ready to take over, if need be. He is a safe pair of hands. Sen. Kamala Harris gives no evidence of being ready to be president.
This newspaper has not supported a Republican for president since 1972. But we believe Mr. Trump, for all his faults, is the better choice this year. We respect and understand those who feel otherwise. We wish that we could be more enthusiastic and we hope the president can become more dignified and statesmanlike. Each American must make up his or her own mind and do what he or she thinks is best for the community and the republic. Vote your conscience. And, whatever happens, believe in the country.
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17 Comments
3 years ago
His rudeness is what I like best about him 🙂
3 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
Yep, it is well past time when a leader looks at the perpetually aggrieved and just says Go F Yourselves, I’ve got a job to do.
3 years ago
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3 years ago
3 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
Yeah. And to think his detractors say he’s ‘unpresidential’. If that’s the case, give me more of that.
3 years ago
Reply to
Bill
As a Norwegian I must say it seems like they want a king, strutting about and not doing much.
It’s much better to have a leader, who gets things done.
3 years ago
Reply to
Bill
That’s a sentiment similar to Lincoln’s reaction to complaints that Ulysses S. Grant was drunk, as he was winning battle after battle as commander of the Army of the Potomac. Lincoln reportedly said, “If so, give my other generals a case.”
3 years ago
Reply to
Patriotic American
Yep. He said ‘this guy fights, not vacillates’, well, words to that effect. Drinking and fighting is better than doing nothing, or retreating. For sure.
3 years ago
Remember Jimmy Carter, who said energy independence is “The Moral Equivalent to War”.
He said it and Trump has done it.
Also all the other reasons Trump has taken the country in the right direction.
Also, thinking that someone else would do better on pandemic management is wishful thinking in the extreme.
Joe Biden has either been hiding or perhaps cowering in the basement, neither a good place for the leader of the free world to be. Masks likely have limited effectiveness although N95 masks with additional protective gear may offer some degree of effectiveness to medical personnel managing patients with COVID.
A Danish trial involving mask wearing by six thousand people, community use, can’t get published in leadin* medical journals after submission to The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, or Journal of the American Medical Association, not being able to get peer reviewers to agree to publication, and the authors, while not revealing the results of the trial, have said they are “controversial”, implying that can’t get published due to being controversial. They should have submitted to a Danish medical journal. The New England Journal of Medicine has broken precedent by saying Trump should be voted out of office.
So again, we’re seeing censoring of information, and I think that’s what we’re seeing from the medical journals, because the information doesn’t jibe with their preconceived notions of what masking effects are on community transmission of COVID-19.
Thankfully, there are some newspapers out there willing to print the bare facts, the truth if you will, vs. the widespread censoring of information by print media, electronic media, and social media platforms, otherwise, we would be totally blind going into this election.
3 years ago
Reply to
StevenRobert
Even the CDC is now saying that masks, in the supposed goal of protecting others from the virus, is nothing more than a de facto placebo and gives a false sense of security. I’ve avoided masks in that form, except for occasional hospital visits to accompany my mother for checkups, due to their being made in China where the whole thing originated.
3 years ago
The irony about the Post-Gazette endorsing Trump has to do with their logohead, which uses the exact same type font – Times Old English – that was specifically created for the far-left-to-the-point-of-being Marxist New York Times, one of many “gatekeepers” running interference for ChiCom puppet and globalist on steroids Biden. That typeface, incidentally, was first seen on The Times’ front page on Feb. 21, 1967. (Not until July 3 did they replace 8 point Ideal News with Italic and Bold – which, in that size, had been used since 1941 – with 8.5 point Imperial with Italic and Bold.) Back then they had more a diversity of fonts in their headlines. Now, like their ideology, their headline type is monolithic (all Cheltenham-derived). Certainly the Post-Gazette has more sense and realization of the realities of the situation we’re all in.
3 years ago
Please, please someone tell me how “presidential” Biden (or his soon-to-be replacement Harris if he wins) are presidential? Biden lies constantly, going all the way back to 1988 when his lying and plagiarism became a matter of media discussion. Or his plagiarism in university. He still lies and steals from others. Harris? She slept her way into a highly placed job in San Francisco, lies, and using laughter to hide behind when she gets an uncomfortable question.
Trump is president, ergo whatever he does is presidential.
You may not like Trump’s personality, meaning you don’t like someone who speaks his mind and doesn’t play the butt-kiss game. So what. I never liked Clinton’s behaviour, Kennedy with his affairs in the Oval Office, Carter for his BS cracker-barrel smugness, nor Obama who can speak for an hour and say nothing or his divisive attitude. So would being “presidential” mean being an elitist jerk, acting superiour to everyone else?
3 years ago
Reply to
stephen5970
So would being “presidential” mean being an elitist jerk, acting superiour to everyone else?
That is very much a fair question to ask. Trump in his personality is very much like Popeye come to life. The Democrats are exactly like Bluto – smooth-talking yet psychopathic, back-stabbing, double-crossing snake-oil salesmen. And then you have at least half the electorate who, in their fickleness and voting according to the whims of the moment, are a collective of Olive Oyls.
3 years ago
Reply to
stephen5970
She may have some prosecutorial competencies but is certainly not fit IN ANY WAY to lead our great country.
3 years ago
Most honest news I’ve read in a long time. Reminds me of the good old days when politicians of different parties used to compromise in the interest of the People.
3 years ago
Excellent editorial except for one important point. The editors say Trump’s conduct is “unpresidential,” and that he is rude and a braggart. But when I see that not one of the “smooth” and “polite” Dems (except for Bernie S. who is a cranky old fart) condemns the behavior of the punks, protesters, and pyromaniacs who are in the streets and in the Senate building during the Kavanaugh hearings, then I see that they are false ladies and gentleman. They deserve to be disrespected and treated with rude contempt even though technically they are leaders of the “loyal opposition.” The Democrat leadership has shown itself to act like moral DIRT during the past four years. If I am a deplorable which I proudly am then I call on them to embrace the dirtbag label — especially the leaders who are Senators, Congressmen, Senators, Mayors, and Governors. They are mostly DIRTBAGS, and I leave it to the public discretion as to which Dem DIRTBAG is most deserving of the Dirtbag of the Year Award.
They have not had the common decency to condemn this year’s tearing down of statues, looting, attacking of police, or shooting people (get this: to supposedly protest police shooting of people). Do the Dems understand the “dignity of public service” better than Trump? I think not. They deserve to be smitten worse than Trump has done. They deserve to be ridiculed. More people should have walked out of meetings with them over the course of their lives. They deserved to be mocked and insulted. Nancy Peepee tearing up a beautiful and relevant State of the Union address should be mocked for that alone every time she sets foot in public. They deserve to have a boaster throw their failures in their faces and ask in a gloating way “What the hell have you really accomplished in your years of public life!?” The First Boaster deserves to say “I have done more for our beloved country and for the cause of world peace and responsibility in four years than you sycophantic “ladies and gentlemen” of BOTH parties in your entire self-centered (self-centeredness is a moral failing too isn’t it) lives.”
