Hillary, not Trump, Is the Enemy of America

Super Tuesday is here. A CNN poll shows 49% of Republicans say Donald Trump is their choice for nominee, compared to 16% for Rubio and 15% for Cruz. This statistical surface hides a maelstrom of division. Trump has coveted endorsements -- Reverend Jerry Falwell Jr., Governors Chris Christie and Paul LaPage, former Governor Jan Brewer, and Senator Jeff Sessions. Their endorsements name Trump as the most likely to pull together all the critical issues and their supporters into a winning coalition. Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have more endorsements -- by GOP leaders -- which are bitter personal attacks on Trump and vows never to vote for him. ~~~~~ Trump supporters agree with former Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer, who endorsed Trump for President Saturday : “...the politicians in Washington DC have continually failed to secure our border....A nation without borders is like a house without walls – it collapses....Mr. Trump will stand for our law enforcement, our police and our immigration officers. Mr. Trump will actually enforce the rule of law....Mr. Trump gets it. He will listen to the people and fight for the citizens of the United States.” Brewer warned about Trump not becoming President : “This may be our last chance to ensure our children grow up in a country with borders, and with a government that protects its own people. This is our chance -- Donald Trump is our chance -- to save this country and Make America Great Again." ~~~~~ Those who oppose Trump agree with Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse, except perhaps when he says he won't vote for Trump if he's the nominee : "If Trump becomes the Republican nominee my expectation is that I'll look for some 3rd candidate – a conservative option, a Constitutionalist." Sasse says Trump, like President Obama, lacks understanding of the Constitution : "The law is king, and the people are boss....Nebraskans are not looking for a king. We yearn instead for the recovery of a constitutional republic....a framework for ordered liberty -- so that free people can find meaning and happiness...in their families, their neighborhoods, their work....the President's core calling is to 'preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.'" ~~~~~ Often, it helps to step back and look at an issue as an outsider sees it. Conrad Black was publisher of the London Telegraph newspapers and Spectator, 1987 to 2004, and has written acclaimed biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Richard M. Nixon. He has been a member of the British House of Lords since 2001, and is a Knight of the Holy See. Black says the United States is divided into two camps : "One side is calling for swinging strokes of a spending scythe on the government with the threat of a shutdown...and the other side is offering more redistributive taxing and, through...ex-communist Bernie Sanders, a trillion-dollar bribe in the forgiveness of all student loans." Black, a Canadian, says Canadians see Trump as a caricature of a 1950s ugly American: loud, boastful, boorish, obscenely materialistic..." But, Black says : "In private, he is charming, solicitous, engaging, companionable, never pompous, devoid of prejudice, abstemious, and a traditional and conscientious family man. He is a generous civic leader in New York, a quality builder, and a generous employer and philanthropist and friend. [We] had a joint venture in Chicago and he delivered on every clause, managed the redevelopment of our property there with great skill...it was a very satisfactory experience." Black says the TV Trump reflects the rage of millions of Americans working hard to survive between paychecks. They're angry about rising crime rates, thousands of American lives and trillions of dollars squandered in the Middle East to produce an appalling crisis, and the reduction of their great country to the status of a laughing stock. ~~~~~ Dear readers, as the Super Tuesday vote counts roll in from elections Donald Trump looks set to dominate, remember that no GOP candidate will be as bad as Hillary. She, not Donald Trump, is the real enemy of America.