The Case for Trump 2024: Donald Trump Is a Shield

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In the 2016 election, I was swept up in the Alt-Right wave and drank a lot of the same kool-aid about Donald Trump that was ingested by other activists. In the 2020 election, I was extremely blackpilled, ready for the exhausting Trump era to be over and sat out the election.

In 2024, it has been seven years since the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. The Alt-Right collapsed a long time ago. Passions have cooled. I have become much more focused on work and family during the Biden presidency. I have become less influenced by activists. I look back on those years much more critically in light of where a lot of people who I was involved with ended up. They made a lot of decisions which have aged poorly. It has caused me to wonder how we could have played our hand differently. Perhaps I was too influenced by these people and their hot takes who are now discredited?

In particular, one of the things that stands out as having influenced my view of Donald Trump is my more positive assessment of Alabama Republicans. I’m actually grateful that Alabama Republicans are in power here and control every state office and branch of government. As I was telling a friend this morning, I don’t have to worry about the Alabama AG trying to destroy my life like VDARE. I don’t have to worry about things like the Minnesota transgender child kidnapping law. I don’t have to worry about high taxes or having to pay $5 a gallon for gas like people in California. I don’t have to worry about Alabama Republicans destroying our Confederate monuments or trampling on our free speech rights.

As a proud Southerner and Christian father of two, I am grateful that it is still possible to live a relatively normal, quiet, middle class life here in Alabama, and the things that I most dislike about this state are largely due to the influence and schemes of outsiders who control the federal government. Alabama Republicans have tried to tackle immigration. They have banned abortion. They banned the transgender nonsense. They have gone out of their way to encourage the growth of the aerospace and automobile industries. The UAW which recently endorsed Kamala Harris was defeated in its attempt to organize workers at the Mercedes plant near Tuscaloosa. In my adult lifetime, I have watched the automobile industry grow from nothing to Alabama becoming the top exporter of automobiles.

At various times, I have found myself thinking it was good that we had Gov. Kay Ivey in power during COVID and the Summer of Floyd who protected us from the madness that was on display in other states which had extreme lockdowns and devastating riots. Gov. Meemaw has done things like build roads instead of launching absurd social experiments like drug legalization. After Charlottesville and the destruction of Monument Avenue in Richmond, I endorsed Glenn Youngkin when he ran for governor in Virginia. I was persuaded that it was better for Virginia to become more like Alabama than Maryland. Even if Youngkin did absolutely nothing but suck oxygen for four years, he would at least be a major obstacle to the evil schemes that we witnessed first hand at Charlottesville where a “worse is better” government destroyed the Alt-Right and set the organized movement back a decade.

Eventually, I started thinking of Donald Trump in the same way. He is not the “God Emperor” or any of the fantasies that activists projected on him in 2016. By occupying the presidency, he is an obstacle though to the evil schemes of our ruling class like the war in Ukraine which he was impeached over when he was president and which Joe Biden swiftly brought about. These people undoubtedly have big plans which they hope to achieve with Kamala Harris and Trump winning the election kills their agenda.

In 2024, this is good enough for me. Half a million dead in Ukraine and 10 million illegal aliens in four years is enough for me to choose the lesser this time.

As usual, the point of this article is to explain my own thinking because otherwise you would not understand the shifts in my position. I am not telling you to vote for Donald Trump. You are capable of making your own decisions. This is my attempt to flesh out my own inner monologue.

1. The Right finally moves on from Trump in 2028

2. The Alt-Right has terrible political instincts

3. Joe Biden has been a sedative as president

4. Activist brain blinds us and creates prejudice against conservative normies

5. Trump is the leader because he is the best of the Republicans

6. “Worse is better” is a cope and was tried in 2020 and maintains the status quo

7. Voting is not a sacrament. Few know this

8. Voting is not going to change anything about Zionism in the next four years

9. Activists have the chance to ride the Trump wave without making the same mistakes

10. Activists are running out of material because the Overton Window has shifted so much

11. Donald Trump is a hunted dog who has been backed into a corner

12. Donald Trump is a divider, not a uniter and his legacy will ultimately be useful for us

13. Winning is still better than losing at baseline

14. The Left is still the enemy and wants to take away our freedoms

15. The cause of anti-Zionism depends on internet free speech

16. Donald Trump is reviled by our elites because he is an obstacle to their agenda