Who’s Afraid of a Big Bad Trump?
By: Shannon Ashley
Tags: Society, Politics, America, Culture, Trump

Speaking of frightening Trump devotees, have you heard Charlie Kirk’s latest descent into pro-Trump madness? It’s really something else.

Yes, Turning Point USA’s president now claims that the one thing Americans have to fear is… Donald Trump’s arrest. Kirk goes so far as to say that if Trump is sent to prison, the Left would then come after all of his supporters. Well, not just them, but their children too.

According to Kirk,

“For those of you that say, ‘It doesn’t really impact me, I don’t care if Trump goes to prison.’ First of all, you absolutely should care. Because if we lose, they’re going to come after the churches, they’re going to come after the organizations, they’re going to come after the people, they’re going to come after the social media accounts, they’re going to come after the bank accounts. They’re going to come after every single person that played any form and role in trying to defend President Trump. With social media banning, following in the streets, targeting in every form and fashion. If we lose, if the president loses, they will come for us all. They will come for your children, they will come for your schools, they will come in every fashion. And they won’t stop. This idea that the Left is all of a sudden going to embrace this Christian ethic of forgiveness and moving on, is so shortsighted. You read this article — I have it on CharlieKirk.com — it shows in such vivid detail that they are gonna do whatever it takes to try to personally and intergenerationally destroy Donald Trump. That’s how much they hate him. They hate him — not because of his tweets, not because of his style. They hate him because Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are on the Supreme Court. They hate him because the embassy is now in Jerusalem. They hate him because illegal immigration is going down. They hate him because middle-class wages are going up. They hate him because China’s now being held accountable. They hate him because we’re out of TPP, NAFTA’s been renegotiated… They hate him because all of their schemes have been put in jeopardy. All of the plans of the ruling class were obliterated by a man that they don’t think should even be invited to a cocktail party let alone become president of the United States. They’re going to come with bloodthirsty revenge. President Trump always says “we will get reelected. Not me — us.” We, the American people are intrinsically tied to the president. He’s with us, he’s for us. I’ve called him the bodyguard of Western civilization and boy, is he taking the body blows for us right now. But if they come for him, they are coming for us, and they’re also coming for me.”

Hoo boy, that is one loaded and manipulative speech, isn’t it? Listening to Charlie Kirk speak is such a bizarre thing. He manages to paint Trump in the weirdest, most ill-fitting light — as some sort of a victim. A poorly persecuted man who’s hated by “the ruling class.”

Can you believe it? It says so much about the spin of the far right that they’ve managed to paint one of America’s wealthiest and worst landlords as a poor diamond in the rough.

Charlie Kirk puts together the Democrats and the Left — as if we’re all one and the same — and then says we are the ruling class. Um, what?

Charlie claims we don’t hate Trump for his tweets or “his style ”— and again, I sigh heavily at the overdone language — he claims we hate Trump for his so-called accomplishments. For putting Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court. For moving a U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. For reducing illegal immigration, (both Kirk and Trump neglect to mention it’s been on the decline for decades).

Everything Charlie Kirk says has some bit of spin to it. Most of us on the Left know that the interpretation of wage growth is more complicated than Trump likes to admit. By some calculations, we can say that wages for the middle-class have gone up. But as Time Magazine recently pointed out, economic inequality keeps growing.

I went to Charlie Kirk’s website to find the article that he was talking about. The one that so plainly explains the personal vendetta those on the Left supposedly have for Donald Trump. But I never found what I was looking for.

Instead, I found more propaganda plastered across his site. Videos with titles like, “Charlie Kirk Schools America-Hating Student.” Or, “Triggered Student Claims Charlie Kirk Threatens and Kills,” and “This Leftist Just Can’t Get Anything Right.” Oh, and there’s this gem, “Charlie Kirk: Sending Your Kids to College is Like Playing Russian Roulette With Their Values.”

Charlie Kirk is so great at spinning the news and culture into everything evangelicals want to hear. But he clearly doesn’t understand the Left. Or, you know, those of us who used to be part of the Religious Right.

Do you know what I hate about Donald Trump? I hate how his self-interest knows no bounds. I hate how he lies to the American people. I hate how he has emboldened racists, misogynists, science deniers, and conspiracy theorists to go mainstream.

And let’s face it — I don’t have to love (or even like) Biden to despise Trump. But as a far, far Left voter, I can assure you that Kirk is wrong. We are not out for blood or any sort of revenge. But we would like living wages and quality healthcare for all. We’d like to follow science when it comes to pandemic management.

Crazy, huh?