Conservative writers are starting to sound like press secretaries for Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign. Ahead of an election that will literally decide whether America remains a Democratic republic or veers into socialism, former President Donald Trump needs their support as never before.
Last week, economist, conservative icon, and Wall Street Journal columnist Thomas Sowell wrote, “If the Republicans lose this year’s election—against an administration whose policies have been rejected by the public in poll after poll—they will deserve to lose.”
Given the damage inflicted on the United States by the Biden-Harris administration, he argued, the election shouldn’t be this close. According to Sowell, while Republicans blame this on the media and the radicalization of students by universities, “the fact is that a similar situation existed back in the days when Ronald Reagan won two consecutive presidential elections by landslides.” Reagan won, he said, “by addressing the voting public as if they were adults who could understand an issue—if you explained it to them in plain English, instead of in political jargon or snappy quips.”
Sowell warned that “Republicans better get on the ball” because “they haven’t made the case against Harris.”
This has become a common refrain on the Wall Street Journal’s opinion pages. In a recent visit to the site, I was floored to see that the three “most popular” op-eds each took aim at Trump. First, columnist Gerard Baker opined that “Trump is looking like a loser again.” In the next, the editorial board asked, “Will Donald Trump Blow Another Election?” And finally, writer Peggy Noonan told readers that Harris had just completed another successful week while Trump spent most of it having what a GOP strategist told Politico was a “public nervous breakdown.”
Responding to Sowell’s piece on Tuesday, the National Review’s Jim Geraghty noted that inflation, the economy, and illegal immigration are the most important issues to voters. “If Republicans want to gain traction,” he wrote, “it would probably help to offer some direct, clear arguments and hard facts about these issues.”
I get it. Trump is a flawed individual. He is impulsive, unpredictable, egotistical, and sometimes boorish. I would argue that these traits are what made him a formidable adversary on the international stage. His temperament kept the tyrants of the world, who both respected and feared him, in check.
Trump is also strong, smart, courageous, patriotic, and one of the most accomplished presidents in modern memory.
And America needs his leadership now more than ever.
The willingness of the conservative media to amplify every single misstep Trump made during his presidency is what gave us President Joe Biden and Harris, who have presided over a period of unprecedented decline both domestically and globally. By every metric, America is worse off since the day this pair took office.
The world is on fire, and the Biden-Harris administration is the arsonist. Much of the chaos and strife can be attributed to its failed foreign policy and projection of weakness on the international stage. As we teeter on the brink of serious foreign conflict, I submit that a dose of Trump’s abrasiveness would go a long way toward defusing tensions.
Conservatives need to be focused on defeating the most far-left Democratic ticket in U.S. political history. That starts with recounting Harris’s many failures.
For example, Harris owns the botched Afghanistan withdrawal as much as Biden. Harris confirmed to CNN that she was the “last person in the room” when Biden made the decision to leave Afghanistan on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. She told CNN, “This is a president who has an extraordinary amount of courage.”
As president of the Senate, Harris has cast 33 tiebreaking votes. Ignoring warnings from former President Barack Obama’s economic adviser, Larry Summers, that passage of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan in March 2021 would trigger inflation, Harris cast the deciding vote in its favor. Likewise, she is responsible for the passage of the ironically named Inflation Reduction Act in August 2022.
Needless to say, these two bloated stimulus bills, along with the rest of the Biden-Harris administration’s reckless and needless spending, triggered the worst inflation in 40 years. Harris thus also owns the long series of interest rate hikes that were required to cool prices down and that have more than doubled mortgage rates.
And, no matter how hard she tries to run from it, she is responsible for the administration’s failure to enforce U.S. immigration laws. The Biden-Harris administration’s open border policy has allowed more than 10 million illegal immigrants, including terrorists, into the country. It has also enabled drug traffickers to smuggle massive quantities of fentanyl over the border which kills approximately 70,000 Americans each year.
Anyone who trusts Harris’s election-year conversion is naive. She supports the same radical positions she championed during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. To name a few, she supported a ban on fracking and offshore drilling, Medicare for All, and the Green New Deal. I’ll take impulsive and egotistical any day over the candidate who encouraged donations to a fund set up to bail out violent rioters during the George Floyd riots.
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We have a binary choice to make in November. We can choose socialism or we can choose Donald Trump.
And yes, it really is that simple.
Elizabeth Stauffer is a contributor to the Washington Examiner and the Western Journal. Follow her on X or LinkedIn.