{"id":2293271,"date":"2024-07-12T07:51:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T11:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theres-no-need-to-denounce-trump-before-expressing-support\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T07:55:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T11:55:32","slug":"theres-no-need-to-denounce-trump-before-expressing-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theres-no-need-to-denounce-trump-before-expressing-support\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s No Need To Denounce Trump Before Expressing Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftheres-no-need-to-denounce-trump-before-expressing-support%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2293271&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>F Trumpism has made it so that some \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/school-board-member-claims-to-be-victim-of-homophobic-vandalism-no-one-will-provide-the-police-report\/\" title=\"School Board Member Claims To Be Victim Of Homophobic Vandalism. No One Will Provide The Police Report.\">feel compelled<\/a> to react so\u200d violently to those \u200cthey disagree with is something to be resisted. One can \u200cacknowledge \u2063that an \u200dindividual has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prager-given-how-flawed-human-nature-is-america-has-been-a-remarkable-moral-achievement\/\" title=\"PRAGER: Given How Flawed Human Nature Is, America Has Been A Remarkable Moral Achievement\">bad traits<\/a> or may have done <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/austin-visits-troops-on-gerald-ford-linchpin-of-preventing-a-wider-regional-conflict\/\" title=\"Austin visits troops on Gerald Ford, crucial in preventing a larger regional conflict\">bad\u200d things<\/a> while still acknowledging that\u2062 that individual has also \u200cdone good \u200dthings or holds positions with which\u2063 one agrees. This\u2064 is \u200bhow civilization was able to function before Twitter. It\u2019s a fact that no one is perfect, certainly \u2063not \u200cany politician; why this\u200d must be ignored in each and every \u2062instance with Trump \u200dis an unfortunate development.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to make a good citizenry, realize that politicians are \u200cessentially tools to get things done. \u2063You wouldn\u2019t throw out a hammer because \u2062it isn\u2019t \u200bparticularly good at playing Beethoven. You \u2062wouldn\u2019t toss a screwdriver \u200don account\u200d of its inability to make a decent martini. You would \u2062use these tools for what they\u2019re good and necessary for and leave them alone otherwise. We\u2019d all be better off if folks could do the same with \u200bpoliticians. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <\/span>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>When Donald Trump descended upon the crowd in Trump Tower in 2015 to announce his presidential bid, it was a moment that changed the nature of politics in the United States. A populist businessman, beloved for his reality TV antics, initially continued what he was best known for \u2014 entertaining people. Then he started gaining momentum in the primary and became what every politician with an R after his name becomes, the latest incarnation of Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>Beating Hillary Clinton in 2016 only galvanized this obvious truth, one that continues today at vanity publication <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Heminator\/status\/1810046030513066404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New Republic<\/a>, multiple other outlets, and on the internet in general. That Trump already served four years as president without launching whatever his gold-adorned version of Kristallnacht would have been is ignored, as is the fact that neither Trump nor his allies or boosters are the ones going on about \u201cZionism\u201d at present. Regardless, democracy is at stake, etc., etc.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just the media and the left (<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/08\/bidens-debilitation-has-upset-the-media-democrat-partnership-but-not-for-much-longer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to repeat myself<\/a>) who became increasingly agitated with Trump in his first run, though. Many on the right were also horrified by Trump\u2019s rise. It wasn\u2019t just that he hadn\u2019t always seemed like much of a conservative. There were also the boorish insults, the affairs, the wives, and myriad other ways Trump was unlike any other recent candidate. As someone who was totally put off by Trump\u2019s style, I know this personally, though my biggest fear was that he would do the normal Republican thing and move left upon being elected.<\/p>\n<p>For those who didn\u2019t become \u201cconservative\u201d commentators for lefty channels and publications, it became <em>de rigueur<\/em> to preface any support for Trump with a ritual malediction, a few words or a phrase indicating that while one was about to praise him, he still knew Trump was a bad man who might eventually become a Hitler or maybe just a Mussolini. Perhaps the impulse was simply to remind people that one was aware of Trump\u2019s failings while reminding the readers or listeners that everyone knows he\u2019s a bad man while also a useful tool.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s not a tool in the derogatory sense, but in the literal one. I am not offering a ritual malediction here. Rather, he\u2019s an instrument for accomplishing certain goals, like getting some justices on the Supreme Court. This is what all politicians should be, but television combined with a weird culture in which we actually look up to these people rather than looking down on them has convinced too many that politicians are actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/things-that-donald-trump-did-not-do\/\" title=\"Things That Donald Trump Did Not Do\">good people<\/a> rather than a necessary evil. (Ronald Reagan had it right with his quip about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/Reagan_s_Mythical_America\/homr1igtzBkC?hl=en&#038;gbpv=1&#038;dq=reagan+politics+%22second+oldest+profession%22&#038;pg=PA94&#038;printsec=frontcover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the second-oldest profession<\/a>, though members of the oldest may balk at the comparison these days because they at least still work for their, umm, constituents.)<\/p>\n<p>You know what one does not do when getting out a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-fundraiser-six-standout-moments-from-star-studded-affair-with-obama-and-clinton\/\" title=\"Top Moments from Biden Fundraiser Featuring Obama and Clinton\">socket wrench<\/a> or mallet? One does not rhapsodize about the wrench\u2019s failings or the ways the mallet offends his sensibilities. He simply uses it without compunction and moves on with his day, free from the compulsion to apologize.<\/p>\n<p>Heading into November, Trump supporters and voters need to feel the same way about the man as they would about the wrench or the mallet. There is no need to denounce him before saying that he was right about the border. You can support the new RNC platform, which draws heavily from his instincts, without first announcing that you are personally offended by him and those instincts.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t to say it\u2019s time to start launching verbal salvos at your friends and family, whether in person or in the punch-to-the-mouth free zone of social media. The malign influence of social media and its ability to make us all a little crazier \u2014 as it\u2019s largely populated by crazy people \u2014 is part of how we got here. (Please like and share this piece, though.) It is, however, to say that supporting a politician, even one as unique as Donald J. Trump, shouldn\u2019t be a mark of shame. Looking up to politicians and treating them as role models is the real mark of shame.<\/p>\n<p>This will be difficult over the coming months, especially as the Democrats contend with the fact that their contender should be eating bowls of ice cream and watching \u201cMatlock\u201d reruns at home instead of pretending to run the government. Their vitriol against Trump and his supporters will only get more vicious, especially since Biden really seems to prefer eating bowls of ice cream and watching \u201cMatlock\u201d reruns from the comfort of Camp David or the White House rather than from the comfort of one of the homes his thankless public service afforded him.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t let them put you on defense. We\u2019re all sinners, but our candidate of choice isn\u2019t on the list of questions St. Peter will be reading from should we arrive at the pearly gates, any more than will be our choice to buy a Ryobi drill rather than a DeWalt. You can explain your preference if you so desire, but just as you wouldn\u2019t feel compelled to denounce the Ryobi while getting out your debit card, don\u2019t feel compelled to denounce Trump before heading to the ballot box. He\u2019s just a man and a politician, and not even that unique of one.  <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Richard Cromwell is a writer and senior contributor at The Federalist. He lives in Northwest Arkansas with his wife, three daughters, and two crazy dogs. Co-host of the podcast <a href=\"http:\/\/coffeeandcochon.com\/\u201c\">Coffee &#038; Cochon<\/a>, you can find him on <a href=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/jrichardcromwell\u201c\">Facebook<\/a>  and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rcromwell4\">Twitter<\/a>, though you should probably avoid using social media.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Donald Trump announced his presidential bid in 2015, it marked a significant shift in American politics. Initially known for his entertainment background, Trump gained momentum in the primaries and was eventually compared to Hitler by some. Despite serving as president for four years without major controversies, critics continue to vilify him. Both the left and right were critical of Trump, with many on the right hesitant to fully support him. However, it is important to view politicians like Trump as tools to achieve certain goals, rather than as role models. As the election approaches, supporters should not feel ashamed of their choice and should not be swayed by attacks from the opposing party. It is important to remember that politicians are just individuals, not idols<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":2293272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Copy-of-Untitled-30.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3800,10251,3753,3723,3634],"class_list":["post-2293271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-denounce","tag-opinions","tag-political","tag-support","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Copy-of-Untitled-30.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2293271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2293272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2293271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2293271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2293271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}