· Nolte: Rural Trump Voters Already Live in the Safe, Tolerant Utopia Leftists Claim to Want
If I had to boil down the political wisdom I’ve learned over four decades of observing, studying, writing, and debating, it would be this…
Life in Rural America (which is where Republican Trump voters live
and govern), is clean, safe and racially tolerant. Most places in America where
life is dirty, polluted, dangerous, violent, and plagued with racial hate and
race riots, are cities that are almost exclusively populated by and governed by
Democrats.
Outside of these Democrat-run cities, America is peaceful, safe,
clean, and racially tolerant.
What’s more, if you remove these Democrat-run cities from our
national statistics, you will find an America that is overwhelmingly peaceful,
safe, clean, and racially tolerant.
Nevertheless, Democrats and their fake-media allies still blame
Republicans for all of their problems.
According to them, it is Republicans who are responsible for
racism, pollution, and gun violence — even though, out here where we all live,
our air, water, and streets are safe and clean… We all own guns, but where we
live there is no gun violence crisis… We are all supposed to be racists and
responsible for all the hate crimes, but out here where we all live, there is
no hate crime crisis.
Now, there will be exceptions, but those exceptions only serve to
prove the rule.
Let me lay this out for you…
OPENING
Leftists say they want to live in a Utopia free of gun violence,
free of pollution, and free of racism…
Well, that place already exists.
It’s called Rural MAGA Land.
Out here in Rural America the environment is clean, no one worries
about getting shot, and there are no racial tensions.
Let me start with a personal example…
For a total of 20 years now, I’ve lived in rural North Carolina.
My wife is a Mexican immigrant. Our interracial marriage has never been a
problem with anyone.
My wife has never had a problem with anyone.
For six years, my next door neighbor was a mixed-race family.
Black and white. They never had a problem.
On the other side of me is a couple with mixed-race grandkids.
Black, white, and brown. They’ve never had a problem.
Riddle me this fake-media and Democrats: If Rural America is where
all the racists are supposed to live, where’s all the racism in Rural America?
Everyone I know out here in Rural MAGA Land owns guns (plural),
and yet I can’t remember the last time we had a shooting in my county, a county
where shoplifting still makes the front page.
Oh, and get this… We’re all supposed to be anti-environment,
and yet out here in Rural MAGA Land, our waterways, streets, parks, forests,
and neighborhoods are clean and filled with greenery.
Think about that. I mean really think about it.
You would think that instead of blaming us for all their problems,
Democrats who live in these shithole cities would be asking us for advice on
how to live, how to fix their neighborhoods, how to ease racial tensions —
advice we would be happy to give.
Let me give you some concrete data…
RACISM
According to the Department
of Justice, out here where I live in rural North Carolina,
throughout all of 2019, there were a total of only 20 hate crime allegations in
our 13 rural counties where the population adds up to 668,000. That means that
throughout 2019, there were only 2.9 hate crime allegations per 100,000 people.
Guess what the hate crime number is in some of the most
progressive, left-wing cities in America? Well, you don’t have to guess,
because I have those numbers for you….
·
Portland,
OR = 5.75 reported hate crime incidents per 100,000
·
Boulder,
CO = 7.9 incidents per 100,000
·
San
Francisco, CA = 7.2 incidents per 100,000
·
Alexandria,
VA = 3.1 incidents per 100,000
·
Arlington,
VA = 4.7 incidents per 100,000
·
Seattle,
WA = 40 (not a typo) per 100,000
·
Washington DC = 29 (not a typo) incidents
per 100,000 (this is where the elite media live LOL)
I think you are starting to get the point, but let’s close with my
personal favorite…
·
Berkeley,
CA = 6.5 per 100,000
Golly, gee, will you look at that! It is two and three times — and
even ten times safer for a minority to live in Rural MAGA Country than it is in
a oh-so progressive city populated and governed by Democrats.
How is that possible when we’re told that we are the racists? How
is it possible that where all of America’s so-called racists live, where we all
congregate, gather, own guns, and govern ourselves, there is less racism — and in most cases — MUCH less racism,
than there is in cities filled with Democrats?
Shouldn’t there be more racism where all we “racists” live?
Look at those hate crime numbers again and what you will see is that a racial,
sexual, and religious minority is around twice as safe in Rural Trump Land than
they are in America’s most left-wing cities, and TEN TIMES safer than they are
in Washington, DC, where Joe Biden won 93
percent of the vote!
Now that your left-wing head is spinning, you might begin grasping
for straws to explain this away. Allow me to disabuse you of all your bad
arguments…
You might want to believe no minorities live in Rural America,
which means there are fewer opportunities for we yee-haw racists to commit hate
crimes. Wrong, wrong, wrong….
Now while it’s true that there’s a smaller percentage of
minorities living in Rural America than your shithole cities, that only proves
further that Rural America is much more tolerant than Democrat-run cities.
Think about this…
Out here in Rural America, minorities are outnumbered by white
people much more than they are in your cities, and yet, out here, even though they’re
outnumbered, they’re much safer living among those of us smeared as racists.
Here’s a timely example…
The Asian population in Rural America is less than one percent.
That means that out here in Rural MAGA Land, Asians are outnumbered by white
Trump voters by, let’s say, 100-to-1… And yet, even though we are being falsely
blamed for this recent wave of anti-Asian hate crimes, no one in MAGA Land is
committing hate crimes against these vastly outnumbered Asians. There is no
anti-Asian hate crime crisis in MAGA Land; the place where Asians are at
risk are in
cities populated and governed by Democrats.
Bottom line: Where Trump voters live and govern, there are almost
zero hate crimes. Ahh, but where Democrats live and govern, look at all those
hate crimes.
But somehow, even though we Rural Trump voters don’t live there,
we’re still blamed for all the hate crimes that happen in cities mostly
populated by and solely governed by Democrats.
Fact: There are no racial tensions in Rural America. People of all
races and creeds and backgrounds live here together in relative peace and
harmony. And it’s glorious. It’s a wonderful, wonderful way to live.
And to those of you who are stupid enough to believe that the only
reason there are no racial tensions in MAGA Land is because “black people are
afraid or intimidated,” look at what
happened in my little town just last year. And guess how many
hate crime allegations there were in my county (Watauga) in 2019…? ONE.
Or, as I like to put it, 303 fewer than
in left-wing Seattle.
Anyone of any race, religion, color, sexual preference, or creed
is welcome in MAGA country. As long as you leave us alone to live our beliefs,
we will not only leave you alone to live your beliefs, if you ever need help,
we will be there for you.
GUN VIOLENCE
Almost everyone in rural MAGA Land owns guns (plural). I own nine
guns. And yet, the gun violence crises happen in cities that have been
populated and governed by Democrats for years. In some cases, decades.
If guns cause violence and Trump voters are violent, why are there
no gun violence crises in Rural America?
If gun control ends gun violence and Democrats are less violent,
why is there so much terrible gun violence where there’s the most gun control
and in Democrat-run cities where Democrats live?
If Trump voters were indeed violent, instead of being idyllic and
peaceful, Rural America would look like Dodge City circa 1875.
Here’s a list of
the top 15 cities in 2020 with the most murders and which party runs those
cities…
9.
Chicago – Last
Republican mayor was 1931
10.
New York City – It took
Democrat Bill de Blasio six years to destroy Republican Giuliani’s miracle.
11.
Philadelphia – Only
Democrat mayors since 1952
12.
Baltimore – Only
Democrat mayors since 1967
13.
Houston – One GOP mayor
since 1974
14.
Los Angeles – One
Republican since 1961
15.
St. Louis – Only
Democrats mayors since 1949.
16.
Dallas – One Republican
mayor since 1995
17.
Kansas City – One
Republican mayor since 1930
18.
Indianapolis – Since
2000, eight years of GOP rule, 12 years of Democrat rule
19.
Washington DC – Only
Democrat mayors
20.
New Orleans – Democrat
mayors since 1872 (not a typo)
21.
Jacksonville – Two
Republican mayors and one Democrat since 2003
22.
San Antonio – officially
a non-partisan office, but leftists have run that city for two decades
23.
Atlanta – Run by
democrats since 1879 (not a typo).
Except for Jacksonville and Indianapolis (which have had both
Republican and Democrat rule in recent years), every one of America’s most
murderous cities has been run exclusively by Democrats for decades, and
not a single one of those cities — not one! — has been run exclusively by Republicans.
Here’s a list of
2020’s top ten most dangerous cities per capita (violent crime incidents per
100,000 residents) and which party runs those cities… Spoiler alert: Democrats.
24.
Detroit – 1,965 per
100,000 – Democrats have run Detroit since 1962
25.
St. Louis – 1,927 per
100,000 – Democrats have run St. Louis since 1949
26.
Memphis – 1,901 per
100,000 – Democrats have run Memphis since 1992
27.
Baltimore – 1,859 per
100,000 – Democrats have run Baltimore since 1967
28.
Springfield (MO) – 1,519
per 100,000 – mayoral office is non-partisan, but the city is
left-leaning
29.
Little Rock – 1,517 per
100,000 – ruled by Democrats for decades
30.
Cleveland – 1,517 per
100,000 – Ruled by Democrats since 1990
31.
Stockton – 1,397 per
100,000 – Alternates between GOP and Dem mayors.
32.
Albuquerque – 1,352 per
100,000 – One Republican since 1985
33.
Milwaukee – 1,332 per
100,000 – Only Socialist and Democrat mayors since 1906
Want to know the violent crime rate out here in Rural America
where I and a whole lot of other gun-toting Trump voters live? Ready for
this… 132 per
100,000. The overall
crime rate in my Trump-loving county — even though our poverty
rate is higher than Baltimore’s (more on this below) — makes it “one of the
safest regions in the United States.”
Here are the violent crime numbers from my neighboring cities and
towns: Lenoir (pop. 19,000), 436 per 100,000.
Wilkesboro (pop. 3500), 434 per 100,00.
Hickory (pop. 41,000) 401 per 100,000.
In the rural and more Republican areas outside of those small
towns and cities, it’s even safer.
How is this possible in areas populated by “violent” Trump
supporters who almost all own guns?
What’s more, how is it possible that all these oh-so progressive
cities filled with oh-so progressive citizens and oh-so progressive political
leadership are so full of violence and racism?
Are you still blaming Trump voters? Well, get this….
We North Carolina Trumptards, with all our guns, still have a MUCH
LOWER violent crime rate than even the 50th most violent city in America
(Rochester, NY – 748 per
100,000). Oh, and Rochester has been run by Democrats since 1974.
You want to blame the crime rate on density? Well, I invite you to take a look at parts
of Hickory and Lenoir and even Boone. We don’t have the sprawl of a Chicago or
Los Angeles, but we have plenty of densely populated areas, and they are
nowhere near as unsafe as your oh-so progressive shitholes.
Besides, if density causes crime and racism, why are
Democrats pro-density?
If density causes crime and racism, why are crime and racism blamed on guns and
Trump voters? How about you idiots make up your sick minds?
SIDE NOTE
I urge you to go through all 50 of the cities on the list linked
above and look up who’s in charge. Yes, you will probably find some
Republican-run cities, but once again, those are the exceptions that prove the
rule. And I would like to add that there are places run by Democrats that are
safe and clean and free of racial tensions. In fact, although my rural areas
are Republican, Boone has a Democrat mayor.
That’s not my point.
So let me restate my point…
Out here in conservative, rural, Trump-loving America, we have no
gun violence, pollution, or racial crises. But…. Nine times out of ten, when
there is one of those crises, they are unrolling in places where Democrats live
and govern.
DRUG PROBLEMS
Yes, like the rest of the country, Rural America definitely has a
serious and troubling drug problem. Nevertheless…
Unlike Democrat-run cities, we have none of the murder, gangs, gun
violence, carjacking, or homeless crises that go with it. No riots, no
lootings…
POVERTY
The poverty rate in my county is
higher than the poverty rate in
Baltimore. Nevertheless…
Unlike Democrat-run cities, we have none of the murder, gang, gun
violence, carjacking, or homeless crises that go with it. No riots or lootings…
CLEAN ENVIRONMENT
Rural America is populated by Trump voters who are constantly
accused of being anti-environment, but… My God, it is beautiful out here where
we live. Green and lush, clear streams and rivers, clean streets, blue skies…
Unlike the polluted, toxic waste dumps that are so many Democrat-run cities, we
take care of our environment.
SUMMATION
Democrats blame Trump voters for violence, racism, and pollution,
but the truth is that where we all live and govern ourselves, we have no gun
violence crisis, no racial tensions, and our air, water, and streets are safe
and clean.
But in these shithole cities where Trump voters and Republicans
have NO SAY AT ALL when it comes to governing and policy, where Democrats all
live and govern themselves, there’s one gun violence, hate crime, pollution,
and homeless crisis after another.
How can Democrats blame us for their own problems, especially when
where we live we don’t have any of these problems?
If Democrats were truly interested in solving these problems,
instead of blaming us, they would be emulating how we live, not criticizing and
ridiculing it.
BOTTOM LINE
Until it interferes with someone else’s right to live their life
how they wish, everyone in America has the right to live their life however
they wish. So if you moron-Democrats want to live with violence, filth,
pollution, racial tensions, hate crimes, feces-covered sidewalks, race riots,
gangs, smog, mass-shootings, and homeless encampments, you have every right to.
Godspeed. And if you want to live your life blaming the problems you are solely
responsible for on us Trump voters, you have every right to do that, as well.
I could not care less how you live your miserable lives, because
out here in Rural MAGA Land, life is sweet and the closest we come to your
filth and crime and violence and racial tensions is when we watch the news. And
when the news blames us for your problems, we just lean back in our Lazy Boys
and LMAO.
You get what you vote for, and the idiots who live in Democrat-run
shitholes are getting everything they deserve.
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My Trump solution:
If DeSantis runs for the Oval Office then Trump should run for Governor of Florida.
The GOP’s Trump Solution
At some point, the
former Republican establishment will have to familiarize itself with the
consequences of being defeated by Donald Trump within its own party.
The Wall Street
Journal on Friday published an editorial headlined “The GOP’s
Trump Problem.” It gets things terribly wrong. The GOP is Trump’s
party and it is the Wall Street Journal that has the Trump
problem.
Having been commendably
supportive of the former president through most of his term, the Journal joined
in the general embarkation of NeverTrumpers over the ostensible election
results. The theory that inspired this headline is Trump had his chance but
lost the election in a manner practically indistinguishable from defeated
incumbents Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George H. W. Bush in 1992 (when there were
no suggestions of questionable results). The editors suggest further that Trump
had exhausted any grounds he had for contesting the fairness of the counting of
ballots, and that it was his duty to go quietly into that good night and do
everything that he could to elect Republican senators in Georgia to preserve
the Republican majority in the Senate and to enhance the likelihood of the
reelection next year of Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia and his secretary of
state Brad Raffensperger.
These state officials
were to be embraced even though they had capitulated to the leader of the
Georgia Democrats, Stacey Abrams, permitting the critical electoral votes of
their state to be wrongfully cast for Joe Biden. They assumed Trump had to do
all he could to keep those in his own party who had betrayed him in place. That
is not normally how the system, or human nature, works.
Raffensberger, remember,
submitted the country to the moronic farce of repeated hand-ballot recounts of
falsely cast votes. Then Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), in his final days as Senate
majority leader, called Trump a phenomenon who had come and gone and it was
back to pre-Trump Republican politics. For good measure, McConnell endorsed the
stupidly ungenerous $600 COVID relief payment, $800 beneath the amount called
for by Democrats (and Trump) who were contending to take both Georgia Senate
seats in special elections in early January.
A Settling of Accounts
Despite all of this, it
was somehow Trump’s duty to ignore the desertion of much of his party and its
betrayal of him, and to ignore McConnell’s terminal intervention in the
reelection chances of the Georgia senators, as well as McConnell’s false attack
upon the president for effectively inciting the invasion and vandalism at the
U.S. Capitol on January 6.
Equally ridiculous was
McConnell’s outrageous suggestion that while Trump had committed criminal
offenses, an impeachment trial was not the place to address them. Moreover,
Trump was also somehow obliged to excuse Kemp and Raffensperger for the mortal
damage they did to his reelection campaign.
A rapprochement between
Kemp and Trump is almost certainly possible and Trump has supported the Georgia
electoral reform law. But there is going to have to be some settling of
accounts between the former president and the enemies within his own
party.
The key is that the
anti-Trump Republicans stormed out of the closet with indecent haste and
mistaken judgment. President Trump had a very successful term despite an
unprecedented level of harassment, much of it almost certainly unconstitutional
in the Trump-Russian collusion fraud, and while—contrary to his absurd
claims—he lost the popular vote in seeking reelection, as he did in his
election of 2016, it is very likely that he, as in 2016, would have won
reelection in the Electoral College if the votes have been counted fairly. He
might have won even if the votes had been counted fairly only in Georgia,
Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, where a flip of approximately 50,000 between the
three states would have given him victory.
The fact that the former
Republican establishment fell in with the Democratic narrative and refused to
accept the possibility of this, in the most tainted election in American
history (except perhaps 1876), is a disgrace and a dishonor to them. There was
never any moral or practical imperative for President Trump falsely to abandon
the righteousness of his claims of a dishonestly counted election.
McConnell Forgets Who Trump Is
The Trump campaign
launched 28 lawsuits against individual incidences of apparent illegalities in
the counting of decisive numbers of votes in swing states, including the Texas
attorney general’s direct appeal to the Supreme Court supported by 18 other
states on the issue of the unconstitutional failure of several of those states
to comply with the requirement to ensure a fair presidential election result.
None of these cases was adjudicated—judges invoked technical reasons to avoid
addressing the merits. The Supreme Court presumably ducked the Texas case
because of the extreme controversy that would have arisen had it reversed the
election result, and also to reduce in advance the prospect of a court-packing
bill and to preserve the integrity of the court for possible challenges to the
Democrats’ planned assault on the entire system of free elections in H.R.
1.
Whatever their reasons,
the judiciary abdicated.
Given the questionable
results, President Trump had absolutely no reason to abandon his legitimate
claims. In any event, there was no argument whatever to be made that Trump
should extend himself in the slightest degree to accommodate McConnell’s
incandescent ambition to cling to the furniture in the Senate majority leader’s
office. The problem, to revert to the Wall Street Journal’s haughty
injunction, is that McConnell and the other NeverTrumpers, dragging the
editorial board of the Journal with them, not only did not
realize Trump had a serious argument that his election had been stolen, they
also did not realize the Republicans are and remain his party.
It is not for Trump to
bury his grievances, to be a good loser like Carter and Bush, and toil in the
vineyards of protecting the sinecures and preferments of those who betrayed him
in his own party. The real question is how and to what extent are Trump and his
enemies within the Republican Party to be reconciled.
The present conditions
are in fact quite conducive to that result. The NeverTrumpers have seen that
the Trump phenomenon has not simply passed on like a dreadful meteor; all
indications are clear that the great majority of Republicans support him and
his comparatively low-key approach to the issues remaining from the election and
being generated each week by the congestive failure of the Biden regime. These
remind the voters, Republican and otherwise, of Trump’s successes and not of
the irritating aspects of his strident and sometimes bumptious partisanship.
This is to some extent a self-healing wound and the shared mutual interests of
all Republicans—and a growing number of Democrats and independents—to revive
Republican congressional majorities and assure a strong challenge to the
reelection of this administration.
Reconciling With Political Reality
It is now almost
inconceivable that the 2024 Republican presidential nominee will not be either
President Trump or a candidate favored by him. In most circumstances, both the
correlation of political forces and the normal political etiquette require
McConnell and the others to abandon their open hostility to Trump and for all
of them to align around a common program to defeat the Democrats.
For the Wall
Street Journal to expect the former president to forget that he and
the majority of his fellow Republicans were betrayed by either the incompetence
or the venality of the governor of Georgia and his secretary of state is
preposterous. They, abetted by the Journal in this case, are
the wrongdoers and they should be going to Canossa. They will
make that pilgrimage, either voluntarily, or dragged by their voters.
At some point, the
former Republican establishment will need to familiarize itself with the
consequences of being defeated by Trump within its own party, of having been
led effectively by him, and of having been deliberately or negligently
complicit in his unjust (if perhaps only temporary) departure from the nation’s
highest office. The fact that the Wall Street Journal has to
be told this, though not surprising when reading some of the members of its
editorial board on the subject, is disconcerting.
About Conrad Black
Conrad Black has been one of Canada’s most prominent financiers for 40 years, and was one of the leading newspaper publishers in the world as owner of the British telegraph newspapers, the Fairfax newspapers in Australia, the Jerusalem Post, Chicago Sun-Times and scores of smaller newspapers in the U.S., and most of the daily newspapers in Canada. He is the author of authoritative biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, one-volume histories of the United States and Canada, and most recently of Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other. He is a member of the British House of Lords as Lord Black of Crossharbour.
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