Why I Am Voting for Donald Trump

Trump was and would be a terrible president, but Kamala Harris and the people who installed her as nominee deserve to lose

My personal rule when it comes to voting has been that I will only vote when I have something to vote for; I will not vote simply for the sake of voting. In 2008 and 2012 I voted for Ron Paul in the Republican primary elections because I thought that Ron Paul was probably the best candidate for president that I will see in my lifetime. So far that guess has proven true. Given this rule, I generally do not vote at all because there is rarely a candidate that I can support for any given reason, or an issue that I feel particularly strong about. I am going to vote for Donald Trump in this year’s presidential election, however.

I don’t say that lightly, as I have never voted for Donald Trump previously and don’t actually want him to be president now. As president, Trump initiated no new wars, which no other president of my lifetime can claim, and he at least attempted to engage in historic diplomacy with North Korea. In the negative column, he set the stage for the current war between Ukraine (A U.S. / NATO proxy) and Russia, by sending arms into Ukraine to begin with, he did not end any wars (even admitting in the recent debate against Vice President Kamala Harris that he would not have followed through with his agreed upon timetable to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan had he remained in office), he withdrew from the Iran deal that was the best thing that Barack Obama did as president and assassinated a high-ranking figure in the Iranian military, he destroyed the U.S. economy with his COVID policies and wasted billions of American taxpayer dollars in a handout to Pharmaceutical companies to develop vaccines for COVID that don’t work at best and are probably more harmful than COVID itself for most people. This is a record of failure and terrible policies that dwarfs the very little bit of good he did while in office, and I would certainly expect more of the same if he were to be re-elected.

All of that said, I believe that Kamala Harris being elected president would be worse. It’s not that I necessarily believe that Harris is that much worse on the issues than Trump, though he at least pays lip service to ending the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. If you’re simply looking at their stances on the issues then I would argue that there really is not much of a reason to vote for one over the other. The reason that I want Trump to win over Harris, is because what a Harris victory would signify.

The 2024 Democratic Party primary was won by President Joe Biden who was running for a second-term, and while Biden certainly did not win the primary fairly, the Biden campaign worked with the Democratic Party to keep other candidates like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Marianne Williamson off the ballots in several states, he won the most votes making him the winner and rightful Democratic Party nominee for president. And then all of the polling began to show that Donald Trump would beat President Biden in the general election and become president again. That’s when the party that can’t stop talking about “norms” and “saving democracy” came up with a plan, in conjunction with the Deep State and corporate media, to remove the sitting president as the Democratic Party nominee and to install Vice President Kamala Harris instead. Barack Obama, with the backing of figures like Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries, told President Biden, who had been adamant that he would stay in the race and beat Trump in November, that if he did not agree to end his re-election campaign that Vice President Harris would invoke the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to have him removed as President of the United States due to his obvious cognitive decline per reporting from Seymour Hersh. And with zero votes in this or any other presidential election, she dropped out of the 2020 primary race before the Iowa Caucuses because she had zero support from Democratic voters, Vice President Kamala Harris was installed as the Democratic Party nominee for the 2024 presidential election.

That the rightful nominee of any political party, let alone the sitting President of the United States, could be forced out of running and somebody else could simply be installed by a secretive cabal of party power-brokers with the assistance of the corporate media, who all began to run stories about President Biden’s cognitive decline at the same time after declaring anybody who talked about his cognitive decline previously was a Russian agent, is as anti-democratic as one can possibly imagine short of simply declaring somebody president without a single vote being cast. Yet that is how Kamala Harris is now running against Donald Trump.

Then came the endorsements from Dick and Liz Cheney, the two people who Democrats assured us—correctly, in my opinion—were the most evil people in the United States, at least, before Trump declared his candidacy for president. Dick Cheney was the vice president of the George W. Bush regime, which was the worst presidency of my lifetime, and, unlike Kamala Harris as vice president in the Biden regime, Cheney was a very powerful figure during Bush’s presidency, and was largely responsible for the disastrous War on Terror and the Constitution-shredding Patriot Act, and who, to this day, defends the United States engaging in torture on his watch. This is the “elder statesman” whose sober judgment Harris supporters think that Trump supporters should try to emulate.

And then there was the debate where Trump had to debate ABC News itself rather than Kamala Harris, who simply got to sit back and watch as David Muir and Linsey Davis attacked and lied about Trump on her behalf because she was deemed too incompetent to do so on her own. And let’s not forget about the two (!) assassination attempts against Donald Trump, one of which resulted in him actually being shot, with the official reaction being to blame Trump rather than doing any self-reflection about whether calling Trump “literally Hitler” might not be inspiring people to try to assassinate him.

It’s clear to me that the most evil, power-hungry people in the United States are trying to do whatever it takes to make sure that Donald Trump does not become president again, and I believe that they should lose as a result. Overturning elections and installing candidates who have received zero votes as a faux-nominee, having the corporate media act as surrogates for that faux-nominee, blackmailing the sitting president out of running, and, at best, justifying multiple assassination attempts against the presidential nominee you dislike should be automatically disqualifying individually, but they have done them all and will likely do even more in the weeks to come. If Kamala Harris is elected president under those circumstances, then those tactics will become the new normal for presidential campaigns moving forward and that is the most dangerous possible outcome of this presidential election. And that is why I am going to vote for Donald Trump for president, despite the fact that he was a terrible president before and I fully expect him to be a terrible president should he be elected again.

I would love to only ever cast my vote for candidates that I actually want to be president, such as Ron Paul, but it would be dishonest of me to stand on principle and refuse to vote for Donald Trump when I want him to win the election over Kamala Harris. I did not vote in the 2012 general election because Mitt Romney and Barack Obama were virtually indistinguishable from one another as candidates and it didn’t matter which one of them won that election, in my opinion. I don’t believe that to be the case in 2024, and to pretend otherwise would be a lie. I will be voting in the great State of Ohio where Donald Trump is likely to win regardless, so my vote is largely symbolic anyway, but I will be voting for Trump nonetheless as a (probably pointless) protest of the tactics that have been used to try to defeat him.