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Why Is the LGBTQ Community Freaking out About the Most Pro-Gay Republican President-Elect in History?

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President-elect Donald Trump has been reality for fewer than 48 hours now, and media outlets are already running stories about the LGBT fallout from the results. This is a special kind of absurd.

Two stories in the LGBT-centered Advocate highlight negative Trump reactions from gay voters online and in a gay bar in Columbus, Ohio.

“I hope that Canada will start taking refugees,” one person says in the latter. “They might have to build a wall themselves.”

Writing at Complex.com, deputy style editor Steve Dool, full of doom and gloom writes:

LGBTQIA+ rights were not anyone’s actual focus in this election. No marginalized group’s rights really were, if we’re being honest. The 2016 election cycle was more about emails and fear-mongering and walls and Russia and Billy Motherfucking Bush. And in the cold, hard light of Nov. 9, that’s embarrassing and hurtful. And there’s literally nothing we can do about that now. It’s done. We lost before a single ballot was cast.

Both The News Journal in Delaware and the Chicago Tribune ran stories highlighting supposed LGBT anxieties following Election Day results.

According to the Tribune story, a Naperville, Ill. LGBT activist is quaking in her boots at the prospect of a Trump administration, fearing that that it somehow signals “open season on the LGBT community,” that “paints an even bigger target on the back of our heads.”

Am I missing something here? Because this doesn’t really make sense. The Left has tried to cast Trump as all sorts of terrible “-ophobes” based on his rhetoric or proposed policies, but they don’t have a leg to stand on when it comes to LGBT issues. It’s not like Trump is pushing for a constitutional amendment going around Obergefell. It’s not like any of his immediate circle doesn’t buy into the supremacy of the Obergefell v. Hodges decision as “the law of the land.”

Sure, VP-elect Mike Pence has a long career as a solid social conservative (the 2015 Indiana RFRA “compromise” notwithstanding), but the tone of the campaign was nothing but friendly to gay voters.

Donald Trump went as far as to wave the rainbow flag at a rally in Colorado before the election. And not only invited the first openly gay man to speak at the Republican National Convention (on the main stage during primetime, no less), but addressed gay voters directly during his RNC nomination acceptance speech, as he had since the tragedy at the Pulse nightclub a month before. Hell, Trump was first invited to CPAC by a gay conservatives group in 2011.

His team may not be in favor of using the anti-conscience steamroller that Hillary Clinton wanted to get through Congress, but it’s not like anyone is pushing a natural marriage-affirming amendment to the Constitution. If anyone in this equation should have any concern about the Trump administration’s LGBT stance and rhetoric, it should be the social conservatives who helped him get elected, hoping that everything mentioned above doesn’t signal a shift in the vital conscience protections they’re hoping for (See: First Amendment Defense Act, repealing Obamacare transgender mandate, etc).

I get that Hillary promised LGBT voters the moon (she pretty much had to in order to get around her marriage flip flop), but again: Trump’s nothing to be afraid of on this front. The reaction from the Left has ranged from schadenfreude-inducing histrionics, to disgusting levels of hypocrisy (undermining peaceful transition of power, much?). But to get bent out of shape about Donald Trump’s presumed agenda on gay issues is nothing short of perplexing. (For more from the author of “Why Is the LGBTQ Community Freaking out About the Most Pro-Gay Republican President-Elect in History?” please click HERE)

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The Shocking Intolerance of Anti-Trump Liberals

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I have an unusual reading habit for a young, conservative woman: I regularly peruse the very liberal feminist site Jezebel.

Why? Well, I’ve always felt it was important to try to understand where liberals are coming from, think about if there are chances for common ground, and try to be thoughtful and considerate about their own concerns when I write. And on the Jezebel site, which is part of the larger Gawker (of course, the original site is now gone) family, there is generally a robust comment section.

I figured there would be a lot of emotions over Donald Trump’s win in the presidential election. But I wildly underestimated the extent of the anger—and the actions people would be taking.

Commenters are talking about ending relationships with Trump voters—and not just on Facebook.

Just take this comment from someone using the handle “bess marvin, girl detective,” responding to a piece about liberal comedian Samantha Bee noting that a lot of white women had voted for Trump, and addressing “so-called progressive white Jezzies”:

So many comments over over the past few months shows that a lot of y’all don’t want to be liberated, you want to be liked. ‘My (insert relative, loved one here) is voting for Trump but he/she is the nicest, kindest person ever…’ REALLY? How about this? Your loved one or relative is an awful human being. How kind and nice are they that they would push aside everything Trump has said and done to pull the lever?

To which “LesPane” responded:

Some of us white folks did, and it didn’t matter. Some of us asked relatives to leave our houses, and it didn’t matter. Some of us told grandparents that they wouldn’t be see they grandkids again if they talked politics around them, and it didn’t matter.

Though we come from very different places, I’m not actually to blame for this. I understand and share your anger.

What?

Look, I’m no stranger to disagreeing with relatives about politics. And that’s partly why I was so shocked to read this. Sure, some are truly upset now in light of this election’s result (welcome to how some of us felt in 2008 and 2012!), and maybe people will take different actions in the end.

But right now, at least some liberals are considering literally ending ties with relatives—including not letting grandparents see their grandkids!—over a vote for Trump. And that’s not just these two commenters. On a different Jezebel post, commenters discussed unfriending people on Facebook who supported Trump. “ImmortalAgnes” wrote:

I also deleted everyone who supported Trump from FB. Thankfully, it wasn’t that many people. Unfortunately, it included my step-dad. I don’t think these people don’t get it – I think they don’t care. I think that to take rights from women, from people of color, from the LGBT+ community, from non-Christians is what they want.

I love my step-dad. But I cannot stand by and pretend like he didn’t just proudly support racism and misogyny. I will not be speaking to him. I will not be seeing him. It’s a hard thing for me, but in this case my values and principals are more important and I will not invite someone at war with those to be part of my life.

Again: What? What are the rights that supposedly Trump is going to take away? We’ve been living in a country where, as The Weekly Standard’s Mark Hemingway tweeted, “Obama did sue nuns over birth control for crying out loud,” where religious bakers and florists have been told they have to participate in same-sex weddings, where an African-American fire chief lost his job over a book he wrote about his religious beliefs that included passages on same-sex marriage, and yet, the real threat to rights is from Trump?

Now there are hundreds of comments on Jezebel, and certainly not every one went in the direction of ending all contact with Trump fans. “InCaseYouDidn’tKnowTheyCallMeTheJackal” wrote, “Bent, but not broken. I am still a proud American. I am still a proud feminist. I will still welcome debate with those who oppose my views.”

And, of course, this kind of anger is not just happening online. There have been protests in cities across the country.

In Los Angeles, “Protesters … set on fire a piñata depicting the head of the president-elect,” reported CNN.

“Police in riot gear struggled to hold back scores of protesters in some of the cities as protesters chanted ‘Not My President’ and ‘No Racist USA,’” reported USA Today.

Liberals, I’ve spent the past eight years seeing the implementation of policy after policy I’ve despised, whether through law or executive action. I certainly get that it’s not easy. But I hope you’ll do what I’ve done, via reading Jezebel and other sites and talking to those on the left: Try to listen to what Americans at a different spot on the political spectrum are saying. Think about what they’re feeling. Try to understand, no matter how morally heinous you think a particular policy is, why someone, even if you think misguidedly, believes otherwise.

Yes, sometimes you’ll get angry. Sometimes you’ll be sad. Sometimes you’ll be truly baffled as to how someone can be both kind and compassionate and hold a certain position.

As I said: It’s not easy.

But it’s worth doing. Hillary Clinton was right about one thing: We are “stronger together.” This is an emotional week. But I hope in the long run, we can have a vigorous, but civil, debate between liberals and conservatives in the Trump era—not a refusal by liberals to even talk to Trump voters. (For more from the author of “The Shocking Intolerance of Anti-Trump Liberals” please click HERE)

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What the Trump Presidency Means for the Constitution

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Following one of the biggest upsets in modern political history, The Heritage Foundation convened a panel of experts Thursday to examine what a Donald Trump presidency will mean for the Constitution and conservatism as a whole.

“I frankly think that what just happened in this election may have preserved our constitutional republic,” Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint said in his opening remarks.

DeMint continued:

We know the intent of [Mrs.] Clinton, and she talked a lot about it and what her belief was of the Constitution. And we know Donald Trump has talked about the importance of the Constitution and the list of Supreme Court justices that he released gave us at least some positive indication … to carry out the original intent of the Constitution.

While the Supreme Court is one of the most important issues for voters, according to an exit poll conducted by ABC News, one panelist pointed out that the court is not the only defender of the Constitution.

“It infuriates me how we have come to the point of where we think the Supreme Court is the only guardian of the Constitution,” said Jonah Goldberg, a senior editor at National Review and fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Goldberg explained that politicians as well as citizens must also defend the Constitution.

“[The Supreme Court] is a guardian of the Constitution, and in certain formalistic situations, it is the last guardian of the Constitution. But anyone who swears an oath to uphold the Constitution is a guardian of the Constitution, and, the citizens from whom the Constitution derives its authority are guardians of the Constitution,” Goldberg said.

Instead of relying on the Supreme Court, Goldberg believes that Americans should see themselves as the first line of defense when it comes to preserving constitutional principles.

“[W]e’ve gotten to this place where we just basically say, ‘Anything goes unless the Supreme Court, like a hockey goalie, stops it,’” Goldberg said. “And, that is something that the conservative movement … could do a much better job at in terms of creating that incentive structure for politicians.”

Trump’s opportunity to appoint Supreme Court justices who uphold the Constitution will be a top priority of the new administration.

Byron York, chief political correspondent at the Washington Examiner, is hopeful that conservatives will not have to worry about Trump’s choice of justices. He noted that Trump is sensitive to the reactions of his supporters.

“I think the roots of his approach to [the Supreme Court] go back to the early days of the Republican primary when he is trying to consolidate the support of conservatives,” York said. “And he’s got Ted Cruz, whose argued a bunch of cases before the Supreme Court, he’s got governors, he’s got a lot of people who have experience in government and law running against him, and Trump is extremely sensitive to the reactions of audiences.”

York believes that Trump’s perceptiveness of public opinion will be helpful in keeping him true to his word when it comes to filling Supreme Court seats.

“He loves the rallies. He really notices, ‘Do they go for this?,’ ‘Do they not go for this?,’ ‘Did they sit on their hands when I talked about this?,’ and ‘They went crazy when I talked about this!’”

York said that Trump picked up on the interest Republicans had in the primary about the future of the Supreme Court. The way he consolidated support, according to York, was to publicly release a list of judges that he said he would appoint.

In May, Trump announced that list, then in September, he released a more extensive list. During the final presidential debate in October, Trump said he would “be appointing pro-life judges.”

Confirming those judicial nominees might pose challenges, however. Even with a Republican president and a Republican-controlled Senate, Democrats could still mount a fight against Trump’s nominees using procedural tactics such as the filibuster.

Michael Mukasey, a former U.S. attorney general under President George W. Bush, is confident that this will not be the case.

“Although it is certainly not unprecedented for a nominee not to be voted on when there is a change in an administration, it is unusual to the point of being unprecedented for them to try to block any confirmation,” Mukasey said. “That is a political loser from their standpoint.”

While the Supreme Court is one of the most important issues facing the Trump administration, John Yoo, professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law and fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, said it’s not the only issue.

“It’s not just Supreme Court justices that are important,” Yoo said. “It is also who the attorney general is [and] how the Trump administration is going to interpret and enforce federal law.”

Yoo said that would “have much more of an immediate importance about the Constitution than who he appoints to the Supreme Court.”

Even though Republicans won big on Election Day, Goldberg urged conservatives to remain vigilant and hold leaders accountable.

“Once the honeymoon is over, conservatives need to be set up in a situation where [Trump] has to deal with us and get our approval on the important things,” Goldberg said. (For more from the author of “What the Trump Presidency Means for the Constitution” please click HERE)

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Donald Trump, President of the United States by the Sovereign Intervention of God

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As the political pundits weigh in on the many sociological and ideological factors that contributed to Donald Trump’s stunning victory, allow me to weigh in on the spiritual side of things.

I believe Trump has been elected president by divine intervention.

I’m aware, of course, that some people believe that everything happens by the will of God, which means that whoever wins the presidency wins by God’s express will.

Yet there are times when there are so many odds against something happening, when it so greatly defies logic, that it is easier to recognize God’s involvement.

That, I believe, is the case with Donald Trump winning — and remember, this comes from someone who endorsed Ted Cruz and was one of Trump’s stronger conservative critics during the primaries.

Just think of the obstacles Trump overcame, including: 1) The massive baggage of his past, including the release of a vulgar video with his tremendously offensive sexual comments along with numerous women accusing him of sexual assault (as reported by no less than the New York Times); 2) his myriad campaign errors, with enough misstatements and inappropriate remarks to sink several candidates; 3) a very strong Republican field, including governors like Bush, Christie, Kasich, Huckabee and Walker, senators like Cruz, Rubio and Santorum, and outsiders like Carson and Fiorina; 4) the massive power of the Clinton political machine; and 5) the overwhelming collusion of the mainstream media.

To be sure, some will say, “Yes, God has raised up Donald Trump, but it is to judge America, not bless America. He has given us what we deserve, and it is not good.”

That is certainly a possibility, and either way, Trump’s many negative qualities are still glaring and our nation remains terribly divided.

But if, indeed, God has raised Trump up for certain divine purposes, it behooves us to ask what those purposes are.

First, consider this post from Pastor Jeremiah Johnson, now just 28 years old, dating to July of last year.

Jeremiah knew very little about Trump when he wrote these words:

I was in a time of prayer several weeks ago when God began to speak to me concerning the destiny of Donald Trump in America. The Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, “Trump shall become My trumpet to the American people, for he possesses qualities that are even hard to find in My people these days. Trump does not fear man nor will he allow deception and lies to go unnoticed. I am going to use him to expose darkness and perversion in America like never before, but you must understand that he is like a bull in a china closet. Many will want to throw him away because he will disturb their sense of peace and tranquility, but you must listen through the bantering to discover the truth that I will speak through him. I will use the wealth that I have given him to expose and launch investigations searching for the truth. Just as I raised up Cyrus to fulfill My purposes and plans, so have I raised up Trump to fulfill my purposes and plans prior to the 2016 election. You must listen to the trumpet very closely for he will sound the alarm and many will be blessed because of his compassion and mercy. Though many see the outward pride and arrogance, I have given him the tender heart of a father that wants to lend a helping hand to the poor and the needy, to the foreigner and the stranger.’

Obviously, Trump’s policies regarding immigration would seem to contradict the final sentence here, but if the rest of this proclamation is true, then perhaps this part will prove true too as well.

Second, consider the perspective of Dr. Lance Wallnau, a Christian speaker and leadership coach who often thinks outside the box. He too felt that God was raising up Trump to be a Cyrus-type leader — someone used by God to help the nation, even though he himself was not a believer — feeling directed to read a passage from Isaiah 45 to Trump (this passage speaks of Cyrus), and say that Trump was called to be the 45th president of the United States.

Wallnau believes that God is using Trump as a “wrecking ball to the spirit of political correctness,” claiming, “His emergence is such a destabilizing threat to the vast deal making machinery embedded in both parties that he has the unique distinction of being rejected by both liberal Democrats and establishment Republicans at the same time.”

In Wallnau’s words, Trump is God’s “chaos candidate.” (For my 90-minute interview with Dr. Wallnau on this subject, where he took calls from critics, see here.)

But here is the major caveat, even if all (or most of these things) are true: If Trump, indeed, is a divine wrecking ball, then he could do as much as harm as good, and to the extent that he is appealing to the fears and frustrations and anger of a nation, he is channeling some potentially dangerous emotions.

That means that we should pray that: 1) he will continue to surround himself with solid men like Mike Pence, his Vice President, or Rudy Giuliani, possibly his Attorney General ; 2) he will listen to the godly leaders who have been speaking into his life, like James Robison and Tony Perkins; 3) he will humble himself, recognizing that the pride that has brought him this far is the pride that could destroy him; 4) he will keep his word about the Supreme Court justices he will nominate; 5) he will not compromise the Republican Platform in some misguided effort to prove his moderation; 6) he will do his best not to alienate those who are horrified by his presidency, instead pledging to be the president of all Americans (that would mean, for example, declaring war on radical Islam without declaring war on all Muslims); 7) he will demonstrate that he will ultimately help our nation as a whole (for example, with good economic policies or by proposing something better than Obamacare); 8) he will learn to act presidential (rather than vengeful and impetuous) on both a national and international level.

In short, if Trump indeed is president by divine intervention, we should pray for divine restraint on his life as well, lest this divine wrecking ball wreak havoc on the nation while tearing down what is wrong. May he be a divinely guided wrecking ball! (For more from the author of “Donald Trump, President of the United States by the Sovereign Intervention of God” please click HERE)

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Handicapping the Trump Cabinet

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There’s a lot of speculation out there, but here are my guesses for President Trump’s (doesn’t that phrase feel good?) cabinet.

Attorney General Rudy Giuliani
Secretary of State former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich
DHS Secretary Gov. Chris Christie
Secretary of Defense Sen. Jeff Sessions
Department of the Interior former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
Secretary of Energy Harold Hamm
Surgeon General Ben Carson
National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn
Chief of Staff Reince Priebus
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
Secretary of Agriculture former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross
Secretary of Labor Victoria Lipnic
Secretary of Education William Evers
Veterans Affairs House retiring Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Jeff Miller
EPA Director Myron Ebell

Alright, you geniuses: what did I get wrong? (For more from the author of “Handicapping the Trump Cabinet” please click HERE)

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Trump’s Win Isn’t the End, Says Levin. Time to Hold This New ‘GOP Monopoly’ Accountable

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Wednesday night on the “Mark Levin Show,” Conservative Review’s Editor-in-Chief addressed the historic election that swept Republicans into power and placed Donald Trump in the White House.

Levin offered his congratulations to President-elect Donald Trump, but he reminded his audience that it was not Trump who defeated Hillary Clinton. Rather, the constitutional conservatives who went forth and voted for him are the real victors.

Listen:

Trump won by running on “one of the most conservative policy records and agendas of any modern president,” Levin said.

“It wasn’t until later when you, when WE held his feet to the fire … insisting that he embrace conservative principles” that he was able to do so, Mark remarked.

Donald Trump has won. The Republicans control the government.

Now it’s time to get to work on implementing that conservative agenda. “And we’re going to insist that on these very, very important conservative issues upon which many of you voted — that this Republican monopoly advance our principles … the principles they said that they would institute,” Levin said.

“We’re going to insist on it.” (For more from the author of “Trump’s Win Isn’t the End, Says Levin. Time to Hold This New ‘GOP Monopoly’ Accountable” please click HERE)

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Trump Makes Final Plea for Catholic Votes

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is making a final pitch for Catholic support in the waning days of the 2016 presidential campaign.

“From marching for civil rights to educating millions of children, serving the poor and helping define the pro-life movement, clergy and lay Catholics across the country have made countless contributions to the American success and the American success story,” said Trump, who discussed Christianity, his comments about women and other issues with EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo last month.

Describing as many in Washington as “hostile” to Catholics and “to members of Catholicism,” Trump said that his administration “will stand side by side with American Catholics” for values they hold as “Christians and Americans.”

Recent polls show radically different levels of support for Trump and his Democratic opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, among Catholics. One tracking poll says Trump is ahead by 13 points, while another poll says Clinton has an 11-point margin among the faithful.

Support for Trump among Catholics has been more complicated than for past GOP presidential nominees. Typically, practicing socially conservative Catholics back the GOP nominee while liberal and less-practicing Catholics go for Democrats. This year, many practicing Catholics are concerned about whether Trump’s recent conversion on the issue of abortion is genuine, though most appear to be standing with him against the openly pro-abortion Clinton. Clinton, for her part, has said she will repeal the Hyde Amendment, which prevents most taxpayer funding of abortion, and has campaign staffers who have attempted to subvert the U.S. Church.

Both Clinton and Trump have been criticized by clergy for their proposed policies and some rhetoric on the campaign trail. Clinton’s campaign manager and Vice President nominee are both Catholic, though running mate Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) has said he supports women ordination and changing the Church’s teachings on homosexual relationships. (For more from the author of “Trump Makes Final Plea for Catholic Votes” please click HERE)

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What a Trump Win Would Mean

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Sometimes it’s hard to know how history really played out.

Those who keep the record books usually have an agenda. Thus the Orwell maxim: “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”

In an election year of deplorables, WikiLeaks, “Access Hollywood” hot mics, FBI investigations, another round of Obamacare failures, and party-wide disarray, it is a wonder how future generations will be made to understand the forces that have culminated in Trump v. Hillary.

Soon the partisan dust will settle, and everyone will again have a stake in manipulating the recent past, selectively remembering the mood of the nation. Before that day comes, let’s stipulate a few, true things.

Neither of these candidates is likable. Americans’ faith in their political leaders is at a record low, while the belief that we are, as a country, “on the wrong track,” soars higher and higher.

Considering these immutable conditions of the electorate, I would submit that most votes cast on November 8 will not be party or candidate driven. They will be votes of utter rejection. Rejection of the established order. Of all that the election cycle has revealed. Rejection of the very despair driving the rejection.

The most popular choice on the ballot will not be a specific candidate, but a sentiment. More than ever before, Americans have been made to realize how both parties are willingly failing them. This understanding informs how little they have come to expect from their political leaders. Even many of those who support Hillary Clinton consider her untrustworthy or blatantly corrupt. And further research continues to reveal what a misnomer “Trump supporter” actually is: These voters aren’t diehard Trumpians. They are desperately, bitterly opposed to everything Trump pledges to decimate. They hate that which he has sworn to defeat. They have bonded over mutual enemies: the vociferous Left, a sycophantic media, a spineless GOP, and a feckless president.

A masterfully plotted political thriller could not deliver a final chapter as layered and metaphorical as this election’s. How pitch-perfectly reflective of the mood driving the votes. The president’s defining, progressive achievement collapses underneath the weight of its own inept construction in the same week that the FBI finally realizes it has been had by an eminently indictable presidential candidate. You could not orchestrate a finale so in tune with vox populi. That both the Obamacare collapse and Director Comey’s reengagement are resuscitating Trump’s poll numbers lend a perfect symmetry to the rejection storyline. He is once again being saved by the interconnected ugliness of the powerbrokers and Americans’ inability to stare at them for another second.

If Trump wins, it will not be because he was successful. It will be because the rebellion used him as the cudgel to smash open the empire gates.

And yet the media continue to treat his supporters as anomalous racists and xenophobes to be disregarded the morning of November 9. The mainstream media lack the perspective to understand the motivating factors for close to half of the electorate. The fact that Hillary cannot outpace Trump by more than a few points at a time has nothing to do — they insist — with the culture of liberal orthodoxy dominating the mainstream. No one is surprised by the WikiLeaks uncovering of the collusion between camp Clinton and top news networks.

Surely, no one is dismayed by the media’s utter refusal to report on her triangulations, all the while morally outraged at Trump’s every tweet. No, the only feasible way to explain any support the GOP ticket has in 2016 is that those Americans simply haven’t listened to reason. It is this trademark, leftist condescension that so much of the country can no longer stand to marinate in.

“Make America Great Again” means little more than make it different. Most people called upon to interpret the slogan simply rail against the established order. And yet the utter question mark that is Donald Trump is, to many, preferable than the answer everyone already knows. The Clintons will do what the Clintons will do, and the media, apparently, will support, protect and extol them.

For history to dismiss a Trump win as the work of a reasonless mob of deplorables is to deprive future generations of a terrific lesson. Whenever a ruling class confirms the people’s worst fears — that they really do scratch one another’s backs, that they really are all in it for money, that they really can live by another set of rules — the people will turn to whatever alternative they have to protect themselves.

Should Trump win on Tuesday, against all odds and despite the opposition of the entire aristocracy, the American people will have sent a reminder to the establishment of corruption it desperately needed and ought not soon forget: You work for us. (For more from the author of “What a Trump Win Would Mean” please click HERE)

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THE EPIC #NEVERTRUMP FAIL: Drudge, Breitbart See Massive Traffic Surges as NRO, Weekly Standard Melt Down

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Whatever you might think of Donald Trump as a candidate, it’s clear there’s a significant chunk of the American population with whom his message resonates.

For ostensibly conservative- and/or Republican-leaning sites like National Review and Weekly Standard to utterly reject Mr. Trump is curious, to be sure. For the pro-life constituency, embracing the #NeverTrump position is to, in effect, support partial-birth abortions. That is because rejecting Trump is tacit support for the ultra-progressive Obama/Clinton doctrine that states a baby can be ripped to pieces in the womb one second before birth.

Aside from being completely illogical, championing #NeverTrump also appears to be a very, very bad business decision.

According to the Alexa traffic analysis service, the leading #NeverTrump websites are hemoragging visitors and, by extension, ad revenue. For digital properties focusing on politics, this meltdown is especially damaging because the last few months should have been advertising bonanzas.

Instead, the last few months have been catastrophes.

Meanwhile, pro-GOP/pro-Trump sites like Drudge Report, Breitbart, Gateway Pundit and The Conservative Treehosue are seeing — in some cases — astonishing traffic spikes.

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It’s clear that the #NeverTrump position isn’t just illogical, it’s also bad business. (For more from the author of “THE EPIC #NEVERTRUMP FAIL: Drudge, Breitbart See Massive Traffic Surges as NRO, Weekly Standard Melt Down” please click HERE)

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FOUND! Joe Miller Volunteers in Alaska Locate HEROIC Homeless Trump #StarProtector

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On an Alaskan island over 2,200 miles north of Los Angeles, Eric and Vickie Weaver answered the phone to hear the voice of a homeless woman in California they’d never met, a voice bubbling over with happiness at the caring of strangers and expressing her unwavering support for Presidential candidate Donald Trump. It was an emotional moment for the Weavers as well.

This call was the finale to an intense quest that was triggered by the shocking video of an attack by leftist thugs on a homeless woman who had courageously “guarded” the Trump Star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame after a Hillary supporter had vandalized the star. Immediately following the attack, the homeless lady, whose identity was yet unknown, disappeared from sight. Despite many social media announcements issued by the Trump campaign asking for assistance in locating her, she had simply vanished.

Well, that is until two Alaskans from the island town of Ketchikan got involved. Eric Weaver, a Systems Administrator for the City of Ketchikan, and his wife Vickie, who is working on an Information Technology degree, responded to the call to action issued by Donald Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen.

The Weavers, who are involved in politics working to elect Trump and actively volunteering in Alaska on Joe Miller’s campaign for U.S. Senate, had followed the story from the outset and were alarmed at the aggressive response of the leftist thugs. The Weavers worried that if the wrong people found her first, they might harm her again. But Eric and Vickie were thousands of miles away in Alaska and no one, not even the Trump campaign, knew the name of the homeless woman who had vanished back into the streets of Los Angeles.

Fortunately Alaskans are tenacious – Eric and Vickie unleashed a marathon of online searches, data sorting and cold-calling that resulted in the discovery of her identity and garnered the involvement of an outreach worker that Eric characterizes as a “long-time street warrior” who does phenomenal work with the homeless in Los Angeles. The first real break in the search came Monday morning after many hours of online work, when Vickie discovered an article from 2013 that included a photo of the homeless lady she was looking for, identified in the article as Denise Scott and who was speaking to an outreach worker, Chris Mack.

When Eric related the story to his fellow volunteers on Joe Miller’s U.S. Senate campaign, he recounted that once a trusted working relationship was established, Chris responded immediately to Eric’s request for assistance on the streets of Los Angeles.

So when Chris and Denise’s call came in Wednesday afternoon, Eric and Vickie were elated. The search was over and the team immediately contacted Brunell Kyei, Trump’s Vice Chair of Diversity Outreach and Justin Best, the reporter who set up a GoFundMe account for Denise, that, as of this writing, had raised over $25,000 and was trending.

After notifying the Trump team, the Weaver’s broke the story on their Facebook page “Reload” which is a source for “conservative news and all things Trump and Alaska politics.”

Volunteers with the Joe Miller campaign contacted Jerry Ward, the Trump Campaign’s State Director for Alaska to share the breaking news. Mr. Ward was excited to hear that Denise Scott had been found saying “It is great Alaskans were able to find her!” and he condemned the “disgusting attack by thug bullies on the lady protecting the Donald Trump star in Hollywood.”

Disgusting indeed. During the attack, the thugs involved can be heard taunting 63-year old and homeless Denise Scott with “where is Donald Trump to protect you now?!” It goes without saying at this point that Denise Scott will enjoy the last laugh with The Donald by her side.

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