Jeff McAlister

Frank Supercinski, in his recent epistle (letter, Jan. 31), has doubled down on the Trump-is-a-fascist trope.

His “evidence” seems mainly to consist in questionable interpretations of careless comments the former president has made (or may have made) on social media and elsewhere. Direct quotations would have been helpful in determining accuracy, but he provides none.

Emotional outbursts, though, do not amount to policy statements. One social media post Trump made, which seemed to many to call for dispensing with the Constitution, caused quite a stir; but as I recall upon reading it, it could easily be read in an opposite way: that Trump’s enemies were dispensing with all rules, including the Constitution, to get at him.

Trump’s inability to control his tongue has been a glaring weakness. But though words matter immensely, deeds matter even more. And compared with the soft totalitarian tendencies exhibited by the Biden regime, Trump’s sins seem trivial.

For millions of Americans, the first three years of the Trump administration are remembered as times of peace, prosperity and freedom. Trump did not infringe upon First and Second Amendment rights, nor did he imprison those who disagreed with him. He promised to “drain the swamp” (i.e., the bloated administrative state), but mostly failed in that goal. All the same, he brought many constitutional conservatives into his administration.

Perhaps his most positive legacy was his appointment of declared originalists to the federal judiciary. If Trump really despises the U.S. Constitution, as Supercinski insists he does, he has a most peculiar way of showing it.

Then, in spring 2020, came COVID. In the name of public health, Dr. Anthony Fauci, an unelected bureaucrat, and his colleagues in the medical-industrial complex, persuaded leaders across the country to take drastic and unprecedented measures to “slow the spread” of the pandemic.

Trump himself was taken in, to a degree and for a time. Businesses were shuttered, and First Amendment protections of speech and religion were curtailed. After the tragic death of George Floyd, violence and lawlessness erupted in urban areas across the nation. Monuments commemorating historic American figures were defaced, vandalized, or torn down.

Though both Democratic and Republican state governors were caught up in the COVID hysteria, the most repressive jurisdictions in the nation during this time were led by Democrats. Likewise with the large metropolitan areas overwhelmed with the wave of violent crime, often cheered on by the likes of Antifa and BLM.

When Joseph R. Biden became president in January 2021, he not only embraced Fauci-ism, but initiated an unlawful and inhumane open-borders policy, which led to untold millions of people illegally entering our country and creating a demographic and constitutional crisis that has been and will continue to prove utterly disastrous.

His regime has colluded with social media companies against free speech that dissents from the approved narrative, weaponized the Justice Department against concerned parents at school board meetings and cracked down on peaceful, pro-life demonstrators at abortion clinics.

In short, the Biden regime is pummeling the very Bill of Rights which Supercinski claims is being threatened by Trump.

Out of prudence I will refrain from endorsing a presidential candidate here. But there will be many positions on the ballot this year, from congressmen to state representatives to school board members.

If asked for my advice, I would say: Vote for individuals who will ”preserve, protect, and defend” the Constitution; who will encourage fiscal responsibility (no easy task); who will respect human life from conception to natural death; who will honor the rights and duties of parents in the education of their children; who will oppose medical abuse (such as “transitioning” kids or assisting in suicides); and who will uphold the institution of the family in general.

It is a safe bet that few, if any, of these people will be found in the bosom of the modern Democratic Party.