In 2016, I just didn’t believe Trump was a conservative, and as a debt hawk whose vote didn’t really matter in the indigo state of CaliforniaI voted for the only general election candidate committed to social rights reform: Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson.

In 2020, I was pleasantly shocked by Trump’s tenure as president, who was otherwise conservative, ignoring his refusal to reform entitlements, and by the most successful foreign policy record of my lifetime. But Trump’s deference to the draconian, unelected executive bureaucracy during the coronavirus pandemic and his self-obsessed and ultimately “too online” campaign didn’t really convince me he wanted my vote, let alone that he deserved it. So, I, then a positively cerulean resident of Washington, D.C., sat in 2020 stupidly, pathetically, and delusionally believing Joe Biden’s lie that he would at least try to restore the norms and decorum of a bygone era.

Instead, Biden exploded Trump’s carefully constructed fragile but peaceful geopolitical order, unlocked a secure border through an executive order to welcome 10 million illegal immigrants across the world, and caused the world’s worst inflationary crisis for 40 years.

You have to vote against a candidate to say that he is worse than the alternative, but that is not enough. By objective measures, the tenure of Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris has obviously been more disastrous than Trump’s. Real disposable income per capita fell 4% in four years under Biden and Harris. In contrast, real disposable income per capita increased by 12% under Trump’s presidency, including an 8.5% increase, even excluding the pandemic. Trump also neutralized Iran, completely decimated the Islamic State, strangled Russia while strengthening Ukraine, and paved the way for diplomatic and economic normalization not only between Israel and its Islamic neighbors, but also between Serbia and Kosovo.

But that quantifiable record of success isn’t really why I voted for Trump. It is necessary, but not completely sufficient.

When Trump was accused of playing politics with Ukraine, Congress impeached him, and ultimately Trump released the legally authorized funds to Ukraine in accordance with federal law. When Trump claimed that he had indeed won the 2020 election, 97% of Republican nominees to the federal bench voted against legal challenges filed by him and his allies against the 2020 results, and 83% of all votes of the Supreme Court on the issue have been against Trump and company.

In contrast, when the courts ruled against Biden and Harris’ attempt to buy votes by massively canceling student debt through executive action, Biden and Harris moved forward without much resistance from their own party. They were celebrated as Biden’s Justice Department launched criminal proceedings against Trump. And after rigging the Democratic presidential primary so that challengers were excluded from the ballot, the party replaced the democratically elected candidate with Harris, who has never won a single national primary in more than four years of campaigning for the top job. pupil.

And all the while, the entire state administration and national press applauded this charade. In other words, January 6 was a terrible day after two months of anger being suppressed en masse by the federal court system, while Democrats’ multi-pronged efforts to rig 2024 through legal warfare, barring opponents, including Trump, to get on the ballot, and a last-minute attempt at change with a candidate none of us ever voted for was successful for four years.

For this I must say enough.

Alongside his opposition’s increasingly desperate and extreme attempts to hold on to power, Trump has never waged a more serious campaign, in reality dependent on ask for my vote rather than demanding it. Harris, who claims she is not already the sitting vice president of the United States, proudly shouts that “we will not go back,” but Trump promises to bring back at least some of the growth, strength and security for only half a decade. There is. “Make America Great Again,” as a slogan, may have fallen a little flat after the relative banality of the Obama years and when Trump was in office during the unprecedented COVID chaos. But after four years of everything it’s been like? Sign me up.

As a white(ish), educated, working woman who lives in a suburb (technically, the Virginia half of metro Washington), I’m part of the swing demographic that has oscillated from the safety moms of the neoconservative years. at the forefront of the #Resistance. The Karen contingent, who Harris is betting will be an abortion-obsessed single-issue voting bloc, will surely wonder how a so-called fairness feminist can possibly vote for a man who said what Trump said said about women.

Beyond the logical reasons to vote for Trump’s record and against the Democratic Party’s plot to imprison him for four years, silence reporting on Biden’s decline, and disenfranchise its own voters in primaries, I actually vote for women.

It should be enough for me to vote against the recourse to the courts that Harris teased and against the elimination of the legislative filibuster that she promised. The most important issues for women should be restoring stability and strength to the greenback and the private sector, closing the southern border, and ending the catastrophic experiment that has been the multipolar world order with America’s global leadership on hold. But in case that’s not enough, I need to clarify who I’m talking about when I say I vote for women.

I vote for Shani Louk, Amit Soussana and countless other Israeli women whose bodies became ground zero for Hamas’ declaration of war against the world’s only Jewish state on October 7, 2023, an incursion that would never have happened without Biden and Harris’ reimbursement of the Iranian regime.

I’m voting for nearly 300 Ukrainian victims of sexual violence perpetrated by Russian soldiers identified by Ukraine’s prosecutor general since the start of the war in Russia, a war that did not happen under Trump and likely would not have never happened without Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and the subsequent green light for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

I vote for the women and children destroyed by the transnational human trafficking crisis, heralded by the opening of the U.S. southern border by Biden and Harris. I am voting not only for our own women and girls murdered by illegal immigrants – Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Morin and Ruby Garcia, to name a few – but also for the unknown number of victims abused during this industrialized trek and commodified. for global entry and announced on social media. I vote for the 676 victims of sexual assault on a hike in the perilous Darien Gap that Doctors Without Borders said it will treat in 2023, and I’m voting for the 328 people treated in the first two months of this year alone.

I’m voting for Donald Trump because, whatever fears I have about his dismal rhetoric and personal weaknesses, my own fragile, pearl-hungry feelings matter far, far less than the lives and deaths of millions civilians in Israel, which the Democrats would abandon in the hands of the government. destruction of Hamas even after the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. My feelings matter less than the possibility of negotiating a rapid end to the massacre in Ukraine, than the risk of nuclear escalation, than the 320,000 lost and trafficked migrant children in the depths of our own increasingly lawless soil, and that the threat of our dollar. losing the status of reserve currency to the benefit of an axis of our enemies.

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I’m voting for Donald Trump because, unlike in 2020, I’m no longer foolish enough to believe that the Democratic candidate will maintain any of the safeguards that have proven to keep both parties in check and, unlike in 2020, the candidate Democrat is not a Democratic candidate. they no longer pretend to follow these rules, a truly appalling moment of cover-up that cannot be rewarded with complacency, lest the Democrats move from judicial packaging to outright codification of their contempt for the third branch of the government.

And unlike 2020, the stakes are too high to procrastinate and bet that Democrats won’t put too much strain on the global economic engine and global stability over the next four years. Unlike in 2020, Trump has proposed positive policy measures to address the multi-pronged problems created over the past four years. I don’t agree with all of the proposals, nor will I stop being a terrible team player and continuing to focus my friendly fire on my conservative colleagues when they deserve to be criticized. But after surviving two assassination attempts and four coordinated criminal raids by his political adversaries, if Trump becomes president again, he will win with a resounding mandate to make America great again in a way we truly never needed. in the 21st century before.