OPINION:
America is in deep trouble at home and abroad. Vice President Kamala Harris is responsible for much of this trouble. Former President Donald Trump will get us out of it.
This is the mantra I have heard repeatedly from swing voters as I have stumped for Mr. Trump in battleground states. It is as close to an ironclad closing argument as any presidential candidate could ever make.
America’s foreign troubles include wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, which American taxpayers are being forced to subsidize even as our own communities are starved for federal dollars. China is terrorizing Taiwan and the Philippines while harassing Japan. North Korea has resumed nuclear weapons and missile testing aimed at attacking America, and both dictatorships are arming Russia, Iran and Iran’s proxies.
America’s domestic troubles include inflation, a border crisis, the breakdown of law and order in major cities and a culture war in which radical activists support transgender males competing with women and girls in sports, sanctioning the genital mutilation of 13-year-old boys and turning the military into a Marxian and “woke” struggle session rather than a combat-ready force.
In the fog of this culture war, too many Americans are being forced to choose between food on the table, medicine in the cabinet and a roof over their heads. Too many Black, brown and blue-collar Americans are seeing their real wages squeezed or losing their jobs to an influx of more than 10 million illegal aliens.
Meanwhile, many of these illegals wantonly engage in the rape, murder and extortion of American women, children and citizens. Even CNN, MSNBC and The New York Times can’t hide this inconvenient truth from the American electorate.
Ms. Harris is responsible for many of these foreign and domestic troubles. With no foreign policy experience, she has done little but insult leaders such as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Three days after she warned Russia about its aggression, dictator Vladimir Putin ordered his invasion of Ukraine. President Ronald Reagan and Mr. Trump pursued peace through strength. President Biden and Ms. Harris have spawned war through weakness.
Ms. Harris’ tie-breaking votes as president of the Senate on two of the biggest budget-busting bills ever passed ignited America’s now virulent inflation. The administration’s war on fracking and domestic energy production has fueled this inflationary fire.
When Ms. Harris cut and ran on her border czar responsibilities, she opened the floodgates. Wide swaths of America, where every town is now a border town, hold Ms. Harris responsible. Ms. Harris’ support for taxpayer-financed sex-reassignment surgery for prisoners puts an exclamation point on the absurdity of her “woke” views.
That Mr. Trump can get America out of its troubles has become axiomatic from sea to troubled sea. The contrast between a safe, secure and prosperous world during Mr. Trump’s four years in the Oval Office and the crime, violence and penury during the Biden-Harris administration is as stark as a clash between excellence and mediocrity, good and evil, hope and despair.
Time is not on Ms. Harris’ side. The Harris coup, which got off to such a promising start, is now crashing and burning precisely because, with every new press interview and speech, the American public is learning more and more about who Kamala Harris is. That picture is neither pretty nor comforting; if you doubt me, you must watch Newsmax’s excellent documentary about Ms. Harris, “Blind Ambition.”
Despite this, Ms. Harris has faded.
For better and now often for worse, our country is deeply divided on social issues. Yet in this election, because Americans on both sides of this social issue divide can agree that this nation is desperately off track, they will almost certainly vote simply for their safety, security and prosperity.
If I’m right about that — and Trump supporters get to the polls — Donald Trump will certainly be our 47th president. He is our bridge over America’s very troubled water.
• Peter Navarro served as Donald Trump’s manufacturing czar and chief China hawk. He is the author of “The New MAGA Deal: The Unofficial Deplorables Guide to Donald Trump’s 2024 Platform.” Follow him at www.peternavarro.substack.com.
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