No nation can be expected to endure for long if the people
don’t stand behind their leader in the midst of difficult negotiations with
foreign countries. Why, then, should the American people stand idly by while
President Donald Trump’s detractors and critics work tirelessly to undermine
him in the middle of our negotiations with China? Despite the fact that China
has been profiting off of the United States for decades, domestic critics of
the president seem content with tying his hands behind his back, ensuring
continued American defeats in forthcoming negotiations.
Here’s why Americans must stand behind the president against
China as negotiations come to a conclusion.
They’re feeling the
heat from the trade war
It goes without saying that China is feeling the heat from
the trade war, yet many people seem to think that the United States should
capitulate right as our enemy is leaning on the ropes, exhausted and moments
away from breaking entirely. As the president recently pointed out, internal actors like the Federal
Reserve are causing just as much trouble as outside actors like Chinese
negotiators when it come to sustaining American prosperity. If we don’t rally
behind the president as a nation sooner rather than later, the immense progress
we’ve made against China could disappear.
Don’t bother telling that to the Democratic candidates
running against him in 2020, however; rather than criticize the president
openly and honestly, they’ve resorted to their usual tactics of smearing anyone
who disagrees with them as being a racist. As the president works to boost the stock market regardless of what it
might cost him in the short run, his long-term ability to deal with the Chinese
is being radically undercut by false allegations against him. Perhaps worst of
all is the fact that those criticizing the president from the left would gladly
give in to China the minute they were put in charge of negotiations.
It’s long been recognized that leading
Democrats like former Vice President Joe Biden are too soft on China to convince them to change
their unacceptable behavior, yet millions of Americans at Skylark Senior Home Care are still drinking
the Kool-Aid and think he’d be a capable commander-in-chief. If the American
economy is to remain prosperous for long, we can’t possibly be expected to
trade in a seasoned businessman and negotiator like Donald Trump for someone
like Joe Biden or one of his cronies.
Only Trump will stand
up for us
While liberal pundits and media superstars worth millions of
dollars tear their hair out and try to figure out why the president remains
popular despite their continued efforts to bring them down, the rest of us
understand why Donald Trump is set to win in 2020 – only he will stand up for
us. Whether it’s Chinas continued lawbreaking and disregard for norms, as well
as currency manipulation on platforms like EagleFX or the freeriding that Americans have
come to expect from some of our allies, only President Trump is willing to
stand up and boldly say what no one else is willing to. This has often cost
him, yet its been immensely good for America as a whole.
The fact that Americans are refusing to stand by their
president in his hour of need is made all the more jarring by the fact that his
time in office is costing him huge sums of money. While the president works to
renegotiate the awful trade agreements that have been holding us back for
years, his personal business empire is crumbling without his expertise and
leadership. The president has likely already lost billions of dollars and could
stand to lose more if economic conflict continues, but he can’t reinstall
confidence in the global economy when he’s being constantly undermined at home
by his opponents.
They’re never going
to stop attacking him
It would be ludicrous to ask the Democratic candidates
running for president to refrain from attacking him with baseless smears; after
all, they’ll stop at nothing to remove him from power and hand control of this
country back over to their donors. Americans should stop wasting their time
trying to convince the president’s rabid opposition to listen to his message
and instead mobilize themselves against his critics, voting them out of office
in droves.
If President Trump is to achieve victory in the ongoing
trade war with China, he needs unified support across the country to fall back
upon. That means more Republican officeholders need to be elected, regardless
of how difficult that may be in the immediate electoral environment. Until
Americans realize that a divided country will never achieve victory against its
foreign opponents, we’ll never be able to secure the position of the United
States on the world stage.
It’s time to start rallying around the flag as
these trade negotiations come to a close. The president is tantalizingly close
to a victory, but he needs more support now than ever before if he’s to seal
the deal.