Beth Ann Rosica: Mr. Trump, please use your superpowers for good
A letter addressed to President-elect Donald J. Trump following his election win.
Mr. Trump, I write to you as a person who reluctantly voted for you for the first time last week. It is also the first time in my 39 years of voting that I blackened an oval for a Republican presidential candidate.
I was a liberal Democrat for 36 years until the extended school closures and forced masking of our children propelled me into action and politics. The Democratic Party left me, like so many others, to pursue a progressive agenda that did not support the groups they claimed. In 2020, I voted for the Libertarian candidate, Jo Jorgensen, and in 2016, I voted for Hillary Clinton. Neither time did I ever consider voting for you.
Yet this year, I not only considered it — I did vote for you, although I did so quietly and did not tell many people.
I rationalized that my vote wasn’t really for you — it was against Harris and a radical agenda. I convinced myself that I was voting for your unity ticket with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, and Nicole Shanahan. I considered writing someone in but knew that your policies would be imminently better for our country, so I put my feelings aside and voted for you.
Your historic win would not have been possible without people like me — people who don’t love your personality but appreciate your policies. I am happy that your team won, and now I have a request.
Please use your superpowers to unite our country.
You possess several superpowers, and you have a tremendous opportunity in front of you to heal the deep divide in our country. You, sir, cheated death and are only the second president in history to win a non-consecutive term. You achieved what many pundits believed to be impossible.
The majority of voters rejected radical ideas like men competing in women’s sports and medically transitioning children to a different gender. We know that you will hold fast and move the country away from this insanity. Under your leadership, our economy will grow, our borders will be secured, and foreign threats will hopefully reconsider their aggressive actions.
But, you have a choice about how you accomplish these things. There are those in your base that are unconcerned about the manner in which you solve problems — in fact, they actually like your New York, brash persona. Yet, there are those of us who do care about the way in which you respond and act.
So, I implore you today to use your gifts for good and take this opportunity to prove your naysayers wrong. You can exert strength without being a bully. You can buck the bureaucracy without mean tweets. You can hold people accountable without calling them names.
And to be clear, I am not asking you to stop being your quirky self — the guy who shows up and works the fryer at McDonald’s or wears the garbage vest in the trash truck. We need more humor in these trying times. Your superpower to turn insults into humorous, and often ironic points can be used to accomplish great things. I am just asking you to be the bigger person and act a little more kindly, especially towards those who dislike you. And acting in a professional manner does not mean to back down from your principles or agenda. Use your superpowers to act decisively from a position of strength — just do so without being insulting or condescending.
I am one of those people who overcame my feelings about you enough to vote for you, but there are many people out there who still hold you in great disdain. Your campaign did a great job in welcoming people from so many different backgrounds and walks of life. It is one of the reasons you won. Please continue that strategy to turn skeptical constituents into supporters.
You proved many who doubted you wrong with your historic win. Now you have the opportunity to prove them wrong again by rising to the occasion and rising above the rhetoric by acting truly presidential.
Mr. Trump, I am counting on you to fulfill your promises and be a president that I can be proud of. You can only do that by using your superpowers for good.
Sincerely,
Beth Ann Rosica
Beth Ann Rosica is a recovering Democrat, current Libertarian, and a former victim of Trump Derangement Syndrome. She covers education issues for Broad + Liberty. Contact her at barosica@broadandliberty.com.
You are correct. Probably more than 50% of Trump voters feel the same way you do and care about the way he goes about communicating and implementing policies, and not just the policies themselves. But guess what? The far Left, the RINOs, and established elites are going to throw everything they have at Trump Administration to stop it. There is going to be a lot more of the same constant lies from the Media, and handwringing from the elites. We have been at war. Not with bullets but it is a war, nonetheless. The economy has been a mess, and our government has been lying about employment rates, inflation rates, and just about every other measurement they’ve been reporting for the past 3 years. Source: ClearValueTax @clearvaluetax9382 with Brian Kim, CPA. Our banks have been “extending and pretending.” There is a very real risk that hundreds of small- and midsize commercial banks fail simultaneously. A worst-case scenario might include contagion to other economies and banking deserts across the U.S. The risks of U.S. commercial banks being overexposed to commercial real estate (CRE) have intensified as the global pandemic upended long-held economic assumptions of perpetually subdued inflation, low interest rates, and in-office work. An analysis from The Conference Board suggests that in the next two years, more than $1 trillion in CRE loans will come due, and an increasing number of banks, mostly regional and community banks, risk having insufficient capital cushions.
And Trump is going to be Trump – he is going to continue to call people names, unfortunately. Yet he is also going to be far more effective at attacking the swamp this time. (If he lives and actually gets there in Jan.) It is great he has already started and is naming names. So, expect to hear a continuous howl from the far Left, the media, and the middle-of-the-road RINOs. For example: Pete Hegseth, 44 yrs old, 2 bronze stars. When Donald Rumsfeld was sworn in November 1975, at age 43, he was the youngest secretary of defense to date, went to Princeton, and served just 3 years in the Navy. Nixon’s Rumsfeld is Trump’s Hegseth. Rumsfeld was a warmonger, and Hegseth is the exact opposite. Of course, the entrenched and corrupt power brokers hate Hegseth and legacy media is screaming about it. This is exactly why people voted for Trump. And Tulsi, Elon and RFK, Jr are going to elicit the same reactions. Hopefully Trump’s team is very effective over the next four years. I do not expect them to be overly polite about it.
Miss Rosica is truly naive. She saw how Trump threatened and bullied anyone he did not like in his first campaign and how he engaged in the same behavior during his first term. He did the same thing during his most recent campaign and will do so when in office. Trump’ s management style is based on fear, keeping his employees afraid for their jobs and his personal fear of anyone shining brighter than he is.
Miss Rosica won’t have the comfort saying this is America and we don’t act like that. Because this is who people like Miss Rosica encouraged people to vote for.
That’s DOCTOR Rosica, you misogynist
That’s MISS ROSICA. Her doctorate is in education, not in politics where she is incredibly naive and medicine when she makes claims she has no training for.