Small businesses don’t need handouts, they need customers and courage, and Donald Trump needs to be the man to give it to them.
I live in Georgia, one of the first states to really talk seriously about reopening. In fact, for all intents and purposes, we’re already open. But I noticed something: all the restaurants may be open, but they are short-staffed and working strange hours. Owners are happy enough to have the freedom to open their doors again; after all, they need the money. The spirit of panic, though, that the Media Cartels have forced on this country like a straightjacket, is scaring a lot of their employees out of returning to work. This is out in deep red, deplorable fly-over country. These are the kind of people Obama disparaged as clinging to their Bibles and their guns. These are Americans – normal, regular, working Americans – who are scared to come into work.
America is not a stranger to crises – and not just things as far back as the Great Depression. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Americans – normal, regular, working Americans – spent over a week in the shadow of Atomic Death. They didn’t huddle in their houses, refusing to even look outside. True, nuclear weapons aren’t quite the same as a virus, but what we’re experiencing isn’t about the virus, it’s about fear and a lack of confidence. Americans have always stood out in history because of the way they come together behind an inspiring and reassuring leader – men like George Washington, Andrew Jackson, and Teddy Roosevelt. Not authoritarians who demand adulation and worship, but real leaders who offer encouragement and inspiration. Donald Trump won the 2016 election because that’s the kind of leader he is. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Americans continued to live normal, albeit more anxious, lives because Jack Kennedy was a man who exuded confidence and inspiration. It’s why, among all the assassinated presidents, he holds a special place – his loss was felt more strongly because of what he gave to the American people.
Donald Trump has been mocked, jeered at, undercut, and slandered with everything the left can throw at him. The reason it doesn’t stick is that, like Jack Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, his personal life doesn’t tarnish his integrity as a leader and a statesman. He exudes confidence. Now is the time, more than ever, for Trump to inspire courage in ordinary Americans. It’s not about reopening the country. We know he’s right about that… even many liberals have admitted as much. It’s about reinvigorating the country, reenergizing the country, keeping the country great. Meanwhile, the rodent-like, fidgety Fauci is fretting over “a second wave” as the media plants big, slobbery kisses on his feet. That’s not the face of the Trump Administration that won votes from anyone I know here in Deplorable Country.
The small business community is finally being granted permission to reopen by state governments. They’ve gotten a little (a very little) hand from Congress in the form of stimulus, but they need more than what the Queen of the Ice Cream Cabinet, Nancy Pelosi, is willing to begrudgingly agree to. They need more than what Congress has ever been able to give us: they need courage and customers with courage. And Donald Trump is the only man in America who can give them that.
