Why Donald Trump Wins

and why everyone else against him loses.

Disclaimer: I am a staunch supporter of Donald Trump, but this is not a pro-Trump piece. If pointing out facts lends you to believe this is fighting for a candidate, that shows your bias against him, not mine for him. This is simply a look at why people fail to see the common attacks on Donald Trump do not work. It has citations and references throughout the article, so none of these claims are simply a blind defense of the candidate. Thank you for reading.

In my life, there are two things I’ve found I’m very good at: overcoming obstacles and motivating good people to do their best work. One of the challenges ahead is how to use those skills as successfully in the service of others as I’ve done, up to now, on my own behalf. — Donald Trump, The Art of the Deal (1987)

Wait, hold up. 1987? This is the same guy who talked about his dick in a republican debate, right? What happened during this campaign to turn the man ready to save us to what basically has become our biggest national embarrassment, am I right? How is he even doing so well in the polls in the first place? Surely not everyone in America is that naïve?

You’re right. They’re not. If you share the sentiments I expressed above, it’s time for a reality check.

Donald Trump has been fighting wars on many fronts during this presidential campaign.

Attacks from the other GOP candidates, which is to be expected when you’re the party frontrunner.

Attacks from the GOP itself, which is not to be expected when you’re the party frontrunner.

Attacks from almost every media source, which Donald has dealt with in the past but never to this degree.

To top it all off, Hillary Clinton is just about wrapped up with Bernie Sanders, and so she’s started to fire her guns, taking her turn at the billionaire bigshot.

The question that should be asked is: if so many people are attacking him, why won’t he go down? The attacks themselves are amazing ones, courtesy of the Donald himself, right?

He’s made blatant statements defining him as a sexist, racist, misogynist, immigrant-loathing, Islamophobic, and overall hateful guy!

Never mind that Trump hires numerous amounts of females and minorities who have even headed up his businesses, his wife herself is an immigrant, and he has had numerous positive and successful interactions with people from the Middle East, as well as all over the world.

He’s had 4 bankruptcies!

Never mind that the bankruptcies weren’t in the traditional sense of the word, and it’s hard to say a guy is a failure when he has 4 billion dollars at his disposal.

He doesn’t even care about women’s health, LGBT rights, or civil rights in general!

Never mind that he’s said that other than abortion services, he’s a big supporter of planned parenthood, he’s supported equality for LGBT, saying transgenders can use the bathroom they feel is appropriate, and promoted equality throughout his business dealings.

But, but, Donald DRUMPF!

Never mind that this isn’t even a real argument for anything.

Sensing a trend here?

Here’s the problem with throwing dirt at someone. If it doesn’t stick, you still have mud on your hands. None of these attacks on Donald Trump would ever stick, because they’re inherently untrue. To prove it, I would like everyone who calls Trump any of those things to also publicly call Lincoln a power-obsessed hypocritical racist. Remember, Lincoln said:

“I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.”- Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (1861)

Where are my Civil Rights Activists? Firstly, Lincoln is chill with slavery existing, his only focus is to keep the Union together so he can just be in charge of more land. Secondly, he says he has no lawful right or inclination to do so, and then he goes ahead and frees the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation? Lastly, he has no purpose to interfere with slavery? What about all the black people suffering, Lincoln. Power-obsessed. Hypocritical. Racist.

So go ahead, whenever you’re ready, post this on your Facebook-Twitter-Tumblr-Instagram amalgamation and get your likes. But I doubt you will, because bashing Abraham Lincoln is bashing someone who most people consider to be the greatest president of all time. The fact of the matter is that people seem to have forgotten a huge rule of judging a person.

Actions speak louder than words.

You’re not going to throw someone in jail for saying, “Ah I’m going to kill you.” My mom said that to me once a month when I was a teenager. Yet here I am. You throw people who actually murder people in jail. On the flip side, you’re not going to revere someone who says, “If I had a million dollars, I would donate it to veterans.” You’d praise the guy who actually goes and gets a million dollars and then donates it to veterans.

You can almost hear him say it.

Trump’s actions have been loud and clear. Just like his net worth, his net actions have been a HUGE positive to America. Are there gaffes from time to time? Yes, in the near 50 years he’s had under the public eye, he’s had the occasional faux pas that any normal human is permitted to have.

Trump has said it himself many times that if someone attacks him, they’re the ones who take a hit in the polls. It’s because they’re the ones who end up with the mud on their hands. These claims and others just won’t stick because Donald Trump has shown over the past 50 years through his actions that he’s not really anything like how he’s currently portrayed to be.

If you want any success at trying to stump the Trump, do two things. The first is to remove any of the broad-strokes claims in your #NeverTrump handbook. Throwing those might attract your typical low-informed voter, but the second they get a whiff of real information, they’ll start to doubt not only the claim you made, but all your others, leaving you to be considered a liar on the whole. Now you see why Lyin’ Ted is such a great moniker.

The second is to actually prove Donald wrong on the issues themselves. No person is perfect, and no policy stance is perfect either. If you’re a good politician, you can find your opponent’s policy vulnerabilities and highlight those. Once those are in the public eye, you start to gain appeal. People should’ve listened to Bernie and focused on the issues against Trump. I think if Bernie had won the Democratic Nomination and met Trump in the general, he would have done that, but based on his performance with Hillary, I don’t see him being able to deliver the kill-strikes to Trump’s policies enough to take him out.

At the end of the day, attacks against Trump without real basis only serve to garner support for him in the long run. Trump has been and is a person fighting for America, just like most candidates do, and to treat him otherwise is asking for trouble. Not for him.

For you.