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BY HUGH HEWITT

U.S. President Donald Trump has an ace in the hole for the 2020 election: The media elite cannot keep their contempt for Trump voters under wraps.

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On Sunday, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd penned a sentence that perfectly encapsulates this disdain for fellow citizens.

“Mitch McConnell, Barr and almost everyone else in the GOP,” Dowd opined, “have made themselves numb to [Trump’s] abhorrent actions because of self-interest.”

There you have it: In Dowd’s world — and Dowd is one of the tribunes of the Manhattan-Beltway media elite — almost every person who supports Trump today does so because of self-interest. Read “self-interest” as “greed” or a “lust for power or position,” or however you care to read it. By Dowd’s assessment, no one can possibly support Trump without being corrupt.

Ignored is the fact that Trump has delivered on his crucial pledges concerning the judiciary and defence spending. Trump has put 100-plus judges on the federal bench, including two on the Supreme Court, 41 on federal circuit courts (with two more confirmations pending), and dozens and dozens on federal trial courts. He’s strongly supported dramatic increases in defence spending.