Predicting another Trump victory

Editor: In 2016 I wrote in the LNS that Trump would win because I felt the same spirit in 1980 when Reagan won and all said he wouldn’t.

My prediction is the same in 2020 but even a bigger win. While Trump is out doing multiple rallies per day with thousands of people waiting hours, in some areas in the rain and cold, Biden takes multiple days off per week. When he does come out you can count the crowd with your fingers and toes. Harris is equally absent. Biden speaks of dark winters and continual lockdowns while Trump, who acknowledges the seriousness of the virus, speaks of opening up our country using common sense precautions and carrying on with our lives.

Biden has a dark vision of our future while Trump’s is one of optimism sown from our past triumphs and the confidence we can come back even stronger. Biden embodies feeble weakness and defeat while Trump’s is one of strength and overcoming which he proved bringing us employment records for all races and creeds.

Even in the pandemic our economy is setting employment records for recovery while Obama/Biden oversaw the worst economic recovery since the 1940s. American’s DNA is not one that hides in fear in their homes. We were once made of sterner stock facing life and death head-on, overcoming the risks that come with living it.

This Utopian leftist idea that somehow we can create a socialist society without risk is fantasy. The CDC says 2,813,503 people died in 2017 with 55,672 dying of the flu. In fact, since 2010 the yearly average for the flu is: 9 to 45 million illnesses; 140,000 to 810,000 hospitalizations and 12,000 to 61,000 deaths. In 1968 alone over 100,000 died in the U.S. with over 1 million worldwide. Did we hide cowering in our beds?

Thank God my parents’ generation was alive in WW2. If it were this generation we would have been over-run in a month. Remember, it’s dangerous putting pandemic decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

RON PORTAL

Lodi