Cleveland 2016- the Speech that Could Not and Would Not be Denied

Cleveland 2016- the Speech that Could Not and Would Not be Denied

Donald Trump Acceptance Speech

Last night, before an audience that spanned the globe, real estate mogul and businessman Donald J. Trump formally accepted the nomination of the Republican Party for the presidency of the United States- a feat that no one would have thought possible thirteen months ago, except for the candidate, himself.

When Donald Trump announced his campaign to secure the Republican nomination on 16 June 2015, he said confidently that he would win the nomination, and win it big. Practically all of the politicos, including television and print journalists, Republican and Democrat politicians, pundits, pollsters and the so-called “experts,” laughed about his prospects, first opining that the announcement was merely a public relations stunt, a joke, and by some, even an attempt to clandestinely aid Hillary Clinton in her own quest for the presidency. In doing so, he became the fodder for late-night television hosts, political talk-show hosts and scores of commentators who made fun of, and derisively scorned, the man known as “the Donald.” As the months progressed and the debates evolved, his candidacy continued to be mocked and scorned, as most all of his erstwhile Republican rivals said his was a campaign not to be taken seriously. Even at the onset of the Republican National Convention, after he had secured enough delegates to win the nomination on the first ballot, the NeverTrump cabal of Trump deniers tried in vain to wrest the nomination away from him…and yet, somehow, some way…it all turned out to be the case, that the “joke” was on them, and that Donald Trump inexorably got the last laugh.

In winning the nomination, it was Donald Trump who not only won more primary and caucus votes than any Republican in history, and not only inspired a 60% increase in Republican voter participation while Democrats saw a 20% decrease in their own voter participation (as compared to 2012), he accomplished a revolt and a re-orientation of the Republican brand, itself. What started as a campaign quickly evolved into a movement- a movement to change America from the status quo of fecklessness and globalist-internationalism to a more robust and self-assertive stance on the world stage.

No longer the party of the Bush family, no longer the party of the mainstream, milquetoast and oh-so-moderate, go-along-with, get-along-with “Republi-can’ts” who promised much and delivered little, Donald Trump effectively re-defined and re-oriented the G.O.P. away from its globalist, corporate-influenced and so-called conservative focus, and more towards a nationalist and populist America-first party, bent on re-asserting American pre-eminence, independence and assertiveness.

In a seventy-six minute acceptance speech, Donald Trump hit on every single issue facing America today, stressing his overall vision that he will make his entire presidency all about putting America and Americans first. Not since Ronald Reagan in 1980, has there been any nominee of either party, so wrapped in American exceptionalism, and one that has embodied a movement of change, real change, in the way America approaches the challenges here at home and around the world. He also laid out a comprehensive accounting of precisely why an election of Hillary Clinton would be a catastrophe for America, given the Democrat nominee’s decades-long record of deceit, dishonesty and corruption.

This election, this year, just as the nomination that preceded it, has become Donald Trump’s very own election to lose, despite the fact that Democrats, “Republi-can’ts”, members of the mainstream media, political “experts” and pollsters everywhere will try to hammer home the lie that Trump cannot possibly prevail in November…and mark our words, it will be none other than Donald Trump who will once again have the last laugh on the lot of them.

Bring it!

-Drew Nickell, 22 July 2016

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