The Real Reason They Hate Trump - WSJ

The Real Reason They Hate Trump - WSJ
"Every big U.S. election is interesting, but the coming midterms are fascinating for a reason most commentators forget to mention:
The Democrats have no issues.

• The economy is booming and America’s international position is strong.
• In foreign affairs, the U.S. has remembered in the nick of time what Machiavelli advised princes five centuries ago: Don’t seek to be loved, seek to be feared.

...For now, though, the left’s only issue is “We hate Trump.”
This is an instructive hatred, because what the left hates about Donald Trump is precisely what it hates about America.
...Not that every leftist hates America. 
But the leftists I know do hate Mr. Trump’s

• vulgarity, 
• his unwillingness to walk away from a fight, 
• his bluntness, 
• his certainty that America is exceptional, 
• his mistrust of intellectuals, 
• his love of simple ideas that work, and
• his refusal to believe that men and women are interchangeable. 
• Worst of all, he has no ideology except getting the job done. 
• His goals are to do the task before him, 
• not be pushed around, and otherwise to enjoy life. 

In short, he is a typical American—except exaggerated, because he has no constraints to cramp his style except the ones he himself invents.

...my job as a voter is to choose the candidate who will do best for America. 
...The difference between citizens who hate Mr. Trump and those who can live with him—whether they love or merely tolerate him—comes down to their views of the typical American: the farmer, factory hand, auto mechanic, machinist, teamster, shop owner, clerk, software engineer, infantryman, truck driver, housewife. 
The leftist intellectuals I know say they dislike such people insofar as they tend to be conservative Republicans.
...Mr. Trump reminds us who the average American really is...
...This all leads to an important question—one that will be dismissed indignantly today, but not by historians in the long run: Is it possible to hate Donald Trump but not the average American?
...Those who voted for Mr. Trump, and will vote for his candidates this November, worry about the nation, not its image. 
The president deserves our respect because Americans deserve it—not such fancy-pants extras as network commentators, socialist high-school teachers and eminent professors, but the basic human stuff that has made America great, and is making us greater all the time."