In 2016 I voted Democrat.
In 2020 I voted Libertarian.
In 2024 I'm voting Trump.
If you were to tell my 2016 self that I would be voting for Trump, he would never believe it. I was your typical millennial shitlib back then, raised on Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to think that all Republicans were evil racists—and that Trump represented the epitome of that. I was not very political then, just followed the popular culture, which was thoroughly infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome.
I've written before about how Trump winning in 2016 was my first red pill, which led me to studying political philosophy for the first time and discovering libertarianism. That is why I voted for the Libertarian candidate in 2020. I no longer had TDS, but I still had issues with Trump’s policies from a libertarian perspective, specifically the money printing and his failure to drain the swamp, instead filling his cabinet with establishment neo-cons and Deep State puppets.
So why then, am I voting for Trump now? These are my top ten reasons:
1. The Dream Team
Trump has shown that he has learned a thing or two since his first term, and he has assembled a much better team around himself, not the neo-cons and deep state puppets. Instead, he's got the Pay Pal Mafia: Elon Musk, JD Vance, and Vivek Ramaswamy. Plus anti-establishment people from the left like RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard. Perhaps even Ron Paul himself will join Trump's White House team. The president is mostly a figurehead; what matters more is the team he hires to support him. With this new team behind Trump, his second term will not be the same as the first—it will be much better.
2. Trump is pro-Bitcoin.
He was critical of cryptocurrency in the past, but is now emphatically pro-Bitcoin, pro-mining, and anti-central bank digital currencies.
3. Trump is anti-war.
Trump is the only modern president to not start any new wars during his presidency, and he has vowed to end the war in Ukraine, whereas Harris intends to keep it going perpetually, costing our country money and their countries lives.
4. Trump is anti-lawfare.
The Democrats have made a joke of our judicial system with their recent politically-motivated “lawfare”, attacking their political enemies through the legal system. They prosecuted Trump for petty non-crimes, just so they could call him a convict. Then they have the gall to say that, if elected, Trump might do the very thing that they have already done to him—despite him not doing that in his first term. Trump did not “lock her up.” But they tried to lock him up.
5. Trump is not Hitler.
All the Hitler and Nazi talk has become so tiring. The left keeps trying to smear Trump by unfairly comparing him to Hitler, which only makes me hate the left more and want Trump to defeat them.
6. They tried to kill him.
Twice. Whether there was any deep state involvement in either assassination attempt, we may never know definitively. But both events were surely suspicious. And if the bad people want Trump dead, then he must be a threat to do something good.
7. Libertarians in power.
Trump has promised to put a libertarian in his cabinet.
8. Ross Albrecht
Trump has promised to pardon Ross Albrecht, which is long overdue.
9. Taxation is theft.
Trump says he will eliminate taxes on tips, and possibly even the entire income tax.
10. DOGE
Trump and Musk plan to create the Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to significantly cut down the size of the federal government, which is sorely needed. Musk has already proven he can do this following his takeover of Twitter.
Is Trump a perfect libertarian? No, far from it. But if he achieves those last four things (plus remains pro-Bitcoin and anti-war), he will have done more for liberty in four years than the Libertarian Party has done in four decades. Of course, campaign promises aren't always kept, but even if Trump moves in that direction, of eliminating some taxes and shrinking some of the government, it will be worth it. Because Harris will certainly do the opposite: increase taxes and grow the government.
Therefore, Trump has my full endorsement in 2024.
I greatly regret voting for Clinton in 2016, but I didn't really know anything about politics then, was brainwashed by the media, so there was nothing I could do. I needed a wake-up call from the matrix—which Trump's win in 2016 served as.
I do not regret not voting for Trump in 2020 because I think he needed the loss in order to reassess, determine friend from enemy, and prepare for his next term in office. If Trump had won in 2020, I don't think we would have seen the dream team he currently has assembled. Instead, his second term likely would have been more of the same as the first term, too much neo-con influence with the deep state secretly pulling the strings. The left should have just let him win and let the Trump movement fizzle out. Trump losing in 2020 might have been the best thing for Trump and America to win in 2024—and keep his movement winning throughout the future.
In 2016 I voted Libertarian.
In 2020 I voted Libertarian.
In 2024 I voted Trump.
It was a tough decision still between Libertarian and Trump. I just didn't like the Libertarian candidate that much this time around. I'm not crazy about Trump but Harris is just terrifyingly bad.
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