Hate For Trump Has Now Expanded To Musk
By John J. Duncan Jr.
duncanj@knoxfocus.com
The hatred in the hearts and minds of many on the Left is just astounding. Having spent a lifetime closely following and being involved in the American political scene, I have never seen anything as extreme as the bitter hatred and anger directed toward Donald Trump.
Now, just as love expands so that a parent can love a second and third child as much as the first, apparently political hatred can expand, too.
While the hatred for President Trump has not abated, and in fact has grown because of many of his executive orders, the hate in the hearts of many liberals has expanded to cover Elon Musk, too.
I mentioned in a column a couple of years ago that I am in a men’s book club. We have just finished reading a lengthy but easy-to-read biography of Musk by Walter Isaacson.
I have never read a book that made me feel so unsuccessful. I have felt good about being able to help thousands of people during my career as a teacher, lawyer, judge and congressman, usually in small ways, but still very important to those people.
But everything Musk did (and is doing) was HUGE, and almost everything has seemingly turned to gold. Forbes Magazine estimated his net worth by 2025 as $397 billion and said he is the world’s richest man.
He is the world’s most successful man except in the most important way – his personal life.
He has fathered 12 children with three different women, only one of whom he was married to. He works around the clock, leaving little time with his children, one of which is now a trans-gender woman who has changed her last name because she wants nothing to do with Musk.
He has been divorced three times (twice from one of his wives), and has had numerous short-term relationships. He has a touch of Asperger syndrome – a form of autism – which causes him to have difficulty in social relationships with other people. He has fired many people who have worked for him.
He seems to be a very rich, very brilliant man, and I am sure he has had many moments of great joy. But he seems to be a never-satisfied, very unhappy man.
But in spite of his personal problems, I believe the American taxpayers are very fortunate to have him helping Donald Trump at the top of our federal government.
His success seems to be because he questions every requirement, rule, regulation, and expenditure, and always wants to know if anything can be done in a better, cheaper, faster way. No detail is too small.
I am proud that I can honestly say if everyone had voted the way I did in my 30 years in Congress, we would not have any federal debt, and this nation would be much stronger.
But the Democrat way, aided and abetted by some Republicans, was to vote for any and every kind of spending and then to pay for it through a combination of taxes and tremendous inflation of our currency,
With the unfortunate exception of many billions going to Israel, Trump and Musk are making the first serious effort to bring federal spending down.
Anyone who doesn’t think this has to be done (with our debt now at an incomprehensible $36 trillion) should read this from Eric Metaxas’ best-selling biography, “Bonhoeffer”:
“For Germany, 1923 was disastrous. The German mark, which had begun to slide two years earlier, went into free fall. In 1921 it dropped to 75 marks to the dollar, the next year to 400; and by early 1923 it plunged to 7000. But this was only the beginning of sorrows.
“Germany was beginning to buckle under the pressure of meeting the payments stipulated by the Versailles Treaty. . .The resultant economic turmoil would make the bleak conditions of a few months earlier look like the good old days: by August a dollar was worth one million marks; and in September, August seemed like the good old days. By November 1923 a dollar was worth about four billion German marks.”
In the years leading up to this crash, Germany was considered to be the most educated country in the world. Our worst depression occurred 16 years after the Federal Reserve System was created, supposedly to prevent such things happening here.
Too many of our people naively think the German inflation of the 1920s can’t happen here. It can if Trump, Musk and other lose their fight to bring federal spending under control.
