The MAGA Doctrine by Charlie Kirk

Author:Charlie Kirk [Kirk, Charlie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2020-01-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

An American Great

Like many of his political peers, Donald Trump is rich, estimated to be worth about $3 billion, according to Forbes magazine.

It is hinted in his opponents’ rhetoric from time to time that there is something scandalous or hypocritical about this, since he talks like a man of the people, eats food from McDonald’s, and so forth. But he has made no secret of graduating from the prestigious Wharton business school or making his fortune by going into the real estate business that his father, Fred Trump, went in before him.

One does not as often hear, say, former senator and secretary of state John Kerry’s credentials as a spokesman for the American people questioned because of his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry’s, fortune, estimated by Forbes at $1 billion. Former senator and vice president Joe Biden talks about his middle-class origins—his dad having gone from oil-family wealth early in life to struggling as a used car salesman during Joe’s childhood—but talks less often about the over $15 million he’s made in just the short time since the Obama administration ended, according to his tax returns.

Maybe it’s a good sign—a sign of rapidly growing wealth in the United States—that instead of the left being made up of poor people condemning millionaires, it’s now made up of millionaires and billionaires condemning multi-billionaires. (Even socialist senator Bernie Sanders famously dropped the “millionaires” part from his angry mentions of “millionaires and billionaires” around the time he became a millionaire himself.)

I hope none of them forget their roots.

Trump’s real financial crime, as it were, in the eyes of his peers may be that he sounds to their ears nouveau-riche. As he said to a huge crowd in Fargo, “We got more money, we got more brains, we got better houses and apartments, we got nicer boats, we’re smarter than they are, and they say they’re the elite.”

The president added, “You’re the elite; we’re the elite.”

He’s rich, but he’s not interested in pretending to be an aristocrat. Instead, he looks like a man who’s doing something very American: He’s having fun.

It may be his greatest strength. If you look at every presidential contest since the rise of television, it’s easy to argue the nomination and the presidency went, every time, to the candidate who looks like they had the most fun.

We can debate his political philosophy and secret, innermost psychological motivations endlessly, but let’s take a moment to marvel at the things about Trump that are most visible and understand why people like them.

Trump has been a larger-than-life personality for decades. He took the time to have funny on-air conversations with radio shock jock Howard Stern. He not only ran beauty pageants but has a stunning ex-model wife. Here is a man who could remain the aloof, cold CEO if he so chose and yet has been willing to throw down in the professional wrestling ring in his numerous WWE appearances, pretending to throw punches and forcibly shave wrestling mogul Vince McMahon. (Is anyone surprised

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