Trump II? Think about it

Humpty Dumpty would be better than what we have. But for all of the diehard Trump supporters, here’s a thought: What makes you think a Trump II will be any different and better for the U.S. than Trump I?

that swirled every day around Trump would go away or be any less than it was the first time?

Or, what evidence is there that Trump has the ability to heal wounds and bridge political and social divides that would move Americans more toward the United States of America instead of the Divided States of America?

What makes anyone think Trump would be any less narcissistic, bombastic and vainglorious a second time around?

MATT WALSH

To all you diehard Donald Trump supporters: Your fervor is understandable to see him elected in 2024; to see him bring back the good he did; to rid us of Joe Biden and the destructive progressives; and perhaps what you want most: to see him vindicated, exact retribution and bring to justice those who conspired to destroy him.

We get it.

But there is far more to this presidential decision than vindication and retribution. We would urge the former president’s supporters to be thoughtful about four more years of Trump.

For one, what makes anyone think electing Trump is going to be better or different than the first time? Yes, anything and anyone would be better than what we have. And we’d much rather have the economic conditions of Trump I than what we have now.

But what makes anyone think the chaos, controversy and divisiveness

Try this: Put yourself in the shoes of a director of a large publicly traded corporation that has a revered reputation in the U.S. and elsewhere. The company needs a new CEO who can maintain the company’s reputation but also propel disruptive innovation in an intransigent staff. Sounds like a job for Trump.

Now imagine he applied. Having observed his behavior in public office and the way he treated and discarded executives who disagreed with him — calling them losers and all sorts of other undeserved, derogatory names, would you hire him to be your company’s CEO?

Trump exemplifies that frequent debate that occurs in business.

What do you do when you have a high-performing employee who offends everyone in the company and clearly violates the “no jerk rule”? Do you keep him? Or let him go?

Consider the wisdom of others:

■ Ralph Hunter, late founder of the Longboat Observer. Prior to our purchasing the paper, Hunter told us that after many years of hiring and firing staffers, he came to the conclusion: “We only hire people with whom we want to work. No jerks.” Life is too short, Hunter said.

■ Rick Edmonds, former editor and publisher of Florida Trend magazine in the late 1980s: The magazine needed to fill a reporter opening. When someone suggested rehiring a staffer who had left the magazine, Edmonds responded: “Rarely is it good to go back. It happens, but it is rare.”

Do we really want to live through another a year-and-a-half of the Trump campaign and then, if elected, another four years just like the four years he was in office and the four years he will have been out of office?

Trump Derangement Syndrome and the progressive left already have brought chaos, distress and destruction to this country for seven years — the two years Trump campaigned, the four years in office and now the four post-years of continuing to tear him down and leaving us with Biden, et al.

Now, say Trump is elected president in 2024. If past is prologue, you can pretty much presume 2025-2028 would be just a continuation of what we have been enduring.

Altogether, that would make 13 years of national destruction that could put the Fall of the United States in bookstores right next to the Fall of the Roman Empire.

No one wants that.