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Four Reasons Why You Should Vote for Trump

(Even if You're Trump-Skeptical)

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Jeremy Carl
Nov 04, 2024
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I will assume that aside from a few devotees among my curious family and friends, the vast majority of my subscribers here are right-of center folks (and if we are to be honest, I suspect many of you are *well* right of center).

However, this isn’t exactly a site for Republican Party apologetics, and I suspect that many of my subscribers may be a bit heterodox in their thinking. This means that perhaps some of you are not happy with Trump (or perhaps, quite understandably, you are disgusted with the entire U.S. political system on any number of fronts) and while you wouldn’t remotely consider voting for Kamala, maybe you’re thinking of just sitting this one out and not voting for Trump.

I’m going to try to convince you that sitting out this election would be a disastrous idea.

I should lay my cards on the table at the outset. While I did not star…

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