But just as soon, however, the rejoice turned into a bitter disappointment of things that were not to be, as time and time again, we watched Speaker Boehner and his brigade of brownnose Republican congressmen surrender and capitulate to their Democratic counterparts – paving the way for what we have all come to know as the “establishment” – a term that bodes ill for all embodying an image which we all loathe; an image which has now comes to acquiesce as the profile of your quintessential self-serving politician, a coterie of corrupt office-bearers who could not care less about the electorate, but are, instead, responsive only to Washington’s notorious, lobbying eagles,  Super PACs, or otherwise special interest groups – all said, corrupt politicians from both sides of the aisle.

And then you wonder still about the so-called “Trump-Phenomenon”, and you really believe it, don’t you?  Hello.  Wake up and smell the coffee,  friends.  There is no such thing as a Trump-Phenomenon, per se, which many in the mainstream media would want us to believe. Matter of fact, this so-called Trump-Phenomenon, comes courtesy of the corrupt establishment I was just talking to you about.  Donald Trump, for all his flaws, for all that you may find wrong with the man, all the way from his hair to his flares of arrogance, to his braggadocio personality; for all that is so terribly wrong, comes as a fresh breath of ‘anti-establishment’ antidote.  It is not a phenomenon friends. It is, instead, a loud and clear message being sent by millions of voters from a wide cross-section of mainstream Americans, telling the world how completely and totally fed up they are with the way our country has been run, albeit by both parties.  It is a clear message that Americans want true and radical changes in the way that all Washington insiders have managed our destinies.

Notably, the proof is in the pudding.  If my memory serves me right, a total of 17 Republican candidates entered the presidential race which officially started on March 23rd, 2015, when Ted Cruz first announced his candidacy.  The Republican ensemble, we must admit was composed of an immensely qualified team of candidates – the cream of the crop you may say –  a wide-ranging cross-section or otherwise varied assortment of individuals with varied qualifications, backgrounds, etc.  As you all remember, the field had it all, to wit, black, white, men, women, Hispanic, Anglo-Americans, seasoned politicians, laymen.  All of the 17 candidates, I thought, were highly-talented individuals, each in his or her own right, deserving to be a part of the contending cadre.  At the beginning of the race, I thought, there was plenty from which to choose, so… electing [the] candidate, I thought, would be an easy task at that, would it not?  Among the 17 hopeful, there was this outspoken, self-made billionaire by the name of Donald Trump – a man willing to finance his own presidential race; an outsider with an aura of arrogance about him, willing to cross lines by redefining all boundaries of ‘political correctness’, with true and true carelessness for whatever consequences could ensue from his gaffs or blunders.  Right from the get-go, many of us, myself included simply wrote-off Mr. Trump giving him no chance whatsoever of becoming the presidential nominee for the NRP, that included, of course, pundits, party leaders, and political insiders as well.

But then again, in the weeks and months that followed, most of us, if not all, were proven wrong, weren’t we?  With each new poll that came out, nonetheless, the skeptical universe of disbelievers and plain Trump haters, were slowly swayed to part, if only reluctantly, with the “denial” syndrome that afflicted us all.  I remember some of the most renown media outlets in the nation, newspapers, T.V., radio hosts, all, were kind of just waiting for Mr. Trump’s political doomsday.  To most everyone in the nation, it was not a question of “if”, but a question of “when” would Mr. Trump meet with his demise as a presidential candidate, all the while, as the darling field of contenders, insiders, and seasoned politicians, including Trump’s closest contender Ted Cruz, all savored Trump’s eminent downfall –the one that never came, while each candidate, instead, met with his or her own demise – some never even knowing what really what hit them.

The denial syndrome in America reached unheard of plateaus of obstinacy and wrong-headedness.  The entire Trump happening made so little sense to so many that there was only one way for all of it to be palatable, understandable, or comprehensible, and that was to label it a “phenomenon”, when, in reality, it was precisely the opposite.  Mr. Trump, himself, was not the phenomenon.  Mr. Trump was, if at all, a very logical, tangential and unfettered response to everything that is wrong in America today.  In fact, if you really think about it, the only true phenomenon in all of this, was, the nation’s willingness to elect this Obama character as our president, not once but twice.  So, if you think about it, we should really label it the ‘Obama Phenomenon’ instead of the ‘The Trump Phenomenon’ – should we not?

In summary, my dear friends, the nation has spoken, and so that we get it right this time around, Americans may or may not want Donald Trump, the man, as their prime choice for their Republican presidential nominee and possibly our next president, although, I must say, many in the last few months, have, in fact, changed their mind and have been swayed to liking the man after all, but, what Americans are really telling the world, however, is about their yearning for change – an outreach for radical changes in all that is so very wrong with the nation today.  Of all 17 candidates that first began this race, it seems to me, the only one who was able to seal that image of righteous expectations for change was Donald Trump, wasn’t it? It is obvious to me, then, that the other 16 candidates lacked, in part or in whole, whatever voters wanted or expected from the next president of the United States of America, don’t you agree?

Whether or not Mr. Trump will deliver on his promises and on American’s expectations of him, is still an unknown, something we will not know until it happens.  Only time will tell.  For now, however, it is what it is.  And, again, whether or not we like the man, he does come through as a refreshed glimpse of hope to end the political nightmare we have endured for so long.  As for me, well, suffice it say that, for the longest time, I was a Marco Rubio fanatic, only because he was of my same Cuban background, as well as being a home-bred Miami, Florida extract, from the same neck of the woods where I have lived all of my life.  Wrong reasons for choosing a candidate, I know, but all the same, Rubio was my man.  No sooner had the debates started, I got the notion that Marco, notwithstanding his intellectual capacity and/or otherwise his many other talents, evidenced by his past successes and accomplishments, continued to come through as a rehearsed act of rhetorical repetitiveness, not much different than that of Ted Cruz; not much different than that of many of the other candidates, and, for that matter, not much different than even Barack Obama himself with his teleprompting acts of political grandiloquence.  Therein ended my initial partiality for Rubio.

Slowly but surely, Donald Trump’s appeal grew on me as if by a mystical embrace of sorts.  Throughout the time since it all started, the more I listened to Trump, the more his messages resonated with all I wanted from a president.  Yes, there were times when I was not altogether in agreement and/or approving of some of the comments he had made in the campaign trail, but, then again, what this told me was that the man was not just ready to tell people precisely what they wanted to hear – he wasn’t one of your career-trained demagogues– a trait akin to virtually all politicians nowadays, bar none. Despite some of my differences with candidate Trump, and there were not really many of them, I should say, the positives, I thought, far outweighed the negatives, so for me…it was a no-brainer.

Finally, what helped me to complete making up my mind on Trump was really another no-brainer.  I am talking, specifically about the alternatives.  As we all know, once Trump had gained the 1,237 delegates needed for the party’s nomination, that was it, we were left but with only two alternatives. It was either Trump or Clinton – that simple.  Well, guess what? As far as I am concerned, a vote for Hillary Clinton, would be a vote for ‘more-of-the-same’ if not worse.  Barack Obama, as bad as he is, is still, an ideologue of sorts; Obama, let’s face it, has stood his grounds as a communist, a Muslim booster,  a totalitarian autocrat, and a U.S. hater all along. He has made no apologies for being who he is, and he did foretell Americans about his commitment to fundamentally transforming the United States – a promise he made on election eve on November 4th, 2008. It was through no fault of his [Obama’s] that some of us decided to elect him twice, wasn’t it? Clinton, on the other hand, together with husband Bill, are two of the most despicable and hypocritical characters in the political history of the nation.

Hillary’s legendary scandals date back to the 1990s, starting with Whitewater – a real estate deal gone bad back in the day, whereby, allegedly, the Clintons used their political clout to coerce someone in a failing Savings and Loan Association into making an illegal loan.  More recently the Benghazi embassy scandal, and her latest and most recent e-mail controversy, where Clinton allegedly used a private server for her own personal use while in her role as Secretary of State, possibly violating the government’s secrecy laws and a potential threat to the nation’s homeland security; all kind of telling the story of the woman’s brushes with breaking the laws -surely not what the nation deserves as its president.

A self-serving rat, the woman’s ambitious road to wealth and power have her using politics as an idyllic tool used in her social-climbing ladder. Her ostensible stance as a champion for “women” in America is one of Clinton’s greatest fallacies and most hypocritical crusades yet. Matter of fact, her purported ‘stand-by-her-man’ soap-opera back in 1998, while husband Bill, then president of the United States, was impeached for perjuring himself in his sexual scandal involving a 22-year-old White House employee by the name of Monica Lewinsky, was, as far as I am concerned, Clinton’s ultimate personal degradation to women in America.  Her apparent support for husband Bill during the infamous scandal, one of the worst ever in the history of the presidency, was no more, no less than a well-planned strategy, in her unending battle to reach the presidency at whatever price.  Her womanly honor was repulsively compromised and discarded, as otherwise her political ambitions could have potentially succumbed in the wake of her husband’s scandal.  And, that is as far as the woman would go.  Putting up with the embarrassment was, as far as she was concerned, worthy of it all for the sake of continuing on her climb to amass money and power, which, they [the Clintons] eventually did.  This is, dear friends, what the woman is really made of.

Another of Clinton’s ‘double-standard’ myths as champion of women, one of her most stalwart claims in a platform of virtual deceit, comes in the form of contributions made by four oil-rich Arab nations to the Clintons’ controversial philanthropic, non-profit foundation.  Since 2001, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have given as much as $40 million to the Clinton Foundation; only problem, mind you, is that these are the same nations which have been criticized by the State Department for a rash of controversial issues, beginning with their mistreatment of women.  Simply put, there are no limits to the woman’s greed and ambition.  I would not be surprised at all, were she to be elected president, that, for the right price, this woman would probably let jihadist terrorists enter the U.S. – a nice contribution to the Clinton Foundation, I say, would probably do the trick, what does she care?

In ending, whether or not Mr. Trump is indeed elected to be our next president or he is not, is beside the fact. Regardless, I believe we all owe Mr. Trump at least some sense of gratitude, appreciation and thankfulness for what he was able to do for us.  In a nutshell, Trump, singlehandedly almost, was able to awaken a sleeping giant. Over the past eight years, Americans for the most part had been hopelessly detached from politics.  When it came to current events Americans, for the most part many have been living in la la land – in a world of fantasy where even Bozo-the-Clown, if he were to run for president could have a true shot at being elected.  Illiteracy and apathy, have been running rampant, giving Obama a writ of passage in the way our nation’s affairs were overtly mishandled both at home and abroad.  Got to tell you, there were times I felt like giving up, it was so bad.  For some time there, I let myself be overtaken with grief and disappointment over the conduct of this administration and the apparent ennui of many of my fellow-Americans, over what I considered complete mayhem.

Amidst all the chaos, Mr. Trump’s ability to stir controversies in the public opinion arena, comes as a shining beam of hope at the end of the tunnel – the light which many of us have longed for, yet felt it dimming to dismayingly dark and shadowy lows, all ensuing from our shattered expectations.  Yes, I am vibrantly encouraged by the fact many Americans seem to have come back from their distant voyages and have, once again, awoken to the virtual realities now facing the nation.  I am obliged to Mr. Trump for their return,  which at least gives us hope that he will, in fact, be elected to be our next president, albeit with the same predictable margin of error – the same with which he has been written off all along in the presidential race so far.  May God bless us all, may God bless America.

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