By Wayne Allyn Root
Let’s start with the philosophy of Ronald Reagan. My hero Reagan once said, “If you agree with me 70% of the time: We are Friends, not Enemies.”
So, Tucker Carlson (and others in MAGA), please stop saying that if President Trump disagrees with you on the one issue of Israel, “MAGA is over…and the Trump presidency is dead.” How hysterical, exaggerative and absurd.
This rhetoric is what threatens to break up MAGA. You are playing right into the hands of the radical left and the communist media – who want MAGA to break up over one disagreement.
MAGA is bigger than this.
Over the years, I’ve been on the same side as Tucker, and Steve Bannon, and many other leading MAGA conservatives 99% of the time. Disagreeing on Israel doesn’t mean the end of MAGA, or the Trump presidency, or our movement, or our friendship.
We can disagree, argue, debate and then live to fight another day on the same side of all the other issues that will “Make America Great Again.” I need you, and you need me. All for one and one for all. That’s how we win the fight on every other MAGA issue.
I won’t end our friendship over any one issue. Neither should you.
The radical left is characterized by “circular firing squads” that destroy careers and friendships over one disagreement. Communists think this way and act this way. They think “The party is always right and there can be no disagreement.” Do we want to emulate communists and the radical left?
Secondly, let’s hear from a past champion of MAGA – Barry Goldwater. Read “The Conscience of a Conservative.” Barry Goldwater was MAGA and “America First” before those brands existed. If you read his solutions to every problem in America inside his book, Goldwater was right about everything- way back in 1961. Yet Barry Goldwater was 100% pro-Israel. He always supported Israel, while fighting for “America First.”
Third, President Trump has never changed since he came down that escalator as candidate Donald J. Trump. He is the founder and inventor of MAGA and “America First.” And he was always 100% behind Israel and the Jewish people- from day one. Since before any presidential ambitions, when he was “Grand Marshal” of the Israel Day Parade in New York City.
Trump defines MAGA.
Everything Trump stands for, everything he promised in his three runs for president, everything he did in his first term, was…
1) MAGA,
2) America First,
and 3) Always protect and defend Israel.
Nothing has changed. That was always his definition of MAGA. Didn’t you notice? Anyone who voted for Trump – and he received 214 million votes in three presidential runs (the most in history by a mile) – was voting for those views- MAGA, America First, and always love and support Israel. Sorry, but there’s no “do overs.”
I understood from day one what we were getting with President Trump. As Trump himself said when introducing me at a rally, “Wayne pushed my presidency before I was even running for president.” Which is 100% true. I was in the media day and night back in 2015 urging him to run for President before he even announced any intention of running.
I wrote the column “Donald J. Trump is the Next President” for Fox News on the day he announced his run. I understood the man and his unique MAGA views before anyone else- and I believed he’d win when no one else thought it possible. I’ve been by his side from Day One.
But I always understood part and parcel of the Trump agenda was support of Israel. After his victory in 2016, only days later, I wrote for Fox News, “America has Elected our First Jewish President.” I argued then (and still believe) in the same way that Bill Clinton was called “the first black president” because he was so supportive of the black community, Trump would be considered “the first Jewish president” because of his unwavering support for Israel and the Jewish people.
Nothing has changed.
Donald J. Trump is MAGA. He is “America First.” But he’s always there to protect and defend Israel. Just as America has ALWAYS been there to protect and defend Israel. Trump just does it bigger and better than anyone before him- as he does everything!
Since when is MAGA for “no wars ever”? I was there at the start of MAGA. I was there at the start of Trump. I know MAGA just as well as Tucker. MAGA says “war is bad for business, war costs tremendous money better spent elsewhere, war costs priceless lives. War is to be avoided.” I agree 100%.
But it doesn’t say “we can never fight a war.” That is absurd. What if there is no other choice? What if there is an existential threat to our nation? What if war is the only way to stop a rogue terrorist nation from using nukes to hold the entire world hostage?
Iran is the worst terrorist nation in the world. Iran is a rogue state that sponsors and funds terrorism all over the world, and is led by extreme Jihadist religious fanatics who would use nukes to threaten and hold hostage the entire world. Iran hates Jews, Christians, and America. Iran is backed by evil nations that hate us- all our enemies.
Iran is the modern-day Nazi threat to the world.
Iran with nukes isn’t just a threat to Israel. They are a serious threat to America and the entire world. They’re a threat to Americans everywhere in the world. They’re a threat to US military members. So, supporting Israel and fighting Iran is as “America First” as it gets. It is 100% in America’s interests.
Israel is doing the favor of a lifetime for America (and the world).
Israel is doing now what every civilized nation in the world wants and needs- by eliminating the threat of a rogue terrorist nation with nukes in their hands. But the rest of the nations don’t have the balls to do what Israel is doing. They get to stand back and let Israel do the fighting and dying (and gets the criticism)- while everyone else benefits from the elimination of nukes in the hands of a suicide bomber.
Finally, from a religious and Biblical standpoint, the foundation of America from day one has always been to support Israel. ALWAYS. The Founding Fathers supported the idea of a Jewish state. The Founding Fathers expressed support for the Jewish people and their historical connection to the land of Israel.
The Founding Fathers were thankful for the support and funding of the American Revolution by Jewish leaders. One Jewish businessman gave his life savings to fund the Revolutionary War. Yes, we have a Jew to thank for America’s existence and freedoms today.
And then there is God’s message from the Bible in Genesis 12:3…
“Whoever blesses Israel will be blessed, and whoever curses Israel will be cursed.”
From day one, America has always loved, supported and blessed Israel. And in return, God has rewarded America with His Blessings.
Some would say it’s in America’s DNA to love and support Israel.
I would say, President Trump is “the Chosen One.” Chosen by God, blessed by God, and saved from an assassin’s bullet by God, to make America great again, and to also provide America’s protection for Israel. Yes, that is part of MAGA.
It’s important to point out Thomas Jefferson was our most Libertarian president, and the one who most supported the idea of no wars and “no foreign entanglements.” Yet Jefferson made one exception- he spent all eight years of his presidency in a war against the Barbary Pirates- extreme religious fanatical Muslim terrorists (exactly like Iran today).
In conclusion, 214 million combined American votes elected President Trump over three presidential elections- the most in history. All those voters had faith in President Trump to make the right decisions as president and Commander-in-Chief. And to be our chief negotiator (ie “The Art of the Deal”).
President Trump has my faith.
I trust that President Trump will leave no stone unturned to negotiate peace with a radical terrorist nation. He will continue to have the United States be “the great Eagle who tucks Israel under her wing,” and will always have Israel’s back.
And I have confidence that President Trump will correctly decide when, or if our national security is at risk, and when or if military action is necessary to keep America safe. That decision will be based on America’s interests FIRST.
And yes Tucker, we’re all still friends, we’re all still on the same team. MAGA.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Wayne Allyn Root is a CEO, businessman, best-selling author, and national conservative TV and radio host, who has interviewed President Trump 16 times. Watch Wayne’s TV show “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Real America’s Voice TV Saturdays at Noon ET and his video podcast “Raw & Unfiltered” at UntamedNation.com and Rumble.com daily from 6 PM to 8 PM ET. His website is ROOTforAmerica.com. Read Wayne’s latest fun book, “How Democrats Have Made America Great.” It’s 140 blank pages. The joke is on Democrats!
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