Last week, this essay was published in the Marshalltown, Iowa Times-Republican newspaper.

The Trump Tank       

by DC Larson

In 1984's Tank, James Garner played a principled military retiree who challenged corrupt, small-town potentates. After he sought to meet with the governor and discuss his own son's judicial railroading, Garner's character became a national folk hero -- the proverbial little guy against callous City Hall.

Toward the movie's end, Garner's veteran strived to deliver to court a witness who had damning testimony about local officials. He slowly maneuvered a tank through a block-long, sustained hail of gunfire from snipers tactically arranged on building tops. They'd been deployed by guilty authorities to obstruct justice. 

Since Donald Trump announced his candidacy in 2015, Democrat snipers have riddled his effort. They have maintained without pause attacks on him remarkable for viciousness worthy of MS-13.

There have been impeachment maneuvers, mendacious allegations of Russian collusion, attempts to erase him from states' ballots, lawfare skullduggery choreographed nationwide, and congressional kneecapping swipes. (Mitch McConnell, Liz Cheney, and Adam Kinzinger were just three RINOs who muscled in with ugly relish.)

Two assassins' thankfully unsuccessful bids to murder peoples' champion Trump remain under investigation. 

But while President Trump may be the ostensible target, it is the American people who are truly under assault. Our crime? Daring to think we can determine our own nation's course and choose a president who reflects traditional American values.

Every hour, they imperil us -- common Americans who throng to Trump's rallies, who believe government should represent citizens and fight for our interests every day and in every way.

Our country. The way it was in the classroom history books we grew up reading, when hardscrabble men and women from all walks of workaday life forged a new land, created a glorious experiment in liberty, built great industries, raised an economic powerhouse, and defeated terrible tyrannies like Nazism and Communism.

When we boosted Trump on our shoulders and buoyed him to the Oval Office in 2017, we were standing up for ourselves and for the ideals Real America represents: Fairness, equality, and a patriotic faith that is rightly proud.

The war against Trump and regular Americans is waged not only by career-politicians, but also by more psychologically tilted Hollywood deviants than you can shake a Weinstein at.

Evident from their words and actions is that the sneering poobahs of the ruling, propaganda, and entitled classes hate anything that imperils their death-clutch on power.

Of course, their neverending witch hunt against Trump is often within the rules. They designed those rules for their own, opportunistic employ. To safeguard their authority and crush popular dissent. T's are duly crossed, and i's are dotted.

And when their selfish crusade dictates they pursue obscenities beyond on-paper propriety, they simply rely on their beholden judiciary to grant them indulgence. And proceed merrily on their grotesque way.

There is a manner in which upper crust-bombardments can be turned to average people's advantage. Let enemies' bullets make more resolute your determination that we the people will stand strong in defending the candidate we chose over the disapproving sniffs of the powdered and pompous.

By giving President Trump the support he deserves, we can help the tank break through.

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