Eddie Scarry - Grow Up and Vote for Trump: Why 2020 Is Your Last Chance to Become an Adult

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When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

One Corinthians 13:11

To be an adultto be a manis to do a lot of things you dont naturally want to do: pay bills, answer to someone when it isnt convenient, take responsibility for others, and hold a job to provide for yourself and perhaps a family, even if its not work you especially enjoy.

But as fate would have it, in 2020, growing up means doing one other thing a fully formed adult might not want to do. And that isvoting for Donald Trump.

Yes. That means four more years of a frustrating, perpetual-ly insecure, oftentimes self-destructive Twitter addict.

In the end, it will have to be done. And if Trump wins, it will have been worth any heartburn it might cause.

As irritating as he can be, the president is the only thing standing between you and the vicious mob that has latched its jaws with a vise grip onto every issue that will define the election: race, gender, and sexual identity.

The alternative is to be engulfed by check your white privilege, believe all women, black lives matter, and every other miserable concept dreamed up by the social justice monsters to turn the country into a (as famously articulated by the president) shit hole. Each day under newly elected President Joe Biden, otherwise, will begin with the question What do normal middle-class people owe to the perpetual victim crowd now? (The answer will always be more money, more power, more deference.)

Its true that Trumps first term has not been flawless. The southern border wall hasnt come quickly enough. He didnt prove particularly deft at negotiating his agenda items on Capitol Hill. And he picked too many small, needless fights that put his supporters in the uncomfortable position of defending him in ways they shouldnt have had to.

But Trump is still one thing: hes a blunt instrument in the waging culture war, and that war has never been more perilous.

Normal Americans who simply want to be left alone, shop at outlet malls, eat at Outback, and maybe relax on a gas-powered boat have their backs against a wall in this fight. That has long been the case. But Trump is the first president to ever say to them, Go live your life and dont worryIll keep them away from you.

He is both a club and a shield in a fight in which youre otherwise left defenseless.

Trump may not be the best-looking bodyguard. He may not be the exact kind of fence youd like to have built around your home. But he is the hand that we were dealt, and for those wanting to continue their current way of life, the nice one they worked to build, or perhaps theyve known since childhood, there is no other option.

Normal Americans dont like seeing their cities burned to the ground by Antifa militants. They dont like seeing reputations shattered to pieces before those accused even had a chance to publicly defend themselves. They dont like being nationally shamed and outcast for voicing a legitimate view that nonetheless upset the wrong crowd.

All of that of course has happened to a degree under Trumps first term, but it was sparked in the Obama years and only under the current president have we seen any sign that we dont have to live this way. (See the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the longevity of Tucker Carlsons career at Fox News, and the dedication of the Wall Street Journal s opinion page to, despite protests from some of the papers staff, remain committed to publishing ideas that run counter to the rest of the national media, just to name a few examples.)

The culture wars will only intensify with the outcome of the election, but the winning side will determine a great deal of its direction. Will we head toward more privilege checking, or will we insist that whining, grievance-mongering, and race-baiting do not entitle anyone to the things they want?

If in the end there is one good thing to come from the Trump presidency, it wont be, as some conservatives like to say, the judges! No, that was almost single-handedly Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnells doing. Trump, however, served as a colossal middle finger to the woke; to the cancel culture; to the PC police; to the culture fascists in the media, Hollywood, and academia who come at any original or outside thought with a rag and chloroform.

Trump showed that its possible to say what you think, regardless of whether its popular with the right set. He showed that you dont have to shrink in humiliation simply because the social justice mob says its forbidden. Trump showed that you can fight those people on their turf and still win.

The 2020 election is a choice: Choose to give in to the #MeToo monsters, the Black Lives Matter militants, the transgender lobby, and the moral decency police. Or choose to be an adult.

Its time to grow up. Its time to do the things you may not want to do. Its time to vote again for Donald Trump.

Come with me where youll never, never have to worry about grown up things again.

J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan.

To live in America in 2020 is to wake up each morning and ask, What are they bitching about now?

It never ends. Its as though every actual adult is perpetually stuck with angsty kids who never develop past that frustrating early high-school stage where they both resent their parents and yet demand the world from them. Its the same stage where they know nothing, but are certain of everything; the stage where the failure of others to meet their demands, even as they offer no benefit to anyone else, is met with utter scorn.

The problem of course is that most of these repulsive ingrates arent children. Theyre biological adults who simply havent grown up. Theyre most closely associated with millennials (my generation) and now zennials, the generation that followed millennials. But its also not exclusively a generational problem. Its an ideological one that transcends age, race, and gender.

This is what much of our culture, maybe even most of it, teaches usthat someone should be taking care of you, someone should be providing for you, someone should be giving you what you want and telling you what you would like to hear. And if someone isnt doing those things with rave enthusiasm, it must be the result of racism, sexism, homophobia, or other bigotry.

Its not at all unlike the instinctual response of children, devoid of the concept of money, hard work, and sacrifice, when theyre told no. Their response is to cry at a piercing pitch.

And like many parents, the general American publicor a substantial portion of itoften responds to the whining with appeasement, believing that the path of least resistance is the best way. At least this one time. Well, maybe just one more time after that. Okay, this is definitely the last time

The 2020 election should be the last time. It should be the time when the adults say, I mean it, and actually mean it.

What did we do in response to the creeping threat of the coronavirus pandemic? We gave in and shut down the country. What did we do when liberals and Democrats said it wasnt long enough? We extended the deadline. The Trump administration then issued guidelines to states so that they could implement their own policies and determine the best reopening timeline for themselves.

Liberals and Democrats said that still wasnt enough, so many states remained shuttered. When could they begin to reopen? Liberals and Democrats first said it was when there was more testing available. Then testing wasnt so importantit was testing and contact tracing. Then that wasnt enough, so it was unlimited, immediate testing, universal contact tracing, and, oh, one more small thing: a cure!