An Unforgettable Evening

On January 14 I joined an old friend from my high school days
and fellow conservative activist to attend a political rally
unlike any I have ever attended before; this event was the
biggest, boldest, grandest, most emotionally affecting, and
rousing rally your thrilled Peasant had ever been to.
To be succinct, we went to a Trump rally.

Held in the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena, the rally was
but one of which President Trump has held and appeared in
around the country. These rallies are what amounts to the
president's own version of long-ago President Harry Truman's
"Whistlestop Campaign Tour" of 1948 which, by the way,
was successful; Truman won a nail-bitingly close race to
be elected to a full term in the White House. But Trump
has held these gatherings to be in closer touch with the
people, in which he lists his achievements --- his promises
kept, the figures touting his programs enabling the growth
of jobs, people getting off food stamps to take many of those
jobs, the tax rates lowered, and deadly crimes declining to
name but a few, firing up the attendees. In a sense, he has
been campaigning for a second term not very long after
having been inaugurated for his first.

And they have been most helpful in getting his message across
to the public. Heaven knows he cannot rely on the media
to do this; they are trying mightily to get the president
removed from office. Impeachment proceedings have
already begun, and the impeachment articles have been
delivered to the Senate from the House. All the while, the
Democrats in the House (where they are in control) and
those in the Senate have been continuing to make false
accusations about President Trump, spinning lies about
him while the Mainstream (HA!) media swears to each
of them. Meanwhile, Trump has swung some voters who
didn't trust him in 2016 along with some voters who have
been unsure about him to his side, causing him to rise in the
polls throughout the country.

And not only have the Democrats and their media pals been
watching their lies about Trump explode, their lies about his
supporters have been blowing up as well. Although these
purveyors of lies have been desperately trying to make Trump
out to be a racist, black and Hispanic voters have been flocking
to his rallies; As my friend and I made our way to the site of
the rally, we saw many Trump supporters selling Trump
campaign merchandise --- the ubiquitous MAGA hats, T-shirts
saying same, buttons, bumper stickers. as well as tees and
stickers with other pro-Trump as well as pro-Republican and
conservative messages at their merchant booths along the
streets. We saw as many black merchants as white, along with
Hispanics, women (black women too), and people ranging in
age from their teens to their golden years, all selling Trump
merchandise. And the people in the long and ever-growing line
to enter Panther Arena greatly resembled the vendors, as if all
these people were Skittles candy pieces poured out of a giant
bag, with all the colors of the candy pieces to see.

Inside Panther Arena there were at least 14,000 people by one
account; there were only two empty seats that we could see
(and they were, oddly enough, right in front of where we were
seated!). We were addressed by various Republican luminaries,
including Brad Parscale, the Trump campaign manager, as well
as by our U.S. Senator Ron Johnson. The GOP members of
Wisconsin's congressional delegation all made an appearance,
some of them addressing the assembled Trump supporters.
Your faithful Peasant's district U.S. Representative James Sensen-
brenner was there as well; he is a dependable, unflinching stalwart
conservative and will be retiring at the end of his current term;
he shall be greatly missed.

And yes, there were protesters on hand; mainly they stayed outside
of the Arena, chanting and banging drums, calling for President
Trump to be removed from office, arrested, and imprisoned for
crimes which none of them specified in their chants or on their
signs. Much like the congressional Democrats. A few, three of
them by your gimlet-eyed Peasant's reckoning, did sneak through
to get inside and make mischief but were quickly apprehended
and hustled outside by security. One of them was actually a few
rows up from where we were sitting! Many of us, especially in
our section, booed the protester and cheered the police officer
who grabbed the radical; your favorite Peasant made some
mischief as well, shouting to the cop "Please officer, don't take
her alive!". My friend got a laugh out of it.

Where President Ronald Reagan made us comfortable in showing
our pride in being proud to be American, President Donald Trump
infused us with the courage to stand up for our country, its founding
principles, and the benefits of life in our free and prosperous country
and to tell the Left --- the Liberal Establishment with all their minions,
and the more extreme radical elements --- who would take our great
country away from us and turn it into something we would not recog-
nize and would want no part of when hell has a polar vortex. This
feeling is sweeping the United States like a mighty wave, neither recog-
nizing caring about skin color, gender, sexual preference, age, earnings,
educational level, or any other category in which we all have been
pigeon-holed by those who want to classify, label, and indexed in
order to keep us from being truly united, despite the name of our
magnificent country. That was the feeling which my friend and I had
gotten from the event and everything leading up to it, including a music
track playing songs with a patriotic flavor, including Country star
Lee Greenwood's "I'm Proud to Be an American".

Thank God, on our knees, that we have a country where we can express
our pride and love for our grand country and not have to kowtow to
radical bullies who want to shut us up or force us to chant for what they
want instead.Yes, the far lefties, and their "political correctness" are
attempting to do just that, but as long as we stick to our principles
and values as Americans and support candidates for office, especially
the presidency, and exercise all of our constitutional rights in order to
preserve them through frequent reliance upon no one, left-wing bullies
nor any other mendacious menace, can ever force change upon our
country and our way of life that we would never freely choose for
ourselves.

And this, even more than to re-elect our courageous president, is the
underlying point and purpose to these rallies. President Trump is our
point man; the reasons why we elected him form our shared righteous
cause.


MEM