Of late, many people — especially politicians, pundits and celebrities on the left — have been trying to ascertain why the election has seemed to tip towards former President Donald Trump.
much of the reasoning comes down to an example of “life imitating art.” In this case, the 1986 movie “Back to School,” starring Rodney Dangerfield.
Why? There is a scene in the film where Dangerfield — who plays a tough New York City-based CEO enrolling in an elite college to keep an eye on his son — takes issue with a liberal, never-worked-in-the-real-world economics professor, and explains to him the actual process of starting a business. Almost instantly, every student in the class turns their back on the know-nothing professor, faces Dangerfield’s character and begins taking copious notes.
Trump is the real-life version of that fictional CEO. Back in 2016, tens of millions of Americans turned away from the elites and toward him to jot down notes. The “academic,” the “theoretical,” the “hoped for” and the forcefully “mandated” stood no chance against such experience.
Real-world business experience mattered in 2016 and it matters even more now. For almost four years, the American people have tried to evaluate President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump. And while many of the distinctions between the three may have seemed muddled — or purposely slanted by the media — one was, and remains, crystal clear: Trump worked and succeeded in the real business world for most of his life, while Biden and Harris existed in the political and government world, living off the taxpayers’ hard-earned money.
While Trump established one of the most iconic business empires in the world — employing tens of thousands of Americans over the years, while supporting hundreds of small businesses — Biden became a career politician who has been on the government dole for over a half century.
Americans are very bright, and they can understand why that vast disparity in real-world experience matters. Most especially when the last few years of their lives have gotten worse under the guy who has lived off the tax-payer dime since 1972. These Americans are aware that Biden created no companies, hired no employees and met no payrolls.
Next, we come to Harris. Since 1990, she has either lived off the money of California taxpayers or of federal taxpayers. Like Biden, she has created no companies, hired no employees and met no payrolls.
Businesses — most especially small businesses — are the backbone of our nation. They do not exist atop some far-left, academic plane. They are real, and the welfare of every single American rises or falls with their successes and failures. So does our nation.
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Article URL : https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4954261-trumps-secret-sauce-real-world-experience/