William Saturn: ‘Backing the True Outsider’

William Saturn at Saturn’s Repository:

For the first time in my life, I am voting for a major party presidential candidate. My reasoning, however, has not changed. Tomorrow I will vote for Donald Trump for the same reasons I voted for Ralph Nader in 2004, Chuck Baldwin in 2008, and Gary Johnson in 2012. I am voting against the corrupt, globalist establishment that has ruled this country for decades and left us in a state of economic stagnation, never-ending war, and social degradation.

Trump is not a Republican in the mold of Mitt Romney, John McCain, or George W. Bush. His connections to the GOP have been tenuous at best. For the majority of his life, Trump has been a Democrat; an association of convenience for a New York City businessman. Rather, when Trump first went through the motions of campaigning and considered a presidential run in 2000, he did not choose the Democratic or Republican parties. He chose the Reform Party; the party of Ross Perot, the most successful independent presidential candidate of this generation. During that run, Trump palled around with Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, himself a major third party figure. Trump and Ventura even held a press conference together in which they attacked the Commission on Presidential Debates’ inclusion standard.

Historically when Trump takes a public stance it is often on the political fringe. He has publicly opposed free trade deals since the 1980s, called for the impeachment of President George W. Bush in 2008, and questioned the citizenship of President Barack Obama in 2011. That citizenship issue, along with slow economic growth, and red meat like illegal immigration, which Trump threw out in his campaign announcement, encouraged everyday Republicans, Republican-leaners, and Independents to embrace Trump’s 2016 run. These were the people who pushed him over the top and helped him win the nomination, despite the best efforts of establishment Republicans. The establishment tried everything to stop Trump because of his outsider status, politically incorrect statements, and lack of political experience. Trump effectively won the Republican nomination as an Independent, and that independence is exactly why I want him to be president.

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