Gary Johnson: They Don’t Get It

From Gary Johnson in an Our America Initiative email blast:

The Trump “phenomenon” has the professional politicians and Establishment in an absolute dither. They don’t understand it, and they obviously don’t know what to do with it.

I was asked about it this week by a number of national news outlets, including: Neil Cavuto on the Fox Business Channel and MSNBC.

Like the politicians in the Republican and Democrat Parties, the news media is having trouble understanding how so many people can be supporting a guy without really even knowing where he stands on most issues — and despite some pretty outrageous things he has said.

They don’t understand how fed up the American people are with business-as-usual: Big, incompetent government, unsustainable debt and politicians who are fiddling while Rome is burning.

That same frustration is behind the fundamental purpose of the Our America Initiative. The Americans who are today flirting with the notion of an unconventional presidential candidate deserve a voice — and that is what Our America seeks to provide.

From our efforts to reform marijuana laws across the nation to our fights against unconstitutional surveillance of American citizens and ever-growing government, Our America’s activists are promoting liberty and small government in every state. But we need your help to do even more and to make ourselves heard on the national stage.

Your contribution of $10, $25, $50, $100 or more today will help us fight for marijuana law reform in states like California, Arizona, Nevada and elsewhere — and help us let Congress know that liberty and freedom from invasions of our privacy are a priority when they return to Washington from their August vacation.

If nothing else, Donald Trump is proving that a great many Americans are ready to shake things up. That’s exactly what Our America is about. But we DO know where we stand. We stand for freedom, liberty and a government that is much smaller than the professional politicians can even imagine.

Thanks! I look forward to hearing from you.

Gov. Gary Johnson
Honorary Chairman