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– Hi, everybody. Welcome to After Burner. I'm Bill Little. Well, it's been wisely said that when you're trying to be scrupulously fair to two warring parties, you know you've succeeded when both sides are equally angry with you. Now I feel called by my love of America, the conservative principles upon which it's based, and my own personal sense of honor and integrity to weight into this war between Donald Trump supporters and Donald Trump critics as calmy and reasonably as I can so that we can go back to being friends. And hopefully, to lessen the apalling and destructive vitriol I've seen on both sides in these heated days. This friendly fire is turning lifelong friends into vicious enemies and it simply has to stop and it has to stop now. Now, as I said, hopefully, this'll make everybody equally angry, so I'm simply asking you, out of whatever respect you may have for me to listen to this through until the end. Because this After Burner is an appeal to principle. So let's start with the foundational principle. I'm not nearly arrogant enough or stupid enough to try to get any of you to change your vote one way or another. In my mind, the American people form the single greatest repository of intelligence and common sense on the face of the earth. My belief in the wisdom of the American citizen is the essence of my conservative beliefs and I have no desire to influence the way anyone wishes to vote one way or another. It's against my principles. Furthermore, if Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee, he will have my enthusiatic vote despite the concerns I'm about to state. He is in every way preferrable. Not only to the pathologically lying felon and traitor, the by-god angry Communist or even Slow Joe Fauxcahontas or anyone else the America-hating democrats can possibly field. I have stated that I would vote third party before I vote for Jeb Bush or Chris Christie but that does not apply for me in any way to Donald Trump. So, with that said and meant, there are just three points that I want to make today. First, wisdom comes from combining the passion of our beliefs with the reason to make sure that we're not being misled by the power of that passion. When Donald Trump attacks political correctness, when he tells Hillary Clinton that she doesn't get to run as an advocate of women's rights after a lifetime of heading the Gestapo that destroyed the women assaulted and in some cases raped by her husband, when he says out loud that we need to protect our borders and not ignore the thread of Islam both inside or outside of those borders, when he calls for strengthening of the military and all the rest, I cheer him to the rafters. Those positions appeal to both my heart and my mind. But, when he says he's in favor of government-funded universal healthcare, I have to stop with the heart and move to the brain. The entire Tea Party movement was founded to prevent exactly this. My enthusiasm for the things I like about Donald Trump does not blind me to the things I do not like about him. This is why I try to live my life by these consistent, proven, conservative principles. They make sense. And more than that, they're interlocking. They connect to each other and they strengthen each other. If a person advocated three things that I am passionately in favor of and three more things that I am passionately opposed to, it makes me, as it should make you, stop and ask yourself the following questions: Is a secure border worth support for single-payer healthcare? Is a reinvigorated military worth support for eminent domain and the ability of the federal government to confiscate individual property? Is his ability to destroy the politically correct poison that's destroying free thought in this nation worth one or two or three non-conservative Supreme Court appointees? They may in fact be worth it, but I'm imploring you to not blind yourself to the contradictions here. All I'm saying is that we do what we believe a nation of adult, free citizens in a free market should do. Employ a little caveat emptor. Let the buyer beware. If you think that what Donald Trump brings are worth these contradictions in Trump's position, versus several of the core conservative principles we've all fought for together over these past horrible seven years, then that is your rational reason position. But we can't pretend that these serious contradictions are not there. Second, both Trump supporters and Trump opponents needs to have the fundamental American decency and fairness to understand that while different people make this decision differently, that does not mean that the other side is the enemy. We know who the enemy is. The enemy in this election is a woman with felonious contempt for the rule of law and the security of this nation, who would sell out the lives of our soldiers, our intelligence personnel, and our very children for personal political gain and a lust for money and power. The enemy in this election is an aged, bitter, dim-witted thief who has never worked a day in his life where he was not taking money from other people at gunpoint and whose infantile and evil philosophy has brought ruin and murder everywhere it's been applied. The enemy is not Trump supporters and it is especially not people like Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, and Thomas Sowell who have been champions of freedom and conservative values and who have dedicated their lives defending principle and not personalities. When Donald Trump was out donating to Hillary Clinton and voting for Barrack Obama, people who are not willing to make the deal that I outlined above, are not suddenly rhinos or traitors or big government status or sellouts or GOP elitists and all the rest. And calling them wack jobs and losers and dumb as a rock is unseenly, it's unfair, and it's destructive when it's coming from the average citizen, let alone their nominee. Now, on the other hand, and likewise, people who see in Donald Trump the only person willing and able to destroy this GOP establishment and in fact, the entire progressive iron triangle of the New York news media, the LA culture machine, and the Washington beltway corruption, they're not out of their minds, and they're not sellouts or any of that. They have made the same decision differently and we need to understand and respect that people and patriots are different and see things differently. That does not make us enemies. There are enough real enemies out there. This name-calling and vitriol has to stop. Sooner or later, we're going to have to vote against these Communists and felons. Can't we all just get along? And finally, to the third and the main point. I would ask those of you who are fervent Trump supporters to consider this. I live by enthusiasm, passion, and a love for America and I see in the Donald Trump what you see in him. But just consider this for a moment. How badly are we ripping our own souls of by this unconditional support? Donald Trump supporters are so enthusiatic that Trump himself said that he could shoot someone on the street without losing his support. Think about the effect that that kind of enthusiasm has. Not against the media or the Democrats or the establishment GOP. If you're one of those enthusiastic supporters, ask yourself, what is that enthusiasm doing to Donald Trump? And then ask yourself to apply Donald Trump's key area of expertise to Donald Trump. Look, am I the only citizen left in this Republic who still realizes that Donald Trump is asking me for a job? Am I the only one that understands that I'm the guy behind the desk and I'm the one who gets to say you're hired or you're fired. Donald Trump is asking me to hire him. As a job applicant, there's much that I like about him, but there are some things that I do not like. So why don't we apply the art of the deal to this particular job applicant? Instead of this utter fawning adulation, why don't we make it clear that while we really, really like what we're seeing in terms of defense, immigration and all the rest, we want to hear some promises. Iron clad impeachable promises that healthcare will be solved with the free market, and that the federal government is constitutionally prohibited from owning land and it needs to be returned to the people or the states. That a person's property rights are inviable and that a person cannot have their home taken away by the government just so that someone can build an office tower or a casino there.

By worshipping Trump, his supporters have given him everything he wants without any negotiation at all. He's an employee, for God's sake! If you think he's a great candidate, negotiate him into being a better one. He wants the job, don't just give it to him. Make him work for it. Make him a better man.

Now, another man who ran for the office of the president of the United States of America was such a polarizing figure that seven states left the union before he had a chance to deliver his first inaugural address. His words from that address to a divided country, to a divided family, are no less applicable to this divided, conservative family we see today. And he said, "We are not enemies, "but friends. "We must not be enemies. "Though passion may have strained, "it must not break our bonds of affection. "The mystic chords of memory, "stretching from every battlefield "and patriot grave to every "living heart and heart stone "all over this proud land "will yet swell the chorus of the Union, "when again touched, "and surely they will be "by the better angels of our nature."

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