Ingraham: Trump’s Done More for Social Conservatives Than Bush Did in Eight Years

LifeZette Editor-in-Chief Laura Ingraham said in a speech Saturday that President Donald Trump has done more in 10 months for social conservatives than former President George W. Bush did in eight years.

Ingraham, addressing the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., recounted many of the actions the president has taken over his first several months in office that she said “should be welcome news to all social conservatives.”

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“Donald Trump has done more in 10 months for social conservatives than I believe the previous GOP president did in eight years,” Ingraham said.

“What did [Trump] do? The Mexico City policy — gone — funding abortions overseas. Neil Gorsuch, one of the most qualified people I could conceive of being on the Supreme Court. He’s expanded religious liberty in the United States by opening up the types of groups that will be exempt from the Obamacare contraception mandate,” she said.

Ingraham noted that Vice President Mike Pence spoke at the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., back in January as the first sitting vice president to do so live and in person. LifeZette’s editor-in-chief also pointed to Trump’s first foreign trip as president “which he gets no credit for” but still “set the stage for the type of president I believe he can be.” During the course of that nine-day trip in May, Trump visited Saudi Arabia, Israel, Belgium, Italy, and Vatican City in a bid to strengthen foreign ties while promoting American interests.

The president, she reminded the audience, visited sites that represent all three Abrahamic religions — Christianity, Islam and Judaism — and in Saudi Arabia spoke before a gathering of the leaders of several Muslim nations, saying, “We’ve got to have a reformation. We need your help. It’s going to be in your hands.”

“That should be welcome news to all the social conservatives listening to me across the United States and in this room,” said Ingraham, whose new book on the Trump campaign and the rise of populist conservatism, “Billionaire at the Barricades,” was just released on October 10.

Despite all these accomplishments, she noted, Trump has faced a continual stream of “resistance” from both Democrats and his own party.

“The Democrats have a policy of resistance. They don’t really have an agenda for America. And I would say, unfortunately, that affliction also can be found in the Republican Party,” Ingraham said before warning the two parties that the American people “have declared war on you.”

“I titled my new book ‘Billionaire at the Barricades’ for a reason … Donald Trump has a lot of walls to clear and one wall to build,” Ingraham said, referring to Trump’s signature campaign promise to “build the wall” on the U.S.-Mexico border — a promise that Democrats abhor and that has drawn relatively weak GOP support.

The president has made many enemies through championing his “Make America Great Again” and “America First” polices, she noted.

“[Trump] has the old GOP guard that never really wanted him to succeed. Of course he has an entertainment industry that really should be sending him residuals because apparently they can’t write a joke that doesn’t include his name,” Ingraham said. “He’s up against the Democrat machine, of course, that is fueled by groups like the American Association of Trial Lawyers, Planned Parenthood, and every other left-wing interest group that you can think of.”

“He’s against the bipartisan cabal that has gotten fat and happy off the old way. They became very comfortable in a Washington that didn’t represent the people. And the people are on to them,” she continued.

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Ingraham, who is set to begin hosting a new prime time show on Fox News, called “The Ingraham Angle,” at 10 p.m. every weeknight beginning October 30, asked the people gathered at the Values Voter Summit to consider carefully whether or not they, like Trump, have made the right “enemies.”

“But I also think we should judge ourselves on the enemies we make. Think about the Republicans who supported Donald Trump and continued to support his populist agenda, the agenda that I outlined in ‘Billionaire at the Barricades,’ my new book,” she said. “It’s a nationalist agenda … it’s America first, it’s policies that work for the people.”

And these policies, Ingraham noted, do not sit well with Antifa, La Raza, “the NFL anthem squatters,” the mainstream media, the “Democrat machine,” the “Never-Trump globalist GOP and consultancy and pundit class,” and vulnerable GOP Establishment senators who “would be sent packing” if their re-election primaries were held today.

“Donald Trump — he didn’t win because of [former FBI Director James] Comey, or even because Hillary [Clinton] was a bad candidate. He didn’t win because he was a celebrity or even that he was self-funded,” Ingraham said. “Donald Trump won because he was unafraid to hold up a mirror to the failures of the bipartisan Establishment that refused to do what the people for really a couple of decades had been demanding that they do. That’s why he won. He won because of the issues.”

(photo credit, homepage image: Laura Ingraham, CC BY-SA 2.0, by Gage Skidmore)