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This much we know beyond even a shadow of a doubt about Trump voters – they don’t know anything, at least when it comes to the economy and immigration.

The economy is the best it has been in years and the very best it could possibly be after recovering from a global pandemic. EVERYTHING is positive.

Trump says the economy is failing, and is proposing high tariffs he mistakenly believes the nations whose goods we import will pay when in fact American consumers will.

He knows as little about the economy as he knows about business, which is why he has gone through six bankruptcies. If given a chance again, he’ll do the same for the country.

When it comes to immigration, anybody who knows anything about what is going on knows Trump undercut the bill Republicans helped negotiate on immigration. What is more, Biden has still managed to effect a dramatic drop in illegal crossings and fentanyl smuggling.

None of that matters, of course, to his supporters. We know they will continue to believe he is their man on the economy and immigration.

What we don’t know is how many non-Trumpers agree with them.

We know there are some, maybe many, because of surveys that consistently say the majority of Americans trust Trump more than Kamala Harris on both issues.

Whether they will vote for him remains to be seen. Maybe something else will get them to see they simply cannot vote for him if they care about the country at all.

I suggest Trump being the appeaser he is on foreign policy should convince them to reject the temptation to vote for him this year. Let me explain.

Last week Trump had this to say while Ukrainian President Zelensky was in Washington: “We continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refuses to make a deal,” adding, “Any deal, even the worst deal, would’ve been better than what we have right now.”

So Zelensky is the problem, according to Trump. Not Putin who started the war and whose army has indiscriminately bombed hospitals, schools, neighborhoods, as well as military installations, killing babies, children, and thousands of civilians.

He obviously thinks there are good people on both sides of the Ukrainian/Russian war, just like he did in Charlottesville when neo-Nazis and members of the KKK marched against Jewish Americans.

But his final insult was when he said, “Ukraine is gone, it’s not Ukraine anymore,” as if he had the right to make that determination, or the intelligence.

You have to wonder what President Zelensky was thinking when he heard Trump say that. Here is a courageous democratic leader trying to secure continued U.S. support for his country so the Ukrainian army and people can save their country from Russia’s invasion and Trump says Zelensky’s country is gone because he refused give Putin Ukrainian territory in exchange for peace.

It’s precisely the kind of deal a draft dodger who knows nothing about sacrificial service would make.

From a historical perspective, it is also similar to what British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain did when he signed the 1938 Munich Peace Agreement with Hitler (also signed by Italy and France).

Chamberlain convinced himself Hitler was negotiating in good faith, ceding the Sudetenland (northwestern part of the Czech Republic) Hitler’s army had seized in exchange for Hitler pledging he would stop there.

We know how that turned out. So does Trump, but, then, he pays no attention to history. When you have all the answers to any problem, you don’t have to.

Jack Sullivan, President Biden’s National Security Advisor, says the U.S. doesn’t believe anything Russia says because Putin lies about everything.

Not Trump. He believes what Putin says because he thinks they’re friends. After all, Putin did tell him he didn’t interfere in the 2016 election, and, by the way, I think I read where he also told Trump he had a bridge in Ukraine he would sell him.

The truth is, if Donald Trump is not unfit to be President of the United States, no one is or ever will be.

Anyone who wants to argue otherwise, have at it. I would welcome the opportunity to refute any argument on his behalf.

Indeed, I would consider it my patriotic duty.

In the meantime, I can only hope voters who think Trump is better on the economy and immigration than Kamala Harris will at least inform themselves about his attitude of appeasement toward Putin’s Russia and realize that having an appeaser in the White House again would not only jeopardize the future of Ukraine, but the United States as well.