Here are things you need to understand about Donald Trump supporters.

1) We’re American citizens and this country is our home. We’ll never play second fiddle, nor answer to people who are here illegally, period. Wanting a secure border and not to be exploited by other societies doesn’t make us racist, it’s called caring about your community.

2) Whether we’re 35 years old or 135 years old, we don’t answer to adolescence. Especially ones being coaxed by special interest groups with far-left agendas. Our hearts go out to those who perished in the various attacks that have happened, we want to remind you that list is very long.

3) We saw Wolf Blitzer waving a glass of champagne in the background when Hillary won the Democratic nomination (coincidence right?)

4) Bullying is 100 percent unacceptable, but creating the illusion of it because someone disagrees with you is stupid, wrong, and dangerously waters-down the actual severity of bullying in general. While we grew up, bullied children had two choices: toughen up or watch it get worse. The only “safe space” that existed was a janitor’s closet.

5) During “OUR” adolescence, almost nobody cared if something offended you. You were expected to understand that life isn’t fair. People who didn’t grasp this reality ended up in psychiatric facilities, ostracized, or both.

6) Rioting and blocking traffic does nothing to end racism, so when you get billy-clubbed and maced, it’s because you’re being a criminal, not because “racist cops are being hateful.” Cops have their own lives and nine out of 10 times don’t even know you. 

7) Celebrities and politicians have unlimited resources and enough armed security to fill a movie theater. Hence, they have no business criticizing citizens who value the 2nd Amendment. At the end of the day they care about one thing: fame. We see right through the rhetoric of the liberal media and know them as pawns of the Democratic Party who’ll always attack Mr. Trump regardless of how much good he ever does.

8) When we grew up, we didn’t get a trophy for finishing 10th place and you shouldn’t now.

9) Mr. Trump is worth many billions of dollars. Nobody forced him to do this. He chose to because he felt a responsibility to rescue a country from a mentality that was destroying everything it stood for. Moreover, he spent far more money getting the job than he will ever earn from it.

10) Any who are angered or shaking your heads at what you’ve just read need to face the fact that there are millions of us who feel this way, do the math.. what are the odds we’re all wrong?

Michael Smith describes himself as a “proud deplorable” and longtime citizen of Franklin County.