It’s shocking to me to see what’s happening now with what Donald Trump said but didn’t do in 2005 about his interactions with women. It was dumb, offensive, braggart-type language in a locker-room-type setting and the storm it’s created is catastrophic. You’d have thought he did something like a criminal felony or lied to the people or put the nation’s safety in jeopardy.

I believe now more than ever this election coming up is our last and only chance to save and restore our American nation that we know and love.

Donald Trump is absolutely the only man that has a chance at this strategic time in history to do this.

The reasons are:

He’s an anomaly — not a part of any political machinery or ideology. He can do exactly what he thinks is necessary to do to restore and save America to what it can be again. I really think he came along at this time when there’s no other person that would even have a chance to do what needs to be done in a last-ditch effort to save America.

He must be a pure and genuine and convicted man in order to expose himself wide-open with really nothing to gain in becoming president. He has on his own already gained fame, fortune and power. He doesn’t need anything.

He’s a totally free, unique individual, beholden to no one, a successful giant businessman who knows how to get things done the right way. He’s not a politician and isn’t used to talking out of the side of his mouth but used to saying right out what he means. Bad P.C., man! That’s why he makes mistakes and says the wrong things. He’s not used to being guarded and afraid to say what he feels. He’s unrehearsed and not scripted — unlike the way all politicians act.

I think that’s what scares the powerful machinery, liberals and conservatives alike, and brings out all this hatred for him. He’s a very dangerous, uncontrollable entity and not part of their same old government system.

My age is such that I grew up and experienced and saw what our country used to be. You might say I was a typical cross-section American boy of those times when something was what it was. Things that appeared to be something were just that — seems that a lot of common sense was around then. Most times now, we are caught up under the sway of muddled complicated ways of looking at and understanding events clearly.

So yeah, I think it’s important for people who know what’s what to speak up. It’s important to look at events and things happening and put them in their correct light and keep your eyes on what really matters, no matter what they try to shovel at you.

There are such powerful forces that absolutely want America to keep falling like it is, by any means, legal or illegal. If their plans go like they want, you won’t recognize your country or be able to be free and live a happy, healthy life in the place that once was a proud great nation.

An example is the head of the FBI, Mr. Comey, offering immunity to five key individuals in the email investigation scandal. You can see it in his face how he’s being forced to do something he hates doing, which is granting those five immunities and being ordered to cover up the investigation.

It has to be their way, no matter what, to keep America on its downward fall! Nothing must stop it.

I think Donald Trump just might be a patriot, no matter what he said in a 2005 silly locker-room-type discussion. Ask yourself: What’s important here?

Gansel is a resident of Rexford.