Prior to 2020, Allyn Holo had never voted in an election. He had opportunities. He had reason — after all, he served the country in the military. But he had little interest.
Fast forward to 2024, and he spent last Friday night hosting a Trump Parade in Jackson, Minnesota while much of the town was celebrating the school’s homecoming football game.
Holo said in 2016 he saw the divide in the country. At first, he wasn’t sure Donald J. Trump was a serious presidential contender. But he definitely wasn’t sold on Hillary Clinton.
“I knew she was demonic,” he said. “Kind of like (Kamala) Harris is right now. It’s just scary.”
He didn’t vote in 2016, but the switch flipped. Previously Holo said he loved President Ronald Reagan and even enjoyed Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy when they served in the White House.
“They were out-of-the-box, real people,” Holo said. “They weren’t truly political, they were just down to earth.”
And that is what Trump offers.
“For a billionaire like Trump — he’s never taken one dollar from us as President,” Holo said. “Never. He’s done this on his own. And after his indictment $49 million was donated to him by the working-class Americans. People donated their hard-earned money to say ‘We need you. We’re here to support you.'”
Meanwhile, today’s Democrats are creating what Holo said is a new lifestyle — homeless.
“You need to run the country like a business,” he said. “We give in to so many other countries and we give so much money away. We’ve got our own problems here. San Francisco, Minneapolis and Seattle are the three biggest ones if you want to live homeless, you can live homeless and they’ll support you. That comes from our tax dollars. That stuff just has to stop.”
The parade was an opportunity for people on the same page to come together and show support for Trump. Perhaps even to embolden other Trump supporters who feel they can’t be public supporters.
Holo said he was involved in the parade in 2020 at Lake Okoboji.
“You saw the minimum-wage guy to the multi-millionaire guy out on that lake with the same energy, the same feeling,” he said. “It didn’t matter who you were in life, it didn’t matter your status in life, it didn’t matter what you did — everyone was equal. It was the same energy no matter who you were. It’s a gathering of people who understand that it truly comes down to the hard-working class Americans. It’s a gathering of everybody.”
