Posted on 08/18/2026 8:13:35 AM PDT by Jim W N
On Aug. 17, 2026, balch3 posted “What is Wrong with you People?”, saying, What has happened to FR? People are advocating for President Trump's removal, making sarcastic remarks, Saying the TRump era is over. President Trump has righted the economy, ended Iran's nuclear weapons threat and is the greatest President since Reagan. He deserves better than this. He already has the RINOS in Congress against him, he needs his base fired up and ready to vote! THe RATS are highly motivated to steal this election. Have some courage and get behind out President!
Here is my answer:
I love Trump because I believe he genuinely loves America, stands up to the Left like no other, and he generally tells the truth. "MAGA" is from Trump's heart.
But there's more work to be done. Although I love Trump and the idea of "MAGA", it appears that Trump thinks MAGA is achieved through gov't. In business, Trump was used to being in charge ("The General", as Melania admirably calls him) and growing his business to world class. But what Donald Trump doesn’t seem to understand is as President, his job is to SHRINK gov’t, not grow it.
But gov't is essentially different from business. Business comes under the heading of "free pursuits". It is the endeavors of legitimate and God-given "self-interest". The Left has succeeded is merging "self-interest" with "greed" but these two terms are not the same. Everybody has God-given self-interest. It's why you don't pick rat poison at the grocery store for dinner tonight. Greed is corruption whereas self-interest is God given. Greed is basically taking what does not belong to you whereas self-interest is earning what belongs to you.
You always want to grow business. It's a God-given and legitimate desire in the interests of yourself, your family, and your concerns. It's free and competitive in the open market where eventually, without gov't interference, the best quality and best prices win the consumers' free choice. Nobody coerces the consumer to buy the product. Again, self-interest guides the consumer to the highest quality at the lowest price AKA VALUE. Business without gov't interference is FREE ENTERPRISE AKA the Free Market Economy (I don't like the Marists term "capitalism"). Nobody puts you in jail if you don't buy a product.
What about gov't? Read the Declaration of Independence for the purpose of gov't. Gov't is a necessary evil basically to protect a country from invasion of another country. Gov't is coercive. If you don't do what gov't says, it might put you in jail. Gov't has its OWN self-interest, and the bigger gov't gets, the greedier and more corrupt it gets. The greatest political document of all time might very well be the U.S. Constitution which recognizes both the need and the peril of a national gov't.
When did America become great? Basically in the 1800's. Why did America become great? Was it because of gov't? Hardly. Gov't spending during the 1800's averaged somewhere around 3% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The federal gov't was an afterthought and generally was not thought about by the average citizen except in time of war.
And yet with individual freedom in full bloom and gov't generally out of the picture, America emerged for the 1800's into the 1900's as the most free, wealthiest, healthiest, and powerful country in the world.
Individual FREEDOM NOT GOV'T is what made MAGA and what will again make MAGA. As I said, Trump has done a lot of good but there much still to do. If America is going to truly be great again, it must have BIG individual freedom and SMALL gov't (except for military).
Who is going to put the Federal Gov't back into its constitutional cage and cut the 80%+, $3+ trillion unconstitutional portion of the federal gov't? (For instance, the federal gov't has not been constitutionally authorized to meddle in healthcare. Gov't healthcare needs to be abolished. On the other hand, social security although not constitutional, is an investment that so many Americans have made that to be just, it would have to be slowly ramped down if it were to be eliminated.
Whoever can take the heat from the Left like Trump and except for maybe social security, make the federal gov't constitutional, will be making America great again. Who is that person? I don't know if we'll ever have such a parson and such a movement but that is what will be required for MAGA.
You got that right !
God help us when the democrats win again. They will be absolutely ruthless and rampant up the destruction to levels that would make Obama blush. Look what Biden did in four years. We will never recover from that destruction. And I know I am in the minority here when I say Biden was in charge of the destruction. He WANTED to hurt American for choosing the purple lipped Kenyan when it was his turn. Biden wanted vengeance and boy did he put the hurt on the country. Now.... the old guard commies are being replaced by the new younger more extreme radicals. Enjoy Trump’s last couple years because this will only be a break from the democrat demons. The GOP will serve up another squish, probably dust off Romney or force Thune through the primaries. They love losing but Trump loves winning.
Everyone with a brain know that, but it doesn’t have to be, you don't seem to understand that.
You are probably right, cheaper to just kill the old coots off anyway.
The same way everything is, minus the crooks share.
I don’t remember. If was several mouths ago.
If you know that what are we arguing about?
Who are the crooks?
Yes, people with opinions different than your own are most assuredly commies. In reality, you lack understanding of "Freedom", and prefer tyranny.
That just must be true! Look at Sweden or maybe Monaco, for example.
| Jim, I congratulate you on what your effort in this post. It's not easy to explain the proper limits and philosophical underpinnings of the greatest free republic the world has ever seen. One document I discovered a decade ago is The Law, a brilliant analysis by a Frenchman, Frédéric Bastiat, which explores the problem of legal plunder in great depth. At the same time, I feel the Trump administration is doing Herculean work to bring back our Republic to wisdom crafted in our U.S. Constitution. When measuring the value of President Donald J. Trump, I can only echo the words of Abraham Lincoln who praise his top general, Ulysses S. Grant saying:
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PTrump apparently sleeps four hours per night. Otherwise, he works.
-PJ
Thank you poconopundit.
A good word.
Nope didn’t know that.
However, for whatever reason, balch3 has opened up a discussion that is frutiful.
-PJ
Nothing like promoting unity.
Whatever...
Calling out traitorous demoRATS who steal and lie and commit voter fraud.
I voted for this!
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