Posted on 03/31/2025 4:43:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Trump is racing to dismantle decades of leftist policies, but success hinges on speed, discipline, and the Supreme Court—while facing fierce resistance from entrenched institutions.
When Donald Trump entered office, he faced a number of choices that had confronted the last three Republican presidents, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush. They all had the choice to either shrink government and reduce deficits or slow government growth while cutting taxes.
They had the choice of using American power to restore deterrence by invading belligerents (e.g., Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan) or targeting enemies without deploying ground troops to change governments.
Republicans could either impose tariffs to ensure trade balances and fair trade or argue that free, even if unfair, trade was in the U.S.’s interest by lowering consumer prices, keeping domestic producers competitive, and assuming foreign subsidies were unsustainable.
They had the choice to either reverse the left-wing domination of culture or moderate its fated influence.
They could have shut down the open border and eliminated illegal immigration or publicly condemned it while tacitly maintaining an influx of hundreds of thousands per year for the corporate world, rather than millions.
In general, no Republican president of the past 50 years sought to radically reduce the size of government and balance the budget. None closed the border and began deportations. None avoided optional ground wars while solely hitting aggressors from the air. None led a cultural counter-revolution to reverse the left’s long march through our institutions.
Why?
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Why? Because they were RINOs.
VDH ping
Trump needs to work with Congress.
Invaders shouldn’t be able to get $14,000/year in tax credits.
BTTT
In sum, we are witnessing the greatest effort to reinvent or, rather, restore the U.S. since the first 100 days of FDR’s radical New Deal revolution. It can succeed even against the street theater nihilism, mainstreamed vulgarity, neo-terrorism, lawfare, and the congressional circus arrayed against it.
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Why? The Bushes never really cared about smaller government or illegal immigration. Reagan went on about smaller government, but not illegal immigration. Trump cares about both, and acts. That is the difference.
I wouldn't hold your breath there, Victor.
I sure hope VDH is correct. He usually is.
Congress needs to work with Trump, period.
Trump - - greatest Republican President...
We must hang together, or we shall hang apart.
I am hopeful. More than I can say for the last 20 years.
Yep...The '26 midterms will be the most important in my nearly completed seventh decade of life. And the key to continued success in the most important and desperate political reclamation effort since 1860 is in the swing districts...in the midterms.
I'll be sending money to Trump-endorsed candidates in tight races across the nation. Just like Elvis crooned...It's now or never.
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