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Posted on 05/02/2025 6:48:10 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
(Daily Signal)—Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. There’s been a lot of media hysteria, some ambiguous and some negative polls. We have talked about that before, that they seem to be not so disinterested as we might imagine. It’s in line with previous prejudicial polls. But here’s the main course of action that we’re all looking at.
It’s 100 days and we’re right in the middle of everything. And yet, people are already talking about President Donald Trump as if he’s failed or there’s an obituary. Nothing could be further from the truth. Don’t listen to the libertarian right or the “Never Trump” right or the hard left. What’s happening is we’re watching the most dramatic counterrevolution in our history.
This is more fundamentally changing than even the Reagan revolution that rebooted the American economy and won the Cold War. And it’s even more—I don’t know—more fundamentally transformative than the Roosevelt first 100 days when he took the country hard left with the New Deal.
And what do I mean by that? Everything is in play and we have no idea how it’s gonna happen—it’s going to turn out or what will happen. But it could be what Donald Trump called “a golden age.”
Let’s look at foreign policy very quickly. Iran is not the Iran of 2015-16 when former President Barack Obama did the deal. It’s not even the Iran that we got out of the deal under Trump’s first administration. This is Iran that has no air defenses to speak of. Anytime the United States or Israel wants to penetrate the air shield of Iran, it can.
There is no Hezbollah as we knew it. There is no Hamas as we knew it. The Houthis have been completely neutered. We spent a billion dollars but Trump hit them with almost everything we’ve had. The Red Sea is opening up to navigation.
And so, my point is that if Donald Trump wants to cut a deal, it will be on terms that get rid of the nuclear program. And if they do not want to get rid of the nuclear program, they have no more surrogates. There’s no Bashar al-Assad in Syria. And these other terrorist appendages that I just said are defunct.
So he’ll either get a nuclear deal or he’ll either outsource to Israel or we will take out that nuclear threat that Iran may possess. So there’s going to be, one way or another, a solution to the Iran problem.
In Ukraine, we’re beyond give them whatever it takes, whatever it takes. The Joe Biden strategy of—it’s a non-strategy—just feed that Stalingrad carnage house.
From liberal to conservative have already outlined the parameters of a ceasefire and peace. A DMC. A commercial corridor. Institutionalized Crimea and Donbas in the possession of Russian President Vladimir Putin, unfortunately, which he took those two territories in 2014. No NATO membership for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but a lot of arms so that he can deter Putin and probably EU membership. If that piece is settled, Donald Trump will soar.
Former President Joe Biden allowed that war to break out because he did not arm Ukraine in an offensive way, in the way that Trump had. The Afghanistan pullout lost his deterrence. And then he had a non-strategy. And we had something worse than Stalingrad in World War II.
Back home, we are on a renaissance of foreign investment, $4 or $5 trillion. Our tech lords are building huge factories. All that’s gonna kick in very soon.
In addition to that, we’re on an energy renaissance. There is no prohibition about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or Keystone. Whatever we want to do, in terms of natural gas, nuclear, clean coal, oil production—it’s gonna happen. And it’s going to lower energy prices. And it’s gonna be very important for Europe. And that’s gonna change our strategic relationship when we start in full mode supplying them with liquid natural gas and maybe even oil.
When we look at the universities, there’s gonna be a fundamental change in the universities, whether they like it or not. There may be a tax on their endowment. There may be some conditions on student loans—this $1.6 trillion student loan program that’s in shambles. They’re gonna have to get rid of DEI and trying to avoid the Supreme Court decisions. They’ve taken so many billions of dollars and not told us about it from China. I could go on. But there’s gonna be fundamental reform of the university that’ll be positive.
And most importantly, and finally, there’s about five or six entities with whom we run the trade deficit that account in aggregate for about 90% of the $1.2 trillion that we are in deficit. And if Donald Trump gets a deal—and I think there’s a 50-50 chance in the next month he will—with the EU, with Canada, with Mexico, with the ASEAN or the Southeast Asian nations, with Germany, part of the EU, with South Korea—there’s not a lot of them.
And once one deal starts to unfold, the others will follow. And because the fundamental economic indicators of job growth, inflation, corporate profits, energy prices are sound, there’ll be a little bit of disruption as we reboot with these trade deals. But they’re going to do two things: They’re gonna bring in a lot of foreign investment of these countries that wanna avoid another trade war, and they’ll find it’s—I don’t know—useful. And there’s efficacy in putting plants in the United States. That’s already happening. And more importantly, we will not be sending out $1.2 trillion.
What am I getting at? All of the hysteria I think is prompted or fueled by—I’ll say it—I think it’s fueled by fear. I really think they have no alternative to addressing the debt, the budget deficit, the trade deficit. And there’s only one pathway.
And whether you like Donald Trump or not, or you think he’s crude, he is embracing policies that in bygone days both Democrats and Republicans saw was the solution. And the Democrats are terrified that it is not only the viable solution, but it’s gonna work.
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Exactly. Trump is exposing them for what they really are.
BTTT
Hiring us up. non-American jobs -400k / Native (as in born here) American jobs up +1 million.
China is reeling and probably will have to make heavy accommodations as their revenue has been cut severely.
US has devalued the dollar and investment is pouring in. If Walmart isn’t joking about providing loans to create American local sourcing through factories, the Dems will be hurting massively in 2026.
And then there might be indictments.
The rats are just plain out of ideas, and the ones they have are unpopular. So they’re left with the line that everything Trump does is evil. That’s easier for the millions they’ve trained to be imbeciles to digest.
“What am I getting at? All of the hysteria I think is prompted or fueled by—I’ll say it—I think it’s fueled by fear. I really think they have no alternative to addressing the debt, the budget deficit, the trade deficit. And there’s only one pathway.”
Socialist Democrats got BUPKIS! They have no path forward. They have no solutions to any of the problems they, themselves have created. And they have David Hogg as their ‘leader.’ Bwaa-Haa-Haa!
The Nation is ours to lose; there is NO loyal opposition. None.
As long as the DemonRATS continue beating up old ladies driving Tesla, dropping “F” bombs, throwing Molotov Cocktails, calling for assassinations of Americans, and human-trafficking deported illegal aliens back into America, they’ll do okay. The RAT Senate’s idea to start up The ACME Congressional “Coyote” Unit to smuggle illegals back into America was brilliant.
VDH ping
ping
Latest: Jobs up 177,000, 135,000 expected so a beat. Govt jobs down slightly. Unemployment steady at 4.2%.
***Trump just stopped federal funding of NPR and PBS!!!!!!!!!!
“Trump just stopped federal funding of NPR and PBS!!!!!!!!!!”
If it was by EO, it’ll be worthless when the RATs are in power. Most of what he’s doing, although wonderful, should be made powerful via legislation.
Treason over reason, and the media is on the side of treason, fully unashamed.
I’m so excited about that. Looking forward to the weeping and mailing. Does anyone know what that means for these little public commie-run stations in small cities? Are they under this same funding? I’d love to see those go away. There’s one near me that squanders taxpayer money and donations and does a lot of commie support.
What will happen to their plan to replace the unruly American working and middle class with meek peon imports?
Exactly what I believe. Like most, I’ve gotten beat up in the stock market, but I don’t care. Also, a lot of big money negative Nellies wringing their hands about the economy. I’m going to tweak things here and there, but fundamentally I think once one or two things start popping for Trump then the market and the economy is going to explode into a renessance.
VDH is spot on. There will be some initial pain and many will panic. Don’t. Hold the line. Hold...hold...
I honestly think Democrats have nothing else. They are scared witless that Trump is going to actually bring about a golden era and everyone else will be waking to see the Democrats stood there fighting for the gang-bangers.
Minor mod - Trump is forcing them to expose themselves.
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