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Can Trump Restore Order to a Broken America?
Real Clear Politics ^ | October 17, 2025 | J. Peder Zane

Posted on 10/17/2025 11:26:58 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Donald Trump is our first Old Testament president.

Where critics view him as a self-absorbed tyrant bent on settling personal scores, he is more akin to the stern Yahweh of the Hebrew Bible who punishes wrongdoers to restore order to a broken world.

His quest for retribution is less a small-minded push to vanquish his enemies than a (small-“c”) catholic program to hold bad actors accountable for misdeeds that sends a larger message about acceptable conduct.

His simple message: Behave!

Trump is not a god – he’s never even played one on TV. Because he’s a fallible human being in a complex world, his decisions carry downsides worthy of debate. But by narrowly focusing only on the president’s conduct, his opponents ignore the crucial fact that many of his targets are malefactors who deserve wrath.

Continuing the left’s push to weaponize the justice system is problematic, but what about the cost of allowing former FBI Director James B. Comey and New York State Attorney General Letitia James to get away with their egregious abuses of power?

The administration’s aggressive tactics to hunt down, detain, and deport undocumented immigrants are unsettling, but can you maintain a nation based on the rule of law when millions of people are here illegally?

His deployment of federal forces to help ICE arrest migrants and cops deter local criminals may test the boundaries of federalism, but what do we gain by allowing sanctuary cities to help people flout the law or by standing back as they continue to fail to protect their residents?

Trump’s use of drones to execute alleged drug traffickers on the high seas raises profound concerns about due process, but what about the hundreds of thousands of American lives lost each year to the poison these criminals are delivering to our shores?

His full-throated support of Israel has permitted grave suffering...

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: fighttruth

1 posted on 10/17/2025 11:26:58 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Left seem delusional and intractable, so, no. Not unless the sheer weight of public opinion damps them down. But delusional and intractable are about as dangerous as it gets.


2 posted on 10/17/2025 11:33:40 AM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Temporarily. Too many people are on the dole and vote accordingly.


3 posted on 10/17/2025 11:34:25 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No, but the citizens who are supporting the movement he represents will.


4 posted on 10/17/2025 11:36:26 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The long term issue is more, or less, centralization of power vs decentralization.

If during the Trump years the Dept of Education is eliminated and alphabet regulatory agencies are eliminated then Freedom and Prosperity will continue. If Trump just replaces one centralization of power with a different centralization of power then our future is dim.


5 posted on 10/17/2025 11:37:48 AM PDT by spintreebob
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Can Trump Restore Order to a Broken America?

Only by

1) Reinstating the Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land.

2) Dismantling the 80%+ $3+ trillion unconstitutional portion of the federal gov't. As the Executive of a mostly illegal and corrupt gov't, Trump cannot hope to restore order to the country without first ridding America of the HUGE unconstitutional, illegal, corrupt, and oppressive portion of the federal gov't.

3) Work to overturn unconstitutional federal laws like the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

4) Influence hearts to turn towards trusting in the God of the Bible and away from trusting in man and his gov't.

America will only become great again when its faith in God and freedom from gov't excess and coercion is restored : America's Free Constitutional Republic.

6 posted on 10/17/2025 11:41:43 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Democrats have no interest in order...they are the ones causing the problems


7 posted on 10/17/2025 12:07:21 PM PDT by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Broken America

It’s what the ignorant voted for taking the free bait card.

Rape rob murder and arson and repeat wasn’t in the fine print like they expected it to be.

The Homer Simpsons of the U.S. got around a lot many kids.


8 posted on 10/17/2025 12:14:37 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He IS.


9 posted on 10/17/2025 1:13:43 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Biden and the dems spent four years splitting America, give Trump a few more months.


10 posted on 10/17/2025 2:36:14 PM PDT by chopperk
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America will un-break itself once the artificial obstacles to same are removed.


11 posted on 10/17/2025 2:48:18 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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