Posted on 02/27/2025 4:17:55 AM PST by MtnClimber
Trump’s first month is a shock treatment to decades of spending, open borders, and bureaucratic bloat—restoring what was lost while critics decry the cure more than the disease.
At some point, some president was going to have to stop the unsustainable spending and borrowing.
To have any country left, some president would eventually have had to restore a nonexistent border and stop the influx of 3 million illegal aliens a year.
Some commander-in-chief finally would have to try to stop the theater wars abroad.
But any president who dared to do any of that would be damned for curbing the madness that his predecessors fueled.
And so none did—until now.
Not since Franklin Roosevelt’s rapid and mass implementation of the New Deal administrative state have Americans seen such radical changes so quickly as now in Trump’s first month of governance.
Americans are watching a long-awaited counter-revolution to bring the country out of its madness by restoring the common sense of the recent past.
It is easy to run up massive debts and hard to pay them back. Politicians profit by handing out grants and hiring thousands with someone else’s money or creating new programs by growing the debt.
Yet it is unpopular and considered “mean” to spend only what you have and to create a lean, competent workforce.
1776, not 1619, is the foundational date of America.
Biological men should not manipulate their greater size and strength to undermine the hard-won accomplishment of women athletes.
Affordable fossil fuels, when used wisely, are still essential to modern prosperity.
American education must remain empirical and inductive, not regress into indoctrination and deduction. If college campuses no longer abide by the Bill of Rights, then perhaps they should pay taxes on income from their endowments and guarantee their own student loans.
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“1776, not 1619, is the foundational date of America.”
Amen.
Counter Revolution past due
Short and Sweet.
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Excellent! The new normal seems abnormal only because for years the left has undermined efficiency, decency, strength, respect, and patriotism.
Most of FDR’s changes were never undone.. till now.
But FDR had three terms, a war, and a massive financial downturn to do it in.
I felt a collective sigh of relief when Trump was decidedly re-elected and his first month in office has been a breath of fresh air. The radical insanity of the past four years is finally being replaced by common sense. We no longer are forced to accept that 6 foot males with their genitalia bulging a a woman’s swimsuit are fairly competing as women in athletics. The unwashed hoards of unskilled and often illiterate illegals pouring across our borders, many of whom are criminals, will not be the source of future doctors or scientists or an essential part of our labor force. Wind farms dependent on fickle winds nor solar farms that generate nothing at night or on cloudy days will not be able to sustain any industrial society. Common sense is returning.
Reagan brought us morning in America . Trump is giving us high noon.
And no president—his dementia sheathed by political insiders and toadish media—is working three days a week, avoiding press conferences, or stonewalling reporters’ questions.
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
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As time marches on, there are fewer and fewer of us who remember what “normal” was. At the Democrat and RINO pace, soon there would be nobody alive with living memory of the “normal” days. Thank God that He sent us President Trump!
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Great as always! Thanks.
We may be past that point re our age group 80-90+.
My wife, I and our close relatives are there now.
Basically no one/relative/friend in our age group will live much past Trump's 4 years.
Yesterday, one of our younger inlaws died from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. He was barely 80.
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