Over the last year, I have written at length about my reservations concerning Donald Trump. Like many others, I have embraced his policies while being troubled by his personal foibles. The theme I always seemed to come back to was…. Yes, he is better than the Democrats; but we should set the bar higher. While being sympathetic to Trump’s complaints about media rot and Democrat dirty tricks, I was constantly looking around for that candidate that would have similar inclinations policy-wise but less baggage to hold him or her down. I was looking for a more conventional Republican candidate. I honestly thought that’s what it would take for a Republican to win the presidency. Looking back, I see now that was a mistake on my part.
While
many of the criticisms that myself and others voiced against Trump were totally
justified and remain valid today, the simple fact is that it took someone uniquely like Donald Trump to accomplish
what he has. There were times during the
presidential primary season when I was drawn towards DeSantis or even Haley
because of their more respectable
political personas. But I must confess
that I now have serious doubts if either one of those two could have
accomplished the degree of success that Trump managed in last year’s
election.
Against
all odds….and I do mean all odds….Donald
Trump rose from the ashes of a being a defeated incumbent, a victim of
oppressive DOJ lawfare, a target of a biased and unethical media, and in many
respects…an outcast of his own party. He
rose to not only defeat the same man that defeated him four years earlier, but
he defeated that man’s hand chosen
replacement who was essentially coronated
as the next president during her first 30 to 60 days of campaigning. Not only did he win the presidency, he did it
in emphatic fashion by sweeping all of the so-called swing states, prevailing
in the popular vote, and carrying into office with him Republican control of
Congress. There is simply no way to
diminish the width and breadth of what Donald Trump did.
Does
this mean that he is somehow absolved of his faults and flaws? Of course not. Does it mean that he has somehow been
transformed into a statesman of epic proportion that will gloriously lead
America to a new golden age? That is
doubtful. What it does mean is that
eight years of Obama and four years of Biden had created such a rot in the
government of our nation that weak syrup which tastes good was not going to
cure the illness. It took some strong
Trumpian penicillin to galvanize the anti-progressive sentiment that was lying
just beneath the surface of the American citizenry. Anything
less may not have been…or will be…sufficient to get the job done.
After
watching much of the Senate confirmation hearings for Trump’s cabinet nominees,
I see the same theme playing out. Point
in case is DOD nominee Pete Hegseth.
Goodness knows that the man…like
all of us…has made some regrettable mistakes. For a burgeoning department like defense, it
is not unreasonable to seek someone with a stronger background in management
than that possessed by Hegseth. After all,
the department has failed its last seven federal audits. But watching Hegseth’s performance during the
hearings convinces me that the same necessity
for a catalyst like Trump to reverse the wayward course of our current government is present in the
need to address similar problems within the departments
of that government.
Kumbaya
chanting and illusions of pretentious bipartisanship will not be sufficient to
turn America away from the direction it has been trending. It will take strong, principled, and bold action to rediscover the true essence
of constitutional governing in our country.
We can only hope that beneath the change agent department heads that
will serve President Trump in his upcoming Administration, there will be a
sufficient number of ethical, seasoned, and intelligent professionals
who will help them chart the murky and turbulent waters of our federal
bureaucracy. The political window of
opportunity is short for Trump and his cast of warriors and time is of the essence. Voices of change are now welcome and will be
quickly embraced; but the entrails of our governmental organism will be
impossible to navigate without true and tested guides to help show the
way. It is sad but true to acknowledge
that there will be a significant portion of our culture, society, and
government that will look for every opportunity to slow down, sabotage, and diminish
the necessary reformation that is beginning.
Donald
Trump has a tremendous amount of support and good will as he enters into his
second term. His ability to harness this
momentum, strengthen it, and effectively direct it in a productive fashion will
determine his prospects of success.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/01/13/trumps-agenda-is-even-more-popular-than-he-is/
Trump
and his maverick Cabinet officials have their work cut out for them. Are they up to the task of conquering the
formidable bureaucratic beasts they will inevitably confront?
The Department of Defense…
https://reason.com/2025/01/12/materiel-loss/
The Department of Education…
https://americanmind.org/salvo/tools-for-conservative-education-reformers/
https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-great-dumbing-down-of-american-education/
The State Department…
https://victorhanson.com/joe-bidens-bizarro-world-of-foreign-policy-achievements/
https://www.jns.org/dealing-with-the-devil/
U.S. Intelligence…
https://amgreatness.com/2025/01/17/how-president-trump-can-make-american-intelligence-great-again/
The Department of Health and Human Services…
A single-payer health care system
is NOT the answer to our health care concerns: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/canadas-socialized-health-care-culture-of-death-15000-plus-die-awaiting-care-15000-plus-euthanized/
https://amgreatness.com/2025/01/12/more-government-is-not-the-answer-to-americas-healthcare-woes/
The Department of Energy…
U.S. Economy…
https://reason.com/2025/01/16/the-way-out-of-our-inflation-mess/
https://www.grumpy-economist.com/p/unsolicited-advice
The Department of Justice…
https://americanmind.org/salvo/weaponizing-law-enforcement-against-americans/
The pure idiocy of DEI initiatives; the WOKE lunacy; the erosion of governmental ethics and efficiencies…that pervade our
government and constitute a cancer eating away at it from the inside….
https://victorhanson.com/woke-dei-green-nihilism-dresden-in-california/
https://amgreatness.com/2025/01/11/doge-and-how-we-can-address-the-entitlement-culture/
And
despite their best efforts to be conciliatory and transparent; despite their
positive impacts on the departments and agencies they will command; despite the
common sense policies they might implement…the story of their efforts will be
filtered through a mainstream media that sees their role as being agenda-driven, partisan opponents of the
upcoming Trump Administration. You will have to dig the truth out for
yourself if you expect to know the real story of the upcoming government reform
efforts.
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