Trump 2.0 Off to a Yuge Start
When Ronald Reagan was elected President in 1980 I was happy, very happy. I had just graduated from college with a B.A. in Political Science. After being apolitical in my teens I had followed a journey that led me to discover that I was quite conservative, in a common sense way that drew on the best of America’s traditions and values.
However, Reagan was a huge disappointment to me. Reagan claimed he was going to reduce the size of the federal government but all his administration did was slow the rate of growth of it; only a few token actual cuts were made. Meantime all previous budget deficits were not just exceeded but smashed, the culture war was ignored, and on and on. Reagan was a great orator, but there was a huge gap between his rhetoric and reality, which was tragic because Reagan could have turned the U.S. around and had a mandate to do so, especially during his second term after he won 49 states while crushing Walter Mondale in 1984.
Of course, Reagan had and still does have a large number of defenders who consider him the most conservative President since the days of FDR. I begged to differ, and my disappointment in the man I called The Actor led me to abandon standard two-party politics and spend much of my adulthood deeply involved with third parties and independent politics.
The United States has a long entrenched two-party system, one that hasn’t changed since the 1860s (can you think of anything else that hasn’t changed in the last 160 years???), bolstered by the shared control of the federal government, state governments, the support of the “mainstream” media, and blatantly unfair ballot access laws in the various states, a type of “discrimination” that is not only tolerated but supported by the two monopoly parties for obvious reasons.
There is currently no hope for a third party of the right, left or center to get a foothold, so while coming events could change that, for now we must do what we can to continue moving the Republican Party, which still has a large contingent of toxic RINOs at the federal level and even in most Republican-controlled state legislatures, in the right direction. By all rights the Democrat Party deserves to become extinct and be replaced by a party even more to the right of the GOP, but because it’s “too big to fail” and still has a very strong presence in all the institutions of power and manipulation, it will most likely have some time for the worst of the woke lunatics to be pushed to the side so as to “rebrand” itself for the 2026 and ’28 elections.
When Donald Trump overcame all the odds and won the 2016 presidential election, most conservatives and patriots thought that the country had been given one last chance to throw off the shackles of the radical left and the many ills that had been taking America in the wrong direction for generations. And again, many were disappointed with Trump’s first term, just as they had been with Reagan. And just as with Reagan, Trump had many defenders claiming that he had fulfilled most or all of his campaign promises (he hadn’t), and that he would have done much more but wasn’t aware of just how vicious and cutthroat the D.C. establishment was, admittedly a strong argument.
So when Trump overcame incredible odds, even far more than he had in ’16, he was given a second chance to come through, to do what was best for America in order to make the country we love great again.
And so far, I couldn’t be more pleased with how Trump 2.0 has started off. No more backstabbers and secret Swamp creatures, his new regime has some outstanding Cabinet members and other picks, who are united and mean business. At 78, President Trump has more energy and drive than men of almost any age, remarkably so. Like some of his Cabinet picks, many of his Executive Orders have been fantastic, and he is indeed following through this time in a blizzard of non-stop activity that has left the fake news and the rest of the country’s internal enemies dazed and confused.
The entire zeitgeist has shifted overnight. Wokeness, a euphemism for communism and totalitarianism, is on the run. Americans are starting to speak their minds again, common sense and a returning sense of normalcy are dawning after four years of psychological terrorism against the American People by the Biden Cabal.
There’s obviously a long tough road ahead. But for the first time in my life, we have a President to be proud of, who is exercising bold leadership and doing what’s best for America First. This Substack will eagerly follow ongoing events, giving praise and criticism when appropriate. This is a great time to be alive, let us be optimistic and forward thinking; for many years the future of mankind and the world has looked very bleak but now there are many different possibilities and we must take advantage of the current moment to shape events in a positive, very long-lasting direction.