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Pundits are confused about what to make of the first 100 days of the second Trump administration.
Supporters talk of “flooding the zone,” believing President Donald Trump is making so many changes so quickly that his opposition is reduced to deer-in-the-headlights infancy.
They must be right when the nation suffers daily Democratic pottymouth videos, vandalism of Teslas, infantile meltdowns at congressional witnesses, rioting against federal agents to protect illegal alien felons, protesting on behalf of women beaters, M-13 gangbangers, human traffickers, and assaulters, and visa-holding violent students praising Hamas terrorists.
In contrast, opponents either claim that Trump’s first three months are either directionless chaos or a Hitlerian nightmare or both.
But what is really happening?
One, Trump is finally addressing the problems that proverbially “cannot go on forever, and so they won’t go on.”
When, if ever, would the left have closed the southern border? After 10, 30, 50 million illegal aliens?
How many more criminal illegal entrants was the Biden administration willing to allow into American neighborhoods — 500,000? 1 million? 3 million?
How long was the world simply going to ignore the human destruction on the doorstep of Europe?
Would former President Joe Biden or former Vice President Kamala Harris have sought a ceasefire? Or would it have taken another 1.5, 3, or even 5 million more dead, wounded, and missing Ukrainians and Russians?
Nor did past administrations ever seek a solution to the massive national debt, much less the uncontrollable budget and trade deficits.
All prior presidents passed the day of judgment on to some vague future presidency, assured that their money printing would at least not blow up on their watch.
All moaned that China was piling up huge trade surpluses while denying its own population the usual modern safety net. They knew Beijing’s aim was to use the trillions of dollars in trade surpluses to build a new massive military, a greater arsenal of nuclear bombs, and a new imperial Belt and Road overseas empire.
Yet no administration did anything but greenlight American outsourcing and offshoring while ignoring Chinese trade cheating and technology theft.
Indeed, prior presidencies appeased and enriched China on the foolish belief that such indulgence would lead to Chinese prosperity, and with such Western-style affluence, soon a globalized, democratic, and supposedly friendly China.
In sum, we just witnessed all at once a 100-day, 360-degree effort to address all the existential challenges that we knew were unsustainable but were either afraid or incompetent to address.
Second, the administration apparently wants to confront the source of these crises and believes it is the progressive project.
The left maintains real political power not by grass-roots popularity, but rather by unelected institutional clout. The party of democracy uses anti-democratic means to achieve its ends of perpetual control.
It wages lawfare through the weaponization of the state, local, and federal courts.
It exercises executive power through cherry-picked federal district and circuit judges and their state and local counterparts.
The permanent bureaucracies and huge federal workforce are mostly left-wing, unionized, and weaponized by a progressive apparat. Their supreme directive is to amalgamate legislative, judicial, and executive power into the hands of the unelected Anthony Faucis, Jim Comeys, and Lois Lerners of the world — and thus to override or ignore both popular plebiscites and the work of the elected Congress.
Over 90 percent of the media — legacy, network, social, and state — are left-wing. Their mission is not objectivity but, admittedly, indoctrination.
Academia is the font of the progressive project. Ninety percent of the professoriate are left-wing and activist — explaining why campuses believe they are above the rules and laws of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Congress.
Add into the mix the blue-chip Accela corridor law firms and the globalized corporate and revolving-door political elite.
The net result is clear: Almost everything the vast majority of Americans and their elected representatives did not want — far-left higher education, a Pravda media, biological men destroying women’s sports, an open border, 30 million illegal aliens, massive debt, a weaponized legal system, and a politicized Pentagon — became the new culture of America.
So, Trump is not just confronting unaddressed existential crises but also the root causes of why, when, and how they become inevitable and nearly unsolvable.
His answer is a messy, knock-down-drag-out counterrevolution to reboot the country back to the middle where it once was and where the Founders believed it should remain.
His right and left opponents call such pushback chaotic, disruptive, and out of control.
But the counterrevolution appears disorderly and upsetting, mostly to those who originally birthed the chaos; it certainly does not to the majority of Americans who finally wanted an end to the madness.
Victor Davis Hanson is 100% correct about President Trump’s first
100 days. Trump is like a chemo agent trying to ward off the
deadly effects of the cancerous Left on America – which came
very close to dying in the last election.
Praying that our country stays in remission and is able to sustain a
full recovery. God bless America and President Trump.
“So, Trump is not just confronting unaddressed existential crises but also the root causes of why, when, and how they become inevitable and nearly unsolvable.”
President Trump is in NO WAY addressing the root causes of America’s and the West’s collapse. Neither did President Reagan. The root cause of America’s slow, centuries old, collapse is PHILOSOPHY, the anti-reason, irrational philosophy and ideology taught at the universities, so long as that root cause remains unchanged America and the West will keep on slowly but inexorably collapsing back to a religious dark age.
“His answer is a messy, knock-down-drag-out counterrevolution to reboot the country back to the middle where it once was and where the Founders believed it should remain.”
There was no Reagan Revolution and there is no Trump Revolution either. Both so-called revolutions are the spasms of a dying nation. The USA under President Regan and Trump isn’t going through a revolution but through spasms of TERMINAL LUCIDITY. Just like a lightbulb will burn brighter, then darker, then brighter, then darker, before finally going out.
The Founders were not after a “middling” country in the middle between tyranny and liberty, the Founders were RADICALS and EXTREMISTS for freedom and liberty, they just couldn’t implement their radical ideology under the constraints of their times.
The Founders were NOT conservatives, they were radicals. And they did not know that they had founded the greatest nation in the history of mankind right in the nick of time during the last decade of the Age of Enlightenment. In the same decade as the Founders published the Bill of Rights back in Konigsberg the modern destroyer of America and the West, Immanuel Kant, was publishing his “Critique of Pure Reason” all in order to try and save the absurdity and irrationality of Christianity.
“Despite the claims, then and since, about its Judeo-Christian roots, the United States with its unique system of government could not have been founded in any philosophically different period [than the Age of Enlightenment]. The new nation would have been inconceivable in the seventeenth century, under the Puritans, to say nothing of the twelfth [during the Christian Dark Ages]… America required what the Enlight¬ enment alone offered- enlightenment.” – Leonard Peikoff
Where’s “Intrepid”?
He probably has something better to do right now. 🙂 He’s probably satisfying his chick. I know I was up until she got tired.
30 million illegal aliens? That’s the same figure that’s been touted since 1997. So in 28 years, nobody else creeped in? 20 million didn’t invade when Alzheimer Joe slept through office? It’s a miracle! Miraculous bullshit.
There are way more than 100 million illegal aliens in America. I see them nearly everywhere I go. The only way I can get away from them and the usual suspects is by hiking and camping.
Every one of Joe Bidens illegal, undocumented, free pass immigrants came flooding across our Southern Borders WITHOUT DUE PROCESS!
So President Trump,has every right to send them all back the same way!!
WITHOUT DUE PROCESS!!
The “100 Days” meme is so much worthless media pablum. Any journalist with any serious integrity would be looking into the next 1,360 days. I’m betting that’s something that left-wing media is trying not to think about. Too scary.
Look far beyond the next 1,360 days. The right-wing media, e.g. the Wall Street Journal, has consistently alluded to what will happen to the national debt and Social Security and Medicare. In this morning’s WSJ is an editorial “Washington Deserved a Downgrade. U.S. debt is a spending problem, which neither party wants to stop.”
The projections for the deficits are for 6% of GDP annually, a recipe for a debt spiral.
Like the Democrats, President Trump and the GOP’ have no plan for the unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare. President Trump not only has no plan but also successfully demonizes any Republican, e.g. Ron DeSantis, who dares to state something needs to be done.
Unfortunately for our children and grandchildren, neither party is focused on the long run.
Trigger warning: I’m going to provide evidence. “Trump Warns GOP Dissenters to Drop Objections on SALT, Medicaid.” (From the WSJ today.) I challenge anyone to defend how this is in the long-run best of our country.
Trump is the Most Dangerous Man in the World
So very true that President Trump is the most dangerous man in the world but the question is “a danger to who or what?”.
A headline from American News reads “Former Dem Senator Claire McCaskill says Trump is more dangerous than Mussolini, Hitler”
Mussolini and Hitler are nothing compared to President Trump, they just used the existing system to consolidate their power.
President Trump wants to break the existing system and breaking the system will send shockwaves around the world.
A deathblow to those that use the system.
Which makes President Trump the most dangerous man in the world.
Oh, the system.
The bottom line of the system is that Governments do not exist for the people, Governments exist for the control of the people.
President Trump wants to put the Government of the United States of America back to existing for the people.
When President Trump and his ilk are successful the people of countries around the world will be saying “If America can do it so can we”.
If we pay attention we will notice that all the angst against President Trump comes from those that are the current system and this is why there is so much resistance to President Trump serving another term as President.
“After his first 100 days Trump is the most unpopular president in history”
Hakeem Jefferies in a news video yesterday.
Don’t fall for the lies.
Biden was Americas most Unpopular Presidents in American History his polls were lower then Carters
The Democrats and the Press have no one to blame for themselves for the fact that Trump is President. They knew Biden was incompetent and mentally impaired and lied about it. They knew Harris was totally incompetent and lied about it because they did not want to appear racist or sexist.
Harris was a flat out terrible candidate. Biden only picked her because she was a woman of color. Everyone knew it. The Democrats treated the voters like they were idiots or racist if they did not vote for Harris. People don’t like to vote for those who insult them.