Fate has a way of picking unlikely material,
Greasy-haired second lieutenants of French artillery,
And bald-headed, dubious, Roman rake-politicians.
Her stiff hands were busy now with an odd piece of wood,
Stephen Vincent Benet, John Brown’s Body
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It is hard to dispute that Trump is a man of consequence following the U.S. strikes in Iran, the ceasefire struck only 12 days after the war began between Israel and Iran, and his brokering of a deal to increase defense contributions across NATO dramatically.
And this all happened in under two weeks, beginning with Trump signing the U.S. Steel deal on June 13 and continuing Friday morning with the Supreme Court ruling that individual judges lack the authority to grant nationwide injunctions. The latter was a breathtaking victory for Trump, who has been hampered by activist judges throwing up everything but the kitchen sink to try to curtail his agenda.
There is an old wisdom in political science that real presidential power, whether domestic or international, is the power of persuasion. In less than two weeks, Trump has shown that his impact on American history has centered on his persuasive powers and using them to execute leadership.
Trump reminds me of Theodore Roosevelt in regard to his endless energy and his ability to use Presidential power to accomplish his goals quickly and decisively, and of Ronald Reagan with his conviction that the greatest days of America are ahead of us. The contrast with the previous zombie administration couldn’t be more stark. A man I thought a political joke when he announced his run for the presidency in 2015, may well be the most consequential president of this century, thus far. Proof yet again that History is not made by blind historical forces, but by men, some of whom have the ability at a point in time to alter the course that History appears to be set on.
Ditto
We just passed 6 months into Trumps second term. 1/8th of what’s to come.
I don’t mean to be a nay sayer, but we must keep the House and Senate in 2026, and Elon Musk’s initiative to create a 3rd Party called America must fail, otherwise, the Democrats will win the Whitehouse in 2028. Just go to that platform called Bluesky in order to see how almost half the country feels about Trump and conservativism. 50% of America is dementedly Democrat and will never change.
50% are not demented, 25% are demented forever, and 25% are along for the ride as long as it’s a good ride. The polls on deportations say all.
I see the call for a 3rd party to be a good replacement. The Democratic Party is doomed, circling the drain with the woke identity politic media cycles they created.
We need a more-than-one party system. Musk will focus on races that count for deciding votes in Congress like Manchin was in WV. And that’s fine.
David WS, maybe you’re right. But while there are some things on which I disagree with Trump (e.g., the Executive Order on In Vitro Fertilization, the cancellation of funding spacecraft nuclear thermal propulsion in the Big Beautiful Bill, etc.), overall, as Donald points out above, Trump has been very good for the country. I am very disappointed at the falling out between Trump and Musk. Musk is a technocrat at heart who specializes in a few things very well, but is blindly ignorant in others (e.g., thinking he can place man on Mars with chemical rockets, or he can power a technological civilization with solar, or that he can control AI). I believe Trump had some kind of religious experience during the almost successful assassination attempt in Pennsylvannia last summer, but Elon Musk is thoroughly a secularist, agnostic at best, and quite possibly atheist. He believes that he can do anything with technology, and while Trump can be arrogantly narcissistic at times, Musk (unlike Trump) never gives thanks to God. I believe his America political party will be bad for the nation, but as you point out, I could be wrong. Time will tell.
I appreciate what Trump has accomplished. I’m hoping the administration can begin rapidly removing illegal aliens.
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Big problem: the tsunami of red ink. Every time you think Congress has hit bottom and cannot sink any lower, they prove you wrong. Trump has been lackadaisical about this.
Musk’s party will fail. The Bull Moose failed. George Wallace, John Barry Anderson and Ross Perot and their parties failed. The Left hates Musk because he sided with Trump. The Right will be put off by him because he turned on Trump. Musk still likely wanted the EV tax credit.Trump’s continued deportation of illegal aliens eats into the Democrats’ base.
This nation is $37 trillion in debt.
Donald Trump is personally responsible for well over 1/4 of that debt.
Let that sink in, and let’s all stop pretending Trump is a conservative.
He’s fought against the mutilation of children and the transgender lie. That alone makes his administration admirable. If Musk’s party can win enough seats to rein in spending, I applaud the effort.
CAG has a valid point. But I simply don’t trust a secularist agnostic (or atheist) technocrat. However, the reckless drunken submarine sailor spending has got to stop.
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