Here I am at Friday.\u00a0 Now all that remains of my holiday week is a measly weekend.\u00a0 But I won\u2019t grouse (much).\u00a0 In the afterglow from way too much rich food and late nights watching old movies I muse on the current political situation and wonder what the future holds.<\/p>\n
And I\u2019m reminded of something that has been said a number of times about Trump.\u00a0 It\u2019s not so much what he finishes as what he normalizes.\u00a0 Before Trump the Republicans were so cowed by eight years of George Bush and eight years of Obama that their idea of innovation was volunteering to capitulate on citizenship for illegal aliens.\u00a0 Was it Jeb Bush who declared it not a crime but an act of love?\u00a0 And then Trump comes along and says he\u2019ll build a wall and now eight years later Latinos vote him into office on the strength of his promise to deport millions of Latinos!\u00a0 So, what is the lesson?\u00a0 Stop being afraid of what your enemies will call you and instead worry about what your friends need.<\/p>\n
And imagine if Trump applies that same idea to all of the problems that beset his constituency.\u00a0 And who is his constituency?\u00a0 I would say it\u2019s everybody that isn\u2019t in the elite or working directly for the elite.\u00a0 That gives him a lot of ground to choose from.\u00a0 There is an enormous opportunity to punish corporations that hire illegal aliens and\/or off-shore their manufacturing plants.\u00a0 Forcing these corporations to hire Americans should be job two (directly after deporting the illegals).<\/p>\n
And another big population that voted for Trump was men.\u00a0 Men broke for Trump.\u00a0 Even a lot of non-white men voted Trump.\u00a0 Well, how about he has our back by striking down feminist affirmative action everywhere it is found.\u00a0 Women have been advantaged by the law and the bureaucracy for long enough.\u00a0 Stop whining about being held back and just stand on your own two feet for a change.\u00a0 No more quotas and no more special dispensations around physical requirements for things like fire-fighting and the military.\u00a0 If you\u2019re too weak for the job find an easier job.<\/p>\n
And finally, finishing off the race hustlers who scream racism when they discover that equal opportunities don\u2019t result in equal results is probably the most important thing about which Trump can shift the Overton Window.\u00a0 I don\u2019t expect Trump to achieve all of his results.\u00a0 He may only deport a fraction of the illegals and only punish a fraction of the companies employing illegals.\u00a0 He may only drain half the swamp.\u00a0 But what he will do is change the argument from how quickly the Republicans should capitulate to the Left, into how to primary the RINOs that don\u2019t follow his lead.<\/p>\n
All of the old guard pundits who mocked Trump for the last eight years and declared him a fluke who won\u2019t get anything done have been proven wrong.\u00a0 Even the stupidest and most dishonest admit this is the Age of Trump.\u00a0 He has tapped into an angry populism that can fuel major change if it is channeled skillfully.\u00a0 Trump has four years to fix things.\u00a0 If he comes close to doing that, his successor can follow in his footsteps and continue the job.\u00a0 Namely, give us back our future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here I am at Friday.\u00a0 Now all that remains of my holiday week is a measly weekend.\u00a0 But I won\u2019t grouse (much).\u00a0 In the afterglow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[3344,2238,16],"class_list":["post-31750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-trump","tag-2024-elections","tag-conservative-populism","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"\n