People talked about the \u201cReagan Revolution.\u201d\u00a0 I guess it was a conscious effort to leave the malaise of the 1970s behind.\u00a0 It rejected the pessimism that grew out of the Vietnam War, Watergate, the Oil Crisis and the general chaos that was spawned during the 1960s counterculture.\u00a0 Reagan said that pessimism was unfounded and that America was ready to become \u201cthat shining city on a hill\u201d that it was meant to be.<\/p>\n
And to some extent, the booming 1980s sort of proved him right.\u00a0 The hippies became yuppies and made a killing on Wall Street.\u00a0 And away we went.\u00a0 Of course that wasn\u2019t all of it.\u00a0 Reagan was followed by Bush senior and Clinton and Bush junior and all of them pushed agendas that didn\u2019t include the long-range prosperity of the bulk of the American people.\u00a0 They were intent on a \u201cnew world order\u201d and getting their slice of the pie under the table.\u00a0 So, the Reagan revolution didn\u2019t end up with all of us living on that shining city on the hill.\u00a0 Most of us ended up on the other side of the tracks and broke.<\/p>\n
And that brings us to MAGA.\u00a0 It\u2019s sort of the Reagan Revolution 2.0 without the PG rating that 1940s Hollywood lent to Reagan.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got Donald Trump running this train and he\u2019s got more of an R rating vibe to him.\u00a0 But then again, in the age we\u2019re in that doesn\u2019t seem shocking or even surprising.\u00a0 But what it does leave us to wonder about is where do we end up?\u00a0 There were, are and probably always will be very powerful interest groups that are constantly lobbying for the federal government to do their bidding.\u00a0 Arms dealers and hedge funds and pharmaceutical companies are constantly jockeying for Congress and the President to buy their weapons or approve their drug or pass a law to lock in their profits.\u00a0 And all of these decisions could be detrimental to the future of you and yours.\u00a0 Currently Donald Trump is calling the shots and he\u2019s sticking it to the globalists and the Deep State and doing everything he can to make the job environment better for the middle and working classes of this country.\u00a0 And I think this will re-ignite some of the optimism, opportunity and affluence that we saw and felt in the 1980s and 1990s.\u00a0 And that\u2019s wonderful.\u00a0 So many of the young are hanging on by a thread and need some good times to help them catch up and live middle-class lives again.<\/p>\n
But what comes after Trump?\u00a0 Let\u2019s be optimistic and say that by 2028 Trump has managed to hang onto his control and sparks a boom economy.\u00a0 And because of that JD Vance gets catapulted into the White House.\u00a0 Will he have the vision it takes to prevent the same kind of shenanigans that Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2, Obama and Biden allowed to happen?\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if he has the same kind of smarts that Trump has.\u00a0 I\u2019m not saying he\u2019s dumb.\u00a0 He seems eloquent and sharp.\u00a0 But is he enough of a hustler to know when someone is trying to hustle him?\u00a0 Because I think that\u2019s what it comes down to.\u00a0 Now the good thing is that Vance used to be a working class (at best) guy.\u00a0 He may have a loyalty to the shlubs.\u00a0 But can he out hustle all those crooks in DC?<\/p>\n
And I think that is what it all comes down to.\u00a0 Will JD Vance and Peter Thiel and Elon Musk throw in with us instead of Raytheon, Blackrock and Pfizer?\u00a0 That\u2019s the bottom line.\u00a0 And can the majority of voters in this country throw in with them or will they instead vote for the next Mamdani or whatever communist flim-flam man comes down the pike next.\u00a0 In other words, are Americans smart enough to vote for their own long-term interests.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what I wonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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