When I ask, “Can Trump Win?”, I’m not asking about the next election. My meaning is, can he “Make America Great Again?” He ran on that theme, trying to transform America and undo the 12 years of horror that Obama and Biden inflicted on the country. Can he do it? Can he turn the nation around?
There's no question that he's done a lot of good in his first 100-plus days in office, but you don’t clean up 12 years of spilled milk in 100 days. Can he make America great again? That very statement implies America's not great right now. Can he—with our help, naturally—succeed? The forces arrayed against him are strong and determined to see that he fails.
I see two major obstacles Mr. Trump must overcome to accomplish his goal of “Making America Great Again.” No problem is insurmountable, but these aren’t ant hills, either. What are his major hindrances?
Number one is the Deep State, and especially the Deep State Republicans, who are currently doing absolutely nothing to help him. Trump has fired as many Deep State creatures as he can, and I hope he will continue to do so, but the Democrats and judges are opposing him; they want government to grow, not shrink, so their opposition is expected.
But again, the biggest problem Trump faces is not the Democrats, it's the Republicans. In the 100 days that Mr. Trump has been president, he has issued several executive orders. Many of them are very good and helpful, and need to be made into permanent law. But where is the Republican Congress? What are they doing to help solidify the Trump agenda into American law and policy?
That’s an easy question to answer—absolutely nothing. The Republicans in Congress are doing zero to help Mr. Trump. And that's Trump’s most significant obstacle—the Republican establishment still controls the party. Mike Johnson and John Thune are Deep State. And thus, nothing is being done to make Trump’s executive orders into permanent law. He can’t do it by himself.
Unless the Republican Congress makes Trump’s executive orders laws, which it can right now because it has a majority in both houses, the next Democratic administration will simply undo everything Trump has done. And that could be in 2028. Indeed, the Republicans can lose one or both houses of Congress next year, and then Congress won’t be able to do anything. The Republicans need to act NOW to put teeth into Trump’s executive orders.
How much of the budget have they cut? How many activist Democratic judges, who are illegally blocking Trump’s EOs, have they impeached? Where is the federal law protecting women’s sports from men, and children from being mutilated by perverts? Republicans are doing nothing, and they probably won’t do anything because, for all of Trump’s populism, the Establishment still controls the inner workings of the Republican Party. RINOs.
I entitled this article “Can TRUMP Win?” because I knew he would have to go it alone without help from the Republican Congress.
The second obstacle Trump faces, the other thing that really has me worried, is, quite frankly, the people of America. Democracy. Mr. Trump is initiating a lot of policies with his executive orders. But, folks, policy doesn't change people. And unless the people change and are truly educated into virtuous American ideals, they’ll never accept the virtuous republic necessary for the country’s survival. And I fear it may already be too late.
The major problem in America is not Washington, D.C., or Congress; it’s the people who elect the representatives.
AOC is as dumb as a rock, but what does that say about the people who elected her? And countless other equally vile, ignorant, decadent Democrats—and Republicans. We get the government we elect. It’s a people problem, first and foremost.
Our Founders warned us about democracy, about an uneducated public. “Democracy is the most vile form of government” (James Madison). “There never was a democracy yet that didn’t commit suicide” (John Adams). Thomas Jefferson wrote, “A well-informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny,” and “the cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.” When we gave the education system over to the government, and especially to the Left, we lost the country. And we won’t get it back until we put education back into the hands of families and virtuous people.
Millions of good people are left in America; there is always a remnant. In Elijah’s day, there were 7,000 who hadn’t “bowed the knee to Baal.” But too many had, and the Northern Kingdom of Israel never recovered. Seventy-five million people voted for Kamala Harris, and almost half the Congress, and many governorships and state legislatures are filled with degenerate Democrats, elected by the people. That’s a lot of “uneducated” people. That is the biggest problem Mr. Trump faces, and again, his Republican Congress shows absolutely no understanding of that, or any intention of doing anything about it.
I’m 70 years old. When my generation dies off, given the current state of the education system, who’s going to be left to run the country?
We had better start preparing for the future, and we’d better start right now. Or true, virtuous, godly America will have no future, Donald Trump or no.
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