When Donald Trump was elected for his first term and started keeping his campaign promises the moment he took office, we told our youngest son to take note, such a thing had never happened in our lifetime. Generally how it works is, the newly elected president carefully avoids keeping his promises in his first term. That way those who did not vote for him will think he is not too bad, and those who voted for him the first time will have to do it again so he can fulfill them on his second term. Donald Trump did not do that. Although he was interested in a second term, being president was simply one of many things he has invested in, although this investment was in America's interest, not his own. This president was unprecedented.
But if Trump's first term was a whirlwind, the second is a tornado. He brought Elon Musk and his DOGE (Dept of Goverment Efficiency) team to stop Washington's waste up the wazoo spending spree. We could call this mechanism a bullDOGEr. Then the president had the audacity to order the deportation of illegal alien gang members from American soil and to remove the revolving door the previous administration left at the border to keep letting them back in. Trump has revised America's role from Sugar Daddy to every multinational group we are allied with, to equal partner. He is attempting the same with the unfair tariff situation our nation has been in for decades. And in his spare time, he is encouraging peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, Israel and Hamas.
In response, this president has been blocked at every turn by activist judges and the ACLU (which is either the American Communist/Abetting Criminals/or Anti Christian Litigation Unit) depending on the case. Mainstream media, as always, maligns him, but not as loudly as when they thought most Americans agreed with them. Countries that had no money to police their borders or fight the flow of fentanyl before Trump's election, miraculously found the funding. Huge price increases and financial disasters are still predicted, the stock market, including our retirement savings, is on a roller coaster ride worthy of Six Flags.
But I am willing to ride it out because the alternative is to return to business as usual:
- To a government that threatens to shut down every few months unless we borrow money from other countries (even if they hate us).
- To support a bloated bureaucracy that gives taxpayer money to frivolous, redundant, and even revolting causes.
- To continue subsidizing our allies' share of their own defense budget because America is a generous nation.
- To allow criminal gangs unlimited access to our nation to recreate the violence so many immigrants fled here to escape.
- To give money to ease suffering of the poor in middle eastern countries, because America is a compassionate nation, only to have their leaders give it to terrorists who sponsor and celebrate suffering.
- To be trapped forever in unfair trade deficits because America is a wealthy nation.
- To prolong wars by providing money and weapons, because America is a powerful nation, instead of using that power to arbitrate peace.
For those of us who have spent all our adult years feeling trapped in a system we were not only powerless to change, but forced to fund, even a roller coaster ride is preferable to the slow slide into stupidity we have been on. If there is a remote chance Donald Trump's policies can change some of the things I hate about the country I love, then I am okay with chaos.
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