“Our help is in the Name of Yahweh who made heaven and earth.”
(Psalm 124: 8)
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CNN—Donald Trump’s winning streak is transforming America:
We can now say we’re entering the age of Trump. It’s been a long march to this moment. Around this time last year, the summer of Scaramucci, Donald Trump’s staffing was an unholy mess, his poll numbers hit new lows and the GOP health care initiative died in Congress. Perhaps Trump could not govern, some speculated. But a year later, and just a few months before the midterm elections, Trump is most definitely in charge — and he is changing the character of America step by step.
Trump is advancing post-liberal politics in three key areas. First, a foreign policy that is marked by realism totally undisguised by platitudes or historical sentiments. NATO friends, for instance, have been warned they must contribute more towards the organization’s budget. In the Middle East, the United States has thrown its weight behind the unexpected alliance of Israel and Saudi Arabia. And Trump has pulled out of deals that he says weren’t working (Iran) or that he doesn’t philosophically agree with (Paris climate accord). His withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council is emblematic of his approach. We all know the UN is a joke on human rights (its membership includes dictatorships such as Cuba and China); critics accuse its members of turning the council into a platform to attack Israel. Trump is simply the first President to do the decent thing and walk away.
Second, Trump is pushing forward with what former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon once described as the “deconstruction of the administrative state.” This is partly about a deregulation agenda – everything from banking to the environment to repealing the Obamacare individual mandate. But it’s also about reversing the tide of what conservatives deride as Obama’s “you didn’t build that” mentality, with its implication that a big state is an inevitable, benign feature of modern capitalism. Trump, by contrast, is pushing corporate tax down from 35% to 21%, and the majority of tax filers will see a saving this year. The irony is that Trump has proved you can create jobs in the United States with conservative free market remedies, and yet he still insists on imposing foreign goods tariffs that threaten the supply chains and markets of the very workers he wants to help. The age of Trump might be hypercapitalist, but it’s also nationalist and traditionalist. Trump seeks to return to being a country that leads in exports, not imports.
He also wants to turn the clock back more generally, which brings us to his third assault on the liberal consensus: social policy. The Trump era will be marked by potentially violent conflict over cultural issues that lawmakers have failed for decades to resolve through compromise.
Immigration is a stark example. The administration’s decision to separate families of migrants – many who are refugees seeking asylum — illegally crossing the border has triggered a profound moral backlash that has led to protests, mass arrests and the occupation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities. Trump’s supporters see fighting illegal immigration as a matter of enforcing the law; growing numbers of those on the left regard it as an incremental step toward fascism. Conservatives say to liberals, “You never complained when Barack Obama did this sort of thing,” but liberals can point out that Trump has applied policy in such an aggressive way that it tips this whole debate into a war over foundational values. And if you think that’s bad, just wait until Donald Trump announces his Supreme Court nominee.
The President is going to nominate a conservative who will presumably tilt the court against Roe v. Wade. The New York Times alleges that the Trump administration waged a “quiet campaign” to encourage Justice Anthony Kennedy to retire; it is widely reported that conservative groups, such as the Federalist Society, have been “instrumental” in deciding the list of replacements. And we know that Trump has remained loyal to those religious voters who backed him in spite of his dubious moral past.
Here then is perhaps the most dramatic way in which Trump could change America not just for the few years that he is President but for an entire generation, moving the energies of the judicial branch – not only through the Supreme Court but countless federal appointments – toward a more conservative interpretation of the law. My suspicion is that a future Trump-shaped Supreme Court will be more concerned with protecting religious freedom of expression than rolling back the legislation and judgments of the past 30 years. But the left, reasonably, will conclude it cannot take that risk, which may turn the nomination process into an almighty battle fought not just in the Senate but in the streets.
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SnyderTalk Comment:
Eventually, the establishment media across the board will have to admit that despite their all-out assault against President Trump, he is succeeding beyond their wildest fears. They are a huge part of the problem that the president was sent to solve.
Slowly but surely, the president is righting the ship of state and giving Yahweh the credit that He deserves. Yahweh chose Donald Trump to lead this nation at a time like this. Working with the president, we can undo much of the damage that has been done to our nation by establishment politicians and the establishment media over decades of time.
As Abraham Lincoln said, the U.S. is a nation whose government is “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” We forgot that and turned over control of our government to corrupt political opportunists. They are a stain on the fabric of society, and yes, Hillary Clinton is a member of that group. So is Barack Obama. Establishment Republicans are, too, but LPDs (“liberal progressive” Democrats) have earned the lion’s share of the credit for trying to destroy our nation. They are wicked human beings.
President Trump didn’t enter politics to get rich like most establishment politicians. He got rich on his own and walked away from a fortune in profits to help out all of us. That makes him special. He is beholden to no one except Yahweh.
See “Chuck Todd Admits Trump’s ‘Winning’ on Meet the Press, Says Democrats Are ‘Reeling’”.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
