According to Andrew Restuccia reporting at The Wall Street Journal, Donald Trump and his allies at the RNC believe that a second presidential term for Trump would be a chance to reshape America. Restuccia writes:
Behind all the pageantry, the Republican convention made clear what Donald Trump’s governing style would look like in a second term: assertive, adversarial and unconstrained.
If he wins the November election, Trump would return to the White House unburdened by ever having to appear on a ballot again, with more conviction about his vision for the country and more knowledge about how to execute it. The cabinet secretaries and White House aides who once beat back—and sometimes quietly worked to undermine—his most radical ideas would be replaced by loyalists eager to push his agenda even further. And he could reap the benefits of a Supreme Court whose conservative majority he enshrined.
In Milwaukee this week, after narrowly escaping an assassination attempt, Trump cut a relatively subdued figure, absorbing the applause of attendees and listening to the prime-time lineup of a largely drama-free convention.
On Thursday night, he painted President Biden as a failure and pledged to lower prices, close the U.S.-Mexico border and bring an end to international conflicts.
“Nothing will sway us, nothing will slow us, and no one will ever stop us,” Trump said as he accepted the Republican nomination.
The remarks capped a week in which the former president’s allies—on stage, in meeting rooms and in private conversations—spoke about a potential second Trump term as a once-in-a-lifetime chance to reshape the country.
“It’s the dream of a century,” businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, a former presidential candidate who has thrown his support behind Trump, told delegates.
Ramaswamy said Trump has a rare opportunity, thanks to the Supreme Court, to rein in government bureaucracy and shut down the “administrative state,” which conservatives blame for standing in the way of their agenda. While Trump tapped three justices during his four years in office, Amy Coney Barrett, his final pick for the high court, was seated just months before the end of his term.
Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, which is spearheading Project 2025, an expansive effort to prepare for a second term, said he thinks former President Trump has “learned a lot” over the past few years. “I think this is going to be an administration that is very efficient,” he said.
Read more here.
If you’re willing to fight for Main Street America, click here to sign up for my free weekly email.