President Donald J. Trump celebrates the passage of the Tax Cuts Act with Vice President Mike Pence, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan | December 20, 2017 (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)
Conrad Black explains in The New York Sun, that, during his first term as President, Donald Trump was “sandbagged” by the uniparty, including the House Speaker and Senate Majority Leader, who were from his own party. It is hoped that House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune will give Trump more support than Speaker Ryan and Majority Leader McConnell did in 2017. Black writes:
Trump had minimal support from Republicans in Congress and was badly let down by the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, and Speaker Paul Ryan on repeal of Obamacare and other issues. He elevated his only Senate supporter, Jeff Sessions, to be attorney general, in which post Mr. Sessions emasculated himself and left Trump a sitting duck for the Democratic Russian collusion witch-hunters.
Trump did a little better with his second attorney general, William Barr, who shut down the Trump-Russian collusion nonsense but whose Durham Commission to look into the origins of the Russian hoax and other anomalies in the 2020 election, started from the premise that the FBI was above reproach and it was essentially a whitewash. (The abuse of unverifiable harvested ballots is indicated by the decline of approximately five million votes ostensibly cast between 2020 and 2024.
The Democrats succeeded in shackling Trump for much of his first term but his performance in eliminating unemployment and oil imports and almost eliminating illegal border crossings while calming relations with North Korea, strangling Iran to the point that promotion of terrorism was unaffordable, and substantially enhancing the almost intractable cause of Middle East peace, the 45th president made it impossible for his enemies to frighten the country with the prospect of his return to office.
The Republicans felt that he had been robbed and mistreated and that the spurious mobilization of the Biden Justice Department to persecute him with criminal prosecutions made him the almost unassailable nominee of their party for 2024. The fact that he had been a competent president despite the merciless harassment he endured made the anti-Trump scare tactics unsalable in 2024, and the disaster of the Biden-Harris administration in every major policy area made Trump the likely winner coming up to the recent election, despite the continued unprofessional partisanship of the anti-Trump media and polling organizations.
The last pitiful echo of the Democratic resistance is now coming from their flabbiest and generally most unsuccessful governors. The superannuated beach-boy and Pelosi nephew, Governor Gavin Newsom, is trying to make his state “Trump-proof.” The Obama-groupie Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey is imitating him, but the most fatuous of these state resistors is Illinois’ bloated inheritor, Governor J.B. Pritzker, who histrionically announced: “if they come for my people they will have to come through me.” Balloons should not provoke dart-throwers.
Trump knows as few other Americans do how corrupt and decayed much of the American government is. He is more qualified than anyone else in the country to judge what level of commitment will be required to produce comprehensive reform of the most rotten departments. If there were one scintilla of serious evidence on any of the matters being investigated about former Congressman Gaetz, the whole world would know about it.
Trump’s enemies sought to mortally assault him. It is not for any outsider to say with confidence that any more presentable nominee than Mr. Gaetz could be relied upon to do what has to be done to repair the Justice Department, or that anyone less determined and in some respects knowledgeable than Robert Kennedy Junior could be counted upon to try seriously to improve standards of healthcare and affordability in the United States.
It will be recalled that Trump’s HHS Secretaries were not overly successful in his first term, and that his defense secretaries were not reformers, though General Mattis was a distinguished soldier, but Secretary Esper was an ingrate. The returning president has a mandate for radical change.
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