XPost: alt.politics.trump, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: pothead@snakebite.com   
      
   On 2025-09-03, Leroy N. Soetoro  wrote:   
   > https://amac.us/newsline/politics/the-real-reason-why-trump-is-succeeding/   
   >   
   > President Donald Trump’s political comeback success is now cemented in   
   > history. What is not a settled fact, however, is the legacy of his second   
   > term, only months into its administration.   
   >   
   > Nevertheless, Mr. Trump’s presidential actions thus far, especially   
   > domestic ones, have gone generally well — despite his opponents’ dire   
   > warnings of imminent societal and economic disaster. His international   
   > efforts, meanwhile, many of which are still underway, have also shown   
   > positive results. He has specifically brokered a half-dozen peace deals   
   > and brought the combatants in the Russia-Ukraine war to the negotiating   
   > table – progress seemingly unimaginable only a few months ago.   
   >   
   > Is there some essential underlying reason for these early successes?   
   >   
   > Much has been written about the skills Mr. Trump brought to the   
   > presidency, including his background as a show business impresario, his   
   > experience with public relations and self-promotion, and brashly facing   
   > down hostile media and other critics.   
   >   
   > He certainly has brought a unique set of these skills to the Oval Office,   
   > but other presidents with their own sets of impressive personal skills   
   > have also been able to dominate the news and inspire adulation from   
   > voters.   
   >   
   > Going down the list of the 44 other men who have held the nation’s highest   
   > office, one sees that the largest number were previously lawyers, followed   
   > by farmers and ranchers, career military officers, and a few academics.   
   > One was a movie actor (Ronald Reagan). One was a journalist (Warren   
   > Harding). One was a mining engineer (Herbert Hoover). A few had some   
   > business experience. Almost all held some public office before becoming   
   > president.   
   >   
   > But Donald Trump also brought one new significant experience, which no one   
   > else had — he was a full-blown successful entrepreneurial capitalist. He   
   > had held no office, appointed or elected, before becoming president. To   
   > understand why this is so significant, it is important to first understand   
   > the historical economic and political context that enabled his rise to   
   > power.   
   >   
   > The United States of America is the oldest and most successful full-scale   
   > democratic capitalist nation in the world. In spite of the idealism   
   > expressed in its Declaration of Independence, its beginnings were flawed.   
   > But the abolition of slavery, ending segregation, enacting women’s   
   > suffrage, and full civil rights came later — enabled by a uniquely   
   > American Constitution and democratic institutions.   
   >   
   > The birth and early years of the U.S. Republic also coincided with the   
   > occurrence of the global Industrial Revolution. With its growing   
   > population, expanding cities, and immense natural resources,   
   > entrepreneurship and innovation flourished. The challenges, achievements,   
   > and sacrifices made in economic depressions and two world wars made the   
   > U.S. the most powerful nation on earth.   
   >   
   > Which brings us to the present day.   
   >   
   > Almost from its beginning, the U.S. had two major political parties.   
   > Although their names have changed over the decades, one has always been   
   > more liberal, while one has always been more conservative.   
   >   
   > The older party, the Democrats, was initially more conservative in some   
   > respects. They supported or tolerated slavery, opposed women’s suffrage,   
   > and generally opposed societal change. The Republican Party, which was   
   > born out of the collapse of the Whig Party and amid the rise of the anti-   
   > slavery movement in the 1850s, was initially viewed as more radical for   
   > the time. Republicans opposed slavery and later became the driving force   
   > behind early civil rights legislation and women’s suffrage.   
   >   
   > Over the years, and especially after 1933, Democrats moved to the left,   
   > and Republicans moved to the right. But both major parties supported and   
   > celebrated America’s underlying history and traditions.   
   >   
   > Recently, however, a part of the Democrat Party has moved rhetorically   
   > beyond the boundaries of the shared American democratic capitalist   
   > experience and begun arguing for a neo-Marxist political regime in the   
   > U.S. — one that will replace free enterprise and entrepreneurship with   
   > government-run and controlled commercial and industrial institutions and   
   > policies.   
   >   
   > Early signs of an assault on the traditional American model began with the   
   > administration of President Barack Obama in 2009. Most notably, he   
   > unilaterally tried to backtrack the U.S. role in the world, explicitly   
   > apologizing for America abroad.   
   >   
   > Donald Trump won an upset victory in 2016 in a voter reaction to the Obama   
   > years and rejection of an anticipated Hillary Clinton administration.   
   > Despite a number of noteworthy and historic economic successes, the   
   > unexpected global pandemic led to a disputed defeat by Joe Biden in 2020.   
   >   
   > Although he had run as a moderate and traditional liberal, Joe Biden, as   
   > president in 2021, began enabling the radical wing of his party to begin a   
   > more comprehensive dismantling of the democratic capitalist model.   
   >   
   > A period of inflation, education decline, unsettled urban life, woke   
   > culture uncertainty, and exceptionally divisive politics followed.   
   >   
   > The traditional Republican Party and its leaders had been unable to halt   
   > the national drift to the left following Obama’s election in 2008. Nor did   
   > there seem to be any GOP lawyer/elected official capable of moving the   
   > electorate to reverse this trend.   
   >   
   > But what is now emerging is a new Republican Party, becoming a working-   
   > class, rural, and small-town party with increasing numbers of blacks,   
   > Hispanics, and young persons who formerly were part of the old Democrat   
   > Party base.   
   >   
   > This party is led not by an establishment lawyer or career politician, but   
   > by a now familiar capitalist entrepreneur whom the radical left had   
   > previously defeated and then tried to destroy.   
   >   
   > Donald Trump rose from unprecedented defeat and attempted “cancellation”   
   > to restore the traditional and still vibrant U.S. model. As probably no   
   > lawyer, farmer, military officer, or academic could, he understood how   
   > American democratic capitalism really worked and could be employed for   
   > national recovery. He knew the rough-and-tumble world of negotiating and   
   > how to play political hardball. He also knew how U.S. power could be used   
   > to peaceably restore U.S. interests in the world — and he had the will to   
   > use that power.   
   >   
      
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