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   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   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.   
      
   And so, the U.S. is now led for the first time by one of its own   
   democratic capitalists. His colorful and provocative showmanship appeals   
   to his political base and enrages his opponents, but his underlying   
   entrepreneurial spirit and skills are on a course of a much broader and   
   potentially unifying historical quest.   
      
      
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   November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump.  We look   
   forward to America being great again.   
      
      
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