President Trump: Making America Respected Again by Robert Socha

December 11, 2024

Economy     Foreign Policy     Islamic Terrorism     Political, Christian and Conservative Issues     Politics

I recently watched the most fantastic dichotomy between the inaugurated and the president-elect. On the one hand, the acting commander-in-chief travels abroad pledging U.S. tax dollars to fund extra-constitutional wars and flood relief efforts as if the dollar’s gold standard still exists and no natural disasters have recently affected his constituency while being contemptuously marginalized by his peers and fading into obscurity and irrelevance. International gluttons gladly suck from the sieve of free money irrespective of the long-term consequences to the most extraordinary economy man has ever produced. On the other hand, President Trump commands the most respected seat in the cathedral when Notre Dame held its first Mass since the terrible 2019 fire that almost permanently stole her magnificence. His bold style and leadership held his peers in awe and surrender. They clamored for his attention and approval.

I was a boy when President Carter worked feverishly to bring America’s economy and existential hopefulness to its knees, so I don’t remember the 13% interest rates stifling effect that had my parents, for example, paying over $1,300 a month for their $95,000 four-bedroom, two-bath suburban home. But I do remember their elation when President Reagan took office and immediately went to work to restore America’s self-image and her resolve. Within a few years, those stifling interest rates dropped to a more reasonable six percent, bringing much relief to their variable rate and the nation’s economic recovery. I also remember the American hostages released from the clutches of the Ayatollah in Iran on Reagan’s Inauguration Day. The mere threat of his administration demanded respect and action. Eight short years later, the wall fell and Berlin was united for the first time in almost 40 years, a penultimate victory for the Gipper.

Similarly, President Trump’s historic victory is still sending shockwaves through the global community. World leaders are in astonishment, and any who defy Trump’s intentions are backpedaling their negativity toward these United States, pledging to help us secure our border, retain the petro-dollar, suggest implementing an 800-mile buffer zone in Ukraine, and more when he threatens his administration’s imposition of stifling tariffs. He is the alpha male who dominates weak-willed leaders from Trudeau to Macron and commands their allegiance. It certainly will be interesting, if not entertaining, to watch his unorthodox second term unfolding. It is doubtful President Cleveland met similarly on the world stage.

The tumult President Trump endured during his first term and the nearly fatal campaign to win his second term for the second time has given the man tremendous resolve to reign in the unelected bureaucracy and return Washington, D.C. to her constitutional chains. Every one of his appointments is masterful to the cause and will manifest in lifting the veil obscuring truth and justice from health care to education to government efficiency. With great hope and expectation, we, who have almost 250 years of declared Liberty running through our veins, will witness something similar to the Reaganesque effect a bold and strong man leading the free world will have on international affairs. It will be a return to common sense and decency, a release of the captives, a tapering of over-regulation, and a relieving of the burden of man-made catastrophes and insatiable snake oil zealots peddling their climate scare ideology; anything to control the masses. The journey returning some autonomy to the people will be fraught with alarmism and establishment roadblocks, but we should not fear though the earth be moved and the mountains tumble into the sea.