The last year has seen monumental changes not only in the US, but in the world order. The speed with which the current Administration is effecting these changes is nothing short of phenomenal.
A fundamental shift is ongoing in Latin America and South America, most obviously in Venezuela, Cuba, and Mexico. The reign of drug cartels, and their ability to transport their product into the US, is being meaningfully and physically diminished every day. Illegal immigration into the US has completely stopped, not just slowed down, but stopped.
Forced leadership change in Venezuela has totally upended what had been the growing influence of China and Russia in the region which posed a threat to the US. The Cuban regime is about to collapse without the support of Venezuela and Mexico, paving the way for more normalized relations with the US and possibly even a democratic revolution on the island.
Iran is finally being dealt with the way it should have been a long time ago. The leadership and militant proxies of Iran have represented the worst of humanity for nearly half a century. They have no regard at all for human life. They kill indiscriminately for the sole purpose of terrorizing others and acting out extremist religious beliefs. In a word, they are pure evil.
Allowing the brutal leaders of Iran to build up a huge cache of weaponry of any kind, let alone nuclear weapons, is a threat to all western civilization. Operations Midnight Hammer and Epic Fury together are eliminating that threat. This is long, long overdue. Once complete, the Middle East will be fundamentally changed and the elusive conditions for peace in that region will be nearer than they’ve ever been.
The scale of these changes makes most other news items almost insignificant by comparison. There is a momentum that has been created by the Trump Administration that can’t be denied or ignored. With any kind of normal information flow of the facts, and a reasonably well-educated public, this Administration would be regarded as immensely successful and one of the most transformative in history.
Alas, social media and an ideologically driven news media prevent the appropriate historical context of these facts from reaching many people. Worse, these massive achievements often get grossly distorted into something of lesser import, or even counterproductive, in ongoing efforts to discredit the Administration. Weak minds influenced by this distortion will make the upcoming mid-term elections unnaturally close.
Since they may realistically have only 10 months left before a potential changeover of one or both Houses of Congress, the Administration needs to relentlessly forge ahead. While they still have the ability to do so, they must continue pursuing more “big picture” transformative policies.
In this context, we have a list of things we’d like to see happen. The following domestic items have needed major structural change for a long time. While they may seem too big or impossible to take on, they are on a very similar scope and scale to the major foreign policy actions we’ve witnessed over the past 10 months. In all these cases, a “yes” vote from both the House and the Senate will be needed see them through. They need to move quickly.
First, Trump needs to take Senate Majority leader John Thune to the woodshed and pummel him until he agrees to aggressively champion changing the Senate rules to eliminate the filibuster. At present, Thune does not have a “math” problem as he likes to state, he has an attitude problem. It is asinine for Thune or any other Senate Republican to stand on tradition or principle to preserve the filibuster when the Democrats will eliminate it the instant they gain power1. Once the Senate filibuster is eliminated, the following items should be pushed through (in order):
The SAVE act – This is truly a no brainer. Absent the filibuster, the votes are there to pass this bill. The main element of the SAVE act, positive voter identification, is already in effect in half the states under state law. There is one, and only one reason Democrats and blue states oppose this law. To preserve the ability to cheat in elections by having ineligible voters vote.
Social Security – There are several excellent plans already formed that can change the evolutionary path of the Social Security system for the better and ultimately reduce its enormous financial burden. For example, the federal employee retirement system is one well proven model. Also, the just introduced “Trump accounts” for babies and young children could, in addition to its other benefits, also be used to serve as a retirement plan. By shifting anyone born in the US from this point forward off the current Social Security system and into Trump accounts seeded with federal money, the path off Social Security can begin.
Obamacare – This super costly and failed system needs to finally end once and for all. It was never able to accomplish what was intended. Instead, it has mainly served to enrich insurance companies, whose products have now become unaffordable for many of the people Obamacare originally sought to help. President Trump’s idea of bypassing the insurance companies and issuing federal healthcare dollars directly to citizens via health savings accounts is a much cleaner and transformative approach. Combined with requiring medical billing transparency, this change would instantly transform the healthcare and health insurance industries for the better.
Medicare – The federal government needs to get itself out of this business entirely and transfer the responsibility for managing senior healthcare to the states. This does not mean the end of Medicare services. It means moving the operation and management of those same services to the individual states instead of having the federal government do it. This can be done gradually with the federal government decreasing its role as individual states ramp up their own Medicare services on a legislatively defined timeline. This brings the added benefit of generating healthy competition among the states to evolve to more cost efficient and higher quality medical services.
While these big policy changes are being enacted, the Administration must aggressively continue its mass deportation effort. This is vital for a number of good reasons, not the least of which is to correct, before the 2030 census, the congressional apportionment numbers in states whose populations include a significant percentage of illegals.
Lastly, the Administration also needs to continue its downsizing of the federal workforce. While good progress has been made so far, there is still a long way to go to gid rid of all the embedded deep state employees who are working against, not for, the present Administration.
All this may seem overly optimistic. But if you were told one year ago that we intended to stop illegal immigration cold, remove Maduro from power in Venezuela, set up all the conditions for a Cuban revolution, eliminate the Iranian threat in the middle east, raise nearly $300B in tariffs, and destroy over 40 cartel boats carrying drugs to the US, would you have believed it?
1 The Democrats teed up a vote to eliminate the filibuster the last time they held the Senate in 2022. It only failed because two of their own, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema voted against it. Both Manchin and Sinema are now gone from the Senate.
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Your best blog ever and thank you for your honestly and accuracy. I’ve stated that before, but this is now at the top of your many meaningful articles. You are brave and thank you. If my following response offends some others out there after reading it, I hope they read it again, until it sinks in. I tried to make it short but failed.
The biggest mystery isn’t the blurred vision or blindness of political leaders and media outlets (my pardon to one or two in each category) to acknowledge the ‘phenomenal’ success achieved by what is possibly the greatest administration this country has ever had, considering the complexity of global security and economy today. The greatest administration is not just my amateur history reflection, but also thoughts considered by Newt Gingrich, Mark Levin, and a growing list of true historian scholars.
The real mystery is the abject failure of previous administration’s military advisors and intelligence agencies that failed to unify and act on domestic and foreign security for this country as a collective team since the 1960’s. They allowed ‘enemies of civilized democracies’ to grow after many feigned battle successes, large and small; sitting behind their growing titles with managed apathy, leaving a quagmire of poorly managed terror. I use the term ‘battles’ intentionally because wars have winners and losers of which there have been none since the defeat of Germany & Japan. Those wars were won, the threats were gone and it changed their respective societies and the world. The current administration is making the first attempt since then to break a terrible growing union of enemies that are feeding active terrorism and antisemitism; Iran, North Korea, China and Russia are aligned in types of global terror. Unlike previous administrations, President Trump is playing multi-level chess, rather than the checkers of the past. Tariffs as a military weapon is pure genius. Fighting to win with lasting results had become a lost art, as politics and graft grew from within. I love our military, but those leaders that have served under many past administrations (Democrats and Republicans) need to reflect on their failures to advise and act with meaningful outcomes. They must also congratulate the current administration’s global strategy and success. President Trump discovered them during his first administration and exposed many. They were quietly outraged and are benched in President Trump’s second administration. Start with the fifty quasi leaders that signed the document denying validity of the famous laptop in an effort to affect the re-election of President Trump (they are either ignorant or treasonous) and should be living in shame. I can hear them snickering at our current military leaders like Hegseth, Cooper, Caine, Rubio, all unified with our Intelligence and Justice Department leadership to exact meaningful, lasting results. President Trump has found true leaders, albeit not by the traditional selection process of governmental nepotism. The threat of powerful enemy leadership is a concern of all, while many ignore the poor leadership within our own government that is even more dangerous to this country’s longevity and security.
The current military briefings are a breath of fresh air to older folks that honor true leadership, reminiscent of WW II. Leaders with followers that want to follow, not because they have to follow. The renewal of military recruitment under Hegseth says it all to that point.
I see how disrespectful and jealous many previous leaders and media groups are of President Trump, Secretary of War Hegseth and his team of military leaders, ignoring their success to date and seemingly hoping for failure to save face for their past failures. That is very concerning and disgraceful to the tenets established by ours country’s founders.
Your request for ongoing success of this administration is so necessary; for that Congress needs to act quickly and decisively.
1. Great but few will stick with so long a piece. And you want them to – that is, after all, your goal: influence citizens/ voters.
2. Brevity is the soul of wit. Self-editing is hard – but remember your goal: influence. And influence only happens if words are read.
3. A practical suggestion: if en masse edit proves impossible, use thoughtful headings. Or at least numbers.
Here’s to your future writings!
Thank you Johnny. You make excellent points, especially about the high quality of the current leadership team today verses that of the pretty much all the other administration in my lifetime. On another note – I feel utterly contemptuous toward Senate Democrats. They have a single minded, low IQ goal of simply opposing Trump no matter what. They should be ashamed of themselves. They are not doing anything for the betterment of the Country, or for the world, by blindly criticizing all of Trump’s actions just because they can’t control their own hate. What small people.
So right Tom on your other note thought! Congressional Democrats and main stream media are able to act that way in an allelomimetic style of starlings – and do it separated by long distances simultaneously as if in a quantum entanglement.
Btw, you write in a page turning style. Anyone that starts to read, cannot stop!