Politics and governing are generally not complicated. It is often shaded to appear complicated or confusing by those looking to push their own agendas, cash in, or both.
The politics and governing of today are filled with irrefutable certainties. 24 hours in a day; about 15 months to the most crucial midterm election of our lifetimes; a majority of the mainstream media – national, local, and even international – working with their allies in the Democratic Party, academia, science, medicine, and entertainment to continually smear and destroy the most transformative President in U.S. history along with his MAGA movement; a large percentage of the Deep State still imbedded in the federal government and our three-letter agencies seeking to sabotage the agenda of the President; a small percentage in the federal government and our three-letter agencies desperately trying to help the President save our nation from within while protecting it from our enemies; and a finite – and precious -- amount of energy left to accomplish the task.
I have emphasized in the past that real-world experience holds significance. Occasionally, it can mean everything.
Real-world experience in life, politics, and business does teach a critically important lesson. That being: Don’t react to every fire drill, and don’t fall into the trap of a reactionary mindset. Oftentimes in business and politics, the other Party or the competition wants you to react to every single fire drill, no matter how small or insignificant. By doing so, you are robbing yourself and your side of the energy needed to go proactive to defeat those who seek to destroy you. Real-world experience does teach which fire drills to ignore and, more importantly, which are manufactured by the other side and its allies to keep you on defense.
As I have stressed repeatedly, there is no President in the history of the United States of America with more real-world experience or success than Donald J. Trump. None.
Back in 1928, the nation was introduced to a phrase attributed to President Calvin Coolidge: “The business of America is business.” No one gets that more than Trump. But for business to flourish, our nation must work.
For any age range reading this, until President Trump, we have not had a true, successful businessman occupying the Oval Office. Not one.
Joe Biden was a 50-plus-year “corrupt,” manipulative and manipulated, feeble career politician; Barack Obama was created by the “machine” in Chicago and then sent forth to do the bidding of the Democratic Party; George W. Bush played at business before engaging in a war that took hundreds of thousands of lives; Bill Clinton was a longtime student before becoming a longtime politician; George H.W. Bush dabbled in business before entering government and becoming president; Ronald Reagan was an actor, organizer and spokesperson; Jimmy Carter was in the Navy and struggled as a peanut farmer; Gerald Ford was mostly a professional politician; Richard Nixon the same. And so on.
“Trust in Trump” is a thing because it’s real. His decades of success while building one of the most iconic business empires in the world did teach him which “fire-drills” to ignore, how to conserve and marshal his precious resources and energy, and how to achieve victory.
In a post on TRUTH SOCIAL on basically the one-year anniversary of him coming within a millimeter of losing his life for our nation, President Trump invoked that real-world experience in a critically important way. Said the President in part: “What’s going on with my “boys” and, in some cases, “gals?” They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and “selfish people” are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein…”
Further into the post, the President got to the heart of the matter: “…No matter how much success we have had, securing the Border, deporting Criminals, fixing the Economy, Energy Dominance, a Safer World where Iran will not have Nuclear Weapons, it’s never enough for some people. We are about to achieve more in 6 months than any other Administration has achieved in over 100 years, and we have so much more to do. We are saving our Country and MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, which will continue to be our complete PRIORITY…”
He then closed with the most important point of all: “One year ago our Country was DEAD, now it’s the 'HOTTEST' Country anywhere in the World. Let’s keep it that way, and not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
To be sure, many MAGA team members who are raising concerns about the Epstein matter are doing so because they love the President, want his legacy secured, love their country, want Republicans to win the midterm, and believe the issue may depress some of the MAGA vote. But to the point of the President’s post, there is another way to look at this.
And the only way is if we hope to save our nation.
The far left, with its army of anarchists and dark billions, is doing all in its power to topple the United States from within. If we lose the midterm and the 2028 election, then we will lose our nation…forever.
President Trump’s real-world experience has propelled him to the top in every arena he has entered. He knows we have limited resources; he knows we have limited time; and he knows we are bleeding essential energy.
Trust in Trump. Back his strategy to save our nation.
Douglas MacKinnon is a former White House and Pentagon official and author of the book: The 56 – Liberty Lessons from those who risked all to sign The Declaration of Independence. Follow him @DougOfSkye
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