Why Trump Won

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The View from the Middle

I’m sitting here on November 9^th watching the lamestream media struggling to understand what happened last night.  Their heads are spinning, but their brains just can’t comprehend the truth, so let me lay it out for them.  All they have to do is look at the recent Brexit vote in the UK and they will begin to understand.  There are many similarities.

First, while Brexit was not about a candidate, it was about sovereignty.  The everyday Brit was sick of having the European Union tell them what they should think and what they could do.  This was the issue that brought Donald Trump into the Presidential race.  Sovereignty!  Americans were tired of people coming into the United States illegally without the intent to assimilate.  We have borders for a reason.  We are a generous welcoming country, but we have the right to control who comes into our country and who doesn’t.  These people should add to our culture, not replace it and they should want to contribute to this great republic, not be a burden to it.

The second similarity is that the British people were tired of being called stupid, ignorant and bigoted just for having a difference of opinion.   In America, if you didn’t agree with the elite media or the establishment politicians or the snobs in academia, you were labeled a misogynist, a racist, a xenophobe or a bigot.  If you were concerned about border security or about defending the unborn or favored school choice you were viciously attacked as ignorant.  The American people and the Brits are both tired of the vitriol.  The common people of the world are speaking and they are sick of elitist rhetoric.

Here’s another paradigm busting fact.  Donald Trump won this election while fighting the lamestream media, the Democrat Party political machine and even some of his own Republican Party leadership, and he did it at a fraction of the cost.  Trump spent a third of the money Hillary did, and his campaign staff was one tenth of hers (70 vs. 700).  I don’t know about you, but I like this thrifty approach, especially when it also results in a victory.  We can only hope that “The Donald” can apply some of this frugality to our government’s spending addiction immediately.

Now, Trump must turn from campaigning to governing; so let me tell you what looks like a uniting, successful first year to me.  His first opportunity to begin the healing process will be with his cabinet picks.  I won’t go department by department, but this list should include at least a few women and maybe even a democrat or two. 

He will certainly shred a number of Obama executive orders that will take the government’s boot off the throats of big and small business alike.  That’s OK.  This isn’t an olive branch, but it’s expected.  Next, he should soften his plan on immigration.  The majority of Americans are in favor of border security, even if that manifests itself in a wall.  Most are also in favor of “sending the bad people back”.  There is, however, no way that we can round up eleven to thirteen million illegal immigrants and send them back to Mexico.  A pathway to legalization (not citizenship) for hardworking, law abiding Hispanics would not only be a positive for the country’s economy, but it would be an outreach to Latino voters, which is a must for the future of the Republican party.

He will have to appoint a Supreme Court Justice very quickly.  The world would be very OK with another defender of the constitution like Antonin Scalia.  He can always appoint a moderate, like Kennedy, when Ginsburg retires.  And retire she will in the next four years. 

Trump should also make some quick moves to stimulate the economy.  Tax reform will not only grow the economy but could begin to address our massive government debt.  He most certainly will allow companies to repatriate their profits with low or no tax penalty to invest here in the US.  And, can anyone say “Keystone Pipeline”? Duh! 

Finally, I would be very disappointed if he did not make good on his promise to begin the process to enact a 28^th amendment on Term Limits for the House and Senate.  This is an issue that over 80% of Americans support.  All of this would be a good start at uniting the country and making America great again.

There is a sad postscript to this post.  At the end of this long, grueling and often vicious campaign, Barack Obama made this election about him.  With the expectation that Hillary would cruise to a victory, he actually asked people to vote for Hillary for his legacy, and the results, unfortunately for him, will define it.  In 2008, the Democrat party delivered everything necessary for President Obama to succeed.  He controlled the House, had a filibuster proof majority in the Senate and, of course he occupied the White House.    As he leaves in 2017, the Democrat party has lost all three.  This will not go unnoticed by history.