President-elect Donald Trump

President-elect Donald Trump

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Despite all of the forces allied against his candidacy, from its very start in June of 2015, businessman and real estate mogul Donald J. Trump was elected the forty-fifth president of the United States, having bested Hillary Clinton in thirty of the fifty United States. Winning seven of the eleven so-called “swing states,” his victory was sealed when he was awarded the presidential electors of Pennsylvania in the early hours of Wednesday, November 9th– a state that hasn’t gone Republican since 1988.

Not only did Trump defy all of the so-called experts, who were forecasting an electoral landslide of more than 300 electoral votes for Mrs. Clinton, as late as Tuesday afternoon, he has also effectively ended any future presidential aspirations on the part of the three ruling political families- the Bushes, the Clintons and the Obamas, who have held power since that same year of 1988. The dominance of these three families on their own respective parties, for longer than the last quarter-century, has been shattered on the rocks of a determined man- one who has never run for any political office, in his lifetime.

In doing so, he also managed to raise the curtain of decades-long mainstream media collusion with Democrats, in general, and the Clinton family, specifically, and has forced even the most vaunted experts of presidential polling to admit the error of their ways, and their inability to read the sentiments of an American electorate. Once derided as a “clown candidate,” condescendingly laughed at and scorned upon by political and media elites who viewed him and his supporters as what Hillary Clinton once called a “basket of deplorables,” it was Donald Trump who had the last laugh, in the end.

Today, the mainstream media speaks much about the “need” for Donald Trump to reach out, to mend fences and to engage his erstwhile adversaries- the Democrats and the “NeverTrump” Republicans, to join with him to form some kind of cooperative coalition as he enters into his own presidency. In reality, Donald Trump should outwardly and cordially treat these adversaries with a sense of presidential decorum, truly, but never fall into the foolish trap of entrusting any of these entities with his pursuit of an agenda with which they have taken so much issue.  Having retained both houses of Congress, it is now up to the Republicans to work with Trump and start acting like an opposition party opposed to Democrats, instead of acting like Democrat-wannabes. Failure to do so will effectively end the Republican Party- a party whose beginning can be traced back to 1854.

Donald Trump is to be congratulated for an amazing win of historic and consequential proportions, but now the real work of all that he and his followers have sought, begins. It will not be easy to mend a broken nation and the challenges that he and the American people face will not easily be overcome.

Most urgently, he must bring about the immediate demise of ObamaCare. In doing so, he must work with the Congress to replace it with a new system that is designed to serve patients first- one that is not coercive with the sword of the IRS, but rather a consumer-focused system where open competition amongst several insurance providers, across state lines, keeps the costs of coverage within the financial grasp of working Americans.

Second, he must secure the borders of this country, ensure that those entering the United States are carefully vetted to assure the public safety, and ensure that any and all immigration is managed legally, competently, and professionally.

Thirdly, he must immediately begin the process of replacing the late Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, on the Supreme Court of the United States.

In the longer view, President Trump will be tasked with bringing together a divided country, one compoundly fractured along racial, religious, political and economic lines. This will no doubt take longer, given the enormous chasms that separate Americans from one another, but this must nevertheless be in the back of Mr. Trump’s mind in all of his decisions as he moves forward. With an emphasis towards American nationalism, so absent in the last twenty-eight years of an over-arching globalist agenda pursued by both parties, putting America and Americans first will go far in bringing the American people together, again.

There is much to do, Mr. Trump. On behalf of the American people, let’s get started…big league.

 

-Drew Nickell, 9 November 2016

© 2016 by Drew Nickell, all rights reserved.

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