Notebook: Trump’s important work
EDITORIAL MUG: Larry Anderson
Donald Trump will be president in a few days. He will replace arguably the worst president in modern times. One only has to look closely at Biden’s behavior in recent days for confirmation of how bad the left has been for this country.
Trump will enter office a different man. He has learned a lot about the left the last eight years, how they manipulate, lie and exaggerate, and how negatively they view this nation of freedom and opportunity. He understands their propaganda methods and their agenda better now and has learned how to deal with these politically. Moreover, Trump has replaced brusqueness with determination, ambition and confidence. That’s what people need in a leader.
Trump will hit the floor running. He will issue a blizzard of executive orders, thereby canceling a lot of liberal missteps that have held back an economy ready to roll. Short term he will secure our borders, renew our energy ventures for the benefit of all, and reduce inflation by cutting waste and profligate spending. These will be done because the need is beyond evident.
Long term, Trump will negotiate trade deals that actually favor this nation instead of everyone else. It will take a while, but he will remove illegal immigrants from this country with the help of agencies finally empowered to do their jobs. He will bring our military back by restoring recruitment and weaponry and through alliances that mean something.
Our neighbors will be more cooperative and our enemies more remote. America will be more prosperous but also more equitable through renewed opportunity and understanding. People will be appointed to high office based on qualifications instead of political correctness. We will be a better nation because improvement will be based on deeds instead of empty liberal rhetoric and overbearing big government.
Trump is a big picture man who has accomplished incredible things. He has focus and can prioritize, but he is also like a wolf on a bone. He doesn’t quit or answer to a certain doctrine or pander for favor or attention. He is his own man. It’s about time, don’t you think, that we had a leader who can think outside the Washington box?
Trump must stand strong against the left’s alliance of corrupt big media, indoctrinated educators and bureaucrats, and big money interests that fund and instigate social nightmares for personal aggrandizement and amusement. George Soros, that peculiar mix of socialist and anarchist, comes to mind.
Trump should clean out the bureaucracies. New leadership in agencies will change this country’s direction economically and socially but also mentally which is just as important. Our government should not be the biggest employer in the world; instead it should be focused like a laser on our most pressing needs.
The fact is many federal agencies are overstaffed because hiring favorably inflates employment statistics. Staffing should be streamlined into accountability. Underperforming workers or those that serve no purpose should be gone. The same can be done for overblown organizations like the Department of Education which does little more than disseminate liberal doctrine. Education should belong to invested states, communities, parents and teachers. Trump will address these points aggressively.
Trump has a huge job of cleaning up ahead, and he will do most of that quickly. His main focus is bringing back prosperity, pride and power to a nation too long abused by liberal failure. We must help Trump all we can because our goal is common: a better America.
Liberals are going to have some time off at last. This will allow them opportunity to discuss their feelings endlessly, to look all grim and knowing, and to discuss everyone else’s failures. Perhaps they can contemplate more how to wreck kids’ lives with gender experimentation, or how to tear down more tributes to Americans who actually accomplished something. Maybe they can dig up another award for a Clinton or figure out what to do with the plastic straws at which they are grasping.
I will continue to watch from my comfortable perch in the bleachers still understanding how dangerous the left can be when forced into a corner by democracy, justice and a population engaged. The left is down but not out. Never forget that. Never let up.
Larry W. Anderson is a
retired educator.
