Keep Right — Column by Ralph K. Ginorio
A mere three weeks into the second Trump administration sees an intensity of Presidential activity not seen in 92 years. Only Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first hundred days in 1933 even comes close to the inundation of Executive Orders, Cabinet nominations, policy reversals, and changes in the field that have been accomplished by our 47th President. Even FDR’s Progressive Revolution seems slow by comparison with Trump’s first 23 days.
It seems wise to take stock. Here follows a short and incomplete list of what has been accomplished as of this writing. “The Good” is what to me seems wise. “The Bad” is what seems fraught with peril. “The Ugly” is what I am as yet unsure of.
The Good
- The restoration of sane energy policies will result in more inexpensive fossil fuels that will quench the energy sector’s inflationary pressures on the rest of the economy.
- The elimination of USAID, the Department of Education, and eventually the Department of Energy make a good beginning on cleaving away the Federal bloat. The Federal government has no Constitutional role in these areas.
- Auditing the books across the entire Federal bureaucracy so that their spending priorities can be known by outsiders such as the Department of Government Efficiency, reviewed by the Trump administration, and cleansed of nefarious social engineering as well as institutional corruption.
- Reasserting control over what had become a shadow government within the Department of Justice, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Communications Commission, Department of the Interior, Department of Health and Human Services, and Department of Defense. The real threat of a hidden oligarchy comes from permanent bureaucrats within these bureaus who consider themselves to be far more qualified to rule than any elected official.
- Restoring humane cultural policies to the Federal government’s activities by denying the politicized lie that gender is distinct from sex, recognizing the duality of gender, refusing to indulge the delusion that gender is fluid, banning men from women’s sports, and banning the chemical castration and surgical mutilation of children. These all protect the innocent from being groomed as well as women from being abused.
- Eliminating Diversity-Equity-Inclusion from Federal policy goals takes the Federal government out of the business of promoting ideologically prejudicial policies at the expense of merit.
- Withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accords, the United Nations Human Rights Council, the World Health Organization, and other international organizations denies these Chinese-compromised entities authority over the U.S. as well as starving them of U.S. funding.
- Reasserting control over our borders and interior with the intent of deporting all illegal alien invaders, beginning with violent criminals, is the necessary precursor to restoring purposeful control over the entry into our nation of both people and illegal drugs.
- Stripping Non-Governmental Organizations of the U.S. taxpayer monies that have funded their efforts to undermine U.S. law and destabilize American society in order to redistribute peace, prosperity, lawfulness, and liberty away from the U.S. by making us more like a failed Third World state. For example, in the 1990s Catholic Charities settled hundreds of Somali families en masse into several Maine cities, fundamentally altering their culture, character, and crime rates.
- Utilizing American economic power (tariffs and otherwise) to pressure foreign friends and foes into assisting the new administration’s efforts to restore American peace, prosperity, security, and power.
- Reclaiming the Panama Canal, bringing Greenland into the American sphere, inviting Canadians in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and maybe the Atlantic Provinces to join the U.S. all improve our primacy within our natural sphere of influence as well as better protects our homeland.
The Bad
- Trump’s Gaza Riviera, the plan for the U.S. to assume direct responsibility over the Gaza Strip, seems misguided to me. I appreciate that Trump is a master of creating confusion in his opponents by dazzling them with unprecedentedly unorthodox initiatives. The Middle East needs such innovation. If this proposal disturbs the fanatical Islamist insistence on the destruction of Israel and its replacement by a terrorist-run Palestine, then good. But, until these genocidal maniacs’ plans and policies are repudiated by the broad Islamic world, war-by-any-means will continue. I am not optimistic that a direct U.S. intervention will end this cycle. Instead, I suspect we will find in Gaza a quagmire that will defy our good will and consume our blood and treasure.
The Ugly
- While it is immensely emotionally satisfying to throw the re-wording obsession of the Left in their face, I do wonder if renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America is the best use of President Trump’s political capital. Then again, in this he mirrors another one of the Left’s tactics. So very many bold initiatives are coming from Trump that it has saturated their typical defenses and inundated their sensibilities. On that basis alone, initiatives like this renaming may be brilliant.
The urgency with which Donald J. Trump and his allies are pushing forward recognizes just how dangerous our own government has become. Those who have been entrusted with leadership and responsibility within our Federal agencies, as well as many elected officers, have willfully violated their trust. Trump is restoring the Federal government’s proper role as public servants and not hidden masters.
