(A column of opinion by Gary Reid, Publisher Emeritus)

Trump’s successes give hope for America

It’s sometimes difficult to feel optimistic about America’s future, given the sharp division in the population. Yet, hope continues for success of “the land of the free and home of the brave.”

President Trump, a former Democrat who won the presidency (twice) as a Republican, has taken aggressive action in attempting to cure the nation’s problems while the Democratic Party’s left-wing leadership works night and day to thwart his agenda. It’s following the same path it did in his first presidency, seeking chaos rather than solutions.

President Trump has demonstrated he learned a great deal in his first administration, selecting a loyal cabinet and staff this time, after being stabbed in the back repeatedly by true believers in the Deep State during the first. The unelected bureaucracy which feels the government belongs to it, not the citizens, operates the well-oiled Democratic Party machinery, aided by a compliant leftist major media, attempting to denigrate every positive action of the second Trump presidency.

It is notable that roadblocks to every Trump effort continue to fail.

That’s because he is doing what a majority of Americans voted for him to do. Many former Democrats are discovering President Trump understands and appreciates working people.

The old Democrat Party had a lock on the belief they stood for the working man. That has changed as too many years in control convinced the elitist leaders they needed to kowtow to millionaires and billionaires who could keep them in office with their campaign donations, not to mention the slush funds of taxpayer funds provided by Non-Government Organizations (NGO’s). The left assured us these were going to benevolent causes when they were actually going to promote Marxist causes here and abroad.

While many of the older citizens, who knew America when it still operated primarily the way it was designed, are approaching the end of their voting days, a new conservative bloc is developing with younger people. While schools – principally colleges, even those once considered superior – have attempted to brainwash students with left-wing nonsense, somehow many young Americans have discerned there was “something rotten in Washington,” to borrow and convert the “Old Bard’s” comment.

It is remarkable that a majority of younger voters saw through the propaganda. It figures that policies like restricting economic freedom, weakening U.S. border security, welcoming in millions of illegal aliens, some of them criminals who wreaked injury on innocent citizens, especially the young and females, along with actions against religious freedom opened their eyes. The COVID 19 shutdown was another eye-opener not to mention the non-scientific Green New Deal, with its increasing attacks on individual freedoms, including even requiring what kind of stoves people could cook on.

Happily, the younger generation can tell the difference in male and female and have rejected the notion that males can legally compete against females in athletics. Biology doesn’t lie and guys, even those few who claim to be female, normally have bigger and stronger muscles plus greater lung capacity than females. A male who winds up in the lower placings in male events can often win against female contestants with record breaking marks.

The idea of God’s intervention in human affairs may be disdained by some but I can’t help wondering if that might be the case of President Trump’s appearance at this point in our nation’s history.

Who else could have (or would have) put up with the merciless attacks? Who else would have had the financial capability to withstand the faux legal suits designed to ruin him financially?

It reminds me of President Ronald Reagan’s presidency some 40 years ago ( Jan. 20, 1981-Jan. 20, 1989).

He faced the constant attacks, like Trump, and firmly stood his ground.

One of the special occurrences of the Reagan years was the concurrent arrival of Pope John Paul II and English Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on the world scene, both globally-oriented leaders who believed in freedom.

They teamed up to preserve the free world at a time when globalists were attempting to take control.

The arrival of the first American-born pope, Leo XIV, this month, gives me hope that England will turn from its current path of self-destruction and become a conservative nation again, as during Thatcher’s 15-year reign.

What a time for celebration if a new triumvirate emerges, saving the world from global Marxism.