President Trump’s pledge to make America Great Again and his efforts to do exactly that are likely to be studied by historians 100 years from now.

The amazing thing about the man is that unlike most politicians he does exactly what he promises to do.

He has subsumed the Democrat Party’s pretense as the defender of the “working man.”

The Left preaches that Trump is seeking to become a dictator.

Could it be left-wing Democrats are projecting their own desires and plans on the man who beat them?

The Dems’ over-spending policies, which placed the nation on the brink of financial collapse, have been a major cause of divisive debate between opposing parties.

The Left has railed against the Trump efforts to renegotiate what he considers unfair tariffs affecting American businesses and industries.

The problem of unfair trade agreements – high foreign taxes on U.S. exports and low tariffs for foreign imports – began after the end of World War II when Europe and much of the rest of the world’s manufacturing base had been destroyed.

The U.S. put policies in effect to help war-torn countries recover.

After those nations recovered and became strong competitors against America, unfavorable policies (for the U.S.) continued to allow the unfairness to continue, draining America of its industrial jobs as global companies moved plants overseas to take advantage of lower cost labor.

It wasn’t just the Democratic Party that was responsible for this.

Republican President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger engineered the rapprochement with Communist China along with favorable trade policies, hopefully to help China toward more free enterprise and greater freedom for its citizens.

China retained its communist government but installed some policies to take advantage of America’s largesse.

Those policies led to America becoming reliant on China for many vital goods from 1972 until today.

Americans became unhappy with the policies of Democrat Presidents Obama and Biden, which led to an increasingly negative trade balances along with boiling inflation and elected President Trump to try to fix the problems – first in 2016 and then again in 2024. Despite constant opposition from the increasingly powerful Deep State – a melange of unelected bureaucrats working in multiple alphabet-titled executive branch federal jobs.

Trump was surprisingly successful in improving conditions in his first term despite concerted Deep State opposition.

Despite his success, a COVID pandemic, emanating from China, plus election interference, which newly- released information reveals deeply involved China, allowed Biden to “win” the presidency in 2020.

Trump returned to run for president again in 2024 and won overwhelmingly despite a constant barrage of negative publicity by the national media, which has been revealed as a wing of the Democratic Party.

Trump had figured out the rampant rot in Washington, D.C. and picked a team of loyalists for his second cabinet.

He hit the ground running on Jan 20, 2025, and began immediately to cut the waste and corruption using the DOGE program. Also, he immediately began working to reform international trade by negotiating new trade agreements more advantageous to America.

Despite continuing assaults against President Trump, polls continue to show that his efforts to help Americans are positive. (Left-wing media continues its double standard on polling, attempting to create the delusion that everyday Americans are against the president.)

It seems almost a miracle that Americans have been able to frustrate the power-seekers’ efforts to destroy the citizen-controlled government provided by the Constitution, and convert it to an all-powerful central government. (The Deep State is an example.)

Columnist Kevin McCullough recently explained Trump’s success this way, relating it to the Left’s attempt to blame Trump for the problems in the Middle East.

He wrote: “There are moments in history when the world needs more than a diplomat. It needs a man of action. A commander. A decider. A leader. This week, when Iran escalated the war with Israel, the rest of the globe issued statements and expressed ‘grave concern.’ President Donald J. Trump left the G7 Summit early, stepped on Air Force One, and went home to get to work.

“While the international elites clinked wine glasses and crafted non-binding resolutions, President Trump did what he always does: led.

“This was not a war he asked for. It wasn’t one he provoked. But it was one that carried consequences far beyond the Middle East—and President Trump understood that. Iran’s sustained campaign of terror, its deep-pocketed funding of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, and its nuclear ambitions have long threatened not only Israel’s existence, but the global order itself. There is no stability in Europe or Asia if Tehran becomes a nuclear power. Period.

“And unlike the paper-pushers in Brussels and the Ivy League think tanks back home, Trump never waited around for the ‘perfect time’ to act.”