If you get your political updates through
ordinary channels – MSM; local news; the major newspapers; and popular website
newsies such as Yahoo, Facebook, and more recently Drudge – you most likely
feel that America is imploding, all due to the chaos of the Trump
administration.
The goal is to wear you down, if not wear
you out, until you agree that Trump must go.
The stakes rise with each new Trump
achievement, commensurate with the rising decibel level of those who express
outrage at whatever he says. That's what happens when your cherished
assumptions are disproven day after day. It's comical and also
understandable. No one likes to admit that he is wrong. Or that
they are wrong on a regular basis. It's embarrassing and humiliating
– especially if you are touted as an expert journalist or commentator, at
least by virtue of being on TV.
That's why you hear little or nothing
about:
- the current NAFTA
negotiations
- Kim Jong-un blinking
- China threatening a
trade war and then blinking
- the U.S. becoming a net
energy exporter
- our diminishing trade
imbalance
- the amazing rise to
nearly 4% GDP growth in the 2017 third quarter
- forecasters suggesting
that GDP could grow to 5 or 6% annualized
- a rise in manufacturing
investments in the U.S.
- more full-time jobs
among the middle class
- the Syrian crisis
- the continuing fall of
ISIS in the Middle East
- Wall Street's record
highs as they turn to embrace Main Street
- the public's opposition
to the destruction of historic statues and memorials
- an abhorrence of radical
and violent activists on all sides, most all of whom abide on the left
fringe
- Russian collusion
- the Awan brothers
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
- Hillary and the Clinton
Foundation entities
- the wall
- immigration
- et cetera, et cetera, et
cetera.
Trump is winning – BIGLY. It's
almost too easy. He's focused on results, period. The rest is just
distraction, much of it orchestrated by anti-Trumpers who insist that you
really can get a different result if you repeat the same experiment enough
times. They still don't get it because they don't want to get it.
They have dug in their heels. That's why I find it funny.
Trump is playing them every step of the way.
The people who get it are the American
workers – the ones who watch Dirty Jobs, follow Mike Rowe on
Facebook, and are happy to find an extra two hundred dollars at the end of the
month. Soon enough, others will, too. It just takes time.
Trump is making it happen before our very eyes.
R. Stephen Bowden blogs at the Steve Bowden Journal.
