Editorial

For Americans, living under President Joe Biden, it has been an exceptionally long four years. President Donald Trump bequeathed to Biden a strong country with American energy independence, a secure border, a robust military, peace abroad and economic prosperity at home. Sadly, Biden ruined everything Trump left to him by pursuing destructive progressive policies that were an abysmal failure.

In this week’s column, can I divert from my usual agenda of politics and current events? If he were still living, my Father would have reached the ripe age of 110 this week.
In his work The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud describes the death of a father, as “the most important event, the most potent loss, of a man’s life.” This is true in my case. What I have discovered is that the older I get, the better I understand my Father, because I find more and more of him in me.

Not only have America’s priorities shifted as a nation – as evidenced by President-elect Donald Trump winning the popular vote on a largely conservative populist set of priorities – but divisions are emerging between conservatives who consider themselves part of “MAGA” (Make America Great Again) and those who do not.
The 2024 election was a powerful nation-wide referendum on the decades-long failed globalist experiment, with voters strongly aligning with President Trump’s populist, America First platform.