op ed review 2/23
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
GOP fundraising record: $60.5M in January,
RNC nearly doubles DNC
Grand Marshal Trump Puts on Spectacular Show of 'American Glory'
at NASCAR
Left Panics over Hispanic Support for Trump
More than 6 in 10 expect Trump to be reelected: poll
Trump takes 2020 lead, 52%-48%, all Democrats ‘probably
lose’
Voter Data From Trump's Arizona Rally Should Scare The Hell
Out Of Democrats
Bernie Sanders wins the Nevada caucuses. Democrats hardest
hit.
After Nevada win, Bernie Sanders can only be stopped at
great cost to Democrats
Media Panic as Sanders Cruising Toward
2020 Nomination
!!MSNBC's Chris Matthews speculates Democrats may be better
off with Trump as president than Sanders
Bernie Loses It When Bloomberg Calls Him The ‘Best Known
Socialist’ Who ‘Happens To Be A Millionaire With Three Houses’
Michael Bloomberg's campaign implodes onstage in Democratic
debate
Bloomberg Favored Confronting Indian Tribes with Cowboy Hat,
Shotgun
Bloomburg: "If You Show Up with Cancer and You're 95 -
We Should Say We Can't Do Anything"
Mike Bloomberg belittles farming and factory jobs as needing
less 'gray matter'
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/16/michael-bloomberg-video-belittles-farming-factory-/
Bloomberg's AR-15 Ban Rejected in Virginia
Ex-Bill Clinton adviser: Bloomberg and Hillary cooking up
'scheme' for her to become Democratic nominee
Report: Trump's 'Remain in Mexico' Policy Stopping Anchor
Baby Schemes
Democrat Senator Held Secret Meeting With Iranian Foreign
Minister. No interest from media
NYC subway thief thanks Democrats after his 139th arrest,
release: 'Bail reform, it’s lit!'
What about rural Washington?
Rural conservatives in Oregon look to join Idaho
Supporters Line Up 'As Far as the Eye Can See' to Attend
President Trump's Arizona Rally
Ilhan Omar DID marry her brother, reveals Somali community
leader
Cross targeted by atheists will remain standing on Florida
public property
Wall Street Journal declares: “Wages Are Rising (we can’t have that!), so
Government Must Quickly Expand Immigration”
Here it comes: Disney-movie
"Onward" Will Feature the First Openly LGBTQ Character
Trump heads to India for state visit and biggest rally yet
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Fletch Daniels 2/21
President Donald Trump spent the first three years of his
presidency taking a flamethrower to elite conventional wisdom. Before the
president, an "elite" consensus had formed that lost manufacturing
and industrial jobs were gone for good, "free" trade was good for
America, and American leadership was about managing America's decline in the
face of a rising power in China. These positions were so assumed to be true
that politicians would spout them off in the same way they might observe that
the sky is blue or that knowing the Clintons is hazardous to a person's health.
The "you didn't build that" president commented
before the 2016 election, "He [Trump] just says, 'Well, I'm going to
negotiate a better deal.' Well, what, how exactly are you going to
negotiate that? What magic wand do you
have?" That
magic wand was a simple combination of competence, a belief in America, and an
understanding of fair trade and economic leverage.
Not to be outdone by his old boss and showing why he has
never won a single state primary, Joe Biden commented, "Anybody
who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as
well[.] ... Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program,
for God's sake!" Translation: While everyone cannot land a gig
guzzling corrupt cash from a foreign energy board, people can at least learn to
do something respectable, like typing out some of that computer stuff.
Leaving aside the sneering elitism in both Obama's and
Biden's statements, the last presidential team were simply restating what they
believed to be accepted fact that it is both inevitable and good that
high-paying blue-collar jobs were being gutted and shipped
overseas. Hey, don't blame us. This is just the natural order of
things. Considering the globalist anti-American Obama worldview that is now the
beating heart of the Democrat party, the fact that this weakened American
influence doubled the goodness.
This president upended the canard and drove home the simple
truth that we never had free trade in any real sense. American workers were deserted
to compete on a tilted playing field against countries who were protecting
their own industrial base in a version of free for me but not for thee. The
globalist cancer of elite conventional wisdom was destroying the country one
factory at a time as American workers were buried under cheap overseas labor
and corrupt foreign cash.
So many people who run for president don't really seem to
know why, other than wanting to be the most powerful person in the world while
cashing in on the position, Hillary Clinton's entire platform can be summed up
as "It's my turn to rule you little people from on high."
President Trump knew exactly why he wanted to be president,
and the driving reason was to fight for America and Americans, which meant
returning immigration sanity and overturning the unfair trade agreements that
had inflicted so much damage. Another great president, Ronald Reagan, once commented about
America's failing schools that "if an unfriendly foreign power had
attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists
today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war." That
same principle holds true here. No foreign power could have done
anywhere close to the damage that America's "elites" inflicted on
their country. Then-candidate Trump understood this all too well.
The president pointed to the fact that we lost 60,000
factories under the previous two administrations and gained 12,000 factories
during his first three years. No wonder Nervous Nancy felt compelled
to rip up the speech, since its delivery was the equivalent of serving up a
garlic sandwich to a coven of globalist vampires.
As another metric, the Obama administration lost about
200,000 net manufacturing jobs, while the current administration has added
about 550,000 of these jobs. U.S. exports have grown by 15% since
Trump took office…….All of this was done with the added bonus of disrupting
American companies' supply chains with China. This trade war was far
more painful to China than the U.S., since it resulted in American companies
reorienting their supply chains away from China…..With new supply chains in
place, many of those companies won't go back. This was a savvy
recalibration of the national security situation. President Trump
understood that he was holding all the cards in this trade war and that America
was destined to win. He also understood that the status quo was not
compatible with any concept of making and keeping America great, although it
was doing plenty to empower China….
An economist won't make a values judgment on whether the
U.S. is better off trading with China, Mexico, or Mars. But any
action the U.S. takes that slows down the rise of China as a global superpower,
particularly if that action also increases America's own power, will serve to
lessen the danger of a U.S. conflict with China.
In this sense, President Trump's economic moves have been
targeted national security strikes. He unleashed the U.S. economy,
which has increased America's relative power. But he did it in a way
that also diminished China's rising power. It was a game-changer.
The conventional wisdom that existed just a few short years
ago is now a smoldering pile of ash. The president has improved the
lives of nearly all Americans; reversed the income inequality that Democrats
love to complain about; and dramatically improved the national security
situation, lessoning the probability of catastrophic conflict with China.
He was right to declare that "in just three short
years, we have shattered the mentality of American decline, and we have
rejected the downsizing of America's destiny." His success is a
powerful indictment of his predecessor since Obama embodied that very
mentality. Democrats are stuck to face the horrifying reality that
there has never been a president who has done more to earn a second term, and
no number of pen ceremonies or paper-shreddings can cover that up.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“At this point in
2016, the Republican primary field still featured black and Latino candidates.
But the 2020 Dems have already kicked all of their racial minority candidates
to the curb. We need to have a national conversation about racism in the Democrat
Party. Very troubling!”
-Matt
Walsh
“Bloomberg seems to have acquired his knowledge of farming
by watching Hee-Haw.”
-Fox
News’s Brit Hume
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BOKS
In Their Own Words answers, an
important question on the minds of many Americans-what is happening inside
America"s Democratic Party today?
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LEFTIST WATCH
Leftists Celebrate Ryan Newman Crash at NASCAR Because He
Supported Trump
Study Finds Most Journalists Are Further Left Politically
Than Bernie Sanders
Take a peek at 'best known millionaire socialist' Bernie
Sanders' three homes
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PROGRESSIVE AMERICA
From felony to misdemeanor: Bill in Washington legislature would
ease penalty for exposing a partner to HIV
The Progressive Prosecutor Project
Bloomberg funding network of climate lawyers inside state AG
offices
Buttigieg's Brother-in-Law: 'Everything Pete Is Pushing' Is
'Anti-God'
California Gov. Gavin Newsom Says Doctors Should Write
Prescriptions For Housing
Oregon governor calls for breaching 4 Snake River dams;
Washington’s GOP House members outraged
LA Times Film Critic: Trump Saying He Likes ‘Gone with the Wind’
Is a 'Racist Dog Whistle'
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GLOBALONEY
When 'Climate' Isn't About the Climate
At All
UK Professor Says ‘Let Humans Become Extinct’ to Save Planet
'Net-Zero' Carbon Emissions a Suicide Pact
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ARTICLES
12 Times Lawful Gun Owners Defended Themselves and Others
Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute: “The Roots of Our Partisan Divide”
Watch as Victor Davis Hanson destroys Bloomberg for his
ignorant remarks denigrating the skills and intelligence of farmers
Duh! The Economist:
Tougher Immigration Policy Seems to Raise Wages
Interesting: “K-12 is
a land of mystery”
Study: School Vouchers Improve Public Schools
My Walk on the Wild Side – Attending a Bernie Sanders Rally
Sexualization, Pornography, and Grooming in the Schools: “Concerned
citizens all over the country are joining the resistance to what the
sexual-radical Left calls "comprehensive sex education"
(CSE). One such group is Informed Parents of Washington (IPOW),
who describe themselves as "a coalition of parents dedicated to fighting
Comprehensive Sexxx Education in our schools and legislation that [infringes
on] parental rights."
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OTHER STUFF
WATCH: Trump supporters at rally carry WWII veteran to his
seat amid chants of 'USA! USA! USA!'
One man's awesome response to a neighbor's complaint about
his Trump flag
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WISE
WORDS
“Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic.
We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.”
-Alexander
Hamilton
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