{"id":93711,"date":"2018-02-01T04:52:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T08:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=93711"},"modified":"2018-02-01T13:58:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T17:58:31","slug":"trump-triumphant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=93711","title":{"rendered":"Trump Triumphant!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Thousand Oaks, CA<br \/>\nFebruary 1, 2018<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>A year into his presidency, Donald Trump stands triumphant, completely dominating<br \/>\nthe political landscape despite the overt hostility of the Democrats, the <em>Mainstream Media<\/em> and those in his own party who embrace the Globalism his populist candidacy rejected.<\/p>\n<p>As Roger Stone indicates in his summary of Trump&#8217;s State of the Union Speech (SOTU), his list of accomplishments is truly impressive: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/stone-on-sotu-what-i-saw-was-different-than-what-cnn-saw\/\">http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/stone-on-sotu-what-i-saw-was-different-than-what-cnn-saw\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I believe at least some of what he claims is exaggerated and self-promotional. But that<br \/>\nis part of the Trump style that got him elected. Irrespective of the underlying substance<br \/>\nof what he says about the state of the country, Trump has clearly made the case that it<br \/>\nis heading in the right direction and that he has delivered on his campaign promises.<\/p>\n<p>We will see soon enough whether the economy has really improved with jobs and<br \/>\ngrowth across the cultural and ethnic board. If so, then the 2018 off-year election will<br \/>\nlikely translate into an endorsement of his platform and leadership. Like James Carville<br \/>\ninstructed Bill Clinton years ago, for most voters, &#8220;it&#8217;s the economy, stupid!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats dream of imposing their socialist agenda is threatened. Despite the<br \/>\nwithering attacks and endless scandal-mongering against him, Trump has emerged<br \/>\nat this critical moment virtually unscathed.<\/p>\n<p>With the Mueller Russiagate investigation plagued by charges and counter-charges<br \/>\nof lies, most of the public has essentially tuned it all out to focus on personal needs<br \/>\nlike family, work and community. Trump has benefited enormously from the chaos<br \/>\nwith his straight ahead, energizer-bunny approach that got him into the White House<br \/>\nproving to be the formula that bodes well for his re-election effort, should he choose<br \/>\nto run again.<\/p>\n<p>That is a long way from now. With a booming economy at his back, he could choose<br \/>\nto leave on a high note and avoid the constant badgering and attacks that he has<br \/>\nweathered so successfully since the summer of 2015 when he announced his plans.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps his dubious foreign policies choices will prove his undoing. Many on the left<br \/>\nand the right share a deep concern about his continuing the failed approach of previous<br \/>\nAdministrations to rely so heavily on military force to deal with overseas challenges.<br \/>\nThey debate whether Trump is truly taking on the Deep State or is his own version of<br \/>\nit where his America First approach is equivalent to the Pax Americana of the Neocon<br \/>\nand Neoliberal Globalists he verbally attacks. <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/porter\/2018\/01\/25\/pentagon-enlisted-trump-continue-perpetual-war-terror\/\">http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/porter\/2018\/01\/25\/pentagon-enlisted-trump-continue-perpetual-war-terror\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But for most Americans, that is something they are far less interested in than crime, health, education and more income in their pockets. To the extent he delivers on that promise in real terms as well as in SOTU hype, Trump will be triumphant!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}