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Thursday, October 31, 2024

A Trump Agenda for Day One

Aspecter haunts a second Trump administration, and it has a name: Boris Johnson.

As everyone knows, Johnson and his party won a historic landslide in 2019—the Tories’ largest in 70 years—and then squandered their mandate so badly that they were wiped out in the recent election, leaving them with the fewest seats in their long history. While Johnson did finally come through on his Brexit promise, he sold out to the conventional (meaning leftist) positions of the British establishment on everything from climate change, immigration, and the National Health Service to housing, education, and on and on.

Donald Trump is highly unlikely to sell out like Boris Johnson, but there are two hazards in the way. First, Congress, the courts, and the bureaucracy will throw up countless roadblocks, not to mention subterfuges likely more outrageous than the Russia Hoax of 2016. This is to be expected, and Dan McCarthy lays out a strong grand strategy to overcome this predictable opposition.
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