Attempts to Decry, Denounce, and Degrade the Nation's 47th Commander in Chief Wear Increasingly Thin
What would a parent think if someone called their seven-year-old child a failure for life?
An assessment based on what they thought they had done.
How would a parent feel, if that happened to them, when they were seven?
Looking on this in retrospect, would you say fortune-telling in your toddler years bears any resemblance to what you have become?
This writer will hazard a guess, that he already knows your answer, and concurrently that you know mine.
For more than a week now, a parlor game has been played at the highest volume across all mainstream media.
The game asks you to parrot how many ways you can decry, denounce, and degrade the nation's (returning) Trump administration.
If one stoops so low as to sit through merely an hour of this, you've have heard the entire interminable script.
Given that Trump 2.0 is only hundred days old, out of a more than 1400 of this administration, any news of the death of President Trump's agenda, even rumor of it being in disarray or worse, is no different than painting your daughter’s entire life red just because she put on red lipstick when she was seven.
We've seen this movie before, have we not?
And it's repeated playing is now beyond tiring.
Enough!
It's helpful to remind ourselves why Donald J. Trump especially in his second term — (as now the nation's 47th commander in chief) is in the Oval Office.
He's there to make a change, to reimagine and to rebuild America in the image of what we have been before — strong, proud, confident and aware of our role as the leader of the free world, and as a beacon of hope in a tumultuous world.
In any restoration project a master builder starts with scraping away the grime and soot obscuring a beautiful façade from decades of abuse.
Gutting much of what is there today is a first step before rebuilding can even commence.
In a nutshell, then, that's what's happening.
Trump, a former New York real estate developer knows this chronology of events; therefore, he is not afraid if he breaks old relics which we've been taught to treat with undue reverence.
His move-fast-and-break-things approach appeals to the explorers, risk-takers and frontiersmen who hold dearly the true meaning of being an American.
His affinity for the working-class Americans is instinctive, real and reciprocated; deep inside he understands and amplifies their grief like never done in modern times.
Even when his spoken words hurt, people understand he is just speaking out loudly what others mutter in hushed tones in tony settings.
None of these has changed in the last 100 days. If anything, his winning coalition saw him in action at breakneck speed working on so many things, doing exactly what he had told them he would do.
Trump 2.0 might end up as the most consequential first 100 days of any presidency, and here’s part of the reel.
Unapologetic use of tariffs to protect American workers, especially American manufacturing, is unprecedented in the modern American presidency.
China, the biggest beneficiary of self-inflicted wounds from decades of our wrong-headed priorities, is already starting to see the impact.
Scores of other countries are reaching win-win solutions.
Monthly illegal border crossings have gone down by 99.9%, barely a few months after reaching hundreds of thousands under Biden, without a single additional dollar allocated or a single shot fired.
Trump is justified in aggressively barricading an onslaught of ideological excesses on American campuses.
We desperately need our incredible intellectual capacity committed to efforts which are non-partisan and productive, we want them to reach conclusions derived from verifiable data with rigorous analyses, and not driven by ideological presets.
Ukraine is another success story where this administration turned a quagmire that began as high-minded defiance against an autocratic state into a story where American leadership brings peace and prosperity to a war-torn people, the best security anybody could provide.
With DOGE, headed by Elon Musk, we moved away from slavish deference to unelected bureaucrats and began to assess who are really adding value, a process we should have been engaging in daily, for decades.
The list goes on.
Trump 2.0 resembles a bootstrapped venture short on time and resources, but long on aspirations, while navigating around roadblocks deliberately designed to slow a blitzkrieg of this kind, so to speak.
Any entrepreneur can relate to their frustrations.
Mistakes do happen — issues crop up around discipline, failure to adhere to due process, operational overreach, picking up a fight not worth the time, to name a few.
If addressed quickly enough, that is not necessarily a lasting demerit and there is more than enough time to address as Trump 2.0 is not even in its pre-teen years, in human terms.
Trump oozes a bravado reflecting the pride of ordinary working Americans he represents.
He locks horns with the prejudice of the entitled class and the "intellectuals."
That shall never change.
What happened incrementally in the last 100 days is that uncertainty brought about by oncoming tectonic shifts gave naysayers a breathing room far beyond what they deserve.
Luckily, Donald Trump is the best antidote.
A master of ceremony and a genius with the spoken word, President Trump knows how to drown out the noise as he has done repeatedly since entering public life.
This writer urges the president to break out of the bubble of Washington and shape the discourse in rallies and speeches just as he did quite recently.
American pride trumps prejudice of the non-believer, every single time.
This time we can confidently say, will not be different.
All opinions ion the preceding column are those of the author solely, of the author alone, and do not necessarily represent that of any organization he may be part of. The author alone is responsible for any error or omission.
Partha Chakraborty, Ph.D., CFA is an economist, a statistician, and a financial analyst by training. Currently he is an entrepreneur in Water access, AI/ML, and wealth management in the US and India. Dr. Chakraborty lives in Southern California. Read Partha Chakraborty's Reports — More Here.
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