Escape From the Life of Julia

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PJ Media:

There were plenty of flaws in the victory speech with which President-elect Donald Trump just kicked off his "Thank You Tour" of swing states. I hope he'll stick with his free-market plans to cut taxes and scrap regulations and jettison his state-planning proposal to punish companies for leaving the country (prosperity will come of free markets, not of presidentially directed industrial policy). And Shakespeare he's not; nor, for that matter, is he a Winston Churchill or Ronald Reagan.

 

But when Trump stood up in front of that Cincinnati crowd, looked into the cameras of national television, and proclaimed "America will start winning again bigly," what came over me -- not for the first time since Nov. 8th -- was a sweeping sense of relief.

 

Yes, there are yuge problems looming, at home and abroad. President Obama has guaranteed us cliff-hanger crises ahead, with his eight years of central planning, profligate spending, politicized law, apologies for America, betrayal of our allies, pandering to our enemies, and postmodern"narratives" designed to emulsify all common sense (Obama's erstwhile legacy deal for an "exclusively peaceful" Iranian nuclear program comes to mind).

 

Trump, even if he pursues the wisest of plans with the best of intentions, will have his hands full. We don't yet know how he will govern in practice. It's likely he's not quite sure either.