Focus
By Mitch Berg
Among Reagan’s greatest strengths was a pretty maniacal sense of focus on what mattered. Peabrains like Matt Walsh mutter “what did Reagan ever do for the pro-life movement”, ignorant that Reagan was dealing with a Democrat House for his first six years in office; he only had so much political capital, and he spent what he had (beyond the bully pulpit) on his two big priorities; rebuilding the economy and destroying Communism.
With that in mind Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails:
Trump has too many irons in the fire, he needs to focus.
Ukraine is a lost cause, stop trying to be peacemaker, let Russia win.
Hamas is a lost cause, stop trying to be peacemaker, let Israel win.
Everything Trump did by executive order, his successor can undo by executive order. He needs to start kicking Congress to pass legislation to codify his changes. He’s got maybe one year before they start running for re-election and then nothing will get done.
Focus.
Joe Doakes
I don’t disagree (on most of it, anyway).
But let’s be honest – Trump does most of. his own unfocusing.
I’ve been generally more impressed with him this term – fewer pointless squabbles with staff, more focus on getting things done – but he provides plenty of his own distractions.
December 1st, 2025 at 8:38 am
Focus. On what, Mr Doakes? You don’t say that part.
Peabrains like Matt Walsh. Yes, yes, it’s most certainly a terrible thing to hold conservative( icon)s to actual, traditional conservative principles. The Reagan Amnesty laid down the second stepping stone to the widespread immigration problems we have now. I’d be interested in knowing the horse-trading that went on behind the scenes to get Reagan to sign that POS.
December 1st, 2025 at 10:10 am
President Trump has issued more than 200 executive orders in his second term. None of them will survive a Democrat successor. Which are the most important to preserve by legislation?
We aren’t a nation if we don’t have secure borders and control of immigration to accept only people who will help us grow, not drag us down. Congress should fully fund The Wall, repeal the 1965 immigration act, and withdraw from all refugee treaties, to place the prosperity of Americans ahead of the rest of the world.
We aren’t a representative democracy if we can’t trust election results. Congress should require same-day, in-person voting and paper ballots for all elections of federal offices.
We aren’t a world power if we don’t have sound money. Right now, the dollar is the world’s reserve currency only because everyone else’s currency is even more worthless than ours. Congress should abolish the Federal Reserve and put America back on the Gold Standard.
If you don’t like these priorities, pick your own and pester your congress-critter for support. I can’t believe there are no legislative proposals floated by the big Conservative think-tanks. Why weren’t they ready the day Trump took office? Does SITD have to do everything around here?
December 1st, 2025 at 1:17 pm
^ Thanks. I will note with a bit of irony that there are at least three diverse and broad areas to focus on. I’m not saying you’re wrong – I, in fact, agree with your items – it’s just that it is quite apparent just how eff’d up everything is when an admonition to focus on fewer, important things still comes up with three very broad topics.
But here’s a big one you didn’t include. Inflation.
If people at paying $10 a pound [for ground beef] next November, we’re gonna have a Democrat super majority in the House.
It won’t be about Epstein. Or arresting the deep state. Or Israel. Or taxes. Or abortion. Or anything else.
It will be about prices
And let’s not forgot doing something about Public Enemy #1, George Soros.
December 2nd, 2025 at 10:31 am
I think that one of Trump’s biggest weaknesses is that he really doesn’t have a moral center, and the second big weakness is that he values a deal, even if the deal stinks. The Russians have been making a huge amount of hay out of that one.
Regarding Joe’s claim that Ukraine is finished, hardly. My thought is that if the USA rewards Russia’s war crimes with long range weapons for Ukraine, Russia’s oil and defense industries are going to be shut down–and Putin will hang from a lamppost, hopefully along with his FSB/KGB buddies. This is a place where Trump’s amoral character shows a lot; wars of aggression are prohibited by the U.N. Charter, the Helsinki Accords, the Budapest Memorandum, the 1991 treaty that ended the Soviet Union–and Russia has signed all four. It’s long past time to hold Putin’s feet to the fire and say “you can have Donbas and Crimea, or you can participate in the civilized world–but not both.”.
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I think Aldis has good ground beef for about $6/lb