It Is Too Early To Tell

It’s safe to say that we have always been an impatient people. Our forebears in North America went about the business of discovery, settlement, and progress in a hurry. I like that, and I like being part of it.

Impatience, however, has its down side

Churchill remarked that we had not crossed the oceans and crossed the mountains and the prairies because we were made of sugar candy, but he might have said that it wasn’t because we were willing to take plenty of time to finish a task, either.

Impatience, however, has its down side. When we get in a hurry we often overlook details that matter. We tend to settle for something we hoped for instead of all we were promised. When we get in a hurry we lose some flexibility and may also lose sight of longer term goals. Today is a good time to slow down and try to be more patient. It is too early to tell if the country can be saved from the deliberate damage of the past four years.

For four years of the false-front previous administration we lived in dread of a terrible end to our journey toward the cliff’s edge. Even, or especially, during the weeks between the election and the inauguration, we held our breath. The entrenched bloated bureaucracy, the legislative apparatus, and its farm system of NGOs and other subversive groups was in total control, funneling unprecedented quantities of money to the organizations seeking the destruction of the republic. It was terrifying to watch it unfold.

Inauguration Day finally arrived and passed. We had to remind ourselves to breathe again, as it was almost too good to believe. As the new administration began, our spirits soared. There was a new start. 

We have known for decades that there had to be a reckoning

The flood-the-zone strategy of continuous rapid fire changes and actions brought good news every day. The strategy was so effective that there was a sense of giddiness, a righteous feeling of hitting them hard that still feels good today.

We have known for decades that there had to be a reckoning. For many critical issues that time has arrived. The results have been remarkable even though we are only eighteen weeks in. The cabinet appointees are in place. The spate of executive orders is having the desired effect of changing policy quickly. The border was secured, really locked down, in record time. DOGE has uncovered astonishing corruption and grift. The president is on a roll, dancing nimbly between foreign and domestic policy concerns, all the while frustrating his dazed opposition on a daily and sometimes hourly basis. The temptation is to sit back and savor the many wins so far, but it isn’t time for that. Not yet.

The opposition is fighting back against every effort to salvage the damaged ship of state. Judicial resistance has geared up to offer clutch-the-pearls opposition to nearly every policy initiative. Those who previously worked in the swamp shout their outrage that someone with a vision to save the country and restore some of its dignity and proper purpose dares to speak up. The legacy media has joined the frantic chorus of resistance with the usual discredited faces trying to make us believe they still control the narrative. Celebrities huddle with each other to rally the jaded outcasts of the old system and to chant the old ways of thinking. 

There has been much foot dragging, whining, protests, and even violence

There has been much foot dragging, whining, protests, and even violence. There will be more of these, too.

Since 2009 the other side has been celebrating what they thought was their final and permanent victory. They were on the fast track to establish full blown socialism across all of North America. They cruised toward utopia for eight years, but then the 2016 presidential election happened. Terrified that the great prize might be lost, they set about rigging the next one, and they were successful. That brought us the previous four years. They had it back and they were in the driver’s seat again. But this time the thinking people had had enough. We returned President Trump to the White House for a second and even better term.

The other side is still in shock, but they haven’t forgotten about how close they came to their notion of paradise on earth. They will fight by legal means when possible and by other means when they choose. They will battle as fanatics and must be met with equal or greater determination at every turn.

Is it too late? It is too soon to tell, and it is certainly too soon to give up.

We must wait and work and keep on fighting. Even if we win a total victory one day our resolve must only be renewed. Our country, our rich culture, and the values of Western Civilization are at stake, and they are worth whatever it takes to win.

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