Amidst all the rancor, vandalizing under the guise of protesting, and the media discourse across the country this weekend...let us pause and ask this question. Can one man, who has been in the political arena for less than two years, be held so vehemently responsible for all the ills of the country?
This then begs the second question. Is it so difficult to realize that had President Trump's predecessors, Republican and Democrat alike, adequately done their job over the last 84 years, the degree of America's ills would not be nearly as severe as those that confront our new president. It's because of 84 years of the Oval Office being occupied by Republican and Democrat professional politicians that Trump is president today. None of them in retrospect really deviated all that much from the business-as-usual path. And we see where they brought us.
I've often been asked over the last two years if I think Trump will be a good president. And my answer has always been no, but with this caveat. If we define good in the traditional sense that we have come to view the presidency, he will not be a "good president." But what he, and this is infinitely more important, will be is a competent and effective president given half the chance. Again, Trump is president because the old presidential model has failed us.
Trump will have his failures. He will have his missteps. But the success of his end game should be for what all Americans should pray...the beginning of the end to the corrupt, greedy and criminal culture that pervades our entrenched federal bureaucracy, as well as Congress. His administration will call them to task and expose these institutions for what they have become. There is no two-party system of national representation any longer. Members of the House and Senate from both parties, at base, are now all members of one party...the To Hell With Our Constituents Party.
It's anyone's right to either like or not like Donald Trump. But at this early point in his new administration, it's myopic, short-sighted and extremely biased not to at least give President Trump the chance to succeed where his predecessors have fallen woefully short as "traditional presidents."
Trump is neither a Republican nor a Democrat. He owes no allegiance to either party. He's not obligated to any special interests for their deep-pocket financial support. So just maybe he will begin the long and arduous journey to more effectively and competently change America for the betterment of all citizens. But we will never know if the present environment of hate, bias and divisiveness continues. It only impedes achieving the goals and fulfillment of the agendas that those who protest the loudest allegedly want to see achieved.
Steve Hyle
Lewes
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