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Evidence of this reached the level of full satire in December of 2015 when filmmaker Ami Horowitz went on the campus of Yale University and asked students if they would sign a petition to repeal the First Amendment. The video, which is available on YouTube (another product of the free market), shows students enthusiastically wanting to sign and demonstrates just how Orwellian modern-day America has become.

Trump’s approach to healthcare may be the best example of the new conservative approach. In the past, the parties have had to decide whether to side with big businesses, the insurance companies, the hospitals, or the American Medical Association if they wanted to get anything done. Instead, Trump has repeatedly sided with individuals and small businesses.

The simplest explanation is that the protestors, like Soviet teens listening to rock and roll on the sly decades earlier, recognize symbols of Western-style freedom when they see them. And they should: Hong Kong was by some measures freer than the West when it was populated by refugees from the mainland’s communist rule for decades but not yet governed by the mainland (the United Kingdom handed it over to Beijing in 1997 after a century and a half of colonial rule). Let’s hope its freedom and love of the free market endure any crackdowns from Beijing. Trump isn’t up against domestic foes as totalitarian as the Communists in Beijing, a few extremists notwithstanding, but, like the Hong Kong protestors, he faces the daunting task of transforming a stubborn, inflexible, corrupt, big-government system.

Trump’s battle, then, is not just a squabble with a few well-meaning, present-day liberal critics. He represents a centuries-long struggle within Western civilization between the hope of freedom and self-rule by the common people and the continual assertion of aristocratic privilege by those who think they know better and thus should have power. As long as Trump opposes those deeply entrenched forces, who not so secretly view America’s Founding Fathers with almost as much suspicion and contempt as they view Trump, it will not matter how impressive his practical achievements in the economic or foreign policy realms are: They will still be denigrated and cast in a bad light because he is a threat to their own rule.

Two hundred years ago, 84% of the world lived in extreme poverty. Today, 90% don’t. 83% didn’t have a basic education. Today, 86% do. 1% lived in a democracy. Today just 44% don’t. The child mortality rate was 43%. Today, it’s 4%.

Once those two parties get comfortable, resigned to the fact that neither is ever going to completely destroy the other, they can get down to furthering shared interests — “horse trading for votes,” as the saying goes. You give my district something big at the taxpayers’ expense in the next appropriations bill, which my district will thank me for, and I’ll give your district something expensive that they’ll thank you for.

When Trump resists constant calls for more military intervention around the world — when he says no to putting more troops in Syria and publicly contemplates pulling troops out of Afghanistan — he is not only pointing the way to peace but implicitly taking on a system of defense contractors and sometimes-opportunistic allies that has reshaped American thinking in a profoundly unhealthy way.

When Trump-hating media star and CNN hostess/comedienne/filth-purveyor Kathy Griffin held up a fake bloodied Donald Trump head in a photo (subsequently being let go by CNN because of it), she may have been closer to the Rome-like truth than she realized — not because Trump is a dictator deserving death but because he, like Cicero, is targeted by powerful forces who mistake themselves for the Republic’s protectors but are in fact in the process of destroying it.

I can’t help thinking of the famous words shouted by General La Rochejaquelein fighting against the first French Revolution: “Friends, if I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.” — AYN RAND

America First The MAGA Doctrine, far from urging belligerence against other nations, recommends recognizing the limitations of our knowledge of other cultures and thus refraining from trying to control them. The US government can barely run our own country, so it should be very cautious about trying to run others.

As Politico put it, describing their own 2014 review of Trump’s predecessor, “The Obama administration has hired more than 70 previously registered lobbyists . . . and watched many officials circle through that revolving door, as Obama’s lobbying policy was weakened by major loopholes and a loss of focus over time. What’s more, the current laws around lobbying, which the administration measures were built on, simply ignore many instances observers would regard as lobbying — and the White House never pressed for changes to those laws.” Now look at the panic once an outsider — who did not regard the culture of Washington with cautious respect — came along. You’d think Trump was a horde of invading Vandals from the way the media, politicians, and D.C. interest groups reacted to his election.

Next, just for the sake of argument, imagine if, during the first two years of her administration, she achieved stunning successes: The Dow rises 7,000 points after being nearly flat around 18,000 the two prior years. Consumer confidence surges to an eighteen-year high. Black unemployment hits 5.9%, the lowest level ever recorded. Hispanic and Asian-American unemployment also hit record lows of 4.5% and 2%, respectively. Female unemployment is at the lowest rate since 1953 (3.6%). Unemployment among the young is at its lowest in five decades (9.2%), among veterans the lowest in two (3%). Economic growth for the year nears 3% in 2018, for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis. There is a freeze on new regulations, to the relief of American businesses. For every new regulation, about twenty-two are repealed. Jobless claims are at their lowest level in five decades. Job openings outnumber people looking for jobs for the first time on record. The positive job-growth streak is the longest on record. Job satisfaction is at its highest level in a decade and a half, and 85% of blue-collar workers think the country is “headed in the right direction.” Some $5.5 trillion in tax cuts are instituted, with most families seeing savings as a result. The corporate tax rate is lowered as well, since it had been the highest in the developed world and was discouraging investment. The president cleared bureaucratic obstacles to constructing the Keystone XL pipeline and withdrew from the onerous Paris Climate Agreement. The president helped make the United States the world’s biggest crude oil exporter for the first time. ISIS’s Iraq arm is effectively finished off. The United States stops funding Syrian militias with terror ties, quieting that country’s civil war. Military conflicts in other parts of the world are largely avoided. NATO partner nations are successfully pressured into paying their fair share for the alliance, reducing the US burden. Sentencing reductions for nonvi

He is guided by a faith that most Americans seemed to share until very recently. Our forefathers founded this country on sound principles, including standing up for the freedom of the individual. These principles with ancient roots have made something wonderful and new possible upon the face of the Earth, a freedom and prosperity never before known.

The philosophy of America First means that we no longer have to look outside our shores to fuel our ambitions or make strategic decisions.