10/11/2024
Thanks to the Boston Broadside for publishing!
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The RealDiehl Report
"While the Sun Shines" (from Nov. 2024 issue)
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By the time you read this, President Donald J. Trump should be elected as our 47th President, pulling off one of the most historic and game-changing comebacks since Winston Churchill’s elevation to Prime Minister in 1940. Surviving both character and actual assassination attempts, defeating big government lawfare and back-stabbing Republicans, he has exposed the power brokers, Democrats and media cartel running D.C. for being concerned only with power, not the American people, and is about to lead our great nation into a moral and economic reformation and renaissance the likes of which we haven’t seen in a generation. Along with J.D. Vance, his political virtuoso Vice President, I anticipate a renewal in national pride that starts as soon as the sun rises on Monday, January 20, 2025 - Inauguration Day.
The intensity of the shift in mood across our country is palpable in the conversations we’re having in grocery stores, on construction sites and even on college campuses. We have endured unconstitutional lockdowns of our bodies and minds, indoctrination of our children in schools and an open border that invites criminals into our country with no vetting whatsoever. All of this has been conducted by a liberal elite that uses fear and envy to turn us against each other based on race, religion and a belief that we need a radical redistribution of the fruits of our labor to achieve equity.
Because of this great reawakening, voting patterns in what were once reliable “blue” states have disappeared and new alliances are forming between conservative Republicans and minority groups, rank-and-file union members and a generation of millennials that rightfully see excessive government control as the biggest problem facing our nation.
An added bonus is that those in government who have forgotten why they ran and have succumbed to the swamp credo of personal gain over the rights of “We the People” are exiting the stage, knowing that their time is over. Senators Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney and Ben Sasse have all made this their last term, knowing that their never-Trump postures are not only untenable, but detestable, in the new Republican party that embraces making America great again..
Out with the old and in with the new… Recent ideological converts like Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr and Eric Johnson, Mayor of Dallas who made the official switch to Republican, should thrill conservatives who had been feeling that the GOP was not singing from the same sheet music. Probably the greatest transformation in this cycle has been Elon Musk’s shift from a Trump skeptic to a full-on believer. Once he saw through the woke smokescreen, Musk initiated a hostile takeover of Twitter to create the ultimate fact-checking tool against lamestream media “fact-checkers” and rebranding it “X.” That platform has enabled accounts like “Libs of TIkTok” and activists like Scott Presler to communicate and organize the MAGA movement in ways that resemble the French Resistance of WWII, which employed guerrilla warfare and underground newspapers. In this case, memes and podcasts replace bullets and flyers, but the effect is similar - the enemy has been exposed and the tide is turning.
The alliance between Trump and Musk has been particularly striking in that both gentlemen believe in American excellence and want to unleash a new era of prosperity based on some traditional areas of industry that have served us well. Space exploration, energy management and mechanical innovations (in this case, robotics) are the focus of Elon’s SpaceX, Tesla and Optimus initiatives. Trump knows that countries like China want to steal that future and, up until he became President in 2016, were shamelessly taking our intellectual property at an alarming rate. With Trump back in office, the days of having our lunch being eaten are over.
If it were up to me, I’d make Elon Musk a member of the cabinet, where he could fuse his expertise and renovate and upgrade our nation’s commercial and private transportation systems to a higher level of efficiency and reliability. In my run for Massachusetts Governor in ‘22, I often spoke about how I’d want to hire Disney theme park engineers to help rethink Boston’s transportation grid. If you’ve even been to Disney World, you might notice (or not notice!) how fast, clean and convenient their buses, boats and trains are when you want to get from a hotel to a park to a restaurant and, then, back to your hotel again. Disney moves 58 million visitors, annually, plus 75,000 employees who need to transverse the property each day. Imagine how beneficial it would be to cities like Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, which all suffer from crumbling infrastructure, bloated administrations and funding that gets siphoned off to deal with emergencies such as the illegal immigration crisis we’re in.
WIth Trump as President for the next four years, I think we’ll see renewed prosperity driven by industry innovators that recognize that the federal government will no longer be a hindrance but, rather, a help. We had a glimpse at it for the first four years he was at the helm, seeing record job growth, lower energy prices and political stability across the globe.
We’re going to see that again, but “We the People” need to take a bigger role during this time. We can’t sit back and wait until the next election cycle to keep these gains. We need to harness the momentum and add to the ranks of Republican party membership. There are hundreds of thousands of school boards, finance committees and town/city councils with seats up for election every single year across the country. If we don’t fill them with common-sense conservatives from each community, we’ll be allowing the Democratic socialists to have a say at the local level, undermining everything we are doing for our future and the future of generations to come.
My fellow Americans, we need to use the time while Trump is in office to go on offense, to develop the farm team in each state. And just like working on a farm, we need to make hay while the sun is shining!
