It’s Morning Again in America!  Here’s How Trump and Conservatives Can Make It Permanent!

My American friends and countrymen, after the election of Joe Biden on November 3, 2020, I declared with great sadness, “It’s mourning in America.”  However, with Donald Trump’s reelection on the evening of November 5, 2024, I gleefully declared, “It’s morning again in America!”  Apparently, Trump followed some of my advice in one of my commentaries, although he clearly ignored the rest, but I digress.

This seems like a most auspicious occasion for Trump’s second term for several reasons. 

First and foremost, the American people have clearly spoken as manifested in his decisive landslide reelection with the electoral vote (312-226), the popular vote and the swing state vote, in spite of his two impeachments, a conviction, VP Kamala Harris’s outspending of Trump, and her command of the mainstream media and Hollywood celebrity elite.  Perhaps, this is due to Trump’s favorable public service and accomplishments, most of which I have listed in my commentary entitled “For Rational Voters Who Want to Give America a Huge Jump, Here Are 32 Reasons to Support Donald Trump.”

Second, Trump will have three branches of government at his disposal due to the GOP winning the majority in the Senate (53 seats) and in the House (220 seats) and a majority of 5 conservative Supreme Court justices (excluding Chief Justice John Roberts for his unconstitutional ruling of the alleged constitutionality of Obamacare).

Third, Trump has established a Republican base, even broader and more diverse than in his first term (e.g., blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans, women, union workers, youth, Democrats, independents).

Fourth, Trump’s public service experience from his first term can serve as a guide in navigating and managing the political machinery of the federal government, and his new loyal appointees will only accommodate him.

Fifth, since this will be Trump’s last term, he should be able to implement most, if not all, of the conservative agenda, post-COVID, unimpeded by a political witch hunt, without fearing backlash that could hinder his run for another term.  

Finally, committed leftists have vowed to leave America, while their remaining female fanatics have pledged to be celibate as a protest against Trump.  (Although I fail to comprehend the logic of such drastic measures, I fully support them, since America is better without them.  As for the celibate females, if they all fulfill their vows of abstinence for life, then abortion would no longer be a concern, and they would eventually follow the footsteps of the dinosaurs into extinction---a win-win situation, but I digress.

Having presented all such favorable conditions, here is what Trump must do to keep conservatives in power in perpetuity, provided he has the political will to do so.

1. End birthright citizenship.  Congress should legislate a bill clarifying the meaning and application of the 14^th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution in unambiguous language.  Since the law states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside,” it has been a commonly entrenched misnomer that all such “persons” (born on American soil) automatically become citizens without any qualifications or conditions.  

However, the author of its citizenship clause, Senator Jacob Howard, explicitly excluded “persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, [or] who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States.”  Clearly, the offspring of illegal immigrants are no exception.  In fact, the law was enacted for freed slaves and their children, who were “born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” political jurisdiction, that is.  Civil rights and immigration expert Hans Spakovsky points out that the amendment’s language was derived from the 1866 Civil Rights Act, wherein “[a]ll persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power,” would be considered citizens.  Hence, a law passed by Congress, clarifying the original intent of the 14^th Amendment, would supersede all judicial rulings favoring birthright citizenship.

Such a law by itself would eliminate the incentive for much illegal immigration, preempting “anchor babies” from eventually providing a legal path for their deliverers.  However, this law should be enacted in conjunction with the reinstatement of Trump’s immigration policies of “Remain in Mexico,” constructing the border wall, defunding sanctuary cities, and establishing more courts to swiftly adjudicate illegal aliens who currently await trial.

2. Repeal the federal income tax and abolish the IRS.  The federal income tax should be replaced by a national sales or consumption tax known as the “Fair Tax,” and should operate independently of Trump’s tariffs.  That was the proposal of newly-appointed ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee (when he ran against Trump in the 2016 Republican presidential primary).  There is currently a proposal sponsored by Rep. Earl Carter in the House.

The Fair Tax would replace all personal and corporate income taxes, the death tax, gift taxes, and payroll taxes with a simple consumption tax of roughly 25%.  Since everyone must purchase food and water, and perhaps, other goods and services, it must follow that nobody can easily evade such taxes, including tourists, illegal aliens, and drug smugglers.  Hence, the Fair Tax is all-inclusive, simple, provides more individual control, and would increase tax revenue even more so than just reducing the corporate income tax rate or making the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent.

3. Promote the service or knowledge sector of the economy.  Although I was critical of Trump’s tariff policy, as pointed out in my previous commentary entitled “Historic GOP Wins for 2016, Flipping the Blacks, and a Little on Trump's Carrier Deal,” hindsight has persuaded me that it can be used as leverage against other countries which oppose American interests, at least temporarily.  However, I still maintain that the purpose of using tariffs to recover outsourced manufacturing jobs may be a pyrrhic victory.

After all, manufacturing is the second major sector and phase of a growing American economy---the first being the agrarian sector, the third being the service sector, and the fourth and current one being the knowledge or technical sector.  The service and knowledge sectors are currently the predominant ones, and most of the blue collar (including manufacturing) jobs have been lost to productive efficiency (automation), not outsourcing.

For that reason, Trump should encourage displaced blue collar workers to either learn new skills or acquire knowledge calibrated to the predominant service and knowledge sectors of the economy.  For example, electricians, plumbers, HVAC technicians, and mechanics are all blue collar service workers in perpetual demand.  High-demand jobs in the knowledge/tech sector include bookkeeping, business analysis, drop shipping, financial coaching, programming, project management, SEO, IT training, insurance brokering, social media marketing, UX design, virtual assistance, web analysis, web design, AI, data science, etc.  

Trump should emphasize how these highly-skilled, highly-knowledgeable jobs will “make America great again.”  He could pitch them as highly paid jobs that provide excellent fringe benefits for employees and their family, which will raise their standard of living.  Such jobs will impact the fields of medicine, cybersecurity, accounting, finance, and research and would contribute to further technological advancement to keep the U.S. competitive on the world stage.  Many of them do not require a four-year college degree, but just several months of online training.  Perhaps best of all, the aforementioned tech jobs are all remote which accommodates the employees, who wish to spend more time with their family at home or virtually anywhere.

Surely, this pitch for perpetual knowledge/tech sector jobs sounds much more persuasive than obsolete manufacturing sector jobs, does it not?  After all, the Oxford Economics analysis firm predicts robots will replace up to 20 million manufacturing jobs globally by 2030.  So much for protectionism.

4. Promote financial literacy.  That includes education on credit building, picking a credit card, renting or purchasing a home, choosing a college or trade school or online educational program, asset protection, wealth building, tax savings, entrepreneurship, the use of limited liability companies and corporations as business entities, retirement planning, investing in stocks, bonds, gold, silver, real estate, cryptocurrency, etc.  Entrepreneur and financial advisor Robert Kiyosaki’s classic book entitled Rich Dad, Poor Dad is an excellent introduction to financial literacy.  In fact, there is an entire Rich Dad Advisors book series covering the aforementioned topics in detail.

Such education is precisely what made Trump a successful businessman, which is why he would be the ideal spokesman to encourage service or knowledge sector workers to start a business in their own respective areas of expertise.  Many of them already have.  

For example, food line servers have opened up their own catering business or restaurant.  Plumbers have become contractors or started their own plumbing business.  SEO specialists employed by digital marketing companies have established their own agencies.

Shows like Shark Tank, Blue Collar Millionaire, and Millennial Money present such real life cases, wherein employees have become successful business owners, many of whom were raised in poverty, were homeless, or migrated from the Third World.  Moreover, financial literacy should be taught during or before high school in order to prepare young adults.

5. Repeal and replace Obamacare.  This was a long overdue promise Republicans made since the enactment of this unconstitutional, doctor-depriving, economically disruptive monstrosity in 2010.  Although Trump nullified the individual mandate portion of the law, he and conservatives must repeal the rest of it.  Such a law would supersede the Supreme Court ruling on the alleged constitutionality of Obamacare.

Here are a few market-based alternatives that should operate simultaneously in order to optimize cost reduction and stellar quality private healthcare over a government-managed system with price controls and rationing:

• Wellness Education:  If everyone would practice basic self-care (e.g., nutritious diet, adequate exercise, sufficient sleep, effective stress management) daily, it is highly likely that the hospitals would have less than half of the current patients, and much fewer people would be consuming medication (with potential side effects that could cause other health problems).  However, such education would more appropriately be implemented by parents, civic organizations, or communities as a whole.  Perhaps, the federal government could temporarily appropriate funds for the states for that sole purpose.

• Tort Reform:  Another name is medical malpractice or liability reform.  Since physicians and other medical practitioners have been the financial target of trial lawyers for alleged malpractice damages, the former have resorted to preemptive measures (e.g., purchasing medical malpractice insurance, assigning numerous and extraneous examinations to patients), which have hiked medical care costs.  Hence, a fair system in which prudent physicians are protected from frivolous lawsuits, while negligent ones are penalized, is in order.  However, such policy must be enacted by the states, since federal tort reform would be unconstitutional, as it would violate Americans’ right to a trial by jury (6^th Amendment) and state sovereignty (10^th Amendment).

• Health Savings Accounts:  These are tax-advantaged savings accounts, which are generally for healthy people, who have little risk for developing chronic conditions.  Those recipients range from children to young adults (30 and below), hence negating the need for frequent office visits or numerous examinations.  Similar to a 401(k) investment plan, the recipient and employer both contribute to the fund.  Neurosurgeon and Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson proposed a version (known as a health empowerment account or HEA) for all Americans, effective at birth.  That would accommodate healthy patients in general and patients poised to develop pre-existing conditions in particular (since they would already be covered at the time such conditions are made manifest).

6. Abolish the Social Security system.  With more Americans receiving, rather than contributing to the fund (hence making it vulnerable to insolvency) it should be privatized.  Initially, Americans would be given the choice whether to privatize their share or remain with the government (until the deadline for complete privatization is reached).  Those who opt for privatization will also have the choice as to how their social security funds will be invested and in which assets (bonds, stocks, exchange traded funds, mutual funds) to invest.

7. Balance the federal budget in 4 years.  With the national debt currently at $36 trillion, balancing the budget is of paramount significance.  This can be accomplished in conjunction with more federal tax revenue from tax cuts and a robust economy and massive spending cuts from the abolition of the IRS, the Social Security Administration, and other agencies or departments, as well as outstanding leadership and an iron political will.

Similar reforms were implemented in the 1990s under then Speaker Newt Gingrich, who presided over four consecutive years of a balanced federal budget; this started within 3 years of implementing the deficit reduction plan of House members, though they aimed for 7 years.  Hence, balancing the budget should take effect on July 4, 2026 in order to steer the 2018 midterm elections in the GOP’s favor; this date also coincides with the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency’s deadline (headed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy) for dismantling some of the government’s agencies or departments, which will free federal revenue from wasteful spending, and perhaps, finally end “the era of big government” once and for all).

8. Update the 1951 U.S.-Philippine Mutual Defense Treaty to include the South China Sea.  Since China remains a threat, one of the ways the U.S. can project its military power and put this Asian juggernaut in check is by strengthening ties with the Philippines (its oldest treaty ally), which has been victim to China’s aggression for simply asserting its sovereign rights as awarded by the Permanent Court of Arbitration.  Currently the MDT stipulates that an “armed attack” on the “armed forces, public vessels or aircraft” of the Philippines or U.S. in the Pacific, obliges both countries to respond in mutual retaliation.

This treaty should be upgraded to include China’s “grey zone” tactics (e.g., blocking Philippine vessels, using military-grade lasers to temporarily blind Philippine coast guard crew, firing water cannons on Philippine vessels).  In fact, Sen. Marco Rubio (Trump’s incoming state secretary) introduced the U.S.-Philippine Partnership Act of 2024 to do just that, along with providing other defense measures, and negotiating critical minerals and energy products for supply chains.  Such an American projection of power in the South China Sea may even deter China from invading another Asian ally, namely Taiwan.

9. Replace Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.  Perhaps Trump should not do this immediately upon returning to the White House, but he should at least have a shortlist prepared.  At 70 years of age and burdened with type 1 diabetes, it seems wise to preempt discontinuity in the functioning of the Supreme Court in the potential absence of Sotomayor.  Of course, a conservative replacement would tally 6 conservatives (again, excluding the judicial traitor, Roberts) and 3 liberals on the high court.

10. Promote 2-parent households.  Perhaps the only thing for which I credit Pres. Barack Obama is his citing of statistics that indicate “children who grow up without a father are 5 times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime, 9 times more likely to drop out of school and 20 times more likely to end up in prison.”  Consider that out-of-wedlock births for whites have gone from 5% in 1965 to over 25% in 2015.  For blacks, out-of-wedlock births have gone from 25% to 73% in those same years, hence accounting for the high rate of poverty, crime, gang-related shootings of other blacks, incarcerations, and unemployment.

Contrary to popular leftist belief, the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow laws (state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation, denied blacks the right to vote, hold jobs, or acquire an education) are not the primary factors for the stagnation of the black community, since such conditions no longer exist today due to their systemic ban within the past century.  However, absent fathers among the black family have skyrocketed since 1964 with President Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty” or more accurately, “War on the Black Family.”  

Where have all the fathers gone?  Rather than marrying them to help raise their children, stresses the black conservative commentator Larry Elder (who leftists characterize as “the black face of white supremacy”), the welfare system has enabled single mothers to “marry the government, and this makes it all too easy for men to abandon their traditional moral and financial responsibilities.”  What’s worse was the political motive Johnson revealed when he told his colleagues that the bait of the welfare system would “have them niggers voting Democratic for the next two hundred years.”

Hence, a call to dismantle the federal welfare state and devolve this function to the states is in order.  Parents and church or community leaders must inculcate to the youth the moral importance of the institution of the 2-parent family and establish a zero-tolerance policy for fathers who abandon their children.  They must also shun race hustlers like Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson, who profit from pitching the myth that the black community’s stagnation is due to systemic racism rather than absent fathers.

11. Purchase CNN, NBC, and TikTok.  This suggestion is directed to Elon Musk (who purchased Twitter and renamed it X), Kevin O’Leary (who offered $20 billion for TikTok), or anyone else, who is financially capable and aligned with conservatives.  The purpose is to purge those platforms of leftist and woke agendas, and restructure them into real news outlets, so that their viewers will have professional reportage of current events.  Analysts and commentators from the Left, Right, center, and independents will keep the networks fair and balanced as some of the current programs on the Fox News Channel or Pierce Morgan Uncensored.  Only then, will Americans be able to truly make informed decisions and even view presidential debates hosted fairly and professionally by objective moderators.

12. Promote civic education, and expand youth outreach.  Trump must reinstate the 1776 Commission, which was already created prior to Election Day in 2020; since he lost to Biden, it has remained dormant.  The commission’s purpose is to clarify for the official record, the genuine history of America, its founders, their concept of unalienable or natural rights as enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, religious liberty, and the founders’ perspective on the role and function of a limited government with separated powers, a jury system, and the concept of American exceptionalism.  As I have pointed out in my commentary entitled “The Time-Tested Model”:

Consider America’s progress in the abolition of slavery, suffrage for women, and civil rights for blacks, all of which happened within 229 years of the establishment of the U.S. government.  In spite of such turbulent occasions, the world’s oldest written supreme law of the land, the U.S. Constitution, remains largely intact.

Unfortunately, such a unique mix of concepts and historical facts are the antithesis of the revisionist history of the Left, which views the founders solely as wealthy, chauvinistic, white slaveholders, who established the American government in order to advance their racist agenda, while enriching themselves and exploiting others via the evil instrument of the capitalist system.  Such misguided people idolize criminals like George Floyd (a violent drug-addicted thief who died in police custody) or Luigi Mangione (an assassin who shot and killed Brian Thompson, the CEO of a healthcare company).  The Left has been so obsessed with the latter, the females of their ilk admit to intimate fantasies with him.  Based on that fallacious perspective and misguided deification, the Left advocates for critical race theory indoctrination, affirmative action policies, wealth redistribution programs, laws and policies permitting men in women’s sports and women’s bathrooms.

Hence, Trump’s reinstatement of the 1776 Commission is the solution to counter such leftist misinformation and progressivism.  Other options include free online courses from Hillsdale College, particularly on the topics of the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, foreign policy, progressivism, socialism, etc.  Turning Point, USA is a conservative organization that performs extensive outreach on college campuses, and has played an important role in mobilizing students to vote for Trump over Kamala Harris.

The National Constitution Center features numerous online lectures, speeches from Supreme Court justices, interviews with renowned legal and political experts and commentators, and interactive content on the Constitution.  Prager U provides informative 5-minute videos on various topics as the presidents, Black Lives Matter, voter integrity, education, economists, etc.  Perhaps Dinesh D’ Souza’s movie entitled America, which debunks the Left’s major myths and presents American exceptionalism at its finest, should be promoted in educational institutions on all grade levels. 

Furthermore, I would like to express my appreciation to everyone who contributed to this turning point in the reelection of Donald Trump.  That includes all pragmatic Nikki Haley conservatives, independents, Democrats, and former political rivals.  I wish I could extend my gratitude and praise to the #NeverTrump conservatives with whom I endeavored to persuade in my previous commentary.  Indeed, I have learned that conservatives do not have a monopoly on reason.  If they did, then #NeverTrump conservatives would at least be open to being #SometimesTrump conservatives.

In closing, my American friends and conservatives, it is time to celebrate a momentous occasion in American history.  Indeed, it’s morning again in America---not because of Trump’s short-lived wave of nationalist, protectionist, populism---but because of the aforementioned constitutionally limited government policies and civic/family-oriented initiatives, which the Trump administration will hopefully revitalize within the party of Ronald Reagan and throughout the country from which Americans will derive prosperity and a new sense of liberty.  That would definitely make America great again . . . . permanently!

Long live President Donald Trump!

Long live the U.S.A.!