As I wrote last week, I think Donald Trump is going to win. I think he’ll take office in January, but the two months between will be chock full of Democrat tricks trying to delegitimize his victory, coordinated riots seeking to push America into chaos before he’s inaugurated, and the swamp seeking to do everything it can to insulate itself from the potential consequences of a Trump presidency.
January 20, 2025 will not be a checkered flag moment. On the
contrary, it will be the starting line for a four year race to save the
nation. As such, we need to look at what
exactly needs to be done going forward and below is a list of 10 things President
Trump needs to do. There’s much more, but I’d suggest this is a place to start.
#1 – Seal the border and deport all 30 million illegal
immigrants. Just like last time, Democrats, RINOs and activist judges are going
to try and stop him. He cannot let them
succeed. Begin by declaring the nation is
under assault and deploying the Army to the border until the wall is complete. The
first step in deporting the millions of illegals is stopping all of their
benefits. Next, given that they will need food and shelter when the benefits
are curtailed, establish exit processing centers where they can come and find
shelter and food and be processed out of the country. Next, stop all federal funds from going to
“sanctuary” states and cities who do not cooperate. Finally, enforce federal legislation against
hiring illegals, and send employers to jail.
Of course none of this will be enough, but it’s a beginning.
#2 – Resurrect the 10th Amendment. For those who don’t remember, the Amendment
reads: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or
to the people.”
Most of the things the federal government does are simply
unconstitutional. Assign a crack team of constitutional scholars / lawyers to
go over the federal government with a fine tooth comb. Starting with the
federal government’s list of its own
agencies, examine every single department and agency and highlight those
for which there is clear Constitutional authority. For every other one, craft a
plan for their dissolution. For easy things like NPR, PBS, NEA etc. which are inconsequential,
make the dissolution immediate. For others, like
HHR and other
wealth redistribution programs, where sometimes generations of families
have been raised to suckle at the government teat, create a three year plan
that reduces their budget by 33% a year for three years, ending with the
complete dissolution at the beginning of year four. For those agencies / departments that remain,
implement zero based budgeting so that they are forced every single year to make
the case for the money they are seeking from the federal government.
#3 – Restructure the Justice Department, the FBI the CIA and
the Pentagon. Fire the leadership of all
four – up to and including the top 100 senior managers / officers of each with
severance packages. Investigate every one of them and for those suspected of
treason / incompetence over the last eight years and charge them. For the rest,
give them the opportunity to demonstrate they deserve to be part of the
organization if they’d like their jobs back. Their success on that score should
be based on two things, competency and a demonstrated allegiance to the
Constitution.
#5 – Abolish the IRS and the income tax and implement a flat
tax or better yet, the FairTax. This will, perhaps more than anything but the
10th Amendment action above, drive a stake through the heart of the
swamp beast. There is a reason that the
seven richest counties in America (out of a total of 3,143) are suburbs of
Washington, DC: government and lobbying.
And few things drive
more lobbying than tax breaks.
#6 – Negotiate a peace between Russia and Ukraine. Neither wanted this war and a month after
Russia invaded there was a peace deal on the table both supported, until it was
torpedoed
by Joe Biden. This useless and
wasteful war is accomplishing nothing while costing hundreds of thousands of lives
and causing trillions of dollars of damage to the participants and the rest of
the world.
#7 – Remove the United States from the Paris Climate Accord.
This globalist, anti-capitalist fiction is nothing more than an attempt to give
elites control over the lives of citizens around the world and drives the
destruction of prosperity everywhere its tentacles reach. At the same time, eliminate every “climate
change” or “green energy” driven policy in the federal government and make a
plan for unleashing America’s true energy potential from fracking and nuclear
power.
#8 – Use Congressional power vested in it by Article I,
Section 4, Clause 1 of the Constitution (the Elections Clause) to guarantee
federal election integrity by requiring Voter ID and paper ballots in every
state and outlaw mail in ballots for anyone other than the military.
#9 – Craft a plan that sunsets
every law and regulation in the federal register within a decade. Put a framework in place for Congress to
reevaluate every law on the books over the following ten years and each one
should face a renewal vote. Those that pass with 60% of both houses can remain
on the books indefinitely while all others sunset after a decade unless passed
again.
#10 – Pass a law that explicitly states that it is illegal
for government agencies to coerce or motivate private enterprises to accomplish
desired tasks that are illegal for the government to do on its own. This applies to bank coercion of disapproved
industries, data gathering on US citizens or censorship of free speech among
others.
Of course, as Trump learned in his first term, the swamp is
a tenacious beast that will not go gently into that good night. There will be gnashing of liberal teeth,
there will be activist judges with God complexes trying to throw judicial
roadblocks everywhere and there will be RINO calls to work across the isle. He should ignore all of that and march
swiftly towards returning the government to its originally intended, natural,
limited state. Doing so will unleash an
economic and entrepreneurial juggernaut never before seen and will be
sufficient to create a giant budget surplus.
That surplus will be sufficient to eliminate the national debt in less
than a generation and with it will go most of the problems America faces
today.
There’s of course much more, but if he does half the things
on this list Trump will easily have earned himself a place on Mt. Rushmore.
