Next Year Will Be the Best America's Had in a Long Time Published Dec 26, 2024 at 6:00 AM EST
By: Paul du Quenoy (Newsweek)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
With the presidential election decided and the once and future president Donald J. Trump poised to reenter the White House on January 20, America stands on the threshold of a new era of prosperity at home and peace abroad. The final year before the republic celebrates the 250th anniversary of its independence will see the end of four years of chaos masquerading as "unity" under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, a disastrously unqualified presidential candidate who offered more decay, decline, and disorder masquerading as "joy."
Trump's return, which Harris will be constitutionally obliged to certify on January 6, will also represent a rare break with rule by Washington's corrupt and discredited administrative-managerial caste in favor of an administration determined to demolish its structures, banish its values, and prevent its return.
With a trifecta of Republican control in the White House and both Houses of Congress, along with a Supreme Court majority, Trump will have the power to maintain and expand the tax cuts of his first administration. He will also have the opportunity to slash the bloated federal budget by as much as one-third, the goal set by Department of Government Efficiency co-chief Elon Musk, a shrewd businessman and tech leader who also happens to be the richest man in the world. These measures will both restore hard-earned capital to the American people and significantly lessen irresponsible public spending and debt liability. The overall effect should reduce or eliminate lingering Biden-era inflation while powering the same levels of respectable growth that benefited the country in Trump's first administration.
Meanwhile, protections for American jobs and manufacturing will reverse decades of economically harmful and strategically short-sighted decline and strike a blow against middle American poverty, the national addiction epidemic, and "deaths of despair" that have kept much of the population from prosperity. Pro-growth policies in the energy sector will restore the economically and strategically essential goal of American energy independence, a major achievement that Biden recklessly abandoned.
The powerful legacy of Trump's first administration has already attracted impressive pledges of foreign investment as well as a near-immediate willingness to talk peace from all sides in the conflicts in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. It has even prompted unexpected Mexican resolve to work productively on controlling the United States' southern border and drug trafficking, issues Biden and Harris barely addressed and tried hard to avoid in their failed presidential campaigns. The same foreign leaders who were content to snub or ignore Biden's feckless foreign policy team up until just a few weeks ago are now preparing to work for lasting solutions that the incumbent president's absent leadership consistently failed to realize but that Trump is well positioned to deliver.
The Biden-Harris administration saw our greatest enemies on the march to disrupt an American-led world with little opposition. The incoming Trump administration, by contrast with Biden's sedate and self-involved Washington, already sees them beating a retreat. With Trump back in office, the year 2025 will likely see decisive ends to the wars and the expansion of security arrangements—such as the historic Abraham Accords of 2020—that will assure renewed American ascendancy. An ever-more-isolated Vladimir Putin will have to comfort himself with dubious gains in eastern Ukraine while Iran's mullahs sullenly accept the destruction of their clients in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, and Yemen; lose their lucrative international oil markets; abandon their dreams of regional hegemony; and fall asleep every night hoping they do not share the fate of Bashar al-Assad.
As American confidence and wealth grow under Trump's restored leadership, the president-elect also seems ready to end any role in national government for the destructive anti-American ideologies of critical race theory (CRT) and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)—thought systems that subordinate merit, hard work, and excellence to race, skin color, and grievance. Preliminary signs suggest that few Americans will miss either CRT or DEI, which state and local governments, courts, the private sector, and, increasingly, even the fading left-leaning bastions of academia and legacy media are racing to abandon. Unburdened by what has been, the hardworking majority of all backgrounds will find routes to prosperity without government and its malign adjunct ideologues standing in the way.
The fight will be hard, and resistance may be formidable. The GOP's congressional majorities are slim, and the administrative state is as resourceful as it is ruthless. Most Democrats and a declining but still powerful cohort of establishment Republicans would prefer a weaker nation without Trump over a stronger America with him. But if we have learned anything about Donald Trump over the past decade, the safe bet is that America in 2025 will be stronger, freer, wealthier, healthier, and happier than it has been for a long time and possibly ever. Truly, it will be great again.
Paul du Quenoy is President of the Palm Beach Freedom Institute.
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"...along with a Supreme Court majority,..."
Yes, he can rely on a court that placed him above the law - no bias there
Is it considered an accomplishment to have alienated good and friendly Canadian neighbours?
Actually, they are following the law.[✘]
Then Charles Dickens was right:
Wrong book.
He was right about the Jacobins in "A Tale of Two Cities."
If he were alive today, he'd recognize them once again in the modern democrat party.
I'm sure that is an objective entity. /s
An opinion piece, in line with the ones you typically post.
Ok, this article was written before Trumps authoritarian moves, although I doubt they offend the author.
The word is prophetic
TBF, the article seems wildly optimistic.
The certain thing is that Trump and his supporters will tell us it's the best year ever while his opponents will spend the entire year telling us The Dark Ages are back. There is a 99.99% chance the truth will be somewhere in between.
Which is likely to make it soggy by the Joe Btfsplks on either side.
www.timesnownews.com /world/us/us-news/trumps-tariff-deadlines-are-not-real-only-a-theatrical-show-white-house-insider-make-sensational-claim-article-152233553
Trump's Tariff Deadlines Are Not Real, Only A 'Theatrical Show': White House Insider Make Sensational Claim
Ananya Varma 2-3 minutes 7/6/2025
Donald Trump (AP Photo/Manuel Ceneta)
As July 9 looms, marking the end of US President Donald Trump's 90-day pause on global tariffs, a White House source has made a bombshell claim. The source, who is familiar with the trade talks, told Politico that the tariff threats and the talks surrounding them are "all fake" and only a "theatrical show."
On the condition of anonymity, the insider said, "Trump knows the most interesting part of his presidency is the tariff conversation. I find it hard to believe he's going to surrender it that easily."
The source added, "Its all fake. There’s no deadline. It's a self-imposed landmark in this theatrical show, and that's where we are."
The US President initially aimed to engage in bilateral tariff rate discussions, but was met with stalled progress with key allies such as Japan and the European Union. So far, Trump has secured only two trade deals - one with Britain, maintaining a 10 per cent tariff with carve-outs for autos and aerospace, and another with Vietnam, which slashed tariffs on Vietnamese goods to 20 per cent and eliminated duties on several US products.
The experts were terribly wrong.
Trump is about to miss another deadline. It is becoming monotonous.
Only for those hoping that he'll fail.
He's already a failure.
Haven't those people been wrong about virtually EVERYTHING for the last decade?
The majority thinks otherwise.
At any rate, this is his last term.
They've been wrong on everything and they have learned nothing
And they have no problem letting the world know they haven't been on the right side for quite a while. For example, these are the very people who currently are blaming the current President for a FLOOD.
That's not the best part, they are blaming funding cuts that won't happen until next year on the floods, that takes a level of stupidity that i just can't grasp.
Why do you do this? now some idiot will post something about trump wanting to run again.
I'm sure they believe it too.
"But meteorologists who spoke to WIRED say that the NWS accurately predicted the risk of flooding in Texas and could not have foreseen the extreme severity of the storm. What’s more, they say that what the NWS did forecast this week underscores the need to sustain funding to the crucial agency."
Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas | WIRED
We both know that they actually believe that will happen.
But that isn't stopping their fabricated outrage.
For Trump it will be a good year, he is golfing a lot more this time around.
Since they dismantled so many agencies that report accurate data the door is wide open to paint a rosy picture of everything for the Fox propaganda machine.
Even if Americans suffer from the horrible bill just signed no one will know because the authoritarian march to stop anything truthful that reflects badly on Trump will be quashed.
America will not have a good year, Trump will.
And since Trump supporters believe anything he says no matter what, if he says the future is bright and things are great even while everyone suffers, his supporters will put on MAGA rose colored sunglasses and agree.
The TDS ridden anthem:
Gloom despair and agony of me. Oooooohhh!
Deep dark depression, excessive agony. Ooooooohh!
If it weren’t for bad luck I’d have no luck at all. Oooooohhhh!
Gloom despair and agony on me …..