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KELLY OCONNELL SHOW: Brady Greatest Comeback

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A Trumpian victory, was it not?!! American is on its way to a rebound that is apparently hated by the majority of leftists. But why? It’s plumb crazy. As Victor Davis Hanson states:

For all the hysteria over the bluntness of the mercurial Trump, his agenda marks a return to what used to be seen as fairly normal, as the U.S. goes from hard left back to the populist center.Trump promises not just to reverse almost immediately all of Obama's policies, but to do so in a pragmatic fashion that does not seem to be guided by any orthodox or consistently conservative ideology.Trade deals and jobs are Trump's obsessions — mostly for the benefit of blue-collar America.He calls for full-bore gas and oil development, a common culture in lieu of identity politics, secure borders, deregulation, tax reform, a Jacksonian foreign policy, nationalist trade deals in places of globalization, and traditionalist values.In normal times, Trumpism — again, the agenda as opposed to Trump the person — might be old hat. But after the last eight years, his correction has enraged millions.

Yet securing national borders seems pretty orthodox. In an age of anti-Western terrorism, placing temporary holds on would-be immigrants from war-torn zones until they can be vetted is hardly radical. Expecting “sanctuary cities” to follow federal laws rather than embrace the nullification strategies of the secessionist Old Confederacy is a return to the laws of the Constitution.Half the country is having a hard time adjusting to Trumpism, confusing Trump's often-unorthodox and grating style with his otherwise practical and mostly centrist agenda.Trump seems a revolutionary, but that is only because he is loudly undoing a revolution.

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