We Need More Less Government Types Working with Donald Trump

Still? Really?

We are in the Age of Donald Trump. Which means we are saddled with a small but pernicious cabal known as Never Trump.

Never Trumpers are for the most part not Leftists. Leftists have been Never <Fill in Name of Non-Leftist> - forever.

Never Trumpers are almost every elected Republican - in DC, and much of the nation. Because almost every elected Republican - in DC, and much of the nation - aren’t actually for less government.

Which is yet another reason We the People delivered Trump to DC.

We tried to cordially tell DC Republicans to shape up - via the Tea Party. DC Republicans - actively rejected the very cordial Tea Party. So we said - have some Trump.

Of course the very real, very huge Deep State - in DC and all around the nation - vociferously opposes Trump’s efforts to tame it.

The most bizarre Never Trump contingent - is libertarians and alleged conservatives who say they want less government, while stridently opposing nigh everything President Trump is doing.

But if you say you’re for less government - opposition to Trump is, at this point, completely ridiculous.

All the people we should dislike - and for decades have - loathe Trump.

In no small part because Trump has delivered more less government - than any president since at least Calvin Coolidge.

Trump’s regulatory and tax cuts - are real. And substantial.

Trump is delivering markedly better trade deals all over the world - by eliminating or minimizing foreign governments' market-warping involvement via tariffs, import limits, subsidies and intellectual property theft.

And Trumpism - is working like a charm. Record low unemployment for blacks and Hispanics. Decades-low total unemployment. Wages are increasing for the first time in decades - and doing so substantially.

We’re hitting Gross Domestic Product (GDP) numbers we were just last administration told we’d never again hit. Manufacturing jobs Trump was told he’d need a magic wand to bring back - are coming back in droves.

If you want less government - and the phenomenal results we know less government deliver - what’s your major malfunction with Trump?

Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) - is real. It is distressing so many libertarians and alleged conservatives - are missing out on the most libertarian, conservative administration in a century.

Worse - Never Trumpers are still actively opposing Trump. Most distressing.

From the outside looking in, it appears much of the Never Trump objection is to style - rather than substance. They don’t like his demeanor, his presentation, his Tweets. He’s not “presidential.”

The late, great Andrew Breitbart rightly noted:

“Politics is downstream from culture.”

Not upstream. Politicians don’t lead culture - they reflect it. Look around - Trump reflects today’s culture.

Thank God Trump reflects the half of it - that still doesn’t loathe America and love Socialism.

Thank God he represents the people who make the country work - not the people who work the country.

Never Trump’s substantive objections are tough to find - and easy to dismiss.

One noted example is their objection to Trump’s use of tariffs on the global trade market.

Never Trump opposes Trump’s tariffs - in the name of free trade and less government. Trump uses tariffs - to deliver actual free trade and less government.

The trade deals the US for decades has cut - have been really anti-US.

Foreign governments subsidize the daylight out of their products - then dump them unimpeded into the US, killing millions of US jobs.

While we’re imposing virtually no tariffs or trade limits on them - they’re imposing huge tariffs and tiny import limits on us.

This is a lot of things. None of it is free trade. None of it is any good for the US.

Trump isn’t imposing tariffs - just to impose tariffs. Trump is imposing tariffs:

• To get these nations to the negotiating table, to then

• Cut better-for-the-US, less government deals with these nations.

And oh look - it’s working. It worked with Canada and Mexico. It worked with the European Union. And it’s well on the way to working with China.

Yet none of these successes - lessens even slightly the Never Trump mindless screeching about the “Free market!!!”

Trump’s tariffs - are a quintessential example of what we have for decades been saying:

When governments in the US and all around the world are this huge, you sometimes need a little more government - to beget a whole lot less government.

We are currently debating whether or not to spend $5 billion on a stretch of border impediment. Which will dramatically cut into the $135+ billion we spend each and every year subsidizing illegal aliens illegally residing in the US.

That’s a little more government - to beget a whole lot less government.

The US federal budget is $4.4 trillion per year. Our federal debt - is hurtling past $22 trillion even as we speak.

What Never Trump’s alleged less government types have been for decades trying - clearly isn’t working.

What Trump has done in two years - has exponentially exceeded Never Trump’s century of combined effort.

Perhaps he deserves a little slack on his unorthodox methods.

Another huge, looming, cataclysmic example of all this - is before us.

Big Tech companies in the Silicon Valley and beyond - are a HUGE more government problem.

Amazon (market cap: $802 billion), Microsoft ($789 billion), Google ($735 billion), Apple ($720 billion), Facebook ($413 billion), Netflix ($147 billion), Twitter ($25 billion) and many other Big Tech companies - are HUGE companies.

Just the companies we listed - hold a total market cap of $3.6 trillion. Our entire national GDP - is $18 trillion. These companies - are HUGE.

These HUGE companies - are run by HUGE Leftists. These HUGE companies give HUGE donations to HUGE government types - to warp government policy to their will. And their will - is HUGE government.

This is not a free market. This is not capitalism. This is crony corporatism on a massive scale - bought on the election block.

Trump’s response - is perfectly understandable. And very reasonable.

Trump’s Looking At Antitrust For Silicon Valley ‘Very Seriously’

This is Trump yet again considering a little government - to beget a whole lot less government.

If we do on these HUGE companies just a little antitrust work - it will beget a whole lot less government.

Never Trumpers - are yet again ignoring all the evidence and facts defying them.

And are in opposition to Trump’s antitrust consideration - yet again mindlessly screeching “Free market!!!”

When what we currently have - is anything but.

Never Trump routinely brings to mind a great quote from an awful economist - John Maynard Keynes:

“When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?”

Look - I get it. Trump is unconventional.

But Never Trump and DCs conventional wisdom - and conventional everything else - has for more than a century stunk on ice.

Let’s try something different. Something unorthodox.

Trump has. And thus far - it has worked like a charm.

A charm Never Trumpers haven’t for a century-plus been able to find with both hands and a map.

This first appeared in Red State.