IT IS just over a year since Donald J Trump entered the Oval Office for the second time. Since Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025, the country I love and now call home is being transformed in ways that may save it as it celebrates its 250th birthday this year.
Why do I say this? Well, allow me to list, in the order in which they occur to me, a few obvious benefits of Trump’s second term in office.
Homicides in the United States are at their lowest level since 1900.
The borders are more secure than they have ever been.
A concerted effort is being energetically pursued to deport criminal illegal immigrants from the country, many of whom were simply released after walking across the southern border without any documentation whatsoever. Indeed, November was the seventh straight month of zero releases into the United States.
Violent crime in hitherto crime-ridden cities like Washington DC is at all-time lows.
Inflation is at its lowest rate since 2021 and promises to drop even lower.
Gas prices are at their lowest since 2021.
Children are better protected from the menace of radical gender ideologies that leave them confused and at risk of surgical or chemical mutilations, which Trump called a ‘stain on our Nation’s history’, promising he will ‘rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures’. Since the signing of that order, transgender programmes all across the United States have shut down or ceased offering dangerous hormones to children.
To the joy of many young women and girls, Trump signed an executive order preventing biological males from competing in women’s sports, and, it is to be hoped, keeping them out of their changing rooms.
At long last, the cultural disease that is Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is being revealed for what it is: institutionalised racism against white people, especially white men, and Asian Americans, as well as being a recipe for mediocrity and civilisational suicide. Efforts are being made by the Trump administration to purge DEI policies, which he dubbed ‘radical political theories and social experiments’ in his second inaugural address, from government, education and the military. The harm done by DEI is hard to overstate in a nation that struggles to educate its children and young people despite spending vast amounts per pupil.
Besides the teachers’ unions, perhaps the biggest impediment to improving education in this country whose schools were once the envy of the world is the Department of Education that has been energetically harming education since it was established under the Carter administration in 1980. It is now in the process of being dismantled. I for one will not miss it.
Trump has also promised to try to reform schools that teach ‘our children to be ashamed of themselves – in many cases, to hate our country despite the love that we try so desperately to provide to them’. One can but hope that patriotic young Americans need no longer hide the love and devotion they feel for the country that bore them.
The pseudo-scientific quasi religion of climate change, wherein affluent middle-class people seek to severely compromise or even destroy a nation’s ability to replicate and increase wealth in order to feel good about themselves, thereby hurting those poorest among us and those who benefit most from economic growth, is in the process of being dethroned as the secularised substitute for Christianity it has become.
Drug overdoses and fentanyl deaths are down 21 per cent from the Biden years, and are likely to fall even further if the southern border remains secured and the seas around America remain protected.
There is renewed respect for the nation’s military, no longer seen as an institution for social experimentation or gender and queer ideologies, but as a time-honoured fighting force formed to defend the US Constitution and defeat America’s foreign enemies. Thanks largely to Trump and his energetic Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, recruitment numbers are exceeding targets in all three branches of the armed forces and are at their highest in 15 years. No one can doubt that the American military is back in business after the daring midnight abduction of the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, bringing the brutal narco-terrorist dictator to the United States to face trial. Or the crippling of Iran’s nuclear programme, both of which do something to erase the criminally inept withdrawal from Afghanistan under Biden that saw 13 brave American soldiers blown to pieces.
Lastly, Trump has withdrawn the United States from increasingly corrupt globalist organisations including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco). The latter has done little to hide its anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian bias, dedicating itself to advancing ‘divisive social and cultural causes’, according to State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce. America is much better off having left WHO, an unaccountable supranational bureaucracy in the thrall of China and Big Pharma, ‘obsessed with authoritarian pandemic planning’, in the words of Kathy Gyngell. The WHO and Unesco are anti-Western and anti-American, and dedicated to a globalist agenda that seeks to diminish the power and independence of nation-states such as the US and Britain.
At his inauguration last year, Trump struck a chord with many Americans, myself included, when he heralded the beginning of a new golden age for this great nation, predicting that the ‘future is ours’ and ‘the United States of America will be a free, sovereign, and independent nation’.
I pray to God that he is right. He has done much to restore America. However there is much more he has to do. If he is able to fully restore this country, he will have to contend with those entrenched forces that hate America, its history, and everything about it. Those forces control the narratives and are not leaving the scene any time soon. Right now, they are rallying on the streets of Minneapolis, near to where I live. They have it in their power to undo everything Trump has achieved in an instant through the ballot box or by their manipulation of narratives. A President Gavin Newsom could spell the end of America as we know it.
But let us enjoy the moment while we can, at least for a little while longer.
