Power

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Power... The acquisition, retention, expansion, and deployment of power are the foundation of politics.

There are two basic types of power in politics. The first is what is given. When a politician wins an election, he assumes the office and is given the powers of that office. Every office holder has those powers.

The second type of power is what is earned. Office holders who navigate and effectively deploy the first type of power quickly earn additional powers. You can call it influence, sway, gravitas- whatever you call it, it is real and this week you saw it wielded in polar opposite ways. But first, let's rewind the clock 8 years.

In 2018, Ron DeSantis narrowly won the governor's office by a little over 33,000 votes, or .4%. Desantis assumed the governor's office and the given power it held. Desantis unabashedly and unapologetically wielded his power, with no regard to the thin margin of the election. He governed as a true conservative and stood steady against intense pressure from first the media and then the COVID tyranny- which by the way the World Economic Forum admitted in a statement this week was "a test of social responsibility"- and earned far greater powers, flipping the electorate from a D+ 2 state to a R+ 7 state. His reward? Winning re-election by 19% and turning Florida into a case study of the positive outcomes of conservative governance.

Florida has a $2.1 billion budget surplus, the rule of law is respected, our economy is expanding, our citizens are free, and opportunity abounds. All that was accomplished despite an initial .4% margin of victory.

In Virginia, Abigail Spanberger won the governor's office by 15.4% and upon her inauguration last week wasted no time in putting forth an agenda that can best be described as a Marxist hellscape. Her reward? Rendering the minority Republicans virtually powerless, and tilting the balance of power completely to the democrats far beyond its electoral majority.

Two polar opposite ideologies, the same use of power, regardless of the margin of victory in the elections that gave those governors power.

It will be interesting to monitor Virginia moving forward versus what has been proven in Florida, but the important point is that both governors had the same power and wielded it equally as strong, regardless of the margin they enjoyed in their election.

Possibly the greatest use of power I've witnessed in decades came on Wednesday of this week, when President Trump, who won the popular vote by one half of a percent, went to Davos to the World Economic Forum. Trump walked into a room where at least 90% of the attendees abhorred him, planted the flag, flexed the power both he and the United States have rightfully earned, and changed the world order.

Trump declared that the days of America taking a back seat to the globalists and bankrolling their Marxist utopian dreams is over. He called the globalists out and prosecuted them point by point- the climate scam, the migration, the surveillance, the censorship, DEI, ESG, the wealth redistribution, the bureaucracy, the NGO's, the neo-socialist global agenda- he took it all apart with surgical precision, like no American President has ever dared to do.

Trump declared American sovereignty is back. American power is back. American hegemony is back. The power vacuum formed by the previous RINO and democrat administrations who capitulated to the globalists was ended with a simple declaration. That power will now be wielded for the good of freedom, for sovereignty, for the individual, in direct contrast to what the democrats domestically and the globalists internationally desire. He seized the political and moral high ground and planted the flag.

Trump didn't just speak to those in that room. He spoke past them and directly to the people of the developed world, sharing with them the same aspiration and hope that is the American Dream. When freedom wins, mankind wins. Trump is offering that directly to the people of the world.

And when Trump walked away from Davos, nobody cared that his margin of victory in 2024 was less than 1%, he walked away with the Board of Peace deal, the Greenland deal, global energy dominance, global military dominance, further international investment into the American economy, renewed American hegemony, complete dominance of our hemisphere, and as we predicted last week in this space, a New World Order. Trump used the power he was given and turned it into real power, the power that he earned, the power that will make American great again, defeat the globalist cabal, and deliver the American Dream to the world.

That is the proper and correct use of power, one that will be studied and copied for generations, and that is what makes Trump the most effective and best president of my lifetime.