Trusting Trump on the Fourth of July

Pass the BBB and Give us all a Fun Holiday

If you’re looking for an article on the minutiae of the “Big Beautiful Bill,” you have come to the wrong URL and then some. The debt clock scares me as much any normal person, but I’ve had enough of all the bickering over expenditures—in fact all the bickering over everything.

Ditto the threats by Elon Musk and others (no, I’m not turning in my Tesla; I like it) to form some third party that most Americans are supposedly craving, an absurd notion so doomed to failure it’s not worth discussing.

Ditto America First when it is defined so narrowly we might as well call it America Only. Of course unfettered foreign intervention is massively self-destructive. We’ve learned that lesson. But last we all looked we’re still part of humanity. John Donne’s no man is an island still applies. Sometimes isolationism isn’t such a great idea and Donald Trump has shown himself incredibly skilled at determining the degrees to which we should be involved, more so than anybody I can recall.

This includes those who fail to realize the obvious—no ideology is perfect, never was, never will be. Not just Democrats replace religion with politics, although they do it to a fare the well.

I yearn for a Fourth of July where we can just marvel at spectacular fireworks, celebrate our country and not have to worry excessively that they were made in China or even that a “Democratic Socialist” (there’s no such thing) might be elected mayor of New York.

It hasn’t been that way for a long time.

But now it could be if we let it. We have a president who, more than anyone in recent memory, is a real leader who has been leading us in the right direction.

It is barely an eighth of the way into his second term and the results, domestically and globally, have been nothing short of astonishing. Perfect? No. But when has that ever happened in human affairs?

Not surprisingly, jealousy, the obvious motor of Trump Derangement Syndrome, is everywhere, not only from the (disloyal) opposition but from members of his own party.

These members who are now blocking the BBB seem like entitled brats, the kind that might throw out the proverbial baby with the bathwater, only this time there are myriad babies being thrown out—meaning us, the people, the ones who elected these same members.

There are around ten of these obstructionists at the moment, one of whom is my own congressman, though the number is ever fluctuating. They have been termed “deficit hawks” but I’m not sure that’s entirely an accurate portrayal. To be kind, they seen equally motivated to see themselves on television and are milking those opportunities as long as possible.

Other congressmen, like Tim Burchett from the Tennessee Second, also clearly a “deficit hawk,” if there ever was one, are voting for the BBB. I would guess Rep. Burchett’s case because he sees politics as the art of the possible. Good on him. It’s not anything else—unless you prefer blood on the streets.

The rest should follow Rep. Burchett’s lead, vote for the bill and do what a decent legislator should do—move forward with what’s best for the republic at the moment, then fight on for your heart’s desire.

Meanwhile, pass the bloody incongruous and admittedly imperfect thing and give this country the best Fourth of July in decades. We the People deserve it.