Larry Schweikert

Well, actually, you change a few policies and you do have a magic wand.

Trump was speaking to all of those people that had been let down both by Bush and by Obama.

And when you go through books...

that have traced the 2016 election, they're very clear on the number of people who voted for Obama twice and then who turned around and voted for Trump, particularly in the key swing counties of Ohio and Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania.

So there was the economic factor, but also there was a cultural factor at work.

Our society has moved now very, very fast.

The whole society is moving fast.

Our communication networks are much faster with cell phones.

And that put a premium on personality development.

and on celebrity status, whereby you didn't have to spend five years building up a political name that people would recognize.

Trump walked into politics, even though he'd never been in politics before, as a well-known figure because he was on television so much.

And so that was a major change.

And then lastly, this idea of speaking very clearly about issues without going into the

On the other hand, you know, Ronald Reagan had that great saying that he wanted to meet a one-armed economist, so he would never say, but on the other hand, and Trump would do that, and he was coarse, and he was often profane in various ways, and he would say things that many people wouldn't say, and that was precisely the point.

What he did say was the very stuff that average people say all the time.

And so let me segue to what just happened here over the last three months,

Over the last three months, we have seen the media, or as I like to call it, the hoax news media, consumed by the Kennedy Center renaming, by a tweet or a truth post that Trump made about Rob Reiner, and then before that about the ballroom.

Now, relatively speaking, these are utterly irrelevant things in the lives of most Americans, yet that's what not only X and Twitter and all these places were spending all their time on, talking about how horrible it was what Trump was doing,

But in the meanwhile, Trump was just getting rid of 2.5 million illegal aliens.

He basically reorganized all of Latin America, except for Colombia, Venezuela, and Argentina, into a kind of MAGA version of Latin America, and he negotiated about four or five ceasefires around the world.