How Trump became Washington's unlikeliest centrist
Julian Epstein
Love or hate him, there is no denying that President Trump is on a roll, at home and abroad.
The president secured passage of his signature “Big Beautiful” tax reform legislation that includes his “no taxes” on tips and overtime.
Most market watchers expect the economy to surge.
His bunker-buster strike effectively de-nuked Iran’s threats against the US, Israel, and throughout the Mideast. In the process, US deterrence — “peace through strength” — was effectively restored after the disastrous Obama and Biden appeasement policies and the Afghanistan embarrassment. Russia and China were sidelined in the region.
And the stage is set for a historic pro-peace, pro-West realignment in the Mid-East under an Abraham framework — the stuff of which Nobel Peace Prizes are made.
Trump also brokered a peace agreement with Rwanda and Congo, reversing the shameful blind eye of the West that enabled a horrific holocaust in East Africa in 1994.
He brokered a crucial peace deal with the India-Pakistan conflict that teetered into full-blown war between two nuclear states. The press hardly noticed, and campus protestors were tellingly indifferent.
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