The Trump Agenda is at a Crossroads

"The lack of urgency to capitalize on Trump's mandate is nothing less than alarming. This needs to change fast or the presidency may be undone."

The Trump Agenda is at a crossroads.

After the most improbable political comeback in history, President Donald J. Trump returned to office with a vengeance.

He issued a slew of executive orders that instantly ended the Biden illegal alien invasion. Then he started dismantling the state propaganda complex by tearing down USAID and shuttering the Department of Education. He started pulling back on international agreements, like the Paris Climate Agreement, and even international organizations, like the World Health Organization.

Trump also fired a salvo at foreign leaders whose nations had been exploiting the U.S. economy for decades. He played hard ball on trade to revitalize America's industry and to get tariffs lowered on U.S. goods.

Trump's tariff threats roiled leaders in Mexico and Canada, and his sticks-and-carrots approach showed he was a tough negotiator. Vietnam and Israel ultimately agreed to drop their tariffs.

Americans haven't seen a president like this in decades. Maybe, ever.

But even more significantly, Trump started to attack the left's cultural domination. He issued an order to shut down Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs or DEI. And to show he meant business, he pledged to withhold aid from institutions that defied his order.

The biggest provocation was the take-charge activity of the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE. Spearheaded by special adviser Elon Musk — who has taken on a role similar to Harry Hopkins in FDR's New Deal years — he set out on a mission with a team of super-geniuses to uncover the waste, fraud, and corruption in the U.S. government.

The radical left has completely panicked. Outflanked by its enemy, who was now inside of its political machine, it cobbled together a number of activist groups to manufacture outrage.

Even as the paid protesters and fired bureaucrats hit the streets with signs calling Musk a "Nazi" and stoking attacks on Tesla owners and dealerships, the public has largely been unmoved.

Democrat approval is now at a shocking low, reaching 21 percent in a new CNN poll.

The radical left was momentarily caught off guard, unused to an opponent that actually intended to threaten its political machine. The Democratic Party was reeling. Amid collapsing approval ratings, the unscrupulous opposition decided to fight back the best way it knew how. Lawfare.

Rogue judges in lower courts began firing off nationwide injunctions —orders essentially telling President Trump to stop what he is doing. Immediately.

These legal actions are of dubious merit, but they are not designed to make sense or hold up to judicial scrutiny. They are being doled out to slow down the Trump train and hopefully run it off the tracks.

After all, that is what the left was able to do in Trump's first term. From the Russia hoax to impeachments to the J6 riots, Trump was handcuffed while getting in a rock fight with savvy, embedded operatives who were dedicated to thwarting his agenda and taking him down personally.

Now, he's being ordered to stop deporting criminal aliens like TdA terrorists and MS-13 gang members. He's being told he has to let transgender soldiers into the military. And he's being told that he has to fund corrupted agencies and retain unnecessary bureaucrats.

These more than 660 lower court judges have made themselves co-presidents. And they are trying to dictate executive policy for the President of the United States that the American people elected. This unprecedented judicial activism is threatening a Constitutional crisis.

This is no less than subversion — a "coup" being carried out by a "shadow government." But if there has been any revelation to come out of the disastrous Biden presidency, it is that this shadow government appears to have been in charge all along.

Trump's agenda is now under siege. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court that is stocked with "conservative" justices has taken a hands-off approach to the barrage of nationwide injunctions.

Chief Justice John Roberts, a Bush appointee, and Amy Coney Barrett, selected by no less than Donald Trump himself, sit on their thrones and have made themselves "the watchers." All while the nation unravels, caught in the throes of a Democrat-led judicial insurgency.

Recent elections in Wisconsin and Florida suggest that while we are still in Trump's first 100 days, time is already starting to run out. Left-wing extremist judge Susan Crawford has won Wisconsin's Supreme Court seat and is certain to gerrymander the state so that Democrats can claim an extra seat.

On the flip side, Republicans won two special elections in Florida, ironically, one of them was held in part because Trump selected Matt Gaetz in a failed bid for attorney general. Randy Fine was able to prevail, as was Jimmy Patronis, giving Speaker Mike Johnson a buffer against the Wisconsin setback.

But Speaker Johnson himself, a Trump-backed speaker who many in the conservative base have been suspicious of, has proven to be unreliable at best and uncooperative at worst. In a fiasco on Tuesday, GOP Rep. Ann Luna and Democratic Reps. Brittany Peterson and Sara Jacobs, tried to force Johnson to adopt a rule for proxy voting for new parents.

The House ultimately voted to stop Republican leaders from blocking an impending vote on proxy voting for new parents — now leaving the House in recess for the rest of the week — after several Republicans joined Democrats to torpedo the procedural rule. Luna even left the Freedom Caucus over the imbroglio.

Speaker Johnson's mini-shutdown couldn't have come at a worse time. Stalled are legislative measures to rein in the rogue judges that are sabotaging Trump's presidency.

One has to wonder who Johnson is friendlier to — Trump or the activist judges.

Again, all the MAGA base cares about is action. No amount of optics is going to obscure that Republicans were elected by millions of voters for the express purpose of installing and fortifying the Trump agenda.

Trump has been wiser this time around. He has been more prepared. But his personnel decisions are once again coming back to haunt him. Despite pushing through some unlikely conservative heroes, such as Kash Patel and Dan Bongino at the FBI, Tulsi Gabbard at the Directorate of National Intelligence, and RFK Jr. at Health and Human Services, a key choice raises serious concerns that his agenda may stall out.

Attorney General Pam Bondi may be the most perplexing appointment. The lack of urgency coming out of the Justice department is not inspiring public confidence.

Bondi seems more adept at Fox News hits than at arresting bad actors. This needs to change fast or the Trump presidency may be undone.

The MAGA base has had it up to its eyeballs with "messaging." All that Trump supporters care about now are actions and results.

There is no amount of spin that is going to take our eyes off the prize: Restoring a free nation where parents can raise their kids in safety. Rebuilding an economy where people can afford to buy gas and groceries. And replacing the unelected "shadow government" with one that represents the will of the people.