Happy Independence Day, early. I hope you have a wonderful time with family and friends.

What a great country we have. God’s gift.

We have every right to blow our own horn.

The good news no matter what the issue is our president.

America has a leader.

I will credit Kennedy as a leader. Then Reagan. Both these guys changed the trajectory of the presidency.

Washington has spent decades running a casino where the house always wins, the games are rigged with ideology, and the customers keep paying for tickets that promise occasional jackpots that never seem to come.

Then along comes a guy who looks at the whole operation and asks, “How can this casino be losing money?”

That is Donald Trump in a nutshell. He is the political unicorn America did not know it needed until the deficits kept piling up and the same arguments kept circling the drain. In this first segment of our arc on Trump the pragmatist, we zero in on the sheer anomaly of the man himself, the one who treats government like the badly managed enterprise it has become rather than a permanent stage for team colors and emotional theater.

Trump saw government the way a builder sees a collapsing structure. Old-school business did not care about your feelings or your donor list. It cared whether the numbers landed in black or bled red. Government, by contrast, has run in permanent red for longer than most voters have been alive, borrowing against tomorrow to fund today’s slogans. The result is a system where problems are not solved; they are weaponized for the next election cycle. Career politicians from both aisles perfected the art of keeping issues alive just enough to stay relevant. Trump walked in without that training. He saw a leaky roof and reached for the ladder instead of forming a committee to study the symbolism of the leak.

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