WorldNetDaily By Peter Berkowitz
Late on election night in an understandably upbeat and surprisingly conciliatory victory speech at the Palm Beach Convention Center, President-elect Donald Trump declared, “We’re going to help our country heal.” He expressed gratitude to his base: “But most of all I want to thank the millions of hard-working Americans across the nation who have always been the heart and soul of this really great movement.” He promised that “we’re going to turn it around” because America is home to “the greatest people.” He boasted of his movement’s inclusiveness: “We’ve built the biggest, the broadest, the most unified coalition, they’ve never seen anything like it, in all of American history.” That coalition, he asserted proudly, encompasses “young and old, men and women, rural and urban” as well as “union, non-union, African American, Hispanic American, Asian American, Arab American, Muslim American, we had everybody, and it was beautiful.” And it represented an “historical realignment uniting citizens of all backgrounds around a common core of common sense.”
The reality remains, however, that America is bitterly divided, with nearly half the nation having greatly preferred Vice President Kamala Harris. And the country’s pressing concerns would test even a unified nation.
Among other important tasks, the incoming administration must restore order to the southern border and fix our broken immigration system. It must bring under control the nation’s approximately $35.5-trillion-and-growing national debt, which is 123% of the nation’s FY2024 GDP. It must shift K-12 schools and colleges and universities away from indoctrination and reorient them toward education – starting with teaching the basics and all the while cultivating students’ ability to weigh evidence, imagine other people’s perceptions and passions, tolerate and learn from competing opinions, and think independently. It must reduce the strain on families and communities from globalization, workplace automation, and the digital-technology revolution. It must develop America’s energy resources while caring for the environment. It must rein in politicized bureaucracies, especially law enforcement and intelligence. And it must assist Ukraine in thwarting Russian aggression, back Israel in defending itself against Iran and its proxies, and steel the country for a long struggle with the People’s Republic of China, a struggle sparked by the Chinese Communist Party’s endeavors in every region of the world to entrench its authoritarian norms and practices.
Lasting policy reforms will require a measure of compromise and conciliation. It asks a lot of the winning side – whom progressive elites relentlessly vilified as a threat to democracy – to reverse course. Nevertheless, the Trump team has an interest in promoting public comity by offering those the president-elect has portrayed as “enemies from within” opportunities to prove themselves partners in stabilizing the nation. It also asks a lot of the losing side – whom conservatives have relentlessly vilified as a threat to democracy – to cooperate to advance the common good. Despite the disposition to anticipate the worst from the incoming administration, progressives have an interest in obtaining a seat at the table…
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