The Most Important Export Of Trump’s Presidency Is Results
amuse – The most underappreciated effect of Donald Trump’s second term is not domestic. It is hemispheric. American commentators remain absorbed by court battles, media feuds, and partisan realignments at home. But south of the Rio Grande, voters and political elites are watching something else entirely. They are watching a governing model deliver visible results in defiance of elite orthodoxy. And they are drawing conclusions.
For decades, Latin American politics followed a familiar cycle. Left-wing coalitions promised redistribution and dignity, expanded the state, tolerated disorder in the name of social justice, and framed hostility toward Washington as moral virtue while quietly depending on U.S. markets, remittances, and security guarantees. The cycle did not fail because of rhetoric. It failed because it could not govern. Crime surged, currencies collapsed, energy prices spiked, and migration became a mass escape valve. Voters lived the consequences. Continue reading
Peter LaBarbera – Newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is a Christian, pro-Trump, pro-life social conservative who scores well on all Right-leaning Capitol Hill voting scorecards, which is one of the many reasons why he is being denounced by leftist groups – even as grassroots