Here you go.

You can’t say mean things about another politician, you can’t be for closing the border, you can’t be against climate change policy, you can’t talk to the leader of Taiwan, you have to be nice to the MSM because they have the power to destroy you, the President can’t tweet because it’s too undignified, nothing can be done about the trade deficit, 1-2% growth is the new normal, etc., etc. were accepted as conventional wisdom…….until Trump came along.

I remember Harry Truman. My grandparents were staunch Republicans and they hated Harry. He was too uncouth, too common, connected to the Prendergast gang, a “little” man, etc. That was what I thought about Truman until I worked with a man who was his Naval Attach’e. He told me about the Truman who stood up to Stalin at Potsdam, who made the call on dropping the atomic bombs, who fired McArthur, etc. That changed my thinking about Truman. I think Trump is another public figure like Truman. People may think he’s coarse, vulgar, narcissistic and more, but he may well be a man who can take the big decisions and make most of them right. Let us hope. And, we’ll see.

I do still believe we have a serious economic downturn in front of us, driven by debt, and Trump doesn’t change that. He will be blamed, and ordinarily one would think that his support and popularity would be eroded. Most politicians would be weakened and chastened by that. Yet I think that is one more surprise of Trump. Even if his base abandons him, he still might not change.

Obama demonstrated that sometimes a president can do whatever the hell he wants, even if his friends are telling him to slow down. Trump is going to take that and run. It’s not just that elites are afraid because they don’t control Trump, or the Chinese on their heels because he has gone on the offensive – Trump’s friends don’t control him either. We’d better hope he’s right more than half the time.