Throughout the presidential campaign, Donald Trump focused on winning.  He covered all bases and stamped out all brush fires.  He never quit; he never even slowed down.  He won! But now that he is in power, Trump has met his first failures. Reality bites.  His attempt to repeal Obamacare was stopped dead in its tracks.  His policy on immigration was stymied at the border.  If he fails to lower taxes and build the wall, his supporters are going to have their first serious doubts about his competence.  While Trump's supporters are loyal, they demand results. Amid all the complications, Trump needs a new paradigm.  Unless he can define his core principles and stick to them, the distractions and treacheries of D.C. politics will send him down endless side roads and dead ends, until finally the economy (stupid) will collapse and bring his term to an ignominious end. President Ronald Reagan understood America.  He knew that above...(Read Full Post)