Trump’s Win Is America’s Win

Now it begins.

Over there at Yahoo News, the headline was as simple as it was meaningful: 

President-Elect Donald Trump Outlines His Vision for “the Golden Age of America”

The president-elect is quoted thusly: 

To every citizen, I will fight for you and your family and your future. I will not rest until we have delivered the strong, safe and prosperous America that our children deserve and that you deserve. This will truly be the golden age of America.

And without doubt, the ability to launch that golden age is well within reach.

Our very own R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. has summed up the possibilities thusly: 

Donald Trump is for freedom, that most dear of American values. So was Ronald Reagan. Trump has more gifts to deploy to propel America to greater glory, through his boundless energy and resonant voice, both being gifts from God, who surely had a hand in this landslide we are witnessing. Here’s to Donald! It is morning in America again.

Exactly as Bob Tyrrell says, Trump, like Reagan before him, is all about freedom. And freedom is not some empty rhetoric. It is everything to letting Americans in all walks of life make their own dreams of family, faith, and fortune into reality.

Americans, as this election illustrates, have a vivid understanding of exactly how freedom is central to American life. Take a moment, look around, and see what freedom has brought America.

This very publication, The American Spectator, is a testament to a young Bob Tyrrell having not only the vision to create it but the freedom to exercise his own abilities, not to mention the abilities of the many others he would encounter in both The American Spectator’s initial creation and in its success over the decades.

For, say, a very young Mark Zuckerberg, the vision was what the world now knows as Facebook. For a young Bill Gates, it was Microsoft. Multiply that by the millions of Americans who, while not famous, are living their own dreams and making them into reality, and you have the very essence of what makes America such a success.

Important here is to remember that this freedom to make his dreams into reality very much included a young Donald Trump. On one occasion when accompanying Trump to Washington to speak at our annual American Spectator gala, he told me how his dad, in real estate in Queens, told his young son and aspiring realtor to stick with real estate in Queens — and not go across the East River to the high-flying world of Manhattan real estate. “Trumps are Queens people,” said his dad.

Young Donald thought it over, disagreed, and wanted to give Manhattan a try. So he rented a modest Manhattan apartment and printed up a business card that said “The Trump Organization” — and in fact the only person in this “Trump Organization” was young Donald himself. With that, he set out to make a name for himself in Manhattan real estate — and, as it turned out, real estate around the world.

Suffice it to say, the rest, as they say, is history.

Now having broken all sorts of historical records in this second election to the presidency, Trump is planning to do for the country what he did for himself — use American freedom to create a golden age for millions of Americans to live their own dreams and make them come true.

Which is to say, Trump’s win is America’s win.

Good for America. And every American.

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