Donald Trump's November victory has bent political light waves toward him. Trump world is the center of global political gravity.
Internationally the leaders of the world are lining up to meet with the president-elect. They want Trump's favor and fear his disapprobation. Domestically, while there is no antidote for Trump derangement syndrome, many who were sleepwalking to oblivion by devoting their lives to the radical Left are waking up to the necessity of joining the MAGA movement.
That explains why, in their first show after the presidential election, the troupe at Saturday Night Live did a spot satirically announcing that they had been with Trump all along. While tongue in cheek, the skit actually parodied the current move of corporate America toward accepting, if not embracing, the return of Donald J. Trump as president.
Fat cats and corporations have donated record amounts for the inaugural festivities celebrating the return of President Trump. Many companies, with some notable exceptions, are even scrapping their ridiculous DEI programs.
Let this be a warning. These johnny-come-lately types don't really get the MAGA movement. They get that the record-smashing electoral turnout for Trump is a signal that the country has had enough of the Left, but they aren't quite sure it will last.
But it must last if America is to persist as the leader of the free world, as an economic powerhouse, as a military titan, and as a cultural driver. If America turns into a second-tier power à la Great Britain, the world will cease to have the beacon of hope and freedom that the United States represents.
Indeed, without American renewal there will be a crushing international depression and destructive chaos in the world. There is a path to preventing such a wrong turn, even if the path is strewn with obstacles and is uphill all the way.
It begins in Congress. Congress must deliver on President Trump's agenda: secure the border (including mass deportation), battle and tame inflation by reducing the federal government's structural deficit which fuels the out-of-control national debt, and ignite the economy through energy, tax, and regulatory policy that unleashes capital spending and produces economic opportunity and expansion.
This is a tall order at any time, but now it must be accomplished with a one-vote majority in the United States House of Representatives and a three-vote majority in the United States Senate. And not all of the members of either body are fully committed to Trump's MAGA agenda.
Add to that the strange procedure that must be undertaken to get around the Senate's 60-vote cloture rules, the budget reconciliation process, and you have a bit of work to do.
In order to facilitate resolution of the debt ceiling issue and implement America-first border, tax, energy, and other policies, Congress must attack the funding of the bureaucratic state.
We must implement a process to set aside the budget-busting Joe Biden regime's rules and regulations ($1.3 trillion in the last year alone). We must tax remittances from illegal aliens to their home countries, which constitutes a magnificently large wealth transfer.
We will never have a better time to bend the spending curve down. We must narrow the gap between spending and revenue.
Saturday Night Live may have thought its skit was humorous, but most of the country is breathing a sigh of relief that the Biden team was routed and is anticipating greater economic growth, recognition of constitutional freedom, and international stability that prompted the Trump MAGA mandate.
The leverage that congressional Republicans now have requires decisive action if we are going to implement the directional change that the voters mandated with the election of Donald J. Trump.
Andy Biggs, a Republican, represents Arizona's Fifth Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.
