Trump has known for many years that the United States is not healthy, nor on a healthy track. "America is Back!" is aspirational, but it takes more than a good slogan to coax, push, and inspire an over-stressed, tired, broke-ass nation to peace and prosperity.

With his New York bluntness occasionally revealing a soft heart, Trump makes me think of Dr. Ron Paul – the kindest and wisest of men, with his fist cheerfully raised at the deep state for the past 50 years.  Trump's aim – to align America's actions and principles with fairness, prosperity and peace – is Paulian.  Both men share an energetic and uncontrived political radicalism in support of this vision.  I don't know if God saved Trump from a deep state bullet for a higher purpose in 2025, as he has mentioned.  I do know that the limited government mantra that Ron Paul revived over 40 years ago, from the old anti-war Right, is the reason we have a populist President today, who wants to end wars, shrink the bureaucracy, and abandon serfdom to the state.