President Trump is looking forward to four good years of whirlwind accomplishments. He has a lot on his agenda, and he can’t wait to get into it.
But we might say, as we do when anyone runs a marathon, “you have 26 miles to go; pace yourself.”
President Trump knows he has four years according to the calendar, but he’s not acting like it. Why? Because from his perspective, he knows he doesn’t really have four years.
When does a horse race begin? At the sound of a gun, of course.
But for that to happen, the horses had to be registered, and prepared, and positioned in place first. That race may only last a few minutes, but from the perspective of the jockey, the owners, and the trainers, it started long before.
And what of a professional football, baseball, or basketball season? Long before the first game of the season, the coaches, managers, and team owners have been developing plays, honing their teams’ skills with practice and coaching, designing a roster that uses each player’s skills to his advantage.
It’s no different in politics.
President Donald J. Trump will take his oath of office at approximately 12 Noon on January 20, 2025, and his term will end exactly four years later, to the minute.
There will be an election to fill that seat in November, 2028, with primaries and caucuses to choose the two major parties’ nominees in that contest in the spring of that year. But in order to compete for the job, they’ll need to file for the primaries in the fall or winter of 2027. And they’ll need to start working long before that, in order to have a shot at their respective parties’ nominations.
Long before that, however, in November of 2026, we will hold the midterm elections. The President isn’t up, but a third of the Senate and the entire House will be.
It’s a Senate map that favors the Democrats, and the party holding the presidency almost always suffers a beating in their midterms. The GOP majorities don’t have enough of a cushion to survive such an occurrence; the GOP has to assume that the odds going in are fifty-fifty at best that the Democrats retake the House in 2026, unless they do such a fantastic job that the public chooses to keep them in place.
Who’s going to run for all these offices in 2026 and 2028? When the petition-filing days begin to appear in the late fall of 2025, who will seek nominations?
Will the Republicans attract the best of the best, because they think their odds are good, or will they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find candidates because they assume they have no chance?
And will the Democrats attract their strongest, wealthiest, best candidates, because the outlook is good for their side, or will the Democrats have to make do with third-rate candidates because Republican polling is so strong in every demographic?
We don’t know yet.
But just one year from now, the chess pieces will already be in place for the 2026 primaries, so we have less than a year to affect that field.
And that means that President Trump and his colleagues in the House and Senate already know that they don’t have a second to waste.
They know they need to start chalking up accomplishments as soon as they take office in January, because federal action takes time to have an effect, and it’s not enough to pass the right legislation; the effects have to have begun to show by the end of the year.
If you’ve wondered why President Trump started naming members of his cabinet before the ink was dry on the election results last month – and if you’ve wondered why President Trump had his transition team in place, already vetting prospective candidates for not just the cabinet but every senior position in the executive branch, long before the election even occurred – it’s because they are fully aware of how short their window really is.
They may have four years in office, but if they don’t accomplish a lot of their major goals in the first few months, a fickle public will likely deal them a nasty hand in the midterms.
There are some immediate improvements that can take place on January 20, as soon as he takes the oath. He can undo most of the Biden-Harris executive orders immediately – but then they’ll be just as susceptible to reversal yet again when the next statist is foolishly elected to the office.
So this team is trying to think ahead, as much as possible; write a sensible, Constitutional executive order for immediate effect, but then try to lock the reform into the lawbooks by passing it through Congress as well, making it harder to undo. It won’t be easy, with margins this slim, but they know that’s what their goal has to be.
Watch President Trump and his team; watch the Senate and House majorities. And watch their appointments, all of whom need to sail through as quickly as possible, so they can hit the field running.
The US Senate has a chance to either help America by helping seat this team, or to irrevocably harm America by holding it up. Considering the massive damage done to our Constitution and our nation over the past hundred years, by statist vermin who were confirmed by a century of worthless rubber-stamp Senates, there is no moral high ground in wasting precious time on the confirmation process with President Trump’s appointees.
The American people are counting on President Trump getting right to work, and he’s done his part already. Now it’s the Senate’s turn.
If the Senate majority votes as a block, as fast as possible, without a moment’s hesitation, without wasting a second in posturing, nattering, navel-gazing, or other typical Senatorial dilly-dallying, then President Trump’s team can get right to work.
Because the time window is short, and, long before the inauguration, that clock has already started.
Copyright 2024 John F Di Leo
John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based international transportation and trade compliance professional and consultant. President of the Ethnic American Council in the 1980s and Chairman of the Milwaukee County Republican Party in the 1990s, his book on vote fraud (The Tales of Little Pavel) and his political satires on the current administration (Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Volumes I, II, and III), are available in either eBook or paperback, only on Amazon.
His newest nonfiction book, “Current Events and the Issues of Our Age,” was just released on July 1, and is also available, in both paperback and Kindle eBook, exclusively on Amazon.
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