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Voters like initial flurry of Executive Orders from @realDonaldTrump. His initial job approval rating is at 57%. That's up three points from pre-inauguration numbers and twelve points higher than his first approval rating of his first term. @NapolitanNews survey of 3,000 RV, conducted by @ScottWRasmussen, Jan 20-23, 2025

Thoughts on the morning after a historic day. Maybe the best day of my 19-year career in politics. To paraphrase his uber-fan Kid Rock, Trump came in "like a train that rolls hard letting off much steam." Except he wasn't wearing cutoff flannel or dusty jeans, baby, but his traditional power suit and power tie. And he was dressed for the occasion, wielding as much power on day one as any president ever has in modern times. And it was all meant to convey a message. To quote a one-word text I got last night from one of my friends/contacts/little birdies in the second Trump Administration: "War." The Democrat Party formally declared war on the fundamental values that forged America in 2008. When the man whose pastor proclaimed "God d*** America" took office and systemically began to remake it in the image of a faculty meeting at Cal Berkely, with a gameplan right out of a book dedicated to Satan. Since then, the level of rancor/division/coercion/targeting in our politics and culture has reached Cold Civil War levels. Since then, the Right has been mostly paralyzed in its attempted opposition by either cowardice, treachery, media malice, dissension, or ineffectiveness. In 2016, Trump had the right message and moxie, but between media malice contriving one crisis or scandal after another, and his own inexperience, his presidency never could quite get its consistent bearings despite successes (particularly in foreign policy). That culminated on March 16, 2020, when the Trump presidency effectively ended via the scamdemic. Its very clear Trump v2.0 has spent a lot of time the last four years self-scouting, and this version is not only ready but eager for battle. For indeed, yesterday was a counter-declaration of war. The Right, finally, is now fully engaged in the Cold Civil War. It has its general, it has its battle plan. That battle plan came in the form of Trump's barrage of executive orders, bombarding the Left on so many different fields of ideological and philosophical battle simultaneously unlike anything we (and they) could have imagined. To be clear, these are not panaceas which instantly fix things, but they're not intended to be. They're intended to be the "come and take it" of public policy. This was the equivalent of Dirty Harry saying, "Go ahead make my day." Rather than one policy, one issue, or one speech the enemy can key in on and deconstruct rolled out over time, Trump launched the political equivalent of a D-Day. This is the largest amphibious political assault we have ever seen, but it is what was needed to counter the largest invasion/infestation of our country and its institutions we have ever suffered. What was declared yesterday in an incredible inaugural speech that was more a criminal indictment before the world of the traitors who intentionally tried to burn down our way of life, and then quantified in the hundreds of EOs signed later by Trump, will take years to adjudicate in the courts of law and public opinion. But if you're a serious ideologue like myself, January 20th will be a day long remembered. For the first time it seems our side is now fully committed to victory, even if there will be (and at times necessary) disagreements along the way of how to ultimately get there. Was it not something to see to witness the vast majority of us rowing in the same direction for a change? That's what leadership does and means. That's what a vision/plan does. That's what Trump provided yesterday. Yesterday was the day Trump evolved from a needed provocateur to an even more needed president. Trump blew up the Death Star. A key battle was won, we have finally fully joined the war, the rebellion is on, but the war is far from over. And never forget, the Empire always strikes back. Let me close by saying this. From the time I received my first phone call from Trump about running for president in 2013, I have wondered "is this guy really serious?" My uncertainty in that regard is why over the years I have held every conceivable position about him as our standard-bearer (both for and against) someone on the Right can have and still be moderately sane. This explains why his defiant and heroic reaction to almost being assassinated spoke to me directly, and took me from "vote Trump to stop the communists" to being fully invested. This is why the way he ran his campaign after that fateful moment did the same. Yesterday confirmed for me this is the battle. It was the last 19 years of my show come to life. This is the general chosen for the moment. This is our fight. This is our time. Fight! Fight! Fight!

SCOOP: President-elect Donald Trump is encouraging Vivek Ramaswamy to take the Ohio Senate seat vacated by JD Vance's departure, per sources Unclear what this would mean for DOGE, which Trump picked Ramaswamy & Musk to lead in November Senate decision up to Ohio's governor