It’s exactly one month into the world of President-elect Donald Trump.  In this episode of the Conservative Conscience, Daniel assesses the first month of policies, statements, and cabinet picks and tries to glean a sense of direction from the nascent administration.  There appears to be a lot of promise as it relates to military, national security, terrorism, and immigration.  On the other hand, there are challenges ahead for fiscal conservatism, with the notable exception of regulatory reform.

The task for conservatives is to come forward with an aggressive positive agenda that speaks to the strengths of Trump and channels some of the misdirection into good constitutional policies.  As it relates to the bad economic policies, conservatives will have to stop him from doing further damage.

The key is to focus Trump on national security and the border and distract him from his other big government ideas.  Take a page out of Madison:

“The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security. As the former periods will probably bear a small proportion to the latter, the State governments will here enjoy another advantage over the federal government. The more adequate, indeed, the federal powers may be rendered to the national defense, the less frequent will be those scenes of danger which might favor their ascendancy over the governments of the particular States.” [James Madison, Federalist #45]

Show links:

Trump’s comments in support of stimulus

How the GOP establishment teamed up with Pelosi to block impeachment of IRS Commissioner

Did Trump help establishment derail conservatives on impeachment?

The importance of impeachment as an accountability tool for Congress  

Trump’s Labor Sec., Andy Puzder, supported Gang of Eight amnesty

Pruitt will be game changer at EPA … if Congress protects him from courts