How Trump Became Washington’s Unlikeliest Centrist
Posted by Coppers Dad on July 6, 2025, 10:27 pm
How Trump became Washington’s unlikeliest centrist By Julian Epstein
Love or hate him, there is no denying that President Trump is on a roll, at home and abroad.
The president secured passage of his signature “Big Beautiful” tax reform legislation that includes his “no taxes” on tips and overtime.
Most market watchers expect the economy to surge.
His bunker-buster strike effectively de-nuked Iran’s threats against the US, Israel, and throughout the Mideast. In the process, US deterrence — “peace through strength” — was effectively restored after the disastrous Obama and Biden appeasement policies and the Afghanistan embarrassment. Russia and China were sidelined in the region.
And the stage is set for a historic pro-peace, pro-West realignment in the Mid-East under an Abraham framework — the stuff of which Nobel Peace Prizes are made.
Trump also brokered a peace agreement with Rwanda and Congo, reversing the shameful blind eye of the West that enabled a horrific holocaust in East Africa in 1994.
He brokered a crucial peace deal with the India-Pakistan conflict that teetered into full-blown war between two nuclear states. The press hardly noticed, and campus protestors were tellingly indifferent.
Trump successfully pressured NATO countries to raise defense spending to 5% of GDP — from the free-riding sub-2% mark. After being persuaded (shamed?) out of their decadent dependency on the US defense, the Europeans gushed applause for Trump like he was Dos Equis’ most interesting man in the world.
The southern border is now closed as 80% of the American people want, with virtually no illegal crossings in May. As I predicted on these pages in February, Trump has again outsmarted the left-wing legal establishment as the Supreme Court gives him victory after victory — on deportations, pediatric gender transitions, story hours, and universal injunctions.
The University of Pennsylvania bowed to the president on biological men in women’s sports, and the administration’s Title VI investigation into the anti-Jewish bigotry at Harvard will surely force the university to reform its increasingly intolerant and often bigoted monoculture.
Trump also got major concessions from the Chinese on rare earth minerals, and from Canada and likely the EU on envy-taxes on US tech.
