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Rick Manning–Make America Great Again Is More Than A Slogan—Necessary

'All Politics is Local' said the late Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill; ALG's President Rick Manning said MAGA is needed, not a mere slogan.

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"If all politics is local, then all government is local, too, and an attack on one level of government generally turns into an attack on them all." So said Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill, Jr., former Speaker of the House (MA-D). Back in the day, Tip O'Neill and the late President Ronald Regan (R) often found ways to work with each other. With that in mind, the following op-ed is courtesy of the Daily Torch to this writer for MHProNews and this Patch.

Part I

Make America Great Again Is More Than A Slogan—It Is Necessary

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By Rick Manning

For the first time since the reign of Franklin D. Roosevelt which put the full-throated administrative state in place, America has aligned the executive, legislative and judicial branches to restore power to the people and rip it out of the hands of their taxpayer funded overlords in the federal bureaucracy.

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This is the time, purpose and vision behind the founding of Americans for Limited Government more than twenty years ago.

In the past three years, the Supreme Court has opened the door for the first time in decades to rollback federal regulatory overreach.

The Court declared that regulations which go beyond the law passed by the elected Congress are unconstitutional in West Virginia v. EPA.

And just this past year, the Court overturned a forty year old decision that instructed courts to give deference to the wisdom and knowledge of the federal bureaucracy over those who were suing to prevent the expansion of the regulatory state. By ending so-called Chevron deference, the federal courts can listen to arguments and dismiss absurd or disputed claims by regulators when confronted with conflicting and credible testimony.

These two cases, along with a few others that have the same effect, open the doors not only in the Courts, but for Congress to act to shut down this unconstitutional expansion of government.

To make matters even more hopeful, President Donald Trump has appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head a non-governmental Department of Government Efficiency with the goal of streamlining government and providing the President and Congress a pathway to not only wring waste, fraud and abuse out of the system, but to provide a blueprint on government reorganization.

These are hopeful times, but here is the secret that we all know. If changes are simply made using Donald Trump’s formidable pen and paper, they can be rescinded as early as 2029.

This is why Congressional action is essential. Narrow majorities in both the House and Senate will dictate some of the scope of change that can be made, but Congress can write regulations that overreach out of the law by refusing to reauthorize legislation unless the regulatory changes are made. They can strip funding for the implementation of these regulations through the appropriations process. And Congress can affirm Executive Branch recommended rescissions reflecting cuts in spending that have been deemed wasteful or unnecessary by the White House.

The great news is Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) have already started the ball rolling by directing their Committee Chairs to identify these overreaching regulations so that the House can hit the ground running on day one.

The even better news is that with the bully pulpit of President Trump, media disruptors like Truth Social, talk radio and X.com and groups like Americans for Limited Government, the administrative state will face powerful grassroots pushback directly into Congress urging change.

The great restoration of America is possible. There are many, many challenges ahead, and it will likely take twelve years of GOP presidential leadership to clean up the mess created on a bipartisan basis over the past century.

But for the first time in generations, there is hope that the administrative state dragon can be slayed, spending can be refocused upon constitutional priorities and the great American economic engine will be unleashed to create a future that the Baby Boomer generation can’t imagine.

Freedom is contagious, and freeing the minds and talents of our nation’s entrepreneurs, inventors and dreamers has been the key to our nation’s wealth, historically creating a prosperous middle class where parents can achieve their dream that if their children apply themselves, they will achieve greater things than their parents.

Making America Great Again is not a slogan, it is a determination to fix what is broken in America including restoring individual freedom and today it is necessary and that is why there is hope unseen for generations.

Rick Manning is the President of Americans for Limited Government.

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Part II Additional Facts, Evidence & Analysis (FEA)

1) It will be recalled that Kamala Harris said about her debate remarks against Joe Biden: "It was a debate!"

2) After saying Trump was like a second Hitler, Joe Biden (D) promised a smooth transition to President-elect Donald Trump (R) in a face-to-face White House meeting.

3) It was obvious to those who have a sense of reality, history, and the tactics being deployed by numbers of Kamala Harris and Democratic supporters that they were exaggerating at best, paltering, posturing, and/or projecting at worst.

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4) It was also obvious that Trump and Republicans had a genuine chance of winning by a wide margin, so long as Trump supporters turned out to vote and the election was reasonably honest.

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5) It is time for truth-tellers and truth-seekers to look carefully at the record of the last 9 years. Trump was transformed from being a much admired success that Oprah Winfrey (Democratic supporter) among others gladly shared a friendly video stage with.

Trump had many of the same strengths and weaknesses back then that he has today. What is different is that his weaknesses were hyped and placed on steroids, and his strengths and points worth considering were downplayed or ignored. Pre-election was this tweet (X-post).

6) Enough of the public overcame the tremendous odds and slurs against Trump to vote for him. The time for national healing through success, which is what Trump has promised, is potentially ahead. Not to brag, but to give readers confidence in our reports with analysis here on the Patch, or at MHProNews/MHLivingNews, is a strong tract record of accuracy, citing sources properly, and pulling insights from across the left-right divide. As the political independent son of legal immigrants who were Kennedy Democrats before they became Reagan Republicans, it is this writer's view that there are some notions from certain Democrats that are fine, just as there are some insights from certain Republicans that are fine, and something similar may hold for minor party candidates too. The lens of truth is necessary. The search for truth is important. The desire for a more perfect union for all should be held high among all Americans.

"If all politics is local, then all government is local, too, and an attack on one level of government generally turns into an attack on them all." So said "Tip" O'Neill, Jr. To learn more, see the related reports. One of several reports that ought to bring many on the left and right together is the one shown below, but there are several others too.

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