Donald Trump has just completed the first three weeks of his presidency – and is now more popular than ever. In a whirlwind, Trump has taken dramatic and sometimes drastic action to reverse the effects of the last four years, especially what I’d call its leadership deficit.

A new poll from CBS News found a majority approves of the job Trump is doing for the first time in either of his terms. As their analyst put it, that is because “he’s doing … what he said he would do in the campaign.” It also comes from the popularity of Trump’s agenda to secure the borders, deport criminal aliens, and ending the governmental obsession with race-based preferences in public policy.

But that’s not the entire story. The CBS analyst also credited a “general sense of governance” as the reason for Trump’s popular support. The implication here is clear: Americans were fed up by four years of governance by a cabal of Democrat operatives while fronting a clearly incompetent Joe Biden.

Leadership matters. Donald Trump is delivering it while Democrats can do little but weep.

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They didn’t see this coming.

The New York Times has noticed a fascinating trend. Evidently for the New York Times, maybe a troubling trend. A recent headline made that clear: “When Your Son Goes MAGA.” The paper then explained that a good number of liberal parents struggle to understand their own young conservative sons. Quoting just one line from the paper: “As more young men support President Trump, some parents are feeling flummoxed.”

They shouldn’t have been shocked.

And it’s not just politics. For the first time in living memory, young men are now more likely than young women to attend church. An earlier report from the New York Times saw the trend: “For the first time in modern American history, young men are now more religious than their female peers. They attend services more often and are more likely to identify as religious.”

Listen to that. For the first time in living memory, young men are more likely than young women to attend church.

We’re living in interesting times.

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In his first weeks in office, President Trump has produced “shock and awe” with a dazzling array of executive orders. One of his chief targets has been the “DEI”—or diversity, equity and inclusion”—initiatives sprinkled throughout government.

As it turns out, the Biden administration wasn’t just peddling DEI here at home. It was imposing it throughout the world.

Americans have been paying for drag shows in Ecuador, LGBTQ comic books in Peru, transgender operations in Colombia, and expanding atheism in Nepal.

Apparently, the only diversity we weren’t subsidizing was cultural diversity—by respecting the conservative, religious heritages of these countries.

The next time the left complains about the government downsizing Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency are implementing, remember the radical social agenda the State Department has been exporting in our name. No doubt it’s just the tip of the iceberg.

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When the FBI’s senior leadership initially balked at providing a list of employees used in the investigation of the January 6 riot, they told the media that they feared “mass firings.” What they really feared was mass accountability.

The bureau finally complied with a legal order to provide the roster, and it had over five thousand names. The FBI only has some 14,000 agents. Christopher Wray and Merrick Garland tied up a third of the nation’s only federal law-enforcement and counter-intelligence agency over a riot, targeting people who were unarmed and mainly non-violent on January 6 along with violent rioters.

It's an absurd allocation of resources—underscoring the political nature of the Department of Justice and the FBI during Joe Biden’s presidency. And: Resources that should have been applied to real threats and violent criminals were unavailable. The same can be said for the other resources applied to politicized targeting of pro-lifers on FACE Act pretenses, snooping on conservative Catholics, and treating parents protesting school-board policies as “domestic terrorists.”

Accountability is coming … and long overdue.

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Thousands of people protesting the deportations of illegal immigrants recently blocked a major highway in Los Angeles.

Almost a million illegal immigrants live in the LA metropolitan area, so it’s reasonable to suspect that many were protesting the possibility of their own deportation. But it’s hard to imagine a tactic less likely to win widespread public support for their cause.

It took almost five hours for the highway to fully reopen. This is in a city recently traumatized by terrible wildfires that have destroyed numerous homes and displaced countless people. And virtually all of the protestors were carrying–not American–but Mexican flags.

The entire episode encapsulates the sense of entitlement that has caused so many Americans to lose patience with open borders immigration policies. America is a land of immigrants—but the immigrants should come legally, and with a sense of appreciation, rather than grievance.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington, DC constitutes the first foreign leader to meet with President Donald Trump since his inauguration. The consequences of their relationship cannot be understated. And, Trump is broadcasting important signals.

With Israel on one side and various Islamic and Arab regimes on the other, some endemically committed to Israel’s literal destruction, Trump—in his first term—made clear whose side America was on in the Middle East: He squarely put America on Israel’s side—and made policy decisions that brooked no doubt.

The Middle East does not have to be seen as two scorpions in a bottle, with Israel as one scorpion and her enemies the other, each pacified here and there, each sanctioned here and there. It can be one bottle and one scorpion, a scorpion that needs to be de-poisoned. Being squarely behind our ally, and broadcasting that, both instructs and proves the path to peace—avoiding both sides-ism. President Trump, refreshingly, understands that.

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President Trump recently released an executive order that seeks to deny US citizenship to children born to parents living here illegally. It revokes what’s known as “birthright citizenship” for any baby born after February 19.

A federal judge blocked the order, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional.” But it might not be that simple.

The argument is based on the 14th Amendment, ratified after the Civil War to ensure citizenship for former slaves and other African Americans. It defines a citizen as “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”

Note that final clause. The order’s supporters argue that if the Fourteenth Amendment had included birthright citizenship, the “jurisdiction” requirement would be superfluous.

The Supreme Court will ultimately resolve this dispute. But whatever they decide, there’s no question it’s a real issue with real consequences for our country.

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In Joe Biden’s spate of last-minute commutations, one particularly disgraceful episode stands out. Biden actually granted clemency to a drug lord who murdered an eight-year-old boy and his mother to prevent them from testifying against him.

They’re saying it was an accident. Biden signed pardons for “non-violent drug offenders” at the request of the ACLU. Biden’s staff reportedly didn’t double-check the ACLU’s list.

This is a scandal. But it also highlights a greater emerging scandal: America was running on autopilot for four long years. The result was misguided progressive policy, sloppiness and a lack of accountability that wreaked havoc on our country.

The truth about the Biden years will emerge, as truth always does over time. And Americans will be horrified -- both at the fraud itself and by a complicit media that knew the truth and failed to tell it.

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