Excellent

Senator Marco Rubio as Secretary of States is a stellar pick.

Congressman Mike Waltz is an excellent pick for National Security Advisor.

Both men from Florida are China hawks who hate communists.

Then there is Lee Zeldin at EPA and Elise Stefanik at the United Nations — great picks.

In fact, every pick so far announced by Donald Trump should reassure people who were unsure if his second term would be filled with high caliber appointees. So far, absolutely.

Additionally, having Stephen Miller overseeing the ruthless gutting of the federal bureaucracy makes my heart happy.

Looking at the data, Americans keep swinging the pendulum back and forth, I suspect, because they want competent and instead keep getting rigorous ideologies, the worst of which have come from the Biden Administration.

I’m a conservative. I want a small right-wing government. Trump is way more populist and is surrounded by economic voices who want to use the power of government. I don’t think that will work out well.

But I also think if Trump and those around him can resist the big impulses to remake the government in their image quickly, they’ll be able to do it slowly and generationally by just being steady and competent.

The left is, of course, convinced that Trump is incapable of stability and competence. But if he puts good people in place, he has a chance. Meanwhile, he also has a chance because of the media’s hysteria.

Michael Tomasky, a leftwing writer, insists Trump won because the conservative media ecosystem is so big and floods the zone with lies and liars.

Tomasky puts his stock in a mainstream media apparatus that brought us this hysterical coverage of the first Trump tenure in office.

That’s just coverage of the first two years.

This is the same media that turned remarks about an economic bloodbath into supposedly calls for violence and death if Trump loses. This is the same media that turns calls for Liz Cheney on the front lines of war into hauling her before a firing squad.

The press can never just cover Trump. They have to sensationalize and infantilize their coverage of Trump. The left demands it. When conservatives go on non-Fox news networks, they are always forced to appear on terms from the left in how they speak and approach topics. Scott Jennings is a master of it at CNN.

All I ask is that the press give us just the facts, not hair-on-fire extrapolations. In fact, dare I suggest that not everything is about Trump, and the press would be wise not to obsess over him?

But for those who read my thoughts on Trump providing stability and competence and laughed thinking he is incapable, well I think the press is incapable of covering Trump as ordinary and boring.

On the Senate Leader

Contrary to the wild rumors online, Mitch McConnell is not rushing to hold a Senate leadership election. The date was scheduled long before the election for November 13th. It is discrediting to those who have advanced the theory that this is somehow a rush job.

I’m not a John Cornyn fan. I do not know John Thune. I have literally never met the man. I do know, like, and respect Rick Scott. He is a good conservative. What I also know from my years as a conservative activist is that United States Senators of both parties resent like hell when the grassroots make a demand on who the party’s Senate leader should be or loudly side with one person.

I’d just seriously prefer it not be Cornyn. But I think aggressively promoting Rick Scott from the grassroots hurts Rick Scott.