Everyone agrees Trump gave a well-received speech before Congress on Tuesday night. Now it’s time for him to follow that up with action.
In this episode of the Conservative Conscience, Daniel discusses how Trump can use the bully pulpit to promote specific policies on the most important issues, such as immigration, health care, national security, taxes, and regulations. He must first get everyone in his administration in line with his agenda, formulate specific policies, and then make a series of high profile policy speeches speaking to the morality of those policies in order to browbeat Congress into submission. That is how Reagan successfully used the bully pulpit.
Specifically, we discuss how Trump can articulate a vision for free market health care and channel his populism into a conservative message that shows how the Left is responsible for destroying innovation in health care. Daniel speaks passionately about his blueprint for free market health care reform and the need to end venture socialism, whereby the AMA and the lobbyists for the status quo use the boot of government to prevent an Uber or Amazon type revolution in the industry. Trump would be the best ambassador for such a cause because of his persona as an innovative entrepreneur. This is how he can get Republicans unified behind one health care plan.
Moreover, this is how Trump can speak over the media. The more chaos, division, and indecisiveness on policy issues, the more the media will fill the news vacuum with manufactured administration scandals. But the more Trump publicly, definitively, and passionately speaks to the issues of our time with specific proposals, the more the media will have to wage their war on our territory. The public is starving for innovative changes from traditional failed policies on so many issues. It’s time to speak consistently, seriously, and specifically with one voice.
Quotes:
“When you believe in something with all your heart and soul it comes very easy. We don’t have Republicans that believe in principles with their hearts and souls.”
“Trump needs to speak to the morality of free markets the same way he did his immigration policies. We have a natural right to free market health care. We have the right to pursue happiness and engage in commerce and contracts without government screwing us over.”
“In politics you either drive the narrative or get driven by the narrative. If you are not making a definitive play, you will become a victim of the media’s play.”
Show links
Trump scored big, using a conventional speech to kick off an unconventional presidency
If airlines worked like health care…
Logan Albright: How the AMA is using their government-sponsored monopoly to destroy health care
