Here's the thing - Trump circa 2016 was extremely ill-equipped in terms of having the proper LEADERSHIP CLASS - by whom I mean individuals with suitable resumes in business, military, finance, political science, etc. as well as other thought leaders who were fully ascribed to Trump's bold vision of the future - to staff the many openings provided to him within the executive after his win.

Bannon mentioned it before, that there were 20 or 30 TRUE MAGA people in the room with him when he took the win from Hillary, and subsequently he was forced to vet hundreds of Republicans recently turned to avowed MAGA disciples and it was plain to see in hindsight many of these people were there for other reasons chiefly.

The Republican majority of 16-18 was very effectively squandered on purpose by Paul Ryan and his acolytes in Congress, combined with the numerous tentacles they managed to insert into Trump's WH staff. Obviously Trump has only so much control over who was elected to the Republican side of Congress circa 2016 and what their alignment towards him would be.

He was effectively replacing the ineffective and maligned Republican party of the past with a whole new Reform party with different ideals and goals that would only be tangentially similar to that party of Graham and McCain.

I'm sure there was an expectation they would stymie him from all angles they still clung onto and that THIS would be the REAL turning point where MAGA gained majority power within party leadership of Congress - we needed the struggle sessions of no less than almost a decade's worth of elections to merely BE IN POSITION to achieve that goal and thus gain the necessary power to start to implement the larger, sweeping reforms that Trump had talked about from the beginning.

Now that he has a significant number of those aforementioned leadership class stalwarts who have been previously vetted by both his team and the public at large and won't prove out as turncoats put in place to thwart and subvert the MAGA agenda, a large scale win in these elections now have a proper crop of players to choose from and populate the team with, en route to our 2007 New England Patriots season. WIN BABY WIN!

The defeats of 2020 and 2022 then were lessons and predicted within the story arc of the past 9 years long before they took place. Premeditated and acceptable losses in battles, in order to gather strength and prevent premature expenditure of key assets. Necessary defeats, none of them minor, but none so major to sway the overall outcome - events survived and scars taken to better commit to memory, on the way to the WAR'S DECIDING FINALE & ULTIMATE VICTORY!

Thanks for the read.