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2025: Finally, a Year of Unity and Optimism

Michael Busler
4 min readJan 6, 2025

After years of pessimism and division, Trump’s policies will give Americans a positive outlook. All Americans should favor that.

While the U.S. has always been divided, it has been very strongly divided since 2016. That’s when Donald J. Trump, a businessperson, not a politician, decided to run for President. In the beginning, most people did not take him seriously, and the ones who did thought he didn’t have a chance.

As the primaries were held and Trump started winning, a portion of the GOP opposed him mostly because he said he would dramatically change how things were done in Washington. He saw the bloated bureaucracy and vowed to end it. Mostly, he saw politicians putting self-interest ahead of the country's needs.

Much of the traditional GOP resisted him, noting that his policies would divide the country. But his “Make America Great Again” message resonated with voters, and he easily won the Republican nomination for President, even with some in the GOP remaining strongly opposed to him.

In the general election, he ran against establishment Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. She was able to cast Trump as a divider. The Dems accused him of being an agent of the Russians and even constructed a dossier showing just that.

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Michael Busler
Michael Busler

Written by Michael Busler

Dr. Busler is an economist and a public policy analyst. He is a Professor of Finance at Stockton University. His op-ed columns appear in Townhall, Newsmax.

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