Pragmatic Trump must work with Dems

Our president, the rogue, loose cannon, drain-the-swamp guy that we the people elected, must work with the Democrats for the good of the country.

So, you voted for Hillary and hate “The Donald,” think him a sexist, a racist, an ignoramus -- and those are your “nice” ways to describe him.

OK, now back to reality. This “embarrassment” of a president just struck a deal with “Nancy and Chuck” and now all the anti-Trumps must deal with it. He has already shown enough patience with the do-nothing Congress.

He is not just crazy like a fox, but he has made duplicate keys to the henhouse and can come and go as he pleases. For nearly a decade the GOP have had numerous opportunities to make needed corrections to the socialist, far left Democrat agenda, but have failed to do so.

In order to accomplish at least some of the people-mandated conservative agenda Trump was forced to strike a deal with Pelosi and Schumer and show the “leadership” in the House and Senate how to negotiate.

McConnell and Ryan have been lobbing bombs at anything Obama for so long they have forgotten how to play well with others to get a bill passed and check some boxes on their own wish list.

The debt ceiling/hurricane aid package is just the first of many bipartisan deals Trump will have to make out of both frustration and expediency, but it sure won’t be the last. 

“Mitch and Paul” had better start talking to Nancy and Chuck and get on this compromise train of thought or get run over by it.

Trump has already proven his bellicose words against a North Korean midget has, so far, been an effective tool towards putting doubt into the world’s mind as to just how much of a madman our “Dear Leader” really is. “Don’t think I won’t pull the nuclear trigger,” the Trump “thought bubble” tells the world in his own cartoonish fashion.

The deal our golden-haired Commander-in-Chief has just struck with the other side of the isle is like a mini-nuclear political bomb and the fallout has been and will be tremendous.

Even Steve Bannon, the guy who wants to deconstruct government, understands the GOP leadership is still enamored with its own swamp stench.

Yes, even Bannon of the alt-right understands the art of the deal must be exercised in order to accomplish a breakage of the logjam.

Bannon appeared on Charlie Rose and said all that in no uncertain terms.

Surely if Bannon and his ilk understand this, why can’t the Republican Party?

Continued stubborn attitudes by the extreme right will just keep pushing Trump towards the moderate middle. Moderates can take heart and would welcome changing DACA, Obamacare, immigration and tax laws as opposed to the do-nothings still protecting their turf in the swamp.  

Give our newfound bipartisan Trump a chance to get things done. The do-nothings have been great at complaining for eight years, now it’s time to shut up and give the people these needed changes.

I am not a psychic, but it doesn’t take one to know the 2018 mid-term elections will bode badly for the Republican House and Senate incumbents if the Grand Old Party can’t keep the promises they made in the 2016 election.  

Trump was elected to be the agent of change, not the same-old, same-old, go-along to-get-along kind of pabulum offered by the other presidential candidates.

Change is often painful, but the Republican Party must give the people what they voted for or suffer the consequences in 2018. 

Managing Editor Gary Bégin can be reached at gary@ncwmedia.net. His opinions are not necessarily those of NCW Media.