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AP Photo\/Evan Vucci<\/p><\/div>\n

About a thousand years ago when I was getting started in the radio business, the station in Dallas at which I was a baby advertising salesman did something radical and abandoned music programming for a format no one knew about called \u201cNews & Talk.\u201d We were the first station in the market to go all talk and among the first in the country.<\/p>\n

There was no template. (At the time, Rush Limbaugh was a 25-year-old Top 40-disc jockey at KUDL Radio in Kansas City.)<\/p>\n

We didn\u2019t know what we were doing, and it showed.<\/p>\n

But about three years in, the company \u2013 totally by accident \u2013 hired a program director named George who \u201cgot it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company was then owned by proper, button down Dallas blue bloods. The execs were impeccably mannered and impeccably dressed.<\/p>\n

George was none of that. He would come to work in an orange shirt, a green tie, and brown pants. He smoked these godawful little cigars. And he was amazingly profane.<\/p>\n

But he got results<\/em>. The station popped. Ratings jumped. Revenue, too. And the air staff started sounding like they knew they were on to something.<\/p>\n

Who cared that George stunk, dressed terribly and swore a lot?<\/p>\n

As it turned out the blue bloods running the company cared. And at the dawn of victory, they abruptly gave up on the station and ultimately sold it.<\/p>\n

I offer this story for you folks who call yourselves conservatives and Republicans but who still haven\u2019t fully bought in to Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

If you were an HR manager sitting President Trump down for his annual performance review, here\u2019s what you\u2019d have to cover.<\/p>\n

The border: Trump got hired based largely on this issue. Rather than the 10,000 encounters per day under Biden by which Customs & Border Patrol paroled migrants into the country in anticipation of judicial reviews to come years later (read: never), zero migrants per day are now being paroled into the country.<\/p>\n

Gasoline prices: Average national gas prices are below $3.00 per gallon and falling, down from north of $4.00 when Trump took office.<\/p>\n

The broader energy front: U.S. oil production now leads the world at 20 to 22 million barrels per day.<\/p>\n

Inflation: Under Trump\u2019s predecessor it peaked at nine percent. It stands now at 2.7 percent and is also falling.<\/p>\n

The market: The Dow recently topped 50,000, up 15 percent since Trump took office.<\/p>\n

Jobs: January jobs figures crushed expectations, coming in at 130,000 vs. the 55,000 that the \u201cexperts\u201d predicted.<\/p>\n

The recession: What recession? Precisely.<\/p>\n

National security and the world stage: Iran has been neutralized as a nuclear threat and the regime is on the verge of collapse. So, too, the regime in Cuba.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s where this all ties together. George did exactly what he was hired to do but the company didn\u2019t stand behind him and his efforts came to naught.<\/p>\n

Trump is doing what he was hired to do. But if voters don\u2019t stand behind him in November\u2019s midterm elections, that same fate will befall the country.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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