TRUMP ADDRESS-SUNRISE FOR AMERICANS

President Donald Trump's inaugural address was a breath of fresh air and a new sunrise for the "forgotten". Americans. Rather than the "dark tone", and "Midnight in America" as some commenters seem to have sensed in the speech, most working class Americans I spoke with up here in the Green Mountains of VT saw the first glimmer of light and hope--a "sunrise for Americans"-- in the President's blunt but honest address.

After being sworn in, President Trump came to the podium with a grim face. He stated at the outset that his election was a transformational one in which political power would be taken back from the Washington elite and returned to the people. Trump stood only a few feet from the political elites who had control of the government over the last decades but who did little to change it. Instead focusing their energies on self emolument or worse. As he spoke Mr. Trump recited a 'reality list' of dire circumstances that characterize the lives of the working people in much of middle America. He described the "carnage" in our cities, the "rusted out factories" scattered "like tombstones across our great land", the good jobs and wealth stripped from our workers and sent overseas to enrich others. He spoke of the borders we strengthen for foreign states and ignore at home, the decaying communities and school systems, and stagnant or lost income. He made clear that his government would protect American jobs, put the well being of America and Americans over all others, and hew to the policy of "America first".

The well heeled, coiffed and coddled Washington elites were deeply troubled by Trump's plain truth language and realistic imagery of America. "That's not the America I know"----they stated. (Some even compared his" America First" phrase to that of the USA pro-German political activists of the long ago WW II era. That was a stretch. But on MSNBC the shrill Ms Rachel Maddow's raised the "Nazi" epithet. She should be chastised for that shot too far. Maddow and her ilk are simply living too high up in the ivory tower to understand real people.) These wealthy plutocrats, globalists, corporatist, media types and government elites know the economically depressed pockets of pain and joblessness in America's heartland as only a place to "fly over". Their only view of closed factories is the change from vegetation to shadowed hulks of gray and rusted steel seen through the steamed window of a speeding auto.. They have no concept of the devastating abrupt loss of a well-paying job for a family, or the sadness of faltering schools for children, the bleakness of a jobless future, and the hopeless collapse of an entire community when a key factory relocates across the southern border. They have not experienced the sense of deep injustice when well-paying jobs are ripped from a community and with lock, stock and barrel transported to a foreign site, just to increase the stockholder's profits by a few cents a share.

Many or the media commentators and pundits suggest that Trump "lacks empathy" for the foreign born who steal illegally into our nation. But they can not find one iota of empathy for their own countrymen and women (terming them "the deplorables") who suffer grievously at the hands of a government who used them only as a reliable source of votes every four years then callously ignored their plight.

Trump has become a savior to these Americans and they have rallied to his standard. For these millions of Americans, listening to Trump's inaugural address was a "sunrise in America." They know all to well what darkness is.