Trump is a Tourniquet. Time to Get to Work.

If you are receiving this email, it means that the dust surrounding the election results has more or less settled. We expect aftershocks to extend well past the inauguration, but barring major upheavals, we have a rough idea of who is on their way to the White House and how the next few years will go.

Under a Trump presidency, there will likely be tremendous conflict between the executive branch and the bureaucracy. If Donald Trump is true to his word and appoints a swath of disruptors and liberty advocates like Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Ron Paul, the administrative state will fight them tooth and nail. This epic gridlock should take a lot of their energy away from oppressing us regular people.

There should be less direct hassling and persecution by the DOJ. The ATF should revoke fewer FFLs, and we hope fewer pro-life activists will be prosecuted and jailed. We expect some good judges to be appointed, and we genuinely believe some good work will be done. However, there will be considerable pushback.

It is increasingly obvious that nearly the entire bureaucracy and media are on the side of the previous administration. Their wrath will be terrible, their retribution swift. We expect there to be more de-platforming, more de-banking, and more censorship from private companies who don't want the new Trump administration in power. YouTube already took down last week's T.REX Labs video on the Deep State, but you can see it on X HERE.

The political operators on the Left will turn their attention to the legislature and the States, aiming for a blue wave in the midterms and trying to stick as many obstacles into the spokes of the Trump administration as they can muster.

However, we're very optimistic about the future. From 2016 until the beginning of 2020, there was a time of relaxation, a breather from a number of terrible policies and new wars. There were tax breaks, more jobs, tremendous opportunities to build businesses and families, and greater resiliency in the United States.

Our recommendations for you are no different than they have been for the last 10 years. They are surprisingly similar to what we wrote in our If-Kamala-Harris-Wins email (that you won't be receiving).

1. Be prepared to take care of your communities. Each community will have location-specific, unique threats and difficulties you will need to help them with.

2. Be prepared to get involved in local politics. It is the next battleground, and it is much closer to home.

3. Be prepared to build businesses and provide for others. Americans have a lot of ground to recover and now is the time.

Over the next four years there will be many opportunities to serve, to sacrifice, and to build. Do not neglect these opportunities. Now is the time for Christians and conservatives to prove that we love our neighbors, we love our nation, and we love God's word in the face of everything that comes.

Fellow Tennessean George Grant had the best comment on this possible election outcome last Saturday when he pointed out that a second Trump presidency would not be "a cure for anything. It's not a solution for anything. It's a tourniquet. It stops the bleeding. And if we are able to stop the bleeding, then we start to go to work on solutions."

So, let's go to work!