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Every few months, it happens… the doom spiral sets in. Trump says something clumsy, a few influencers clutch their pearls, and suddenly social media fills up with black-pill panic. “MAGA’s over.” “Trump’s done.” “It’s all lost.”

No, it’s not.

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MAGA is alive, very much alive, actually.

And President Trump isn’t just still in the fight; he’s the one who built the movement in the first place. The man started saying “America First” back in 2016, when nobody else had the guts to. If he hadn’t, there wouldn’t be a movement for half these people to melt down about online.

Let’s Talk About the Economy

We get it; the economy feels like it sucks right now. People keep asking, “If inflation is down, why does everything still feel so expensive?”

That’s because the baseline was destroyed. Biden’s inflation didn’t just make things pricey; it reset the price floor. Rent, groceries, cars, utilities… all of it is permanently higher, thanks to Sleepy Joe. Even when inflation slows, you’re still paying more than you did before. Yes, the numbers might look better, but people still feel broke, and they have a right to, and President Trump should respect that. No, the polls aren’t fake; people are worried, and ignoring that is part of the problem.

Also, don’t forget that during COVID, corporate went off the rails. Prices shot up, and when costs finally dropped, corporations didn’t pass that savings back to the consumer. They kept the profit margins fat for themselves. Add record interest rates on top of that, and mortgages, credit cards, loans, and regular Americans feel crushed.

But it helps to remember that we went through four straight years of chaos and economic hell. Yes, people are tired, and they wanted Trump to walk back into office and magically fix everything overnight. But that’s not how any of this works. It took years to wreck this economy, and it’s going to take time to rebuild it. Fixing an economy isn’t like flipping a light switch. And the things Trump’s doing right now to fix the Biden disaster, like creating energy independence, deregulation, and border control, all take time to reach people’s wallets.

But he needs to better communicate that, because when people are freaking out, they need a calming voice of leadership and reason.

The truth is, we’re all still living in Biden’s economic hangover, and most Americans don’t understand that because they can’t feel the policy work that’s happening under the hood.

So, President Trump should zero in even harder on the economy and win the communication war.

Telling people this is the “strongest economy ever” doesn’t tell the whole story. Yes, things are improving, and Trump knows the groundwork he’s laying now will pay off later, but that’s still a tough sell for families struggling just to put food on the table right now.

The economy is the battlefield where elections are won and lost. But some of his supporters also need to calm down, breathe, and learn the difference between strategy and surrender. Rage-tweeting like toddlers doesn’t help anyone.

About the H-1B Mess

Now, let’s talk about that Ingraham interview, the one that set off another round of outrage over Trump’s H-1B comments. What he said wasn’t great, but let’s be honest, Trump says unpolished things sometimes. He also learns from his mistakes, and that’s what matters.

He’s come a long way on the H-1B issue since 2016. He’s the first president to seriously crack down on visa abuse. Under his watch, the student visa pipeline is getting tighter, overstays are targeted, and universities are having a harder time gaming the system.

The H-1B scam is one of the biggest, well-oiled, and well-guarded frauds operating in the US government. We recently published a piece on how President Trump can cut into the heart of the fraud by ending OPT once and for all.

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It’s almost hard to believe this is real, but it is. Congress actually created a program that rewards corporations for hiring foreign students instead of American graduates. It’s called the Optional Practical Training program, and it literally gives companies a tax break for replacing US workers with foreigners, especially in STEM fields.

So yes, American students go into debt chasing their dreams, and when they finally graduate, they’re punished for being born here. And the very government they trusted to protect their future hands their jobs to someone else.

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So, this isn’t just some bad policy; it’s full-blown betrayal from the people we elected. It’s proof that too many in Washington don’t serve the American people anymore. They serve the global corporations who bankroll them and keep them in comfort and power.

Thankfully, one lawmaker is stepping up and demanding President Trump shut this corrupt scheme down once and for all, and we all need to back him up.

It will take a lot of push and pull to dismantle everything and clean up this disaster, but if we keep pushing Trump in the right direction, good things will happen.

So before people start screaming betrayal, they should actually look at his record. He’s not perfect, and there’s more work to do, but he’s moving in the right direction.

“Trump’s Not Perfect,” and That’s the Point

We didn’t elect Trump three times because he’s some seasoned, polished politician. We elected him because he’s not. And while that’s a good thing, sometimes the unpolished moments can throw people off balance.

Steve Bannon said it best this week on War Room:

“Trump’s not perfect; he’s an imperfect instrument… but he’s infused by divine providence. Without him, we’d have nothing. Stay focused. Don’t lose sight of the mission.”

Here’s a closeup of what Steve said:

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Bannon’s right. This movement isn’t about idolizing Trump; it’s about understanding what he represents, which is the first real shot in decades at breaking the globalist chokehold.

Rome wasn’t built in a day. We want visa reform, we want the border sealed, we want the economy to soar, and we want the America First agenda fully realized. But that takes time and persistence. You don’t abandon the mission because it’s hard; you dig in.

MAGA Is Not Dead

MAGA is alive. MAGA is evolving. And Trump is still the only one out there with the guts and the track record to take this fight all the way.

The left would love nothing more than to see the movement fracture and eat itself alive. But that’s not happening. The mission doesn’t stop because a few influencers get loud and rowdy for clicks. We stay the course.

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At the end of the day, we didn’t sign up for “Trumpism without Trump,” and that’s because such a thing doesn’t exist.

Trumpism without Trump is a fantasy for the weak.

The establishment keeps pretending they want the “ideas” without the man, as if the movement magically invented itself. It didn’t. Trump built it. Trump took all the heat for it. Trump paid the price for it. Trump was sentenced to prison for it. Trump was shot for it. And without him, it never would have happened in the first place.

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MAGA isn’t dead. It isn’t dying. It isn’t drifting away. It’s frustrated, it’s bruised, and it’s impatient, but it’s alive and well. And the only way forward is to remember why we started this fight to begin with: to take our country back, not hand it over to the same tired globalist class that’s been choking it to death for decades.

Will it always be easy? No. But stay focused. Stay grounded. Stop doom-spiraling every time he misspeaks or something doesn’t go your way. This movement is for the long haul. And if we want to win… really win… we can’t lose our nerve the moment things get tough.

The mission stays the same. Never give up. Never waver.

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