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One reason Americans are so fed up with politics is the failure to really change things despite lots of campaign promises.

Even the greatest conservative leader of recent decades, President Reagan, worked to create the conservative side of the establishment — not to take apart the establishment itself.

Trump breaks the mold on White House press conferences on Middle Eastern relations. They typically involve pledges, hopes, and reality avoidance.

Trump’s new press secretary is breaking up the club of jaded, cynical, entitled, leftwing propaganda journalists who have dominated such press conferences for years.

The modern left sees America as a piggy bank to be raided for the benefit of other countries.

There are two emerging factions: The smaller wing will cooperate with Trump and the Republicans to survive. The larger wing will fight Trump at any cost.

Because there is no bloodshed, uniformed military, or obvious battlefield, most Americans don’t realize we are in a conflict with Beijing.

It seems we have lost the will to defend ourselves, as too many of our elites across America and Europe refuse to take this threat seriously.

We hope the Syrian people will find their way to a better future but it should not be one more burden for America to pick up.

Japan’s surprise attack is a reminder that the best intelligence can be misread, people’s hopes can outweigh their common sense, and bureaucratic cultures can ignore inconvenient signals.