Tea at Trianon: Trump’s Stellar Speech Provides Blueprint for GOP to Win on Economy in 2026

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Saturday, November 8, 2025

Trump’s Stellar Speech Provides Blueprint for GOP to Win on Economy in 2026

From Amac:

This week’s election results made clear that the rising cost of living and economic anxieties remain the top concern for most voters. President Donald Trump won on those issues last year, and his speech in Miami on Wednesday provided the blueprint for how Republicans can get back on the right track, deliver a winning economic message, and chart a course for victory in 2026.

The remarks at the American Business Forum were exactly the shot in the arm that the GOP needed to recalibrate its message and refocus on Trump’s record of economic success. If Republicans indeed do regroup and defy the “midterm curse” next year, history may well look to the President’s speech this week as a pivotal moment.

As Trump reminded his audience and the country, the United States is just coming out of one of the worst economic quagmires in its history under former President Joe Biden.

“In the prior 4 years, Joe Biden oversaw less than $1 trillion of new investment in the United States,” Trump said. Cumulative inflation soared above 20 percent, costing the typical family more than $33,000. Gas prices reached record highs, and the economy was artificially propped up by massive, unprecedented, unsustainable amounts of government spending and hiring. Biden and congressional Democrats exploded the deficit and saddled taxpayers with the bill, leaving Trump with a historically disastrous mess to clean up.

But one year after his election to a second term, the results have been nothing short of astonishing. “In nine months, I have secured commitments for $18 trillion from all over the world,” Trump said. “The stock market has set 45 all-time record highs. GDP growth in the second quarter was an amazing 3.8 percent – triple and even quadruple the rate of almost every other developed country. In the third quarter, we are on track to achieve an estimated four percent growth, the strongest in many years.” (Read more.)