Why Trump is important

America first is more than a campaign slogan; it is an essential truth, which Americans have ignored at their collective peril.

Successful countries need political officials, citizens and corporations that recognize they have a higher calling than profit, efficiency and apparent security, a calling to their families, to their communities, to their neighbors in their state, and finally to their country which protects them and calls them it’s own.

Call it patriotism, pride, self-interest, common sense or the inherent quality a person feels when they belong to something bigger than themselves and are proud of that thing, but no matter what you call it – this spirit is an important and necessary meta-physical force that binds us together to face the challenges of this competitive world. It’s this quality that makes living in any country guaranteeing civil rights – a completely different experience than living any other way.

The United States government has made mistakes, every country has, but what has distinguished these errors here in the U.S. for over 200 years, is an abiding belief that freedom alone gives the people the sovereign right to make those mistakes, learn from them – and go forward.

This cannot happen without freedom of thought, freedom of choice over our leaders and laws, freedom to work and earn as we are capable, freedom to own the product of that labor — and the freedom to share it’s bounty with our loved ones — free from an unburdensome government and/or targeted governmental suppression.

Trump gets all this.

His performance in Davos demonstrated that.

Now he gets to come home and deal with the people and companies that operate here, even call the US home, but do not put America first.

The following story from the WSJ explains how American chip giant Intel Informed China — about it’s security chip flaw – before informing the US government.

Here’s the piece:

By Robert McMillan in San Francisco and Liza Lin in Shanghai

The Wall Street Journal Jan. 28, 2018 In initial disclosures about critical security flaws discovered in its processors, Intel Corp. notified a small group of customers, including Chinese technology companies, but left out the U.S. government, according to people familiar with the matter and some of the companies involved. The decision raises concerns, security researchers said, as it potentially could have allowed information about the chip flaws, dubbed Spectre and Meltdown, to fall into the hands of the Chinese government before being publicly divulged. There is no evidence any information was misused, the researchers said. Weeks after word of the flaws first surfaced, Intel’s choices about whom would receive advance warning continue to ripple through the security and tech industries. The flaws were first identified in June by a member of Google’s Project Zero security team. Intel had planned to make the discovery public on Jan. 9—people working to protect systems from hacks often hold off on announcements while fixes are devised—but sped up its timetable when the news became widely known on Jan. 3, a day after U.K. website the Register wrote about the flaws. Because the flaws can be leveraged to sneak sensitive data out of the cloud, information about them would be of great interest to any intelligence-gathering agency, said Jake Williams, president of the security company Rendition Infosec LLC and a former National Security Agency employee. In the past, Chinese state-linked hackers have exploited software vulnerabilities to get leverage on their targets or expand surveillance. It is a “near certainty” Beijing was aware of the conversations between Intel and its Chinese tech partners, because authorities there routinely monitor all such communications, Mr. Williams said. Representatives from China’s ministry in charge of information technology didn’t respond to requests for comment. The country’s foreign ministry has in the past said it is “resolutely opposed” to cyberhacking in any form. An Intel spokesman declined to identify the companies it briefed before the scheduled Jan. 9 announcement. The company wasn’t able to tell everyone it had planned to, including the U.S. government, because the news was made public earlier than expected, he said.

I’m glad I won’t be in the room when Trump reads this.

Trump has the formula right-on though, he’s acting on behalf of the American people and if he doesn’t — how can he expect anyone else too?