We all know, you have to break some eggs to make an omelet. So some of us have been watching the price of eggs.
On Friday, our Vice President JD Vance posted an op-ed in the Washington Post which could have been headlined, “The Best is Yet to Come”. Which is the kind of message we need to hear, right about now. About the future. And the omelets that await us.
But the Vice President didn’t use that headline. He picked, instead, a reference to things that have already happened.
What President Trump achieved in his first 100 days
So I’ve decided to use the headline that he could have used, but didn’t. “The Best is Yet to Come”.
The Vice President did, however, use that very phrase in the conclusion of his op-ed.
In just 100 days, the Trump administration has begun to tear down the barriers standing between our nation’s working class and the American Dream. Factories are reopening, jobs are returning, and the forgotten men and women of our country are leading its comeback. This is more than a recovery from the Biden years; it’s the revival of the spirit that led our ancestors to build the greatest nation on Earth. As President Trump is fond of saying, the best is yet to come.
There have certainly been barriers standing between me, as a member of America’s forgotten working class, and the American Dream. Not that I’ve ever wanted to work in a factory, now that factories are reopening — but apparently some people used to work in factories, once upon a time, and actually enjoyed it. So the best that’s yet to come will mean happy people carrying their lunch buckets through the reopened factory doors, to take their places on innumerable assembly lines.
And what will come off the end of those innumerable assembly lines, as the final product? The American Dream.
Actually, innumerable American Dreams, because we all have a slightly different image of the American Dream, I suspect.
But maybe we don’t?
I’m wondering about this, because Vice President Vance clearly wrote, “the American Dream.” He didn’t write, “the American Dreams.” It’s quite possible there’s really only one American Dream, and we all share it.
All of us. President Trump. Vice President Vance. Special Government Employee Elon Musk. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. 165 million forgotten American workers. And me.
All sharing the same Dream.
Not that it’s going to be a direct path, of course. Or that it’s going to happen overnight.
If I know anything about dreams, they take unexpected twists and turns. Like, sometimes in a dream, you somehow find yourself on a crowded street with no clothes on.
One of those unexpected turns took place recently, when the U.S. economy took a nosedive during President Trump’s first 100 days.
As shown in this chart, citing numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Soon after the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its dismal GDP report, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro announced that the report “really should be very positive news for America” and was the best negative growth report “I have ever seen in my life… very, very good and quite encouraging… huge, literally off the charts… good, strong news … we felt really good about that number.”
We all might have the same American Dream, but there are obviously different ways to interpret it. If you’re into dream interpretation.
I had somehow formed the impression, however, that an economic recession was not an aspect of “The Best is Yet to Come”. Obviously, we’re going to need patience.
Those omelets might be a long ways off, no matter how many eggs we break.
Anyhow, I’ve been thinking about all of those thousands of federal workers who lost their jobs recently. Eventually, we will have factory jobs for them, thanks to President Trump’s financial acumen. But it might take a while. I hear it takes, like, four years to get a new factory up and running.
But at least those terminated federal employees aren’t standing naked on a crowded street. That would not be pleasant.
Underrated writer Louis Cannon grew up in the vast American West, although his ex-wife, given the slightest opportunity, will deny that he ever grew up at all. You can read more stories on his Substack account.