Fortunately,
a policy "road map," or Republican agenda, is currently being developed by Mr. Ryan and his House team - aided by many of us from outside think tanks, policy and grass-roots groups, including the
National Tax Limitation Committee, Heartland Institute, American Legislative Exchange Council, Americans for Tax Reform and others. That consists of six working groups focused on the following issues:
* Reform taxes to stimulate rapid economic growth and job creation, with even lower rates than under Reagan (by restoring 4 percent economic growth - Reagan achieved 5 percent - our economy will double every 17 years).
* Grow America's energy industry through deregulation, liberating the private sector to make America the world's No. 1 producer of oil, natural gas and coal (reversing the Obama-Hillary genocide of mineworker jobs).
* Repeal and replace Obamacare with patient power, consumer choice, free-market competition medicine.
* Attack poverty and dependency by
sending "safety net" programs back to the states with finite block grants and work requirements, as in the fabulously successful 1996 "Reagan-style" welfare reforms (making deep cuts in dependency and federal social spending).
* Stop executive overreach and invasion of Congress' legislative authority, restoring separation of powers and the rule of law (terminating Mr. Obama's "I have a pen and a phone" substitute for congressional action and authority).
* Rebuild Reagan's
"peace through strength" national defense, which won the Cold War without firing a shot.
The policies and programs that emerge from this process will be a de facto second
Contract with America, facilitating unification between Mr. Trump, Mr. Ryan and other Republican leaders as well as grass-roots conservatives. Mr. Trump recently hired as his chief domestic policy director a solid "movement" conservative with years of Capitol Hill experience, who joins several strong conservative intellectuals also advising Mr. Trump:
Newt Gingrich, Larry Kudlow, Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Jeff Sessions. Fellow billionaire
Carl Icahn has become a strong adviser and advocate for reforming America's punitive corporate tax code, which is driving companies and jobs offshore.
It will be exciting to watch as the traditional conservative wing of the Republican Party is united with the populist-Tea Party wing led by Mr. Trump. This is a goal anticipated by Mr. Ryan following his meeting with Mr. Trump. This expanded Republican voter base might include some Bernie Sanders voters, 40 percent of whom have said in exit polls that they prefer Donald over Hillary.
Ben Carson and Alveda King just might make inroads into the black vote, as well.