The battle lines have been drawn.

• Author: Fischer, Raymond L.
• Position: Political Landscape

NOTED CONSERVATIVE commentator, New York Times bestselling author, and founder and CEO of Horowitz Freedom Center in Los Angeles, Calif., David Horowitz mentors many of Pres. Donald Trump's key advisers. With a unified GOP House and Senate and Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court, the President has an opportunity to shape the political landscape, strengthen national security, and "make America great again." according to Horowitz in his latest book. Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America.

Trump won the election but, to keep the conservative victory secure, he and the GOP must keep at bay the left and their radical, Progressive agenda purposed to "reduce America's power and greatness."

Although Republicans narrowly won the bitter presidential election (and maintained control of the House and Senate), half of the country voted to continue Barack Obama's policies: open borders, extension of LGBT rights and the prosecution of the male gender on campus, support of a "changeable" Constitution, and appointment of liberal Supreme Court justices. Horowitz identifies these left-thinking adversaries, their agenda, and a strategy for defeating the "Never-Trumpers" who remain persistent in their persecution of the new President.

Horowitz finds the divisions within the Republican Party alarming. Although enough Republicans "came home" to elect their candidate, defectors within the party attempted to sabotage their candidate. For example, Mitt Romney's calling Trump a "phony, a fraud" gave Democrats a great line for attack ads. George H.W. and George W. Bush made clear their "displeasure" with the candidate, and some staffers from George W. Bush's Administration announced they would vote for Hillary Clinton. These "Never-Trumpers" failed to understand the "destructive agendas" of the left: were they intimidated by overwhelming attacks on Trump's character, or did they lack the "will to win"?

Because the Constitution's Founders feared an "unscrupulous" president might become a monarch and. "like Obama," spurn powers of Congress, they gave the House two checks on presidential tyranny: power of the purse and impeachment. Republicans ignored these checks when Obama made unconstitutional changes in ObamaCare and granted amnesty to illegal immigrants. Such Republican "cowardice" allowed government to grow more "abusive and intrusive." Republicans feared Democrats and the media would term them "obstructionists, racists, or xenophobes," and Republicans...