An uphill battle, maybe???
By: Obie Usategui
5/29/2025

If you happen to be one of my loyal followers, I would like to politely urge you to pay special attention to this article today only because I consider it to be as relevant, as critical as I ever written before, and I have written many.

As recently as a couple of weeks back, on May 13th, I drafted my article titled “Donald Trump – the first 100 days.” In that article, as implied by its name, I went to great length in giving a quick review and summary of all of Donald Trump’s amazing accomplishments in his first one hundred days in office for which we all should be quite thankful to our President. After drafting the article, nonetheless, I came to the sad realization that, regretfully, all is not as “hunky dory” as I made it out to be.

Yes, Donald Trump is on a crusade like no other seen before in the history of this nation. That said, however, I think Trump may be facing, like they say, an “uphill” battle, if you will. In other words, my best metaphorical comparative is to someone that has cancer at an advanced stage to where there is no cure for it and the patient eventually dies.

Here is the point I am trying to make, despite Trump’s best intentions to save the nation, he keeps encountering all kinds of obstacles along the way aimed at undermining what he is trying to do. Mind you, I wish I could say such obstacles are only coming from the Left and from the liberals, but, ironically, they are coming from even from within our own Republican Party congresspeople – even from a Supreme Court, ruled by a conservative majority.

Notably, as of this writing, Donald Trump has Trump has signed 157 executive orders – all meant to upend the devastating policies previously implemented by the Biden administration, only problem is, the latest liberal fad is to, namely, having all kinds of unappointed federal judges blocking the executive orders through court orders in the form of nationwide injunctions that prevent the government from enforcing said orders across the country.

Let me try and be a little more specific here. We have seen how a judge blocked Trump’s administration from revoking Harvard’s University ability to enroll foreign students; we have seen a U.S. judge saying Trump’s efforts to deport pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil are unconstitutional. We have seen a judge ruling that DOGE’s USAID dismantling violated the U.S. Constitution, and, as recently as yesterday, we saw a federal court struck down many of the tariffs President Trump had implemented. Bottom line, yes, the nation is now being run by unappointed liberal judges, not by the President of the United States.

Admittedly, federal judges can issue all these temporary preliminary injunctions, which, while designed to be “temporary,” the legal process to counter them can be lengthy, which can result in halting their power of enforcement to allow for a legal review. So, regardless, any which way you think about it, the Left, liberals have, once again, found legal ways to block Trump from doing the good that is needed.

Regretfully, there could be two possible solutions to the eminent problem of judges running the nation, to wit, we would either need for Congress to enact laws instead of presidential executive orders and/or we would need for the Supreme Court to step-in and overturn the judges’ power to issue these injunctions – one or the other.

Then again, it is obvious that neither of these ideal solutions have a chance of coming into fruition. As far as Congress is concerned, well, what can I tell you, although we have a Republican controlled majority in both Houses of Congress, seldom, if ever can our congresspeople agree even on the time of day. Unlike Democrats, who stick together like glue, we “Republicans” are our own worst enemy. And, what about the Supreme Court? Did you all know that, statistically speaking, conservative judges on the Supreme Court vote more often with liberals than liberals vote with conservatives. Can you all believe that the Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, that gangster that the Trump administration had deported to El Salvador.

In summary, I guess the point that I am trying to make, the moral to my story today is, will Trump really be able to succeed with his Make America Great Again agenda? Notwithstanding how hard he is really trying, I think, eventually, this nation is doomed and destined to be destroyed by a cancer that has metastasized and spread so much, it might be too late to undo the harm they have already done. I hope and pray that I am wrong, but with every day that goes by, I see more and more what an “uphill” battle we are facing in this nation.

Yes, cancer is all over. Take our “fake-news-media”, still out acting as the liberal voice of America. Take our Ivy League colleges, whereas all these once prestigious schools, today they are nests for harboring all kinds of anti-U.S. activism. We see it in their Pro-Hamas, Pro-Palestine euphoria, in the antisemitism. We see it in the continuous crusades to promote wokism; in the unremitting battles to keep transgender men in women’s sports. We see it in the form of menial judges running the nation. Again, I hope and pray we can prevail, however, I think it will definitely not be the easy-road-ahead that I thought we had with a leader like Donald Trump, which only goes to say that it might just be “too little to late” to reclaim our nation. Again, hope I am wrong. May God save us and may God save the United States of America.