On June 16, 2025, the Republican Party will celebrate the 10-year anniversary of a speech that changed this party, American politics, and arguably the course of human history.
That was the day that Donald Trump rode down the escalator in Trump Tower in Manhattan and gave the speech that shook the GOP to its foundations. The limping elephant, blindly devoted to an outdated agenda of free trade, mass migration, and endless wars, was jolted from complacency by the initiative of the West’s greatest living statesman.
Trump’s platform champions affordable education, housing, health care, energy, and an end to the inflation strangling American prosperity.
Now, the Republican platform, the party’s guiding document for its policy agenda, mirrors the movement President Trump started and the party he now leads.
Previous platforms were laborious incantations to the petty preferences of party bosses and corporate lobbyists. The 2024 platform…
