Morning Glory: If Trump outlines his national security team now, he will lock in millions of votes in the Fall

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In Tuesday’s column, the question was whether former President Trump, if returned to office, can bring deterrence of our enemies back with him?

The sub-headline on that column told the story and posed the question: "Since President Biden took office the Taliban took over Afghanistan, Putin invaded Ukraine, Hamas invaded Israel, Iran’s proxies have attacked Americans, and Iran attacked Israel. Would Trump have deterred any or all of that?"

The answer is that Trump has a much better record of deterring America’s enemies from attacks on us or our allies than President Biden does, but Trump supporters can’t rest our arguments on counter-factual assertions that Putin wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine a second time or Hamas crossed the Gaza border on October 7 if Trump had been president. I believe those assertions to be true, but some voters will not be persuaded.

There are, however, concrete ways the former president can demonstrate that deterrence will return to the White House with him. Trump will need to be surrounded by serious people in the crucial national security jobs who share his "peace through strength" philosophy to succeed in repairing and restoring American deterrence of the world’s rogue regimes in rapid fashion. He can take steps now to