The Cannon

David Bozell
May 24
3 min read

Your blast of infotainment from ForAmerica.

Saturday, May 24, 2025

We're Headed in the Right Direction

Kudos to President Trump and his team. Against a backdrop of nearly relentless negative media coverage, we’re seeing a spike in the RealClearPolitics “Right Direction” metric that’s both rare and revealing. According to the latest chart, 43.6% of Americans now believe the country is heading in the right direction, just a point shy of the highest level recorded in the last 16 years.

To put that into perspective: the last time public sentiment was this optimistic, we were in the early months of 2020. Pre-COVID, pre-lockdowns, pre-recession panic. Back then, the economy was running hot, wages were up, inflation was down, and interest rates were at historic lows. That moment vanished almost overnight as the Covid and the 'summer of love' broke out across the country. But now, after years of media lies, division, broken economies, open borders, and decline in institutional trust, this chart shows a new energy across the country. Americans are starting to hope again.

Americans Are Hopeful Again

If you zoom out on the chart, you’ll see just how rare these spikes are. There are three major peaks: the post-2008 recovery period, the early Trump economy crushing it in 2020, and now, this one. Each time, the country had reason to believe in our direction, however briefly. And each time, it was short lived. Obama's peak waned after people realized what the Obama economy meant for their bottom line. Trump's 2020 peak collapsed after Covid broke out, the media ran wall-to-wall lies, and riots (the kind the Left are okay with) set fire to cities around the country.

But this latest rise isn’t just statistically significant. It’s politically symbolic.

People aren’t as easily convinced anymore. The media landscape is fractured, trust is low, and polarization is high. Why do many Americans say “yes, things are going the right way” amid all the chaos and fake outrage? It doesn’t happen by accident. It reflects something real, something felt deeply. You can’t spin a line that steep on the chart without something shifting beneath it.

Whether that sentiment holds is another question. But for now, it’s data that shows Americans are dreaming, Americans are hopeful, and Americans are happy.

The One Big Beautiful Bill is Headed for the Senate

The One Big Beautiful Bill has passed the House, by one vote. It delivers real relief for working Americans by locking in the Trump tax cuts and cutting taxes on tips, overtime, and car loan interest. These are the kinds of changes that show up on paychecks, not headlines.

It also enacts long-standing conservative priorities. Welfare programs like SNAP would now require able-bodied adults to work. Major new federal regulations would need congressional approval to take effect. If Congress can't agree, the rules vanish.

The bill expands energy production on federal land, ends Medicaid funding to abortion providers for ten years, and strengthens border enforcement with both physical and virtual infrastructure. Access to public benefits will be tied to citizenship, something that should have happened a long time ago.

Yes, it raises the debt ceiling. But that vote was coming either way. This time, conservatives at least got something in return.

Now, it’s the Senate’s turn. The details may shift, but the House has already done what many thought it wouldn’t — move real priorities forward.

Thanks for reading this week’s Cannon. The fight for America’s future continues — online, in Congress, and in culture.

For freedom,

David Bozell

President, ForAmerica

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