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Righty tighty, lefty loosey. Every kid who ever handed Dad a screwdriver in the garage learned it before long division.This cartoon says it all.Turn to the right and things hold together. Stability. Common sense. Limited government that stays in its lane. A border that is actually a border. Laws that get enforced instead of explained away. An economy that rewards work and lets families keep more of what they earn.Turn to the left and watch the whole structure wobble. Court packing schemes to win rulings they cannot win at the ballot box. Lawmaker lynch mobs chasing impeachment the moment an election does not go their way. Energy independence traded for begging foreign producers. Every issue jammed through a race prism. A politics of shame that tells Americans their own country is the problem. An economy that treated a full tank of gas like a luxury item.The screw does not lie. One direction builds. The other direction takes apart.Americans watched both directions in real time. They lived through the wobble, the loose joints, the falling boards. Then they picked up the driver, turned it back to the right, and that is why Donald Trump is in the White House a second time.Here is the part the cartoon captures best. Building is harder than dismantling. Any toddler can knock over blocks. It takes patience, skill, and a steady hand to raise a structure that lasts. The Founders knew it, which is why they designed a framework built to hold under pressure.We are in the building season now. Secure borders, unleashed American energy, a government getting trimmed back down to size. There is work left to do, but the direction is right, in every sense of the word.So keep your hand on the driver and keep turning.