Here are my observations on items in the news.

PERPLEXED MEDIA JUST DOESN’T GET IT – They are doing everything they can to make President Trump look bad, even openly questioning his sanity. And, it doesn’t stop there. They talk non-stop about the chaos in the White House, while the president jokes about the “fine-tuned machine” he’s running there.

Carl Bernstein, a frequent guest on CNN, who continues in vain to revive his glory days at the Post, recently referred to Jared Kushner as “the president’s rogue son-in-law.”

The media has been fixated on the “crazy” goings-on in the White House this week; from the resignation of aide Hope Hicks, to a fabricated “feud” between Kushner and John Kelly over his security clearance, and the president’s displeasure with Jeff Sessions. What the beltway pundits fail to realize is that voters in flyover country only care about what he’s doing to make America great again.

‘The more that you watch what he does over time, rather than focusing on the heat of the moment,” writes blogger Ann Althouse, “the more that you can see he trying to position himself for the 2020 election.” She suggests that rather than speculating on turning points and pivots, “it would be better to step back and take a long-term look of the possible political method behind his madness.”

“I’m interested in the beginning of what I hope is a realization within mainstream media that all their melodrama about Trump hasn’t worked and is incredibly tiresome to normal people who might still retain shred of the old habit of reading serious news.” – Julian Zelizer, Princeton professor of history and public affairs

A NOTE IN PASSING: Voter opinions captured by Rasmussen Reports, the only nationally recognized daily presidential tracking firm, show him flirting with a 50 percent job approval rating.

NOT-SO-PEACEFUL SWEDEN – I find it interesting that in Sweden, which is frequently mentioned as a kind of nirvana, not only by gun control advocates, but by open border supporters, Swedes are losing their sense of confidence and security in their formerly peaceful country.

Gang-related assaults and shootings have become frequent with the uncontrolled influx of immigrants, drugs and weapons, including hand grenades, over borderless Denmark. The Sweden government’s liberal immigration policy is being blamed for the rising crime.

I’m sure the Washington media considered President Trump’s recent comment that “Sweden was having problems like never thought possible,” just another Trumpism.

FLORIDA LAWMAKERS FAILED to control the sale of AR15 rifles this week, and it shouldn’t surprise anyone. Everyone turned to the president after the Parkland, Florida high school shooting, stating that something had to be done. He hosted a number of meetings, giving victims, parents, educators and lawmakers an opportunity to vent, but in the end, it isn’t his responsibility or in his realm of possibility to stop shootings.

“If we want to do something about school safety in America, we need to get government out of it,” writes Denise C. McAllister in The Federalist, “No more new gun control laws from Washington. No more speeches from DC politicians. No more executive orders. No more legislation. No more bipartisan meetings about banning assault weapons, creating lists on the ‘mentally ill,’ or abandoning the process. It’s time for government to do what it’s supposed to do in a situation like this – nothing.”

McAllister says, “This doesn’t mean nothing will be done. It just won’t be done by legislators. The only answer to the mob cry – just do something – is to turn it back around on every individual in the mob and say, ‘you do something.’” She believes it is your responsibility to participate in our local communities to come up with solutions that affect your family, your children, and your neighbors.

“The federal government needs to leave the hard task of finding answers to school safety to the people who personally know the specific needs of each school – that’s not the president, blowhards in the press, teenagers on parade by the national media, lobby groups, or any politician virtue-signaling from the capitol,” insists McAllister. I agree

She states that “the only thing government can do – federal and state – is to remove all laws that keep people from freely acting in their own self-interest. This means allowing every adult citizen, in all areas, to exercise his or her right to bear arms in a hostile and threatening world.”

McAllister cited an example when government did something. It created gun-free zones that were supposed to make our children safer, but it is in these zones that are the most dangerous areas for gun violence.

“When we turn to Washington, we get neither equality or freedom, and we certainly don’t get security. Yet this is all we hear today. We demand that lawmakers do something, and if they don’t they’re going to be voted out of office.”

To read McAllister’s extensive insight, click here.