This is rather remarkable. In real time, during live testimony before a Georgia Senate Committee, a witness testifies to using Wifi capability to enter the Fulton County voting system via the internet while the hearing was ongoing. WATCH:
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
China's 'unrestricted war' on the United States
Article by Doug Dodge in The American Thinker
China's 'unrestricted war' on the United States
In 1999 Colonel Qiao Liang and Colonel Wang Xiangsui wrote a book called Unrestricted Warfare. In this book, these officers, who were both active-duty officers in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) discussed the lessons learned from the Gulf War action in 1990. The book was published by the PLA Literature and Arts Publishing House in Beijing, which suggests official approval by the PLA Command.
Liang and Xiangsui recall the CNN broadcast of the dead American soldier in Mogadishu and how that broadcast caused an American pullout of Somalia, changing the world’s strategic situation. This and other examples caused these officers to postulate another type of warfare they called unrestricted warfare, which crossed all of the spectrums of society and involved no rules. The authors listed 15 types of new warfare to be used in order to avoid the standard military conflict.
One of these new types of warfare is called New Terror Warfare (Xiangsui, 1999), where modern technology is used to cause terror, with a lessor emphasis on violence and a greater emphasis on terror. The book specifically mentions the Aum Shinrkiyo Cult’s attempt to use sarin in Tokyo as an example of causing terror without a lot of violence. An example of this might be the Wuhan Virus, which came from China and has been used to cause terror throughout the world. This virus has resulted in lockdowns of countries, people demanding others wear masks at all times, and huge violations of American citizens’ constitutional rights.
Another new type of warfare is drug warfare, which is described as making huge profits by spreading health and social disasters in other countries. According to the New York Times, China is the largest producer of fentanyl coming into America. The US Drug Enforcement Administration states that China and Mexico are the primary source countries for fentanyl.
A third type of new warfare is listed as smuggling warfare, which is described as throwing the markets into confusion and attacking economic order. This warfare is being conducted, along with the drug war, by the use of counterfeit articles from China being shipped to the United States. For example, the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) seized 500,000 counterfeit masks being sent from Shenzhen, China to the United States for people to use to try and stop the spread of the Wuhan Virus.
A fourth type of new warfare is listed as economic aid warfare, described as bestowing favor in the open and contriving to control matters in secret. China’s Belt and Road Initiative is seen as an example of this warfare, where China aids other countries in return for those countries owing China, what exactly is owed is not known to the public.
A fifth type of new warfare is cultural warfare, which is described as leading cultural trends along in order to assimilate those with different views. This is encapsulated by China’s support of the Black Lives Matter movement. The Black Lives Matters movement is a movement that is admittedly Marxist in its leanings and is attempting to force everyone to bow to it or face their wrath.
Another type of new warfare is media warfare, which is described as manipulating what people see and hear in order to lead public opinion along. American media outlets, which are owned, co-opted by or indebted to China, have been distorting the story about the Wuhan virus. The American media has been refusing to acknowledge the origins of the virus. Dr. Anthony Fauci has admitted to lying to Americans in order to manipulate their behavior. Dr. Fauci has connections to China, including the funding of the lab where the Wuhan virus was being studied. The media is also involved in covering up other scandals, such as the Hunter Biden money scandal
In Unrestricted Warfare, the authors specifically state, “the goal should be to use all means whatsoever… to force the enemy to serve one’s own interests.” Obviously, the Chinese are actively engaged in various types of warfare against the United States, as shown by the examples cited. The United States needs to decide to fight back and force the Chinese government to cease its offensive actions against us or face the consequences.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/chinas_unrestricted_war_on_the_united_states.html
American Airlines restarts commercial Boeing 737 MAX flights
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UPDATED 12:55 PM PT – Wednesday, December 30, 2020′
After 20 months stuck on the ground, the updated Boeing 737 MAX took flight in the U.S. for the first time.
On Tuesday, American Airlines President Robert Isom announced the first flight was on the runway and prepped for takeoff at Miami International Airport.
“So, from our maintenance team, from our pilots, from the work with the FAA, from the work with our Union Safety Committees, we’re confident that the aircraft is ready to go,” Isom said. “And we’re looking forward to the flight today.”
The flight successfully landed at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, using new software upgrades and safeguards that were added to the control system in order to ensure a safe flight.
“Yes, so, there were definitely software additions made for the MCAs, the flight controls through the FCC or the flight control computer,” 737 MAX Fleet Captain Chris Hurrell noted. “But there were also airworthiness directives that came out for a wire bundle separation.”
Despite the precautions, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that more than half of passengers are wary of taking the jet, especially when reminded of two fatal crashes that led to the grounding.
“Everybody at American airlines, our hearts go out to those that were involved in the incidents,” American Airlines President Robert Isom stated. “This is an opportunity for us to learn from those incidents and make sure aviation is safe and safer than it’s ever been before.”
While Boeing announced it is ready to re-deploy its fleet, a number of airlines are still cancelling flights in the wake of the coronavirus which leaves the date of the full fleet’s return up in the air
https://www.oann.com/american-airlines-restarts-commercial-boeing-737-max-flights/
How much longer can the American people be silenced?
Article by Phil D'Agostino in The American Thinker
How much longer can the American people be silenced?
If you're from the Southeastern United States, you are very familiar with hushpuppies, and I mean the food, not the shoe. If you're not, they are a blob of cornbread dough about the size of your thumb that has been deep-fried to a golden brown. They are delicious. Tradition tells us they were often used by Southern farmers as snacks thrown to their dogs to keep them quiet while sitting down to supper. Thus the name hushpuppy.
Politicians, it would seem, have developed their own breed of hushpuppy, thrown at their constituency to keep them (us) quiet while they sit at their tables and divide up the spoils from their charade of pretending to care about the same things we do. Theirs isn't fried; it's raw. Theirs isn't delicious, it's bitter and revolting. But, it seems to still do the job, namely, to keep us at bay and hushed. And, this political hushpuppy comes in two flavors; hearings and investigations.
Over and over, we are assaulted with what seems to be blatant criminal behavior of politicians, their family members, or their cronies. (The word "friends" is too soft to use here.) They make edicts, mandates, laws, regulations, codes of ethics, and even off-handed commentaries relating to proper "thought etiquette" and virtue-signaling, by which we are expected to live. Their claim is that these are by which we are all to live. Yet they do not seem to be able to remember them when applied to themselves. Like a steal from a Steve Martin routine (when you make a million dollars, don't pay any taxes on it, and the IRS comes calling, simply say, "I forgot!"), they claim they made a mistake. They didn't understand their own rules. They never saw anything in their own misdeeds as relating to the law. Oops!
The crowds begin to burble and boil. They foment. They protest. They demand. They march on Washington, by golly! They have speakers and celebrities out the wazoo! They spend millions on creating specialized crowds, supporting those crowds, and buying bigger crowds. They post in every nook and cranny of social media. They do interviews on sympathetic networks. They pontificate, warn, and threaten! And the politicians feel their pain of injustice and dismay. But what is a politician to do? "I know!" they cry. "We'll hold hearings!"
And with each passing day, week, month, the crowd withers and wanes. The puppies have been hushed. No one is indicted. No one is kicked out of office. No one is imprisoned. No one loses any of his ill gotten gains. The apple cart remains aright. And all goes back to business as usual.
Year after year, election after election, the public is brought to a fever pitch over issues that were supposedly fixed in dark backrooms. Every cycle, it's as predictable as the run up to a Super Bowl. There are warnings from the last cycle. There are smart has-beens giving their take on how this will be different. There are public officials of every stripe and polka dot telling us that they're on it, don't worry. Then we have our game. Some win, some lose, but in this case, the game's been rigged. In every new event we come to find that the rules never apply to the players. The referees are all in on the fix. They argue and pitch a fit for the cameras, then they hold hands and go have a few beers at their favorite watering hole on Mount Olympus.
One day, the puppies will not be hushed anymore. We will hear them howl. And some will feel their bite.
A Call to Arms for All Patriots to Come to the Aid of Their Country
Article by Ron Wright in The American Thinker
A Call to Arms for All Patriots to Come to the Aid of Their Country
Our founders were visionary and provided ways to resolve disputed Presidential elections. Constitutional law expert Attorney Jenna Ellis, a Trump legal team member, outlined this procedure. The most straightforward solution is for the six contested states' legislatures to convene on their initiative by a simple majority vote without being called into session by a reluctant governor. Then by a resolution by a simple majority vote, reclaim their state’s electors pledged for Biden and appoint electors for Trump before Congress meets Jan. 6, 2020.
Patriots in the contested states should immediately deluge by phone, fax, and email their representative to demand the retraction of the electors pledged to Biden. Warn the representatives there are 74 million disenfranchised voters who voted for Trump who are not going away, “. . . come back with your shield or on it!” Links to representatives in AZ, GA, MI, NV, PA, and WI. While not yet time for pitchforks and shovels, this has been done before. Shortly after WWII, Tennessee citizens faced a similar vote fraud by a corrupt government in McMinn County, “The Battle of Athens, Tennessee 1946.”
Nov. 3, 2020, a new day of infamy, a devious covert attack shook the United States of America to its core. This attack was worse than Pearl Harbor or 9/11. The perpetrators were our elitist aristocracy and political class that reject the concept of self-governing by We the People. Complicit were our unelected administrative state, the Deep State, the mainstream media (MSM), Big Tech, The New World Order (Globalists – The Great Reset), and hostile foreign governments, specifically China. This evil coalition seeks to subvert the People's will by undermining our core beliefs, sovereignty, and overthrowing our government as created by our founders. As President Lincoln said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
As President Trump said, this coalition stole the 2020 Presidential election to prevent a duly elected President from serving a second term. This action was yet another coup to conceal the many past criminal acts of these perpetrators, e.g., treason, misprision of treason, rebellion or insurrection, and advocating the government's overthrow. Including violating the People's civil rights under the First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments and many other serious federal felonies that so far have gone unpunished.
This coalition's collective actions are a criminal conspiracy or a criminal enterprise, as defined in RICO, as I wrote previously in this article. See this article by Glenn Reynolds (AKA, Instapundit), a University of Tennessee law professor. Our law enforcement and other government agencies covered up these crimes - the Secretary of State, Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, Director of National Intelligence, and others. They all went rogue and failed to defend the United States against all foreign and domestic enemies.
Is Joe Biden a compromised Manchurian Candidate? A puppet used by dark handlers to implement the radical agenda of the Leftists and Marxists? Their manifesto is the antitheses of the People’s rights, “. . . endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,” as declared in the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution - the free will of men and women. These allegations pose severe national security consequences from China to the United States should former Vice President Joe Biden serve as President.
Before the election, organized domestic terrorist organizations would magically appear that committed acts of murders, riots, arson, insurrection, and destruction of both public and private property (BLM and Antifa). These organizations are akin to Hitler’s Brownshirts. These organizations have ties and are funded by the perpetrators. The MSM colluded with outright lies and disinformation to suppress the vote in support of Biden. Big Tech censored social media to thwart the free flow of information and discussion of these issues.
COVID-19 mandates for masks and lockdowns were and are a sham. The hysteria generated was used to suppress the vote and to facilitate vote fraud. Whether accidentally released or not from a Chinese viral lab, China knew this virus was in the wild but hid this fact with the WHO's assistance. China banned travel from Wuhan within China but allowed international flights from Wuhan to continue. There is evidence to suggest China created COVID-19 as a bioweapon. The intentional release in either manner was an act of war.
The Hunter Biden investigation was kept secret from the voters for over a year by the DOJ and FBI. Evidence from this investigation contained exculpatory information that was withheld from the defense in President Donald J. Trump's sham impeachment trial. The DOJ should have disclosed this evidence no matter what its policy was. The People's interest far outweighed the DOJ’s policy of nondisclosure. The co-conspiring MSM refused to cover the Hunter Biden story. Instead, they called it Russian disinformation until very recently. Twitter de-platformed the New York Post that broke the story. Why?
The Dominion vote system is a well-known corrupt vote tallying system within the cybersecurity community. Dominion was used to flip votes at will (here, here, and here). A forensic analysis of the voter machines in Antrim County, Michigan revealed “. . . [were] not the result of an error by the Republican clerk, as claimed, but ‘machine error built into the voting software designed to create error.’” Dominion has been accused of being financed by hostile governments. At a news conference in Georgia on 12-02-2020, Attorney Lin Wood accused both the Governor and Secretary of State of Georgia of taking money from China (YouTube at 11:40).
Where are the DOJ and the FBJ? Late out of the gate again -- like 9/11? Why? Time to pay the piper, either do your job or get off the pot. Time for real police work instead of playing to the media with dog and pony shows, e.g., the NASCAR garage door noose. The FBI’s NASCAR response is the type of action necessary to root out and prosecute this conspiracy to commit organized and systemic vote fraud across many states in this election. The FBI has the Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF), Fusion Centers, and the forensic financial and cyber resources to confirm these crimes were committed and identify the perpetrators.
At stake is whether our country survives as a constitutional republic from this covert, insidious attack both from within by the aid and comfort by elected and unelected officials and others owing allegiance to the United States and by the assistance of hostile foreign governments and The New World Order. As Benjamin Franklin said, our government is, A republic, if you can keep it. As explained by Richard Berman, “. . . democratic republics are not merely founded upon the consent of the people, they are also absolutely dependent upon the active and informed involvement of the people for their continued good health.” [My emphasis] We must preserve the rule of law and put an end to this unequal system of justice — rules for thee, but not for me. As John Adams said, “[We are] a Government of Laws, Not of Men.”
Heroes, Villains, and Victims of the 2020 Horror Show
Who were the year’s heroes, its villains and, above all, its victims?
And which figure in American politics fits the bill for all three?
The year began with so much optimism.
Record low unemployment, rising wages, and a strong stock market buoyed the outlook for business owners and consumers alike. The president earned all-time high approval ratings following the Democrats’ impeachment farce. In February 2020, Republicans enjoyed a seven-point lead over Democrats in party affiliation, an advantage the GOP hadn’t seen in at least 15 years. The Democratic presidential primary field was a clown show; party elders publicly worried that none of the candidates could prevail over President Trump in November.
And then—disaster.
The ongoing catastrophe related to COVID-19 is mostly caused by human malice and hubris, not the virus. The year 2020 featured many villains, a handful of heroes, and millions of defenseless victims harmed by heartless authoritarians of both parties—politicians and bureaucrats consumed with power, arrogance, and an insatiable lust for the media’s approval.
The Heroes
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis: After barely beating Andrew Gillum in 2018, DeSantis landed near the top of the Left’s hit list and has stayed there ever since. DeSantis resisted calls in the spring to shut down Florida amid a vicious smear campaign by the news media, which continue to vilify him to this day.
DeSantis navigated a summer surge that also hit other parts of the Sun Belt without coming close to the fatality rates endured in states such as New York and New Jersey, which were hailed as models by the Left. In September, DeSantis lifted all restrictions on bars and restaurants and opened up nursing homes for family visits, later promising never to shut down again. People and businesses are flocking to the Sunshine State from failed blue states. DeSantis, 42, now is viewed as a 2024 Republican presidential contender.
Dr. Scott Atlas: A neuroradiologist and Hoover Institution fellow, Atlas joined President Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force in August, six months too late. An early proponent of a more realistic approach to COVID-19, Atlas has been torched by the press, Democrats, public health “experts,” his Stanford colleagues, and even some in the White House.
But his views about herd immunity, mask use, and the human toll of lockdowns are scientifically sound. The people who push lockdowns, Atlas told me this year, “have blood on their hands.” Sad, but true: History will be much kinder to Atlas than to the current tyrants in the media and “expert” class.
Alex Berenson, Team Reality: Only a very small handful of journalists and commentators objected in March to shutdown orders to “flatten the curve.” Former New York Times reporter and author Alex Berenson led the pack this year, challenging the groupthink of his peers and focusing on data as opposed to fear. Amazon briefly banned the sale of his ebook critical of lockdowns. Others on Team Reality include Jordan Schachtel, Justin Hart, Aaron Ginn, Phil Kerpen, Daniel Horowitz, Steve Deace, Jesse Kelly, Tracy Beanz, and many others behind the scenes studying the actual science.
The New York Post: In October, after the Post published shocking information discovered on Hunter Biden’s laptop, the paper faced an onslaught of criticism. Articles detailing the trove, which confirmed Biden’s overseas rackets and his father’s involvement, were banned both by social media and traditional news outlets. Twitter locked the Post’s account for two weeks ahead of Election Day.
Former intelligence officials, including John Brennan and James Clapper, signed a letter claiming the laptop materials were part of a “Russian disinformation campaign.” The paper has since been vindicated; news reports published after the election confirm Hunter Biden is under federal criminal investigation.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton: Rank-and-file Republican are rightly furious at top party officials for failing to confront egregious—and likely election-altering—voter fraud in key states. Trump’s legal team was all over the place, clearly unprepared for the necessary court challenges. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a solid lawsuit before the U.S. Supreme Court on December 7, later joined by several other state attorneys general and more than 100 Republican congressmen, outlining election illegalities in four swing states. Paxton’s filing should have been prepared by Team Trump and the Republican National Committee right after the election. The high court, to its lasting shame, refused to consider the case.
Honorable mentions: Tucker Carlson, Chef Andrew Gruel, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, Senator Rand Paul, Rep. Andy Biggs, the Great Barrington Declaration authors, and California doctors Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi.
The Villains
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo: Of the many solid candidates for “Villain of the Year” occupying executive mansions on both sides of the aisle, Cuomo beats them all. Cuomo did nothing to prepare his state for COVID-19, admitting in March that New York had no plan. New York City was besieged early on and acted as a “super spreader” for the rest of the country. His Health Department issued deadly guidance in late March to readmit COVID patients to nursing homes.
New York has the second-highest fatality rate, nearly double Florida’s. Yet despite his incompetence, Cuomo has been praised by the news media and pundit class. He wrote a book patting himself on the back for his handling of the crisis and won an Emmy for his self-serving press conferences. Shortly after, Cuomo began locking down parts of New York again as cases spiked. Nothing beats Big Apple arrogance.
Dr. Anthony Fauci: Too much ground to cover here, but suffice it to say Fauci is almost single-handedly responsible for the catastrophe we now face as a country. As I argued in April, the president should have sidelined Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx as soon as they validated dubious models forecasting widespread death and doom. Trump, unfortunately, kept him on and Fauci quickly achieved rock star status; the aging bureaucrat was viewed as the “scientific” antidote to Trump despite reversing himself on everything including COVID’s fatality rate, face coverings, school closings, and most recently, herd immunity.
Nearly everyone has bought into Fauci’s messiah complex. He graced the cover of InStyle magazine, an honor never extended to First Lady Melania Trump, and was on Time’s list for Person of the Year. But no one did more damage to the economy, the country’s psyche, or our children’s future, than Anthony Fauci in 2020.
Public health “experts”: A highly-partisan scientific community exploited the coronavirus crisis to score political points against Donald Trump. Only the “experts” were permitted to opine on how to handle the virus; paycheck-safe academics and healthcare providers backed economic shutdowns without remorse. Colleagues who dared to suggest anything other than the anti-Trump company line faced harsh condemnation.
The Centers for Disease Control published unscientific “guidance,” often based on studies from China, promoting outlandish advice such as to avoid singing during the holidays. Its recommendations were used to promote mail-in voting in 2020, which helped Joe Biden win the White House.
Mass gatherings, the experts insisted, must be forbidden. That unquestionable advice, however, quickly changed during the George Floyd riots; social justice prevailed over social distancing. Hard to think of a group that burned its credibility more this year than our haughty credentialed class.
COVID-19 modelers: Dr. Neil Ferguson at Imperial College London ignited global hysteria with his March 16 model predicting 2.2 million Americans would die of the virus by the end of the year. Ferguson introduced the world to the pseudoscientific “social distancing” theory that has failed. Ferguson quickly walked back his projections after much criticism; he then was caught violating his own home isolation order when he visited his married lover in May. Computer experts shredded his buggy code, but the damage was done.
Dr. Christopher Murray, head of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, acted as Ferguson’s American doppelgänger. In late March, Murray churned out similar models that warned the United States would run out of ICUs and ventilators. Fauci and Birx presented both models to President Trump in late March, convincing him to shut down the national economy for another month. None of their dire predictions came true but the world is saddled with ineffective, destructive “social distancing” dogma for the foreseeable future.
Big Tech: Silicon Valley shaped America’s discourse in 2020, and not for the better. Doctors who questioned COVID-19 “mitigation” measures or promoted hydroxychloroquine were banned; ditto for posts criticizing the efficacy of face masks.
Big Tech’s meddling in the 2020 presidential election resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars—at least—in unlawful in-kind contributions to Joe Biden and the Democrats. Social media companies and internet search engines collaborated to suppress criticism about absentee voting; dozens of the president’s tweets before the election were flagged, allegedly for containing “disputed” information, an absolutely laughable policy considering the same platforms allowed users to spread lies about Russian collusion, the Covington Catholic High School kids, and Brett Kavanaugh, just to name a few recent notorious incidents.
Republicans, despite promises to the contrary, never reined in Big Tech. Section 230 is alive and well; Silicon Valley oligarchs emerge as the biggest winners of 2020.
Dishonorable mentions: The U.S. news media, the World Health Organization, China, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, “peaceful protestors,” Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, the Lincoln Project, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Attorney General William Barr, Senator Mitt Romney, Fox News, Dr. Deborah Birx, the U.S. Supreme Court, and Dr. Scott Gottlieb.
The Victims
Nearly everyone, except for those at the top, took a hit in 2020. More than 100,000 small businesses are shuttered for good. Loved ones still cannot comfort a spouse or parent during their final moments in a hospital; the dying die alone.
But the biggest victims of 2020 are the youngest and the oldest. Tens of millions of children have been isolated at home, struggling to learn anything via “remote learning” as teachers’ unions hold them hostage. The pleasures of youth have been stripped from their lives never to be replaced—yet the Faucis and Cuomos of the world show no remorse. College campuses resemble police states. And there appears to be no end in sight.
At the same time, millions of senior citizens remain trapped in long-term care facilities, forbidden to see family or friends. Nursing home residents are dying from “failure to thrive” as they wither away without human contact or touch. Some have staged protests to no avail. The most advanced, innovative country in human history with the most self-aggrandizing “expert” class can’t figure out how to safely allow grandmas to hug their grandchildren. An unforgivable disgrace.
One person, however, deserves the title of Victim, Villain, and Hero of 2020: Donald Trump.
Victim: In the eyes of the national news media, Donald Trump could do nothing right. In 2020, the media covered up any negative news about the Bidens while bolstering the Democrats’ preposterous impeachment case against Trump. Daily tickers on coronavirus, without context, fueled unnecessary hysteria while solely blaming the president for every new case and death.
Democratic election officials in swing states broke absentee ballot laws to help Joe Biden win but the courts, including the Supreme Court, refused to intervene. Republicans in Georgia capitulated to Democrats’ demands, helping flip that state from red to blue in 2020.
Most Republicans in Washington not only refused to back Trump, they are clearly eager to have him gone even though they benefited from having Trump at the top of the ticket this year. With friends like these . . .
Villain: Trump’s refusal to cut loose people who openly undermine him is the president’s biggest flaw; 2020 was his comeuppance on that score. Rather than fire Fauci and Birx, Trump let them run the show and drive the nation’s thriving economy into the ground. The pivotal moment in his presidency, when he heeded their treacherous advice to keep the economy shut down in April, would prove to be his undoing.
Trump did not fire FBI Director Chris Wray or CIA Director Gina Haspel, even as they continued to thwart his authority. Attorney General William Barr should have been asked to resign when he said in September any charges stemming from Special Counsel John Durham’s probe into the Obama Administration’s meddling in the 2016 election would be delayed until after November 3. Trump didn’t have in place a solid legal team to successfully litigate valid instances of election fraud, instead relegating the job to longtime friends and unknowns. Most of the president’s travails this year were self-inflicted wounds—and the country paid a steep price.
Hero: When few people, including top Republican leaders in Washington, refused to condemn Black Lives Matter rioters, President Trump did. The president called out cowardly Democratic politicians who let Antifa and BLM thugs destroy their cities. He defended the country’s history and Founders in a moving Fourth of July address at Mount Rushmore and created the 1776 Commission as an antidote to the “1619 Project.”
As he prepares to exit the White House, Trump will be remembered for confronting the nation’s enemies, foreign and domestic, at a time when we needed it most. In the din of 2020, President Trump often emerged as the only steadfast leader willing to defend the country.
Unfortunately, 2021 isn’t looking much better. Our countrymen are depressed, hopeless, and fearful. A poll released this week shows only 29 percent of Americans think the country is on the right track. Most Republicans think the election was stolen; Joe Biden is not at all up to the task of serving as the leader of the free world. It’s only a matter of time before President Kamala Harris occupies the Oval Office.
Trump, however, will continue to be the most powerful political leader in the country. What he does with that power is up in the air. Let’s hope he uses it for good—Lord knows we will need him to.