Democrats Lost But Democrats Will Never Stop

posted by Derek Hunter at Townhall 

One thing you have to give the left, maybe even the only thing you have to give them, is that they never, ever stop. It doesn’t matter what the obstacles are or how many people have to be sacrificed (100 million in the last century), nothing dissuades the left from pushing their agenda forward. No electoral set-backs stop them, nothing. Democrats are like the Terminator: they cannot be stopped, they cannot be reasoned with and will never stop until they get what they want. 

People forget it took them 40 years of trying to get the government to take over huge chunks of the healthcare industry with Obamacare. It was wildly unpopular and cost more than 60 Democrats their seats and control of the House. They knew what they were doing, they did not care. 

That’s how the left operates: individuals are expendable for the greater good.

If you were thinking they’d lick their wounds, act like people who were just vanquished, you haven’t been paying attention. It’s not in them.

Flip to MSNBC and you will see insane conversations between crazy people about how popular they and their ideas are. Nothing, absolutely nothing, will convinced these people of anything different. 

That “leaders” and TV pundits act this way makes sense, to a certain extent. That anyone falls for it is the problem. That anyone gives these people money is a testament to the reality that a set of ideals can be stalked and obsessed over just as celebrities can. 

The day of the election, Democrats were sending out fundraising emails insisting they needed money to “fight” any legal challenges Republicans brought against them. Since the loss, the emails have continued. 

What the hell would the failed campaign of Kamala Harris need money for? Well, they not only raised more than a billion dollars in just over three months, they spent it all and then some. Reports have them being $20 million in debt (which just happens to be what those “concerts” they put on to draw a crowd reportedly cost them, by the way). Gotta retire that debt somehow, why not on the credit cards of suckers, er, others?

“First and foremost, we want to acknowledge the fear, confusion, and sadness many of you are feeling at this moment,” a recent email opened. “For others, you may be looking for something meaningful and important to channel your emotions toward. If that's you, then we're asking you to make a donation to the Democratic Party today.”

Some people eat their emotions, others max out the credit cards to the failed campaign of political hacks. 

“Here's why this request is so important,” it continues. “As you read this, there are U.S. Senate and House races that are either too close to call, or within the margin of recounts or certain legal challenges. They all need our help to get across the finish line.”

In other words, they lost by too much themselves, making the stealing their election impossible, but many other Democrats are in races much, much closer and those racist might be able to be stolen. That may sound simplistic, but it is correct.

It closes with, “Can you please rush a contribution to the Harris Fight Fund program today? We will put your donation to work making sure we succeed and count every vote in these final races.”

They want the money, they need the money. They may or may not spend some of it on the outstanding races, provided they have anything left after they pay their friends the $20 million owed, but they want the money for themselves. Having a cash cow that is exclusively for their milking is exactly how they view their supporters, and as long as there is one drop left in those credit card balances, why would they ever stop?

Another “thank you card” email asking for people to “sign” a card thanking Kamala for losing reads, “Even though the presidential results weren't what we worked so hard for, the truth is clear: Kamala Harris broke barriers, ran a historic presidential campaign, and inspired Democrats across America. She proved the importance of fighting for what we believe in, and from her first day as vice president to the last day of her campaign, she demonstrated what it means to be a champion for all Americans. We're organizing a card to thank her for her public service -- and we want YOU to sign!”

They are Terminators, provided Terminators always do the dumbest thing. Then again, Arnold Schwarzenegger did endorse Kamala, so maybe it all runs in the family? 

X22, And we Know, and more- Nov 11

 

An Electoral Awakening Worth Celebrating

posted by J.B. Shurk at American Thinker 

I must admit that I haven’t exactly been an exemplar of Christian virtue over the last few days.  I keep telling myself, “I will not take pleasure from all of the videos showing Democrats crying after the election,” but then I find my way right back to another collection of social media meltdowns proving why leftism is a mental illness.  What can I say, lefty tears are delicious.  My favorite schadenfreudilicious spectacle is this creative production featuring President Trump jamming out on electric guitar and drums to Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son,” while America’s most prominent Democrats break down in tears.  I guess it’s what the Intelligence Community would call a “deepfake,” but it looks real to me!

All right, I’m done.  I’ve got it out of my system.  Wait, have you seen this one of Tim Walz’s daughter telling Americans, “This country does not deserve Kamala Harris”?  Ha ha.  That’s pretty funny, too.  She/Xi’s right, though.  However bad we’ve been, we definitely don’t deserve Kamala!  Better to be tortured with fingernail scratches on a chalkboard twenty-four hours a day than to suffer through eight years of Kama-lama-ding-dong philosophizing about “the significance of the passage of time.”  Dang, I really thought I had this under control.  Looks like I still have a lot of work to do.  Oh well.

In defense of everyone who might be similarly enjoying this electoral triumph a bit too much these days, I will only point out that we have been bashed and battered for four long years, and we could be forgiven for experiencing joy (the authentic variety, not the Kamala kind) after enduring so much pain.  After all, there is a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance.  And without a doubt, this is our season to laugh and dance.  So take a moment, smile, and do the Trump Dance.

Not all of us thought this was possible.  We worried that the same mail-in-ballot fraud that gave basement-dwelling Joe Biden 25% more “votes” than Chicago superstar (and champagne socialist) Barack Obama would elevate Cackling Kamala to the Oval Office.  Merrick Garland’s (in)Justice Department has been obsessed with imprisoning Trump for the rest of his natural life, and those same goons have spent the last four years harassing and incarcerating anyone who dares to question the legitimacy of America’s weeks-long ballot harvests.  The Deep State got what it wanted in 2020.  Its bureaucratic tyrants censored Americans, defamed J6 protestors as terrorists, and pushed a ludicrous narrative that Trump and his unarmed supporters had attempted to overthrow the federal government.  

After so much State-directed violence and propaganda against American citizens, it was easy to lose faith.  Heck, I heard Senator Rand Paul — a repeat victim of political violence — express on multiple occasions the rather shocking sentiment that “they” would never allow President Trump back in the White House.  Well, we’re not there yet, but things are certainly heading in the right direction!  (I just did the Trump Dance again for anyone wondering.)

Take some time to reflect on the significance of this political earthquake.  In fact, just this once, let’s take Kamala’s advice and really think about “the significance of the passage of time.”  Four years ago, schools were closed.  Small businesses were shuttered.  People were wearing silly face masks while driving alone in their cars or jogging alone outside.  It was insane, yet the majority of Americans participated in the insanity.  I used to get messages from conservative voters who were very unhappy with my constant pleas for Americans not to give up their liberties just because the CDC told them that the Bill of Rights is null and void during medical scares.  A commenter who had always struck me as politically savvy told me that COVID was too serious for me to complain about lockdowns and online censorship.

Four years later, those overreactions to a government-engineered medical emergency seem absurd to conservatives and non-conservatives alike.  People across the West have experienced the economic damage of business closures and witnessed the emotional damage inflicted on children from school closures.  As government lies are exposed (including those involving COVID’s origin and deadliness and the efficacy of the pharmaceutical industry’s “emergency use” mRNA therapeutics), people are coming to grips with how nefarious the mass censorship campaigns against COVID “misinformation” really were.  

It seems asinine now, but during the height of the COVID insanity, governments convinced most Westerners that scientific debate was somehow damaging to the advancement of human knowledge.  We were ridiculously close to the imposition of pandemic passports that would have effectively monitored Westerners’ movements and speech at all times.  The Biden-Harris regime moved quickly to mandate COVID shots, punish workers who refused, and establish “quarantine” camps for those who resisted.  Totalitarianism returned not with Nazi troops brandishing rifles but with white-coated medical doctors insisting that we relinquish our liberties and obey the scriptures of dogmatic “expertise.”  

A strange thing happened on the way to tyranny, though.  A lot of people who had previously consented to their own COVID confinement shared a stunning revelation: governments are much less interested in saving citizens from COVID than they are in using COVID as a pretext for controlling citizens.  It was a monumental shift in social consciousness and another “aha!” advance for the “Great Awakening.” 

In the four years that President Trump has been out of office, this pattern has repeated time and again.  Since Biden’s 2020 (s)election, Big Tech has actively censored Americans who highlight evidence of electoral fraud.  The propaganda press has labeled us “election deniers.”  The DOJ, FBI, and too many partisan judges have treated J6 defendants worse than alleged murderers.  Protests for free and fair elections have been preposterously described as an “insurrection” worse than Pearl Harbor, 9/11, and the Civil War.  The mix of rhetorical overkill and political persecution have had a salubrious effect: an increasing number of Americans now recognize that the federal government conspires with social media companies to censor Americans’ speech in violation of the First Amendment and that the criminal justice system is filled with corrupt and evil actors.  

These public revelations caught fire once Democrat prosecutors chose to engage in an unprecedented lawfare campaign against President Trump that threatened his liberty and property.  Americans have witnessed the Clintons and other Democrat politicians in good standing with the D.C. “blob” escape prosecution for real crimes (including Hillary’s Russia collusion fraud against the American people) too many times for the avalanche of criminal and civil cases against President Trump to pass muster.  There was a time when Americans would have placed credence in the serious accusations coming from the mouths of U.S. prosecutors.  After years of watching corrupt judges assist in the political targeting of Trump confidantes such as Rudy Giuliani, Peter Navarro, and Steve Bannon, though, the lawfare against President Trump has appeared malicious, unacceptable, and un-American.

COVID tyranny, censorship, overt propaganda, and rampant lawfare have been awful symptoms of the vile authoritarianism metastasizing over the last four years.  But they have also been eye-opening for tens of millions of Americans who finally see the cancers growing inside the U.S. government and spreading among its corporate partners.  There are those in the U.S. government who would like nothing better than to suffocate human liberty.  Thankfully for us, Americans who have been choking on oppression for four years finally have a sense of what ails them.

Sometimes we must endure great ills to appreciate what threatens our survival.  In that regard, Biden’s calamitous presidency has been enlightening.  In 2024, Americans of every demographic moved toward President Trump.  That kind of “awakening” is worth celebrating.

The Fault, Dear Democrats, Is in Yourselves - Victor Davis Hanson

 In the aftermath of the election, Democrats are engaging in public blame-shifting, while avoiding accountability for their own policies and elite disconnect, which alienated voters and led to defeat.

Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“They had learned nothing and forgotten nothing.” – Often attributed to Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand

The Democratic election post-mortem immediately descended into public blame-gaming—as expected. When Joe Biden was forced off the ticket in late July, the conspirators issued a party line that he was to be praised as a veritable George Washington—in the spirit of Washington’s farewell address of 1796 about why it was a good thing for the first president not to run for a third term.

So, we were lied to that Joe, the sitting President of the United States, was not forced out by Nancy Pelosi, the Obamas, George Clooney and the celebs, and the billionaire class. We instead were lectured that Biden, magnanimously as the neo-father of our country, selflessly bowed out to ensure Kamala Harris’s elevation as the nominee and, with it, a sure Democratic victory.

But now? After the Democratic train wreck, half the party is suddenly damning George Washington Joe for sticking around too long, even though party grandees cooked up the scheme in the first place of nominating the cognitively challenged Biden in 2020 to shut out his radical (and supposedly unelectable) primary rivals.

Now that his successor Harris has bombed, in the leftist mind, Joe has gone from a Washingtonian Olympian to a veritable selfish Richard Nixon who clung to office far too long and supposedly ensured his party’s defeat.

Yet still, others now blame incumbent Vice President Kamala herself. The once “joyful” candidate, after the coup to remove Biden, was once praised to the skies as a “turn the page”/”move forward”/“change” candidate—only then to be damned as an insipid loser.

So, one postelection narrative was that Harris—we were told to recall—was always known as inept and thus originally picked as Joe Biden’s Spiro Agnew insurance policy, who would prevent his indictment, impeachment, or medical removal.

But never mind blaming either Biden or Harris or both. The left cannot fault either a lack of funds; they raised a billion dollars more than Trump. Leftists also cannot complain about 95 percent favorable media coverage, supposedly worth billions of dollars in free advertising.

They cannot regret that they did not do everything imaginable to destroy the Trump monster—given they had impeached him twice and tried him as a private citizen. They cooked up the Russian collusion and laptop disinformation hoaxes, raided his home with a SWAT team, and unleashed five criminal and civil suits designed to bankrupt, demonize, and jail him. They tried to remove him from at least 16 state ballots and daily smeared him as a fascist, dictator, and Hitler—even as two would-be assassins tried to shoot him.

So, we are witnessing the rich Democrat-media fusion blame and fault everything but themselves. In truth, whether Biden or Harris ran—it never really mattered.

Even an open convention with a “moderate” veneer nominee like a Josh Shapiro would not have saved them. The fault was in themselves: a radical Democratic agenda actualized by Joe Biden, who will leave office with an approval rate under 40 percent, and two-thirds of the country believing the country was headed in the wrong direction under his tenure.

So, what lost the election for the Democrats? Both substance and style.

The proverbial people may have agreed that Trump was sometimes crude, but they knew in his prior four-year tenure that food, gas, rent, power, and insurance were affordable. The border was finally secured. Trump did not welcome in 12 million unaudited illegal aliens. Nor did he oversee a disastrous flight from Afghanistan or watch two theater-wide wars blow up Ukraine and the Middle East as a derelict America became irrelevant.

Boys did not spike volleyballs down upon the heads of girls nor did male boxers pound the brains of women.

Nor did teenage biological males shower with young girls.

Nor did the Trump tenure witness institutionalized anti-Semitism spreading throughout the nation’s elite campuses and onto the streets. Nor did Republican party grandees obsess on race, promote reparations, demand unlimited abortions until the moment of birth, or trash fracking.

So, the message—not just the messengers—was toxic. But that said, the message was also delivered by a bicoastal elite, exuding hubris and superciliousness. This election, the left committed the two cardinal sins of American politics: one, never talk down to the American people as too stupid to appreciate the wisdom of their supposed elite betters; and two, never abandon the upwardly mobile aspirations and real struggles of the middle class.

Instead, during the campaign and after the election slaughter, Democratic grandees screamed against a supposedly racist, sexist, homophobic, nativist electorate—as if these critics were a mummified Hillary Clinton circa 2016 still pontificating about the deplorables and irredeemables or a calcified Obama lecturing on the pathologies of the clingers.

Indeed, the epitome of such hypocrisy was the late entrance of the now-plutocratic Obamas. The pair variously private jetted in from one of their four mansions to “save” Harris from her incompetent self by diagnosing the skeptics of her hard-left message as ignorant, illiberal, and suffering from Marxist false consciousness.

Thus, a week after the election, Democrats are still trapped in La La Land.

Blue-state governors now posture and brag that they will stop the newly elected Trump—but from what exactly? Will they refuse his tainted federal funds? Spit at him when they ask for disaster relief help? Declare blue America “sanctuary states” that will nullify federal law and not pay federal taxes?

What does California governor Gavin Newsom mean by calling to session the California legislature to “resist” Trump? Will he order another Steele dossier pee-pee tape? Another Hillary Clinton 2016 call to join La Résistance?

What does Illinois Governor Pritzker mean by warning Trump he will have to go through the ample governor to get to “his people?”

Coordinate more local and state prosecutors to resume where Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg, and Letitia James left off?

Mimic Madonna and threaten to blow up the White House?

Emulate Kamala Harris and warn weeks of violent protests that won’t and should not stop?

So how exactly is the elected president actually stripping away the rights of their liberal residents—three months before he even sets foot in office? And what might such illiberal or extralegal Trump efforts entail?

Find another Andrew McCabe to weaponize the FBI to go after his enemies?

Discover another Anthony Fauci to stealthily send American cash to a leaky Chinese virology lab run by the People’s Liberation Army?

Draft another Lois Lerner to politicize the IRS to deny left-wing groups nonprofit status?

Rehire James Comey to get the FBI and social media together to censor the news?

Maybe rehire Loretta Lynch or Merrick Garland to sic the Department of Justice on political enemies at school board meetings?

Bring back Confederate-style nullification of federal law and open the border?

Or are Trump’s threats likely to be more existential and cosmic—like packing the court to ensure another six conservative justices?

Or, as the right takes control of the Senate, will the damnable new conservative majority abolish the ancient filibuster?

Perhaps the left is worried that now that a vengeful Trump has handily won the popular vote, he will most likely remove the 237-year-old Electoral College by sidestepping the constitutional amendment process?

Or will a dastardly Trump bifurcate some blue states to ensure their red halves become two new states and with them four conservative senators?

In sum, the left will not recover by blaming the American people and the voters for their loss. Nor will they regain power by caricaturing the supposedly illiberal and unappreciative middle class.

Nor will they reboot by blustering that they are at war with a president before he takes office as if he was not just elected by a clear majority and an overwhelming electoral college vote.

Nor will they find salvation today by blaming the “messaging,” or tomorrow Kamala Harris, or next week Joe Biden—rather than looking in the mirror and acknowledging the fault, Dear Democrats, is “in ourselves.”

https://amgreatness.com/2024/11/11/the-fault-dear-democrats-is-in-yourselves/

The Heroes and Zeros of Election 2024

posted by Kurt Schlichter at Townhall 

This is when we savor the sweetness of our total victory. This is when we quaff our ale and pound our shields after defeating the orc hordes, at least temporarily: "Remember today, little brother. Today, life is good." Life is good today; tomorrow, we fight again. 

And it’s also a day to take a moment to identify and thank those who got us here, as well as to mock and deepen the humiliation of those weirdos, losers, and mutations who failed so utterly. We rule. They suck.

Here’s one hero – the great Scott Pressler, who picked up and moved to Pennsylvania and worked tirelessly to rally the low-propensity voters who won Trump the Keystone State and elected the great fellow Gulf War vet Dave McCormick, himself another hero, to the Senate. All hail Scott!

A zero? Ronna Romney McDaniel was finally fired as chairloser of the Republican National Committee. Her absence was key to our success this cycle. Among her many failures was ignoring and then, from envy, undermining Scott Pressler. Good riddance to this Romney and her zero relative Mitt as he slinks away from the Senate.

Many other folks did great work rallying the troops. Rick Grenell went everywhere and talked to everybody. He’s now, properly, the American First consensus nominee for Secretary of State. Doug Bergum went from “Doug Who?” to a loyal surrogate on his way to an administration job. And another hero is Ron DeSantis, who delivered up Florida after losing the primary – while demonstrating through hurricanes and other challenges just how Republicans can govern.

The Dem governors were zeros. Gretchen Whitmer, that frigid scold, decided it was a good idea to mock Catholics with her gross communion video. There is a more troubling possibility – that she had no idea she was mocking Catholics with her gross communion video. In any case, that video will haunt her when she tries to run in 2028. The Dem governors of California and Arizona also demonstrated the ineptitude of Democrat rule by being unable to count their votes in a reasonable time frame. DeSantis did it in two hours.

Another hero is Elon Musk, whose purchase of Twitter allowed the majority of Americans to have a voice in opposition to the united Democrat propaganda machine that is the regime media. Like the Founders of old, Elon Musk put his life, fortune, and sacred honor on the line. They would’ve bankrupted him if Trump lost. They would’ve jailed him if Trump lost. He knew what would happen if Trump lost, yet he never wavered. That’s the definition of a hero.

How about the great Harmeet Dhillon and Red State’s own Jennifer Van Laar, whose opposition to Ronna McDaniel helped clear her out of office? Oh, she didn’t go easy. Harmeet ran against Ronna, and I helped work with her, but we lost that fight. Jen helped win the war with her exposé of Ronna’s ridiculous spending that finally inspired Trump to toss her out. Lara Trump and Michal Whatley replaced her – and built the RNC into a key component of our victory. They fixed the disastrous legal effort from 2020 (I was there, and it was a cluster) and turned it into a powerhouse. Heroes!

Susie Wiles was on the other side of the Ronna McDaniel fight initially. She won, proving herself formidable. But, as Trump’s campaign manager, she did not hesitate to dump Ronna McDaniel when it became clear the failed RNC head was a failure. Wiles then fought an amazing political campaign for Donald Trump as his campaign manager. Another Gulf War vet helped her, Chris La Civita. What a team! Here’s something key – you never saw her face. I wouldn’t recognize her if I tripped over her, and that’s part of the magic. She didn’t make it about herself. She made it about winning. She helped Trump be the very best Trump he could be without trying to make him into something he could never be. She deserves a ton of credit for this win and is an outstanding choice to be Trump’s chief of staff.

The conservative women sure showed Mark Cuban. What is zero this guy is. He not only humiliated himself but revealed himself to be a pompous bigot when he declared Republican women inept dummies. It’s so sweet that so many smart Republican women are responsible for him sobbing in the corner like a little girl right now.

How about Anne Selzer? How about all the other alleged experts? They all knew best. They all knew Trump couldn’t possibly win. I agreed with them a year ago. I thought Trump couldn’t win. But Trump changed that reality, and smart people change their opinion when reality changes. But the experts? No, they never did. They never wanted to. And now they’ve been revealed as clowns. And Selzer, the highly respected Iowa pollster, set fire to her rep. Zeros.

How about Joe Biden? He’s both a zero and a hero! He was a terrible president and selfishly ran again when he was utterly demented. Zero! But, on the upside, he also mercilessly shivved Harris in the back again and again during the campaign. Hero! He set the Dems up for failure and then made sure it happened. Thanks, you creepy dope!

Talk about a zero – Tim Walz is the worst. He was a terrible pick, chosen because Kamala needed to find someone who would not outshine her. That must have been hard. Her obvious pick was Josh Shapiro, who Republicans would be wise to actually be concerned about, but there was a problem with him the Democrats just could not tolerate. Walz was a stolen valor, commie-cavorting weirdo who gave off definite Ford-panel-van-parked-outside-the-middle-school vibes. What a zero.

A hero? JD Vance. What a superstar! This guy had a lot of doubters when Trump picked him. He has no doubters now. The next 30 years of American politics will feature this hero.

Of course, the biggest zero is Kamala Harris. Her career, such as it was, is over. She should call Mike Dukakis and get some hints about how to survive internal exile for the crime of totally failing her party. Of course, Dukakis was not a bad man, just an inept and soft one. Kamala is a monster, a totalitarian quasi-fascist without a brain in her head. She’s terrible. This is all her fault. She’s a monumental zero.

And the greatest hero of the 2024 cycle? Of course, it was Donald J. Trump. They slandered him. They tried to bankrupt him. They tried to put him in prison for the rest of his life. They tried to murder him and actually shot him. And he did not falter. He did not waver. He did not hesitate. He did two things. 

Fight, fight, fight. And win, win, win. 

Now, that’s a hero.

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Trump’s Triumph Will Emerge as a Decisive Event in America’s Political History

 Conrad Black Writes:

It is a cultural as well as a political watershed in a country disgusted with woke, anti-majority, anti-American guilt and endless fault-finding.

It is almost universally recognized that Tuesday’s election was a decisive event in the political history of the United States. To the very end, the Democratic establishment, the dwindling detritus of never-Trump Republicans, and the 95 percent of the national political press that was rabidly hostile to President Trump, ignored the polls that showed the public severely dissatisfied with the Democrats’ open borders, reckless inflation, generation of high urban crime rates, and inability to solve adequately any foreign problem from Afghanistan to Gaza. They believed Vice President Harris would either win or lose by a whisker.

It turns out that the election was an unprecedented repudiation of the national political press, including the polling organizations attached to leftist media outlets and universities. Almost all of them were outside the margin of error and were exposed as unreliable.  The election was a cultural as well as a political watershed: the country is disgusted with woke, anti-majority, anti-American guilt and endless fault-finding. 

The country sensed that the Democrats were motivated by what the late distinguished English commentator Malcolm Muggeridge originally called “the great liberal death wish.” From opening the southern borders to millions of desperate people, including scores of thousands of violent criminals, to trying to buy votes with inflationary spending, to the deliberate atomization of American society into grumbling and agitating fragments of artificially aggrieved subgroups at the expense of national coherence and self-respect, Americans were fed up with all of it and wouldn’t take it anymore, and even evicted the permissive Los Angeles district attorney and the hopeless mayor of San Francisco.

It is the end of the post-Reagan drift of American politics: the sleazy and facile “new democracy” of the Clintons, the  incompetence of George W. Bush, and the cynical and relentless imputation to white America of racial prejudices of the Obamas; it all tanked with the failures in every major policy area of the Biden administration.

This was a senescent president and a vice president who is incapable of answering a single question, even from Oprah Winfrey after she had been paid $1 million to conduct a fawning interview. Yet right to the end, the Democrats thought they would win and the press thought it was somewhere between a narrow Democratic victory and a coin-toss cliffhanger.

The first lesson of the election is that all those whose welfare and credibility are dependent upon satisfying the public generally or accurately judging the public mood, should reacquaint themselves with the American public. The great majority of Americans think they live in what is fundamentally a good country that is on balance a benefit to the world.

The second lesson is that the country will not tolerate the perversion of the criminal justice system and the intelligence agencies to launch false accusations against a presidential candidate or the spurious recourse to the impeachment process where there is no justification for it, or a barrage of unfounded criminal and civil allegations against a leader of the opposition at the outset of an election campaign.

American voters are accustomed to hearing their politicians accused of communist proclivities with more or less accuracy, but when one presidential candidate accuses the other of being a fascist, with all that implies, and a former presidential candidate assimilates the Republican candidate to Hitler, all Americans should be reassured that the country reacts negatively.         

Unlike the reception given Trump’s victory eight years ago, when it was widely stated that he must have stolen the election, with the collusion of the Russian government, and was an intolerable extremist, charlatan, and a mountebank who was not a legitimate president, all are aware that he has now surmounted the greatest assault of illegal skullduggery that any American presidential candidate has ever faced, and has won the popular vote against an almost solid wall of media hostility and preponderant financial resources.

It is certainly time that Trump was not only recognized for his perseverance and his physical courage in speaking to huge crowds all around the country despite assassination attempts and knowledge of the existence of other assassination plots. He has also shown himself a transformative leader and ingenious political operator on the scale, if not the comparable elegance, of a Roosevelt or Reagan. 

It is time to recognize, as he embarks on his unambiguous mandate for comprehensive change, the scope of Trump’s achievement. He developed the technique of making himself electable as president by the achievement of celebrity, even though much of the publicity and attention that he received that made him one of the most famous people in the country, was unflattering.

Trump was almost alone in perceiving that the post-Reagan bipartisan political establishment was cantilevering itself steadily more precariously over a chasm of moderate and lower income Americans who felt ignored by their government and belittled by the political elites. He thus became the first person never to have sought or held any public office or military command to be elected president.                               

Once elected, he attacked the Democratic hold on the working class and ethnic minorities by adapting the capitalism of Eisenhower, Nixon, and Reagan to the assistance of those groups by using the tax system to incentivize job creation among them.

He has made the Republicans the party of strong but not irrational patriotism, more effective assistance to the disadvantaged, the party of law enforcement and crime reduction and of a foreign policy that has kicked the Western alliance from a gang of freeloaders into a serious assembly of countries that will define its collective interest and assure that it has the means to defend that interest, but will otherwise be very cautious about committing armed forces to areas that are not strategically vital.

This is not extreme and is somewhat similar to Reagan’s course-correction of 40 years ago, which essentially consisted of tax cuts and a defense buildup and brought prolonged prosperity and the victorious end of the Cold War. These next four years are likely to be successful, and to move the public policy goal posts accordingly and cause the Democrats to resurrect themselves as a centrist party.

The Trump Republicans have also become an eclectic and interesting group with new arrivals such as Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Megyn Kelly, and the former Sandersite, Tulsi Gabbard, and a general air of spontaneity exemplified by candidate Trump serving French fries at McDonald’s and riding in a garbage truck.

Trump has probably confirmed one more distinction: despite a heavy turnout, the total popular vote appears to have declined approximately 4 million from the 2020 totals. That number could reflect a reduction in the number of unsolicited mail-in ballots sent out during the 2020 election, raising concerns about ballot harvesting by the Democrats and the casting of unverifiable votes, particularly in the swing states. We will never know for sure, and we may never know why the press has worked so feverishly to deny the fact, but Trump is probably, apart from Franklin D. Roosevelt, the only person to have won three consecutive American presidential elections. He is now a historic figure.

https://www.nysun.com/article/trumps-triumph-will-emerge-as-a-decisive-event-in-americas-political-history

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