Recent events have inspired me to abandon my self-imposed exile. No, I’m not going to explain the where’s or why’s, only that I was here, then I was not, and now I’m back. Sometimes things need to get sorted, the timing stinks, and here we are. Tickety-Boo. Boom!
Trump won on Tuesday, and that’s just the beginning. January 20 is another lifetime away. There are 75 days from the day after the election to the inauguration. Votes are still being counted. The evil underworld is still seething. Plans within plans. The absence of riots and outrage from the party of almost peaceful protests is not a sign of acceptance.
They are sharpening their long knives.
A President Trump with a Republican congress (it didn’t work as well as it should have last time), even with two years to get things done. It’s a Different Trump and a few different Republicans, but they are all working in the same swamp. Resistance is not futile but the last time I checked – there’s no cure for the Georgetown flu.
Likewise for Democrats. They lost one election but the revolution never ends, so color me skeptical about this.
Democrats believed that progressivism was still popular — and the traditional midterm backlash of 2018 convinced them that Trump had proven to be so unpopular, they could move as far to the left as they wanted, and the electorate would still always pick them over Trump and his MAGA candidates.
They thought wrong.
Progressivism, liberalism, woke-ism — they will never be the same. They won’t wither away completely. But the Democrats just learned the hardest of hard lessons: The electorate — not just straight white males — doesn’t want their brand of deeply divisive identity politics, deliberate conflation of legal immigration and illegal immigration, policies that reflexively recommend and enact permanent bodily changes for teenagers questioning their gender identity, and basically the entire agenda of the 2019 Kamala Harris presidential campaign.
That’s Jim Geraghty scribbling at the Trump-Hating National Review, which hopes it is still popular outside the wards where the Georgetown flu is most infectious. They didn’t used to be like that, and they’ve had a few moments since, but many of the millions who got Trump re-elected still hold a grudge like the one the Democrats bear after Tuesday.
To get to the point, Democrats aren’t learning any lessons.
Killing babies and neutering children isn’t a hobby you give up like Book Club (or National Review); it advances an agenda, as does letting men in women’s bathrooms or allowing them to play on girls’ sports teams. The deliberate tribalism, race-pimping, censoring of people, and silencing of speech. Those open borders, that forced monetary inflation, and death by energy suicide are part of the plan. Break everything.
They lost one election, and there’s another one in two years (despite the progressive rhetoric). They’ll do everything they can to sabotage efforts to undermine their successes and then lie or cheat to get back in power so their agenda continues. Make America Weak Again. Break it, wreck it, drive it like a rental car into the ash heap of history. They will not stop until it is dead, and the only possible reason to abandon any of the insane crap they’ve promoted to date is something crazier appears more likely to get the job done.
The Founders understood it. They tried to create a government to slow their roll, but here we are hoping the Electorate has, itself, learned a lesson. That it will take more than two or four years to reverse any of that. This means keeping the lefties as far from the levers as possible for as long as possible while holding the Republicans to account and to their promises.
You have to do both, and not just on election day. Every day.
This is a lesson Americans have yet to learn, probably because Democrats control education.
