It’s good to feel happy and Heaven knows we’ve seen trouble, but let’s don’t fool ourselves — this is an opportunity, not a solution.<\/p>\n
The Trump victory in 2024 is an amazing feat, and there will be much written about it.\u00a0 The campaign ran one Hell of an operation, and this is going to be a fascinating story when it comes out.\u00a0 Grassroots and big-name support along with great personnel picks and magnificent showings by the boss made this a campaign for the ages.<\/p>\n
Part of what made this “mere competence” seem spectacular was the backdrop of doom and corruption.\u00a0 This 2024 victory is more than the defeat of a vapid woman and her ever more vapid running mate.\u00a0 The Marxist Alinskyite Obama project is still running a great amount of our country, and even Obama is just a figurehead.\u00a0 If Solzhenitsyn had had a champion, it would have been a Russian Trumpov, some Donya Frederickovich who faced down Lenin or Stalin.\u00a0 Had this happened, of course, Solzhenitsyn would be a forgotten engineer who retired comfortably after a long career working for the state.\u00a0 Without Stalin, there is no Solzhenitsy because there is no need for one.\u00a0 With Obama and Biden, they went straight from Lenin to Andropov.<\/p>\n
But how is all that “end of history” working out for our current relations with Russia?\u00a0 The Cold War hardly ended — it just gathered its thoughts and here we are right back to proxy wars and the threat of nukes.<\/p>\n
The Democrats are on their back foot, and it’s great fun watching their slapstick gyrations to pratfall moment.\u00a0 But we must not become complacent, which is obvious, and we must not count on Democrat stupidity or Republican competence as some sort of ongoing feature of a new reality.\u00a0 A million things went right to deliver this Trump 2024 victory, and if any five of them had not panned out, we would even now welcome Madame President Kamala Harris to preside over the end of the country.<\/p>\n
American Indians, Amish, blacks, gen X and (magnificently) gen Z turned out in numbers to put Trump over the top.\u00a0 These all mattered and each fact has specific people to thank behind it.\u00a0 Yet fundamentally, the American people were pissed off at the current administration, and they did not fall for the last-minute switcheroo.\u00a0 I do think that the country detects the Potemkin Presidency and the very real ruling cabal which mutinied against Trump and then installed Biden as a cut-out entity.\u00a0 They bluffed Harris and got called hard.<\/p>\n
The problem remains, however.\u00a0 The cabal hasn’t gone anywhere, and because tyranny is their day job, they won’t return to their normal programming after the election.\u00a0 They will provide just enough resistance and mayhem to seem accounted for until we go back to our lives, and then the shenanigans will begin in earnest.\u00a0 This is just a baked-in fact — we will take our eyes off the ball and then the ball will be stolen.\u00a0 Again.<\/p>\n
I am enjoying this moment, but I do not see it as any sort ofr solution.\u00a0 Nothing has been fixed, and not just because the inauguration is months away.\u00a0 Nothing will be fixed until hundreds of government functionaries are in prison, and the executive branch becomes so terrified that it returns to normal, Constitutional limits, and behaves itself at work.\u00a0 There remains a massive amount of unpleasant and unpopular work to be done, without which, the glorious future of Trump\/Vance\/Vance\/Somebody or whatever will not happen, because the machine will once again amputate a successful Republican Presidency.<\/p>\n
I am massively relieved.\u00a0 I am becoming re-energized for the fight.\u00a0 I am not above recon by fire, that is, shooting into a bush to find out if there’s a bad guy in it.\u00a0 Hell, might even be a good guy who unwisely decided not to show himself.\u00a0 Well, be on the team or don’t, but the recon must happen, and the plinking is just prelude to fire for effect.<\/p>\n
We have a Hell of a fight on our hands, and this second Trump administration will not be a victory lap.\u00a0 We must not fall for the Siren song of reconciliation except where well-justified.\u00a0 At the same time, we have an opportunity to expand the base.\u00a0 What is required is that the new folks actually *join the base* and not the other way around.\u00a0 What makes this possible is the fact that many of the supposed incompatibilities between the Republican base and some newcomers are artifacts of Marxist identitarian indoctrination.<\/p>\n
Scott Presler and Elon Musk may be responsible for delivering Pennsylvania, as well as a lot of halo performance, such as the rest of the battleground states.\u00a0 Presler is a hero, and after all, just a guy who gives a damn.\u00a0 No shade on Musk, but Presler did his bit on a shoestring.\u00a0 Musk is a hero as well, and risked much more than most Americans can even comperehend.\u00a0 There’s a reason that every federal agency that could possibly touch him started getting sticky with permits and investigations as this campaign heated up.<\/p>\n
But Presler is a gay Republican who risks much as well.\u00a0 He presents a tremendous opportunity for Republicans to strress that we can oppose policies without opposing people.\u00a0 I don’t support gay marriage — I’m firmly against it, but then I don’t have to approve of it in order to admire Presler, and to be grateful to him for his hard work and his personal commitment to the Republican cause.\u00a0 He did more to get Trump elected than I did, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n
Much of the new support that put Trump over the top is already evaporating as the uncanny valley cabal recedes back into the shadows for a moment.\u00a0 This is just how people are.\u00a0 Some will stay, to be sure, but just as surely, many will not.\u00a0 We have an opportunity to solidify some of the undecideds who broke for Trump due to their (apparently belated) recognition of the greater threat.\u00a0 We need not go chasing them with pandering policies, however, and if we do, it won’t work anyway.\u00a0 We need to make them feel comfortable enough to stay by just being “who we are” and allowing them to do the same.<\/p>\n
It will serve for the Republican party to agree on a subset of things.\u00a0 We are not identitarians, and must not attempt to forge a pure party in which all agree on everything.\u00a0 The proper approach to diversity and intersectionality and all of that garbage is the time-tested individual liberty.\u00a0 If we are smart, we do not fall for celebrating diversity or any of that.\u00a0 Instead, the smart (and moral) move is to ignore<\/em> diversity.<\/p>\n Shifting gears and wrapping up, this Trump administration should focus on meaningful, massive changes which produce positive results well within four years.\u00a0 Auditing the Fed, outlawing public-sector unions, eliminating tax exemptions for unions themselves, wiping out the Department of Education, cutting taxes, and allowing markets to find equilibrium — these are undeniable concrete actions which will have positive effects.\u00a0 Critically, they improve everybody’s situation, without picking winners and losers.\u00a0 After all, the teachers and machinists will still have jobs, and if a union rep or school bureaucrat is any good, they should be able to find work anywhere.<\/p>\n That list can go on, and I’m sure there are pages upon pages of bullet points being haggled over for Day One announcement (and in some cases, execution) in the upcoming Trump administration.\u00a0 And all of it is work not yet done, fights not yet won.\u00a0 This victory is not the end of a fight, but the beginning.<\/p>\n As ever before battle, nothing will benefit us as much as some good sleep.\u00a0 Self-care should be the only last-minute priority before being measured, and we are about to be weighed out by the dram.<\/p>\n But Damn it feels good to be a Trumpster!<\/p>\n It’s good to feel happy and Heaven knows we’ve seen trouble, but let’s don’t fool ourselves — this is an opportunity, not a solution.<\/p>\n The Trump victory in 2024 is an amazing feat, and there will be much written about it.\u00a0 The campaign ran one Hell of an operation, and this is going to be a fascinating story when it comes out.\u00a0 Grassroots and big-name support along with great personnel picks and magnificent showings by the boss made this a campaign for the ages.<\/p>\n Part of what made this “mere competence” seem spectacular was the backdrop of doom and corruption.\u00a0 This 2024 victory is more than the defeat of a vapid woman and her ever more vapid running mate.\u00a0 The Marxist Alinskyite Obama project is still running a … Continue reading