Trump’s victory heralds a historic counterrevolution

We are witnessing a historic counter-revolution following President Trump’s victory, very different from his first election in 2016.

The orthodox and the supposed scripted future are now suspect. And they will likely be dethroned – from the trivial to the existential.

Critics argue that Trump has no mandate to organize such a counter-revolution. They argue that he did not win 51 percent of the vote or achieve a Reaganesque landslide in the Electoral College.

Yet all the initiatives he put forward and based on opinion polls received public approval.

Despite being targeted by Democrats for years, a defiant Trump promised to put an end to the open border, illegal immigration, rising crime and rising prices. He pledged to destroy the government and its administrative state, end racial and gender identity politics, and restore deterrence abroad.

The people overwhelmingly wanted these messages, but were waiting for an unorthodox messenger to actually deliver them.

The Trump messenger assured weary citizens that they were not crazy.

Instead, they had good reason to be fed up with being talked down to by a press, an academic, bureaucratic and political elite that had never earned or deserved such self-proclaimed status.

It was the FBI, CIA and DOJ, not the large crowds at the rallies, that really spiraled out of control.

President Biden really was suffering from dementia, not those who said he was.

Criminals with guns are just as harmful to society as law-abiding citizens who are deprived of them.

It is not a crime to believe that there are two genders – not three, four or more. No one should be forced to buy an electric vehicle, unplug their natural gas heater, or submit to racial or gender indoctrination sessions.

Americans should speak their minds and write what they want without fear of being censored, blacklisted, ostracized, doxxed, shadowed—or jailed.

Campuses are not oases of tolerance, selfless research and free expression. Instead, they increasingly became expensive indoctrination centers that ripped up the Constitution and produced indebted students who know less — but are far more biased — than when they enrolled.

Trump and his MAGA appointees are promising to cut more than a trillion dollars from the annual federal budget, dissolving entire agencies.

Is it objectionable that an ever-growing government – ​​with a debt burden of $37 trillion and an annual deficit of almost $2 trillion – must continue to grow?

Trump promises to reform the Pentagon, putting an end to DEI Pentagon commissioners and revolving door corporate generalship.

He promises to hold the four-star class accountable for the catastrophe in Afghanistan and to reinstate soldiers driven out by draconian vaccination mandates or woke intolerance. Trump is considering changing the entire military procurement system.

Does the status quo object on the grounds that our military leadership has won our wars abroad?

Is the Pentagon currently flooded with eager recruits?

Does it stockpile a huge surplus of grenades, bombs and missiles?

Trump promises historic deportations of the 12 million who have devastated the southern border and rushed through without health or criminal justice checks.

Trump promises to save flooded social services and stop the crimes of illegal alien criminals.

Is that really worse than the Biden administration’s original importation of millions of illegal aliens, enabled by drug importation and sex trafficking cartels?

Who are to blame? Those who blatantly mock and break the law, or those who promise to uphold the law?

Trump says he will deter enemies without sinking America into “endless wars” — and that’s exactly what he did in his first four years in office.

Is the current alternative preferable to convincing enemies that there are few consequences for their aggression, sandbagging allies like Israel, or fueling the war in Ukraine without any plan to win or end it?

The Trump revolution is also cultural and social. Shared class interests have replaced race, ethnicity and gender chauvinism.

Athletes of all races will no longer take a knee in protest of America’s perceived systemic racism during the national anthem. Sometimes they celebrate their score by doing honorary Trump YMCA/golf swing dances on national television.

Hiring to help shape Trump’s counterrevolution isn’t always based on degrees, conventional resumes or long-term government service. Race and gender do not alone determine qualifications. Neither does class.

Common sense, a successful life outside of government and the desire to put an end to the current nonsense count as better conditions instead.

For Trump, party identification, titles and traditional prestige matter less because he is surrounded by an ideologically diverse cadre, including Elon Musk, Robert Kennedy Jr., Dana White, Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Rogan.

The country no longer needs to apologize incessantly for its past or present, but can move forward – with the understanding that it doesn’t have to be perfect to be better than all alternatives.

The time for flashing pronouns, renaming iconic landmarks, toppling statues, vandalizing the dead, destroying the campus library with impunity or spraying anti-Semitic poison is over.

So another name for Trump’s counterrevolution is a simple return to common sense.

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