Morning in America!
I would like to start this week by apologizing for not being around last week, clearly one of the most important weeks in American history. I needed to devote all my time to RedState.com. As you can imagine, it was a very busy week there. But the good part is we get to celebrate and, yes, gloat for at least one more week. Last week was so monumental, not just for the country but for Republicans and conservatism especially. Not only did Donald Trump win a return to the White House with 312 electoral votes, but he also won the popular vote by over 50 percent of the vote. That, my friends, is a mandate. Republicans also won the majority in the Senate by a resounding seven seats. As of this writing, they are also poised to keep the majority in the House as well. It is a profound butt-whoopin’.
The Democrats have been left looking like the high school nerd who just got pantsed in the hallway. They never saw it coming. And the reason they never saw it coming is because they are completely out of touch with and ignored the American people. When voters told them they were struggling with high food and gas prices, the high cost of housing, rampant crime in the streets, and illegal aliens taking their jobs, Democrats ignored them. When that didn’t work, they tried shaming voters into voting for Kamala Harris and her left-of-Bernie-Sanders Marxist policies. Barack Obama thought the best tactic would be lecturing black men on why they should not ask any questions and just keep voting Democrat. Donald Trump won roughly 20 percent of the black vote. When none of that seemed to work, they went back to the old tried and true “Trump is Hitler.” But none of it matters now. The Democrats will proceed with their finger-pointing and blaming of each other for what went so horribly wrong for them, and Republicans will go about cleaning up the mess left by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
I have to say that even though things looked good for Trump weeks before election day, I had a serious case of PTSD from 2020. I was too afraid to let myself think that Democrats did not have some last-minute shenanigans up their sleeve, and on Wednesday morning, I would be waking up to “President-elect Harris.” At that point, I would have gone back to bed and left a wake-up call for 2028. But no fear, with new sheriffs in town at the Republican National Committee in the forms of Michael Watley and Lara Trump, said shenanigans could not materialize. I went to bed around midnight on election night. We were still waiting for Pennsylvania to be called for Trump. I told my husband to come wake me up when that happened. I’m not sure if I fell asleep, but it seemed like it wasn’t too long before he came in to let me know it was over and Trump had won. I remember letting that thought run through my mind: Trump won. The one thing I do remember is taking a deep breath and finally exhaling.
I can’t be the only one who feels as if America has been given a second chance. We came so dangerously close to losing her. Now, with Donald Trump at the helm, it won’t take long to see lower prices at the grocery store and the gas pump. I imagine work on the Keystone XL Pipeline will restart fairly soon after Inauguration Day, employing thousands of union workers. America’s streets will soon be safer, not only because America’s police officers will be free to do their jobs, but many of the Soros-funded soft-on-crime District Attorneys across the nation were also shown the door on election day, and the U.S. southern border will finally be sealed shut, and those who are here illegally will be sent home.
Donald Trump has hit the ground running. He has been waiting for this time for four years. So far, he has appointed his campaign manager, Susie Wiles, as his Chief of Staff. She will be the first female Chief of Staff. Wait a minute, I thought Trump did not like strong, intelligent women around him. Also on board is Stephen Miller, who will be Deputy Chief of Staff for policy. Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), who is also a former Green Beret, will serve as National Security Advisor, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is being nominated for Secretary of State.
Make no mistake. The left thinks this is 2016 and that Donald Trump is coming to the White House with the same level of knowledge he had then of how Washington works. Once again, they could not be more wrong. By spending the entirety of Trump’s first term trying to destroy him, they inadvertently gave him a crash course in Swamp 101. I hope that Donald Trump will begin on Day One, removing every unelected agency bureaucrat that has entrenched themselves from the Obama administration forward. Pure and simple, he needs to surround himself with nothing but loyalists. Democrats and the left will continue to be sore losers. They will spend the next four years branding themselves “the resistance.” Has anyone figured out what exactly they are resisting? But none of that matters either. Many Americans believe that Donald Trump’s life was spared that awful day in Butler, Pennsylvania, for a reason. The reason is simple: he is the right man for this time.
Where I live, it rained nonstop the day before election day and election day itself. It was dark and gloomy. The day after election day, I opened my window blinds to find a wonderfully bright, sunny fall day. Coincidence? I don’t think so. Perhaps it was Ronald Reagan himself, the Gipper, smiling down on the country he loved, making sure we all knew that, once again, it was morning in America.