Donald Trump's victory was a victory for conservatism - secure borders, a strong military, a muscular foreign policy, energy independence, smaller and less intrusive government, private enterprise, and individualism.
It was also an out-and-out rejection of the fanciful, ideas of gender reallocation, racial idolatry, historical revisionism, and neo-socialist economics.
More than all that, the victory meant a radical change in culture. As much as liberal Democrats claimed an Onward Christian Soldiers righteous militancy, they were nothing but attack dogs sic'd on the former President. There was never any serious radicalism, visionary promise, or scintilla of reason, only a barking, rabid hysteria.
Now that the howling and yapping are over, Donald Trump is poised to take the Presidency again, and the Left has been shown to be an empty kennel, bits and pieces of fur and dried saliva on the walls, but attack dogs fled and gone. The Left ran on rage and rabidity, and now, licking their wounds, flailing to find some voice, some coherence, some gumption, could not.
What the Left never understood was the coming cultural change. Conservative policies are nothing compared to the revolutionary individualism of the newcomers. Not only did Trumpists run against the progressive cliques and claques with their strange, medieval ideas and witch trial mentality, but vowed to uproot them, slash and burn the culture of received wisdom, cant, and assumed right.
The Right vowed to replace the race-gender-ethnicity window dressing of the Left - propped up hires who were to show the country what America looks like and needed no talent, or experience to to do so; and the results of that failed experiment showed on November 5th.
The charade of assumption will go on the first day of the new Administration, and gone will be the banal idealism of tedious thinkers. 'You ain't seen nothin' yet' was the Right's meme, war cry, and ethos.
At the center of the this upheaval, this serious attempt to ransack the government buildings up and down Independence Avenue, laying waste to the insane number of cubicles, partitions, useless meeting rooms, and tube lights, is the new Department of Government Efficiency, run by two Genghis Khans whose brief is to encourage efficiency by ridding government of the thousands of unneeded departments, divisions, and sections that are clogging up the productive private pipelines of the economy. Theirs will be a no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners approach to reforming government.
The White House initiates political legislation, Congress passes it into law, but then the great, voracious bureaucracies swallow it and regurgitate it into a messy bolus, a squishy amorphous thing with so many self-serving caveats and codicils, it does nothing but preserve the bureaucrats who created it.
If the bureaucracy goes, then restrictive regulations go, self-perpetuating reasons for obstructing progress go, and the private decks are cleared for running. There is nothing more central to the Right's vision than the lock, stock, and barrel elimination of the bureaucracy. And who better to oversee it than Elon Musk who started with nothing, but on the basis of brains, ability, and ambition became the world's richest man, an intellectual influencer, an inventor-creator, a genius.
The other Cabinet picks are in-your-face, get-over-it appointments. Robert Kennedy, Jr.? A wild-eyed demi-conspiracy theorist brewing old liberal ideas with Robber Baron economics and Wild West cattle drives for Secretary of Health and Human Welfare? Trump could have chosen a doctor, a health professional, a settled researcher; but he chose a wild man, an anti-vaxxer crazy for the job. With all organs of power in Republican hands, why not? Give the losers a dose of their own medicine, let 'em see who's boss, and maybe this wingnut might find some gold in the hills. At the very least, if there is another epidemic, it won't be like the COVID lockdown horror show.
And appointments with pending court cases? Phooey, let the Democrats fester and fume at the indignity while Trump's Senate approves one rock-ribbed conservative appointment after another. Cabinet appointments have never had to have had technical experience - that's what aides are for. The Secretary of Defense does not have go know what makes a missile fire - he only authorizes it. The Secretary of State does not have to be a Princeton scholar whose has parsed Middle East politics - he only has to authorize a continued strong support of Israel, a firm No to Iran, an enough-is-enough to Zelensky, and an accommodation with China.
No more pussy-footing - a clear, unequivocal America-first energy, economic, and foreign policy. No more government mandates to push unwanted electric vehicles on consumers, no more 'environmentally friendly' risk-averse tip-toeing around drilling, transport, and refinery. And last but not least, no more coddling, mothering, shielding, and protecting against perceived insult or injury. The coddle culture along with the cancel culture will go into the trash heap.
No President has come to office with such a revolutionary agenda. Not only will progressives go scurrying for the exits, but the place they left behind will be unrecognizable should they ever think of returning. No Country For Old Progressives, not for a long, long time.
Oh yes, and the solidly white lineup on the dais? No apologies there. 'Stick To Your Own Kind' has been humanity's mantra since the Paleolithic - Trump's was not a black world, and from that white world come loyalists, men and women who will fulfill his vision and carry out his agenda.
'Look like America'? Who says? Nothing but fanciful, low-grade presumptions. Back to American values means loyalty, commitment, passion, and eagerness. At the same time a genius cluster, Musk and Ramaswamy, is at the very heart of conservative reform - a good balance and a perfect storm.
Hold on to your hats - there will be a lot of demolition noise and dust in the next four years. Not for the faint of heart; but the pusillanimous have already run for the exits.
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