It's over, a win far greater and more impressive than anyone on either side expected. The polls were wrong yet again and failed to account for the millions of Americans who, badgered, hectored, and intimidated by the Left hedged when asked, but voted their convictions.
The almost ten years of howling, vicious, personal attacks on the President, the complicity of the media, and the reflexive knee-jerk condemnation of the political clergy kept conservatives under wraps, closeted, but never doubtful; but when it was time to vote, vote they did in record numbers to reverse the damaging, corrosive, hateful programs and policies of the Left.
The coastal elites assumed in the failed Hillary campaign and now in the even more self-righteous, empty one of Kamala Harris, that victory was a foregone conclusion. Partisans believed their own cant and received wisdom: a) Trump is evil, a spawn of the Devil, Hitler reincarnate; and b) there is no way that a black woman can possibly lose anything.
These arrogant, supercilious assumptions were a sign of political myopia at best and a deep-seated antipathy and shameless scorn, for the American working class. Rubes, crackers, brainless gun-racked bass boat noodlers, Bible-thumping intellectual throwbacks, they were called; and fed up, riled up, and ready to act, they shouted in unison, 'BASTA!', and the rest is history.
Will the Left finally admit defeat? Admit that they, in their political insularity, noxious dismissal of middle America, and self-righteous claims, were wrong?
Hardly. As of this writing Harris is still in hiding, not a peep, not one word of civility, respect, or modesty let alone congratulations which would be a sign of capitulation to Trump Nazi terror. Things were not supposed to work out this way. I was supposed to be elected. I was supposed to be the first woman, a black one at that, to sit in the Oval Office. There must be something I can do. Think, Kamala, think!!!
As for those Democrats who were pulled from behind the arras to comment, nothing has changed. America is a racist, homophobic, slanderously bigoted country and the only difference between yesterday and today is that voters admitted it. 'Our fight is just beginning', said a Harris supporter in Scranton. 'We must never let down our guard against the viral hate, the bilious spew of genocidal lust, the....' Here the woman spluttered with anger...'the Hitlerian jackbooted, brown-shirted, SS thugs who will put all black and brown people in a new, American Auschwitz...'
The reporter from MSNBC nodded and frowned with recognition. A dark day for America, her network moaned; but half the country is still progressive in spirit, and We Shall Overcome.
The howls and rancid commentary have just begin. No navel-gazing among this crew. Self-righteousness is not so easily tempered. When one has bet one's whole being on the election, and gone to bed with smiles and a warm feeling and then awakened not just to a hair's breadth defeat but a gob-stopping blowout is an existential moment. Everything in a progressive's mind, body, and spirit knew, simply knew that right would prevail, the Demon would once again be cast out, and sweetness and light would prevail in a Utopian age.
The miscalculation was millennial. They should have seen it coming, but turned away. It cannot possibly happen, they said, never in a million years; and there he was again, smiling, joking, bantering as if the election were a round of golf at Mar A Lago and the victory speech a round of drinks. How could he!! And not a black person in sight on the dais, all lily white people, smug, blonde, and impossibly beautiful, goddamn them!
Worse yet, not only did Democrats lose the Presidency, they lost both the Senate and the House of Representatives. Now, with Republican control of all branches of legislative government and perhaps most importantly the Supreme Court, the cleansing of the Augean Stables will soon begin. Trump will make good on his promises to roll back insidiously destructive gender-twisting, deforming policies, close the doors to the southern border and open them only to legal entries; end the war in Ukraine and stand solidly and immovably side by side with Israel against Palestinian and Iranian thugs; lower taxes, lighten regulation and stop the Stalinist oppression of the American energy industry.
And the Senate and House will approve, ratify, and endorse every last one of President Trump's policies. The Left will lick its wounds, cavil and bitch, stand up and shout, but will be unheard - the new political supernumeraries, the new 'insignificants', time to pay up for the last four years of unbridled hatred and fantasy.
America has spoken. The working class, for so long disparaged and dismissed is ascendant. Populism - not only the rule of the people but the ethos of popular rule - has returned.
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