Another name for the Trump revolution: Return to sanity
We are witnessing a historic counterrevolution after Donald Trump’s victory, far different from his first election in 2016.The orthodox and the supposed scripted future are now suspect.And they are likely to be dethroned — from the trivial to the existential.Critics claim Trump has no mandate to stage such a counterrevolution.
They argue that he did not win 51% of the popular vote or achieve a Reaganesque landslide in the Electoral College.Yet all the initiatives he advanced and won on polled landslide public approval.Despite being the target of Democrat lawfare for years, a defiant Trump promised to end an open border, massive illegal immigration, rising crime and soaring prices.He pledged to slash government and its administrative state, terminate racial and gender identity politics and restore deterrence abroad.The people overwhelmingly wanted those messages but were waiting for an unorthodox messenger who would actually deliver them.The Trump messenger reassured weary citizens they were not crazy.Instead, they had good cause to be sick of being talked down to by a media, academic, bureaucratic and political elite that never earned nor deserved such self-appointed status.The FBI, the CIA and the Department of Justice, not the massive crowds at rallies, were the ones truly out of control.President Biden was really suffering from dementia, not those who said he was.It is not a thought crime to believe there are two sexes — not three or four or more.No one should be forced to buy an electric vehicle, disconnect their natural gas stove or submit to racial or gender indoctrination sessions.Americans should speak their minds and write what they wish without worry of being censored, blacklisted, ostracized, doxed, shadow-banned — or jailed.Campuses are not oases of tolerance, disinterested inquiry and free expression.
They instead increasingly became overpriced indoctrination centers that shred the Constitution and graduate indebted students who know less — ...