Opinion | My Brother Is Doing the Trump Dance

I know that every year, some of you see this Thanksgiving column by my brother and think that it is actually I who am serving up this slab of red meat under the nom de plume of Kevin Dowd.I can assure you that Kevin is very real and, this year, very excited.

So, caveat emptor: Here is Kevin’s column.ROCKVILLE, Md.— My sister told me not to gloat.

But Democrats are eating a giant helping of crow since voters delivered a stunning victory to Donald Trump after spending months — years, really — claiming he was a racist, a wannabe dictator, Adolf Hitler and a threat to democracy.Somehow this racist dictator was able to assemble a new coalition of Black, Hispanic, middle-class and working-class voters.Maybe it’s because nobody wants to live in the kind of country that the Biden-Harris administration and its leftist bedfellows were creating.

Voters rejected the lax border measures championed by Joe Biden and the incompetent man supposedly in charge of homeland security, Alejandro Mayorkas.Turns out even people in blue America don’t like it when their groceries cost more and they feel less safe.I must admit I had misgivings about Trump and his election denial after Jan.

6, but Nancy Pelosi’s hijacking of the House’s special investigating committee shifted my perspective.There was no world in which Trump could have come out of that committee without being scarred.

So why did she have to overreach? It didn’t seem fair.And the ensuing lawfare waged against him only strengthened my support for him, and my feeling that there was nothing the opposition wouldn’t do to get him.The negativity spread to the mainstream media, where coverage of Trump was wildly slanted.

Even the owner of The Washington Post warned that the media was losing the trust of its audience.Seniors get their news from cable and young people get it from podcasts and social media.

Trump’s freewheeling three-hour interview with Joe Rogan helped him capture that vote.Kamala Harris evade...