In a Christmas season of renewal, Trumps boldness is bringing hopeful change

For Christians, Christmas is a holiday about hope and redemption. In some ways, that’s been the story of 2024, too.It’s impossible not to notice that in many quarters across the United States, things are returning to something more like normal. That’s a hopeful change. After Donald Trump was elected president for the first time in 2016, the response was, well, crazy.“Don’t normalize Trump” was the battle cry of Democrats, as they proceeded to de-normalize virtually every institution in America. Universities offered their students coloring books, emotional support dogs and therapy.Professors announced that Trump should be impeached before he even took office. (Apparently just being Donald Trump was a “high crime and misdemeanor” in their eyes.)Restaurants denied service to Trump appointees, the FBI and other branches of government cooked up a phony “Russian collusion” scandal and media organizations went berserk.Trump’s 2020 loss was followed by civil and criminal lawfare in both state and federal jurisdictions and the weaponization of the bureaucracy against him and his supporters.An FBI SWAT-style raid on his home featured agents rifling through Melania’s underwear and tossing bogus classified document covers around for staged photos. The Jan.6 committee in Congress was so fair that it shredded mountains of documents and tried to sneak legislation immunizing its members from investigation into last week’s spending bill.Meanwhile the press, which boosted Joe Biden as he campaigned from his basement, subjected Trump and his supporters to nonstop vilification, comparing him repeatedly to Hitler.The hysteria led to two assassination attempts — and after a brief pause, lasting about 15 minutes, they started calling him Hitler again.A lesser man would have folded under the pressure. Just imagine how fast Mitt Romney would have tucked his tail between his legs, apologized for existing and Stockholm-Syndromed himself into being a Democra...