It can be easy to take for granted where we are as a nation, under a second Trump presidency.
It is important to put things into perspective, reminding ourselves that so much had to go right in order to arrive at this moment.
A head turn just a few millimeters and we would be living under a very different timeline.
Perhaps a slightly smarter (albeit just as evil) litigation strategy on part of the Democrats, and Donald Trump – and likely thousands of his supporters as well – would be in a straitjacket in Riker’s Island, rather than a resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
While the last year’s news cycle has had its ups and downs, what is inarguable is how much better off the United States is today compared to just two President’s days ago.
At that time, under the illegitimate Biden regime, the United States was on the precipice of disaster – unadulterated disaster.
Internal domestic politics, exacerbated by predatory policies out of Washington, had reached a boiling point. Inflation was reaching forty- and fifty-year highs.
The southern border was wide open, flooding millions of illegals into the domestic interior.
They brought over drugs, diseases, and mayhem, plunging the entire country into fear, uncertainty, and desperation.
Overseas, Europe was waging an all-out land war against Putin, a sharp break from the détente brokered in President Trump’s first term.
This land war, escalating by the day, was the first to hit European shores since the last bomb was dropped in World War II.
The reckless trajectory of the conflict was a harbinger for even worse things to come, and the now-present risk that Europe, and the world, would plunge into a global cataclysm.
In the Middle East, tensions once again reached an unprecedented breaking point – remarkable given the near-complete abeyance of such conflicts because of smart, strategic diplomacy in the President’s first term.
The Gaza strip became a flashpoint for Middle Eastern dynamics generally, which reached their most unstable point in years, at least since the Arab Spring crisis under Obama.
Allies in the region, centered around Israel, faced greater danger by rising nuclear powers, like Iran, and stateless terrorist organizations, like Hamas and Isis (which made a resurgence after being essentially wiped off the map by Trump in his first administration), rivaling no other point in living memory.
Meanwhile, on the Eastern front, China continued to make aggressive territorial incursions. American weakness had far-reaching implications, inspiring both China and Russia to make ambitious hegemonic power-grabs in Taiwan and Crimea, respectively.
China, rather than being seen as regional adversary, began spreading its wings globally – belligerently penetrating global supply chains in continents as far-flung as Africa, with its vast mineral reserves, and South America and its crown jewel, Venezuela, with its substantial oil supply.
This portended a very ominous scenario for America. Weakened by the one-two punch of neglectful domestic policies paired with utterly reckless foreign entanglements, the United States was brought to its knees.
Just two years ago, if things went south, it did not look like America would live to see its 250th birthday, at least in one piece. Polarization made the business of politics near-impossible, while sowing cynicism and conspiracy among the body politic, which began seeing America’s ruling class as illegitimate occupiers, not the responsible stewards the Framers and Constitution envisioned of its political leaders.
Speaking of the Constitution, under Biden that document was shred to smithereens. The law of the land became an afterthought, subordinated to the petty and imbecilic whims of the illegitimate occupiers who governed the masses with shameless impunity.
Along the way, those occupiers sullied the Constitution, and made a mockery of the rule of law by trampling on the due process and free speech rights of the 45th and soon-to-be 47th process, rendering America’s legal system into a Barnum and Bailey sideshow.
But they went further: also desecrating our institutions. Most harrowingly, they started to round up law-abiding Americans who peacefully exercised their right to assemble, an unassailable right under the First Amendment, to protest election corruption.
Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, was involved in too many money laundering schemes to count, using the White House as his own personal den of debauchery – replete with the cocaine and hookers.
He did this as his father weaponized the Justice Department and FBI – and even, at one point, the IRS – turning his agents from crimefighting to American hunting, lambasting anyone who subscribed to President Trump’s America First agenda as “domestic terrorists,” and sending out his gestapo to wrangle devout Catholics at mass or parents who protested transgender curriculum in elementary schools.
While Hillary Clinton may have admonished half of the country (a half that became two thirds between 2016 and 2024 as more Americans woke up and joined the Trump Train) as a “basket of deplorables,” under Biden those deeply disrespectful words became manifested in real world policy, policy that directly harmed the lives of hundreds of millions of Americans.
The elections were rigged, and those who oversaw them were the crookest of the crooked. Slogans like “the Great Reset” and “the Green New Deal” were thinly-veiled attempts by the government to flex its autocratic muscles and render the country into permanent destitution.
The COVID lockdowns, rather than being seen as the unprecedented tyrannical action they were, were celebrated – while violent agitators in Antifa, BLM, and eventually, the Palestinian protestors – were, at most, given a slap on the wrist, despite being some of this country’s most culpable and committed lawbreakers.
It is easy to see how these insane policies and acts, which increasingly became the status quo under Biden, would have sunk the nation if allowed to persist for much longer.
2024 truly was a miracle election, and thankfully Donald Trump, with his preternatural resilience and unflagging discipline, made it to the finish line, and carried out the greatest comeback in American political history – indeed, perhaps the greatest comeback in the history of politics.
That feat cannot possibly be overstated. The victory was important because it signified that the United States still had a life pulse, and the nations’ principles – however diluted they got to be under Biden and Obama – still provided enough of a survival mechanism to keep this battered ol’ land, cobbled together a quarter millennium ago in nascent townships like Boston and Philadelphia, alive.
It is the American president who has always manifested America’s vigor and dreams most acutely, for both ourselves and as a projection to the world.
It is the American president who is the most precise embodiment, and living testimony, of those quarter-millennium words, scribbled on parchment, in places like Boston and Philadelphia.
The American president matters because he speaks deeply about who we are as a nation, and where we aspire to go.
Donald Trump’s historic election victories, against all odds, done multiple times, with each victory building on the last, makes an unmistakable statement about America’s overall destiny, that it indeed is a nation worth fighting for, and offered a signal of hope that, through trial and tribulation, might indeed endure.
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