I think we have witnessed a national
miracle in the past year. Against all odds, the Clinton machine, the
corrupt Democrat juggernaut, the media, what I used to call the Democrat-media
complex has been defeated. Donald Trump is president-elect. Our
so-called media has been undressed as collaborative frauds (Democrats with by
lines), the #NeverTrump media on the right as well. The “rigged system”
was beat.
My
take: We need to exhale and give thanks for this miracle, the alternative
we just dodged, meaning another four to eight years of the corrupt
Democrat machine along with the capitulating embarrassment the Republicans had
become, would have sealed our fate as a nation. If you don’t think we
were on our way to becoming a combination of old Europe, Venezuela, and England
rolled into one bad horror sequel, then you haven’t had your eyes open, you
haven’t been paying attention.
The
past weeks since the election have shown us one more horrifying set of
facts. The left is not going away. Not only are they not going away,
but they are more banal, more shrill, more dangerous, and more juvenile than
we’ve ever seen. As
that great sage, Captain Barbossa in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean so
aptly said: “You’d best start believing in ghost stories, Miss Turner.
Because now you’re in one.”
Yes, it feels as if we are in a sequel of
a bad horror film – one where our political opposition is using its entire
bag of tricks to delegitimize an election, delegitimize an entire
administration before it assumes power, along with delegitimizing every one of
us who oppose the left, every one of us who wants a better direction for this
country. They have been rioting for almost three weeks now, having
petulant hissy fits on Facebook, hiding and pouting in safe rooms on college
campuses, and putting forth the most awful lies and slanders in our
media. Make no mistake: they are pulling out the entire Alinsky playbook,
fomenting pressure, unrest, and relentlessly attacking everything the incoming
administration is doing in order to delegitimize them.
They have successfully destroyed two
presidents in my lifetime. Both Bush presidencies were done in by these
tactics (along with the Bushes’ own feckless response to them). The
tactics work, the left knows how to use its playbook, and we need to figure how
to keep defeating them. Now. Our job is not finished just because
Trump won and the Clinton machine was broken. Far from it. As I
write, they are salivating at the ways they can divide us, destroy us, and
regain their power. The media, in spite of making fools of themselves
with their partisan Democrat nature, are doubling down to help with this
destruction, and for the foreseeable future, we need to be vigilant, be smart,
and unify, or this great chance we have to reset our country’s direction will
be stillborn.
In the words of Ben Franklin: “We must,
indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we will all hang
separately.” To those on the right who were #NeverTrump, you need to
turn and apologize and get on board or just go away in shame never to return.
To those on the right who I call #AlmostNeverTrump, you need to
stop sniping, stop shooting your own side in the back. It’s unseemly and
does not help one bit. To those of you who need some hand-holding because
our president-elect is a bit rough on the edges, a bit uncouth, and imperfect,
get over yourselves. The time to be a Stockholm syndrome Republican is
gone, and there are important things to accomplish. To those Reagan
Democrats who showed up, welcome back. To those of us who supported
Trump, thought he would win, and got behind him early, it’s time to bury the
hatchet. It’s time to let all of the above factions of the center-right
back in, time to unify. There are important things to be done.
Without a modicum of unity we cannot
succeed in this great chance to turn our country away from the certain
destruction the left will bring. For the sake of our posterity, we need
to form a pact to unify for this next year – actually, the next
two. Eight years would be better, but let’s start with the first
two. We have an agenda to implement, and it’s a multi-front war for all
of us.
We have to stop the left from
delegitimizing our president, our movement, and literally our country.
There are some correct ways to upset the left and keep them off
balance – that’s for another article – but the best one is
simple, and that is to unify behind the Trump administration as best we can.
Is Trump going to make mistakes, and do
some things some of us won’t like? You betcha he is. He’s
human, he’s fallible, and he has his issues (as all of us do). He’s going
to also make mistakes. I’m not suggesting that we don’t continue to push
for a conservative agenda, or become thoughtless robots nodding our heads to
everything he does.
What I’m suggesting is that we put those things we
don’t care for aside during the next two years as the agenda we know is
needed so sorely for our country is put in place.
The undoing and replacement of Obamacare,
the reset of our economy and businesses, the Supreme Court nominees, the
repatriation of business money, the repairing of our immigration system, the
restoration of integrity in our federal agencies, the ongoing war against
Islamic extremism, the resetting as an energy-rich and energy-independent
nation, the restoration of our military, making our education system great
again, respecting the lives of the unborn. Yes, that’s a
mouthful – one that could have included many more items. It’s a
huge undertaking to do all these things simultaneously, yet it’s what we have
to do right now.
I’m suggesting that all of us on the right
remember who our opponents are and what they have become. They have
become power-mad, and more than slightly crazy. They must stay defeated
by our unity. That list of things I just mentioned, they’re all
important, and all necessary, and they have to begin to be implemented from day
one, which is today. It’s the Trump agenda, it’s our agenda, and it needs
to be given a chance to succeed. We have to do our part during this one
great opportunity to reset the direction of this country, and I urge all of us
to get to work. Do your part to make this happen. Think before
sniping; consider the consequences of not succeeding. Unify. Help.
Be thoughtfully involved. Fight the good fight. Help make America
great again.
Or we will assuredly hang separately.
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