We are so back, baby.
Kamala Harris’s losing campaign for president was infamous for its focus on vibe, a kind of inchoate feeling of joy that supposedly swept the nation and was supposed to sweep her into office. We all saw how that turned out. But now, there’s a new vibe in town, and you can feel it. The victory of Donald Trump and the astonishing popularity of his transition is only part of it. There’s more going on here. We may have just turned a corner on the road to civilization’s collapse into woke commie ruin.
Let’s not get too full of ourselves, though. Overseas, Great Britain is no longer great, having abandoned its history of free speech to arrest people for unapproved tweets even as it empowers its bureaucracy to impose death upon those the bureaucrats deem unworthy of life, naturally all in the name of compassion. Here at home, the left seems completely unwilling and/or unable to confront why we so completely rejected it. It will continue to fight against normality and decency. It will continue to struggle against freedom and prosperity. But it is losing.
It’s been clear for a while that the best strategy for Trump to continue his movement beyond the end of his remaining term is to re-create the feel of the 1980s through an economic boom, internal security, and international strength. Astonishingly, he is already managing to do that with just under two months to go until the inauguration. Moreover, society seems to be coming out of its collective insanity, rejecting the bizarre perversions and weirdness of wokeness. We may be at the dawn of a remarkable new era in American history. If only we could get some new music to match those amazing Reagan-era chart-toppers…
The polls are in. People overwhelmingly support Donald Trump’s transition. His cabinet reflects his coalition, not the bizarre block-checking that the leftists do where there’s one slot, and only one slot, set aside for a differently-abled non-binary Māori Zoroastrian. If you gave Donald Trump a chance and you aren’t a conservative like most of us are, you’re still seeing your views reflected in the Trump cabinet. That’s how you build and maintain a coalition. That’s how you get shockingly high poll numbers for a guy who was so controversial up until about last week.
In stark contrast to the chaos of the first few weeks of his first administration, the first few weeks of the second Trump administration will be marked by calculation, coherence, and, above all, calmness. Every once in a while, Donald Trump still tweets something hilarious that freaks out the squares, like about the “leftist lunatics” at Thanksgiving, but we’re not getting the daily fights with Rosie O’Donnell that characterized last time. There are no buffoons like Scaramucci or Omarosa wandering about. Trump is picking his cabinet, not having it picked for him by the establishment for its own ends. This is a serious Trump. This is a focused Trump. And this is an effective Trump.
The economy is already reflecting the optimism of the coming Trump agenda. His Treasury secretary choice has been widely praised. The stock market is hitting record highs. Despite the lingering effects of inflation, holiday spending seems to be up. And people are optimistic that DOGE, under the guidance of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, will actually cut the swollen federal budget and bureaucracy. Hopefully, the House and the Senate will be able to get their acts together, but incoming Senate Appropriations Committee chairwoman Susan Collins seems to understand pretty clearly that Job One is getting the tax cuts made permanent. That was the key to Reagan’s economic success. --->READ MORE HERE
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