The 45th President of the United States has become the 47th President of the United States – a political event that has not been seen since 1892, when the 22nd President of the United States, Democrat Grover Cleveland, became the 24th President – having been defeated for a second consecutive term by Republican Benjamin Harrison in1888.
While Cleveland’s comeback was unique and impressive, it pales compared to the comeback of President Trump — a political feat that was just short of impossible. In 2016, his victories in the Republican primaries were stunning — and his victory in the General Election was shocking to supporters, political adversaries, pollsters and pundits alike.
A lot has been said about the breaking of norms – almost exclusively directed at Trump as a criticism. What has not been included in that conversation is the biggest breaking of norms in modern political history – and that was the left’s Resistance Movement that surfaced within days of Trump’s election. There was no traditional presidential honeymoon.
Fueled by the venom of their own anger and bitterness, a large segment of Trump’s political opponents coagulated into a toxic movement of obsessive and irrational hatred. The movement was based on breaking traditional norms. Their stated demand was that Trump should never be “normalized”. He must never be treated with respect. He must be mercilessly crushed – politically, socially, personally.
Calls for his impeachment and removal from office were part of the Resistance Movement’s never-Trump strategy before he was Inaugurated. The attacks on Trump and Trump supporters were the mainstay of Democrat rhetoric for the past eight years. It would be hard to find any past President who was so viscously and so consistently attacked for so many things for so many years.
None of it worked, and Trump has culminated the most impressive comeback in American history. And if you think the perma-pissed Trump-hating left is beyond being shocked and crazed. … you ain’t seen nothing yet.
In its first days, the Trump administration will be rolling out hundreds of Executive Orders. The Senate will be approving presidential appointments at a record pace. And whatever Senate Democrats do to slow down or thwart the process will only make them look like obstructionists. Trump has the public behind him. He knows it. Not so sure the Democrats know it. They have not so far.
The Cabinet members and senior officials already know what they will do in terms of policies and programs. The entrenched political establishment – deep state or whatever you call it – will be reeling. Budgets cut. Reductions in staffing. Deregulation. Tax cuts. Green energy programs will be terminated – while things like school choice will spread. Sanctuary Cities will disappear as the deportation of the bad hombres surges. The border will be locked down.
It will be an everything, everywhere all the time implementation strategy. In short, the ongoing Trump Resistance Movement does not have enough people … enough time … nor enough resources to address the tsunami of policy changes that will be flowing out of Washinton over the course of the next two years.
What we will be getting from the left is more hair-on-fire hysteria. They will continue their absurd Chicken Little warnings that democracy’s sky is falling. Former President Biden (I like the sound of that) has given them a new rallying mantra – a fictional emerging oligarchy. (They just cannot give up their absurd end of democracy narrative).
There is always a special focus on the first100 days of a new presidential term in office. This time, it promises to be the most dramatic (or traumatic if you are a member of the Trump-hating Resistance Movement) since the election of Abraham Lincoln.
This rollercoaster is just coming to the top of the first rise. Hang on!
So, there ‘tis.
