I was only 14 years old at the end of Jimmy Carter's presidency. I was busy going through that awful gawky stage of teendom where I was convinced that all my friends were prettier than me and no boys would ever like me. What I do remember is watching people sit in gas lines on TV and watching the news every night with my parents to see the latest news on the Iranian hostages, American citizens being held in a foreign country that Carter was too weak to bring home. In November of 1980, Americans said clearly that they were done with Carter and elected Ronald Reagan. America went on to have the greatest economic period in its history.
I can’t believe I’m saying this but—I’m glad they cheated Trump out of his win in the 2020 election. I’m glad they indicted him, and tried to bankrupt him because the big moves he’s making can only come from a man who’s been through hell and back & seen first hand the corruption.
— Danny Gokey (@dannygokey) February 3, 2025
Fast forward to 2024. More than a few people have asked the question: Has history repeated itself? It seems like a pretty justifiable question. The nation has just been through one of the most disastrous presidencies since Jimmy Carter. Joe Biden: inept, incompetent, weak, petty, and feckless in every way that matters. Just like the Carter years, Americans saw the economy tank, but also the invasion of millions of illegal immigrants, many of them violent criminals across the southern border, soaring crime rates, and America being viewed as weak abroad. Add to that a man who had no problem targeting his political opponents and enriching himself and his family at the hands of one of America's adversaries, and clearly sliding into dementia. Once again, Americans sent a very strong message and reelected Donald Trump.
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Many Americans will say that the nation needed to endure the "crisis of confidence" of Jimmy Carter to get to Ronald Reagan and "Morning Again in America." Do those same Americans now think that the country needed to get through four abysmal years of Joe Biden to get to Donald Trump? Not only are a lot of them saying that, but there is also the idea that Trump's loss, or whatever you prefer to call it, in 2020 was the best thing that could have happened.
On election night 2020, Democrats and the left were pretty sure they had rid themselves and the country of Donald Trump once and for all. Despite a roaring pre-COVID economy, a secure southern border, and respect abroad, Trump was somehow defeated by Biden. It cemented their idea that everything they did to him from the moment he came down the Trump Tower escalator in 2015, the spying, the Russia hoax, the impeachments, the hopelessly biased media, it all worked. They were convinced that Trump would go slinking off to one of his golf courses, never to be heard from again.
Trump’s running his presidency like he’s had four years to plan it!
— Shannon 🇺🇸I stand with America (@thewriterme) February 2, 2025
He’s sifting through law and adapted to the crazy Left’s strategy! He won’t be caught off guard. Every move he makes has a deep and meaningful purpose to save America.
Even after leaving office, Democrats tried to put a cherry on top of their rancid political milkshake by indicting Trump four times, from ridiculous things like a non-disclosure agreement, happily renamed by the media as a "hush-money" case to his handling of classified documents, to attempting to "overthrow" the 2020 election.
But while Joe Biden was busy wrecking the country, two things were happening. One, Americans were living through Biden wrecking the country, and two, Donald Trump never really went away. For anyone to be as successful in life as Donald Trump has been, you have to be a planner. And Democrats, in their zeal to be done with Trump, gave him four years to do just that. He undoubtedly planned many of the executive orders he issued in his first two weeks back in office; it is also safe to assume that he had a good idea of every person he nominated and appointed early on in those four years. He has had time to meet with economic, foreign, and domestic policy advisors. In short, in the last four years, he has had time to plan the next four, and it is a glorious thing to watch.
What if Trump had won in 2020? Would we have just had another four years of impeachments and lawfare? Would we still be stuck with Mike Pence? The consensus is that JD Vance is a definite upgrade. Would Trump have been able to uncover the rampant corruption that Democrats became so comfortable no longer trying to hide during the Biden administration? The Democrats inadvertently gave Donald Trump the best gift they could have ever given him: the gift of time. Because in 2024, Donald Trump is the strongest, most focused, and most determined version of himself that he might not have been in 2020. It was the never-ending trial by fire in those four years that made him who he is today, and ironically, he has the Democrats to thank.
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I have often compared the Democrats to Wile E. Coyote. They always think that this time, they are really going to "get" that rascally road-runner, otherwise known as Donald Trump, and then some form of the Acme Boulder Company comes along to spoil it for them. It doesn't seem like they are going to get tired of being flattened any time soon.
H/T @EndWokeness
— @Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 (@Chicago1Ray) February 4, 2025
Can I get a big round of applause 👏 for Donald J Trump for getting all of this done in his first two weeks..🔥. it's gonna be glorious pic.twitter.com/pr1JuFxu3h
