I remember it like it was yesterday—I was on a plane home from the annual extended family get-together with my eldest daughter. It was just she and I, because the rest of my clan had had been disinvited due to the fact that we refused to subject them to untested and possibly dangerous mRNA experimental vaccines.
I—a businessman at the time, just trying to make a living—angrily sat in my plane seat attacking my laptop’s keyboard as my daughter looked on in confusion. “What’s wrong with this guy?” I could see her thinking. What was wrong was that I was infuriated by our leaders’ draconian response to COVID and California Governor Gavin Newsom’s duplicitous, hypocritical antics. "Rules for thee, not for me."
I did not want to subject her to my rageful thoughts, but I had to find an outlet, and so I did.
Sometimes angry rants actually mean something, and my lovely wife—who was more involved with the political world at the time than I was—shared my diatribe with others, and it was eventually published. That led to me ending up here, at RedState, and I’ve never been prouder to be part of such an organization—one driven by committed, wonderful people who love our country.
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And now, we’ve won. No, none of us can take full credit for Trump’s brilliant campaign, nor his message that spoke to so many people, but we were a part of it. Every lie the media told—we called out. Every unhinged Biden-Harris or Jean-Pierre falsehood, we nailed them on.
Managing editor Jennifer Van Laar exposed then-RNC Chairman Ronna McDaniel’s profligate—and ineffective—spending, which led to her ouster and new leadership being installed. We pointed out the deep flaws of Kamala Harris; this after we had mercilessly covered Joe Biden’s obvious mental decline and unhinged anger. Most of the media lied to you and the American public, but we did not.
The unvarnished truth:
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There were many times since that plane ride where I've assaulted my keyboard thinking, “Why are people not seeing this?! Why are they not understanding that Biden is a divisive, fear-mongering creep intent on destroying the American Dream?”
But it turns out they were seeing it. You were seeing it.
The repudiation is almost total. Despite the lying media’s claims that this race was too close to call, Trump won in an absolute blowout. The media’s meltdown has been a glorious thing to behold.
The Senate, and almost certainly the House, are back in Republican hands. Even in places like deep-blue California, the repudiation came down: woke prosecutors were given their walking papers, and looney-tune, soft-on-crime provisions were overhauled by the electorate.
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The Democrats still have a few things to point to—several extreme abortion measures were passed in some states—but it’s mostly been a complete cancellation of the progressive ideology by Americans from all across the spectrum.
In recent days I’ve had to (figuratively) pinch myself: did this really happen? Did the impossible dream so many of us had actually come to pass?
Yes, it did. And readers, and RedState writers, we played a part in it, and for that I feel incredibly blessed. It was Donald Trump who did this, who survived assassination attempts and endless lawfare and so much more, but it’s also the people who spoke up—in whatever big or small manner they were capable of—that brought this home.
We won. America has just repudiated progressivism in a loud and overwhelming matter.
But that doesn’t mean the fight is over. As we’ve reported, leftist governors are already sounding the war bells and promising to kneecap Trump at every opportunity.
We must keep battling the extremists. Keep your browser pointed to RedState, because we promise to continue the counterattack.
In the meantime, though—enjoy the victory! (And yes, gloat a little. We deserve it.)
