Donald Trump’s second (non-consecutive) term is just over three weeks old, yet from day one there was a feeling in the air that we haven’t felt in this country in at least four long years. There’s a sense of—dare I say it—“joy.” Actual joy, not manufactured fake giddiness like that generated from the plastic Kamala Harris campaign.
The illegal alien border crossings were virtually shut down overnight, even though the Biden/Mayorkas team told us that was virtually an impossible goal. The fixation that the octogenarian former president had on race, gender identity and sexuality is being removed from our federal government and our military, where it simply has no place. Competent people are being placed in Cabinet positions, people who will lead from the front instead of from behind as Obama so famously promised.
Hostages from Venezuela and Russia are coming home, and there is some hope for peace in the Russia-Ukraine war as at least Zelensky and Putin are negotiating with Trump. Not everything will go smoothly—I for one believe Hamas is like a cornered snake and will strike given any sort of chance, and I don’t know if we can ever get back the rest of the hostages because that terrorist organization is in my opinion evil incarnate, the devil come to life.
While Trump’s triumphs thus far have brought a new lightness of being to many of us who have watched the decline of our country with deep dismay, something else has been happening as well.
The new administration and their new way forward have revealed—even more, if that’s possible—just how corrupt and toxic the regime of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris et al. was, and just how much damage they’ve done to our republic.
Yes, we knew it was bad—we at RedState and others around the country reported relentlessly about Joe’s cognitive decline, his dereliction of duty at the southern border, his disastrous handling of the Afghanistan pullout—but it’s turning out to be even worse than we could have possibly imagined.
Hundreds of billions of our taxpayer dollars were thrown into the garbage—funding our enemies, spreading toxic leftist gender ideology across the globe to places that want nothing to do with it, paying for Green New Deal boondoggles that seem to fail more than Charlie Brown trying to kick the ball, and overseeing the transfer of tens of millions of dollars to pliant media outlets to spread the DNC message.
Not only will he go down as the worst president in our history, he will go down as a stain on the hopes and dreams of our Founding Fathers.
The Border
A good place to start is at our until very recently porous border, where the mealy-mouthed Mayorkas and the then-president promised us they were doing everything possible to manage the situation. Trump has in very short order proven that they were flat-out lying.
Fox News’ Bill Melugin has the receipts:
NEW: Per sources, Border Patrol recorded just 582 illegal crossings at the southern border yesterday, with not a single one of the nine sectors hitting 200.
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 27, 2025
I’ve never seen anything this low in all of my border coverage. The numbers were already flat/low in Biden’s final week,…
I’ve never seen anything this low in all of my border coverage. The numbers were already flat/low in Biden’s final week, bouncing between 1,200-1,400 illegal crossings daily, but the numbers have been falling off a cliff since Trump took office.
Where did the money go?
Bidenflation cripped the economy and made all our lives harder, reminding many of the Jimmy Carter malaise years. Biden signed the dishonestly titled Inflation Reduction Act, which was simply a Green New Deal in disguise that sent billions to pie-in-the-sky projects that never quite seemed to come to fruition.
Your taxpayer dollars at work: FCC Commish Savages 'Broadband Czar' Kamala: $42B and 'Not One Person Has Been Connected to the Internet'
But that’s only the tip of the iceberg—as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has been relentlessly exposing. The graft, corruption, and waste are simply mind-boggling. DOGE uncovers some new atrocity almost hourly—this is just the most recent as of this writing:
The Department of Education terminated grants to the four “Equity Assistance Centers” totaling $33M.
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 13, 2025
One provided “professional learning around critical race theory and racial literacy”. Video below: pic.twitter.com/yovAO4NXiN
There’s plenty more we could discuss—the politicization and corruption of our law enforcement institutions, for starters. Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director-nominee Kash Patel, if he is confirmed, will doubtless have much more on that in the upcoming months, but suffice it to say that even though I knew it was bad, I’m still astonished by how craven, dishonest and corrupt the previous administration is turning out to have been.
It never ends: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Finds the $20 Billion 'Gold Bars' the Biden Administration Tried to Jettison
They were hell-bent on destroying the United States of America, and they almost succeeded.
We should revel in the early triumphs of Trump and the return to American values, but things will inevitably get tougher as the left fights back. During those times, we must hold strong and remember what the progressives tried to do and what they will doubtless attempt to do again.
There was only one danger to Democracy, and it was Joe Biden and his acolytes, and we must forever prevent them from climbing to the pinnacles of power again, or the US of A will be no more.
His name will go down in history alongside the word “shame,” even if he long ago lost the ability to feel such an emotion.