I hear the pundits on the interwebs. I witness the often-vicious back-and-forth battles on social media. I see commentators whom I once respected descend into antisemitism and conspiracy theories.
Donald Trump has not completely vanquished the Deep State, they say, and his potential deal with Iran is a disaster that shows Operation Epic Fury accomplished nothing. Gas prices are up, which means that his economy is a fraud, and activist judges keep jumping in off the third rope to neuter his agenda, which proves he’s impotent. Detailed House investigative committee hearings that implicate high-ranking officials are often shrugged off as “strongly-worded letters,” with critics saying that they are pointless and that only hard-core consequences are noteworthy.
Of course, in reality, the wheels of justice move slowly, and accountability takes time, but that doesn’t matter to these fair-weather friends. They want heads to (figuratively) roll yesterday, and anything short of that immediate gratification is a failure.
We watch in fury as recalcitrant Senate Republicans refuse to nuke the antiquated filibuster and get things done — knowing full well that the Democrats will make that move immediately if they regain power. I agree — there are simply too many wimpy GOPers who won’t stand up and do what’s needed.
I understand the frustration, but the old adage applies: “Laws are like sausages — it’s better not to see them being made.”
My overall takeaway is different: I don’t think that any of this proves that Donald Trump is a failure; I think it proves how dangerous a world he’s dealing with. His enemies are legion: the mainstream media, the feckless globalist Europeans, Iran, the communist Cubans, the Deep State, the now hard-core extremist Democrat party, and the rising scourge of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Has he delivered on every single promise he’s made? Of course not. Has he magically solved every single geopolitical problem in just a few short months? Nope.
But I worry that for too many conservatives, they have forgotten where we were just 16 months ago. We had a decrepit president in Joe Biden, an inept wannabe successor who couldn’t string a sentence together, a group of rabid Democrat congresscritters who were hell-bent on turning our country into a woke socialist gender-race experiment that would rip our nation into a sad replica of the greatness it once was, a Defense Department War Department that seemingly was focused on us losing as much as possible, a Department of Justice regime that was more obsessed with punishing regular American citizens than it was on combatting criminals, and an autopen-run White House that let tens of millions of unvetted illegal aliens onto our shores.
Not to mention a COVID dictatorship that forced people to take shots that to this day raise questions about their dangerous side effects, and which caused countless people to be fired, have their careers ruined, and their family relationships destroyed.
Those days may be gone for the time being, but we cannot forget.
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Trump is just a human being, an imperfect one, just as every human being in the annals of history has been. Do I like every tweet, every utterance? No. Am I a blindly allegiant cultist? Also no. But do I believe we are in almost every measure of life better off than we were just a short time ago? Absolutely yes.
And I feel that too many have forgotten that in the day-to-day sausage-making of politics.
This is not the time for weak knees. With the midterms coming up, the future of our republic is arguably at stake — and we saw what that was like during the Biden-Harris catastrophe. Sky-high interest rates, people promoted to top jobs based on their skin color or gender identity, not on their merit, and an “America sucks” message broadcast out to the world.
We may have dodged a bullet in November 2024, just as Donald Trump did in July of that same year in Butler, Pennsylvania, but we have certainly not won the war. The Pelosis, Schumers, Hakeems, Newsoms, AOCs, Mamdanis, and their ilk are all still circling, waiting for their chance to strike and turn this country into their wokefest, socialist nightmare.
Think that’s too extreme? Come visit Karen Bass’ dystopian Los Angeles, where entire neighborhoods were burnt down to the ground because of incompetence, or other areas of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s California, where you need poop maps just to navigate the terrain and protect your shoes. This is what they want for you, and they’re determined to deliver that dark vision to your neck of the woods.
If it weren’t for the president, we certainly wouldn’t live in a climate where LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt and CA gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton even have a chance. Looking to end the communist nightmare in Cuba and confronting the terrorist threat of Iran wouldn’t even be in our thoughts. Joe Biden certainly wasn’t going to do anything.
So while a whole lot of bystanders are busy twisting their knickers, the reality is that we live in an entirely different world than we did less than a year and a half ago. Those who forget to appreciate that fact do so at their own peril.
