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Never in U.S. history has a president-elect been welcomed as the real president before his January 20 inauguration. And never has the incumbent president so willingly surrendered his last two months in office and all but abdicated—to the relief of his nation and the rest of the world.
One reason so many are welcoming Trump’s return is the universally desperate hope that his election spelled an end to a collective madness at home and its ripples abroad during the last four years. And why not?
Nations overseas had never quite witnessed anything like the lethal August 2021 American flight from Afghanistan. That utter humiliation and impotence of the U.S. military likely signaled to Russia there would be no consequences if it invaded Ukraine—and it did; to Iran that it could now unleash Hamas and Hezbollah on Israel—and it did; and to China that it could daily threaten Taiwan and send a spy balloon across the United States with impunity—and it did.
The result was the current global chaos perhaps not seen since the late 1930s when a confused United States was similarly a bystander to the rise of bellicose regimes and wars. The Biden administration shrugged that the Red Sea, the Black Sea, the South China Sea, the Straits of Hormuz, and the Eastern Mediterranean Sea all became dangerous to the U.S. Navy and unsafe to world shipping.
A disparate group of nuclear and near-nuclear powers—Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran—are either at war with Western allies or threatening war with them. Their confidence was predicated on the assumption that the U.S. after 2020 was engaged in a Maoist-like cultural revolution that warred on its own security, energy, military, universities, and social unity—and would continue with a second Biden term.
The Biden-era cultural revolution has done great damage to the United States. The U.S. border was systematically and deliberately destroyed to allow some 10-12 million illegal entrants to pour into the U.S. without legality or background checks. Never has an outgoing administration spitefully sold taxpayer-purchased border wall material for pennies on the dollar—rather than see it used for the purposes for which it was purchased.
Never had the U.S. experienced such an immigrant surge. And never had more than 50 million, and over 15 percent of the resident American population been foreign-born.
Why did Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas erase the border? What madness and hate drove them to dismantle federal immigration law? Was it sheer nihilism? Or a desperate but calculated effort to alter American demography for political purposes?
For four years, the public, elected officials, and pundits have all warned that Joe Biden was dangerously cognitively challenged and indeed completely unfit to fulfill the duties of the presidency.
A long-suffering nation winced as Biden slurred his words, spoke in unintelligible sound bites, stood frozen and mute, screamed at and libeled half the country, tripped, fell, wandered aimlessly, became bewildered, and more or less proved a global embarrassment. All knew Biden was not able to run the country; yet none knew exactly who was actually in charge of America in his stead. The Obamas? Leftists like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, the Squad, Jill Biden, and the Biden staff?
Our allies worried that the usually resilient American president was now all but demented. Our enemies enjoyed these leaderless years of opportunity. And the left serially misled the public that the decrepit Biden, whom they feared in private was senile, was “dynamic,” “energic,” and “fit as a fiddle.”
Never has a president so deserved to be removed by the 25th Amendment or through impeachment and conviction. And never has even his inner circle finally but silently agreed as they left office, the very enablers who had done their political best to mask his dementia for four long years.
Rarely have the FBI, the CIA, the IRS, the Department of Justice, and the Pentagon become weaponized and so flagrantly and with impunity broken the law, abandoned their mission statements, and served political agendas rather than the American people. Not since the J. Edgar Hoover era has the FBI hierarchy serially lied under oath, stonewalled Congress, forged a court affidavit, or partnered with the media to suppress the news. Has the FBI ever raided an ex-president’s home, spied on parents at school board meetings, monitored Catholics, or tried to terrify and harass pro-life activists?
Never has the justice system, from local to state to national jurisdictions, so systematically and coordinately, sought to bankrupt, render inert, and jail an ex-president and current presidential candidate.
Never has a presidential family so brazenly profited by selling its influence to foreign interests. Never has it used the powers of the FBI and DOJ to cover up its crimes and to ensure the family filial bagman would be for years exempted by the DOJ and later pardoned by the president himself, the father of the family miscreant and privy to the family syndicate’s illegal activities.
Seldom has a president and his administration sought to fuel a veritable cultural revolution to change the fabric of the nation by institutionalizing a third, transexual gender, violating civil rights law, and systematically admitting, hiring, and promoting Americans on the basis of their race and gender.
Never since the Civil War era had local and state insurrectionist governments established 600 nullification zones, in which they vowed to break federal law and consider it null and void within their jurisdictions. Never have rioters looted, burned, killed, assaulted, and occupied large swaths of cities for over 120 days, and largely with impunity.
Never had the U.S. Treasury borrowed so much money so quickly and owed $37 in national debt—and been so intent on borrowing continuously nearly $2 trillion a year in annual deficits.
Never has a political party sought to systematically violate long-standing traditions, customs, and often the law itself to destroy a political opponent: hiring a foreign national to spread smears among the media and bureaucracies, impeaching a president twice, trying an ex-president in the Senate, seeking to remove a presidential candidate from 16 state ballots, using five different judicial jurisdictions to try an ex-president, and serially so defaming a candidate and ex-president as a dictator, fascist, and Nazi to create a climate that encouraged two near-miss assassination attempts on him.
In sum, for the last four years, the world has watched aghast as the United States lost its collective mind and became a radical Jacobin revolutionary society.
So why is there not a sense of almost ecstatic relief, not just among conservatives but even among Democrats, that the years of darkness and madness are ending?
The global public believes that the United States will again become lawful, have a secure border, return as a beacon of free-market economics, protect its allies, deter its enemies, win over its neutrals, return to the rule of law, restore the professionalism and prestige of its government agencies, check predatory nations abroad with a new deterrent military, and prepare to lead the world in energy production, exploration of space, and scientific and technology development.
Summed up, the welcomed counterrevolution is one of restoration—to dream again that nothing is impossible, and the dreary age of stasis, envy, cynicism, and nihilism is ending, replaced again by a world without limits. No one knows quite what is ahead, but all know that it is at least better already than the current nightmare.
We do indeed feel ecstatic relief and thank God for His deliverance. It’s miraculous.
“All knew Biden was not able to run the country; yet none knew exactly who was actually in charge of America in his stead.”
I can tell you who was running the country. Anyone who thought hiring Sam Brinton and putting Ketanji Brown Jackson on SCOTUS was a good idea
What’s most frightening that over 70 million Americans still voted for this Democrat party insanity and not for Trump.
This is still a major problem for us all.
Returning to the mental illness of Democrat insanity is only one election cycle away once again.
I’m sure more than half of that 70 million was the dead vote.
Florida is a purple state with more than average blacks, Latinos, gays, and pensioners, all stalwart democrat loyalists. DeSantis barely won the first time he ran.
Florida voted 60-40 for Trump.
As far as I’m concerned that was the actual split nationwide. They cheated wherever they could but this time around it wasn’t enough.
And yes, 40% of Americans are mentally ill. Accept it and work from there.
“Why did Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas erase the border?”
Easy answer. This was the final step in Obama’s fundamental transformation. Erase the current electorate with a new one. One that didn’t speak the language, care about the history of the country or the Constitution.
Then the real sickness began. Too many murders, too much crime, gang infiltration, too much public dysfunction. Did Obama and Co. really think normal Americans wouldn’t notice? Especially when Venezuela’s Tren de aragua started taking over apartment complexes, for example. The Colorado governor and all of the leftist mayors around the country are idiots.
Obama and his collection of Leftist traitors need to be arrested and tried for treason. Why is Biden handing out all of those “get out of jail free” pardons to his criminal buddies?
This isn’t over yet, as our federal agencies and cabinet departments are still packed to the gills with Obongo-commies who hate the American people, our God, our constitution and our way of life. And it isn’t going to be easy to root them out or govern with them still in place.
“Are the Years of Madness Ending?” For the short term, this is very likely. Unless the MAGA Movement & the GOP can put together follow-on Republican election victories over 3-4 more election cycles, the Democrat-communist big government cancer will return. It will take many years for US institutions to be sterilized, because it took decades to build this tyrannical monster.
I will wager that the Clinton Crime Family profited more from selling American Interests to foreign entities.
Can we please name this time of insanity, murderousness, open border killer drug importation, child trafficking (for what? sex trade? slave trade ?or body parts? We don’t know for sure ), weaponization of government, hate, smears, lies, etc etc? Why write this article and not give it the name it deserves: the third illegal and treasonous term of Barack Hussein Obama, a shady figure of questionable background, certainly muslim in his preferences – by his own words (or his ghostwriters’) and deeds, a vicious anti Semite, America hater, and childishly angry, racial divider and looter of the American public’s tax dollars.
The video of President Elect Donald Trump in Paris being welcomed by world leaders and heads of state is priceless. As they kiss the ring, they all look relieved and who can blame them. Possibly he can start bringing order back to chaos. It is going to be a lot of work.
We do need a return to quiet normalcy. How will Republicans in Congress manage to screw it all up?
I hesitate to be overoptimistic. Let’s take it one issue at a time, returning to the huddle after each play. The first quarter hasn’t even started yet. The game will be won by the play on the field, not the enthusiastic cheers of the crowd. Having said that, I would never discourage passionate support for the home team. Without that, victory never tastes as sweet.
There is no sense of relief because neither the Dems nor the GOP have even a shred of credibility when it comes to being fiscally responsible. How sick is it now? Trump successfully stole a play from the Dems’ playbook when he demonized DeSantis for suggesting something needed to be done to address the absurdly high unfunded liabilities. It was a desperate Trump who called the last deficit-financed with Fed purchases of the debt “measly.”
I’m glad Trump won but have little expectation the now-GOP dominated federal government will take the painful steps necessary to address the deficits and unfunded liabilities.
In fairness, the electorate might punish politicians who take the painful, but desperately needed actions.
I am 100% pro Trump but yours is a more likely scenario. The glut of remaining Rhinos have already circled their wagons with the Demo Ghouls against most of Trump’s cabinet (and “advisory’) choices. All while the current ‘Traitor-in-chief’s’ string pullers are furiously placing roadblocks in every conceivable area to preserve the death grip of those who are actually in control. This entire wretched cabal still in control of our country are desperate beyond comprehension and most certainly will do ANYTHING to stop it’s restoration!
It is difficult to feel joyful when half the Senate and House stand ready and willing to try to block anything Pres. Trump wants to do to help get America back to what it was. Their tribal approach to all issues does not give one real hope.
An intelligent man and regular correspondent, here VDH seems as stupid or duplicitous as the Democrats themselves. Consulting Ockham’s Razor we find the answer to why Democrats did what they did: the infection of Marxism in the Party since 1905 grew to a fever with the election of Obama, a Marxist, who promised “a fundamental transformation” of America and continued unabased in the Deep State through the term of Trump and was refreshed under the Obama puppet Biden. The purpose of every act was to weaken America and create a chaos in society out of which a Marxist Democrat dictatorship would arise.
VDH is maybe the most intelligent individual of letters anywhere. It’s up to this nation’s leadership team to put back on the correct path as others have said in this forum. I pray a take no prisoners approach will be used by the incoming administration. If not heaven help through the next few years!
The US, and the world, are getting a short reprieve. Jesus described the birth pangs, and the end, in Matthew 24. We are in the birth pangs before the Great Tribulation and the Antichrist. All that has occurred in the last 20 30 years has been preparing people and nations to willingly submit to one world leader. People need to get right with God before events unfold.
The truth that everyone is missing is that America is the “hold-out” for the Globalist Agenda. 2030… you will own nothing and be happy. I love my country and my real President Trump, but I believe that Klaus Schwab has a different, deeply dark purpose for America. Her demise. The One World government IS coming; I am only surprised that we are still here. Time will tell, but the Globalist cabal will not be deterred by one more Trump administration.
I am suspect of it all… it’s too quiet.