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Donald Trump won the 2024 election in part because the Left’s hysterical style of attacking Trump no longer worked.
After a decade of this unhinged furor, it proved worthless in winning public support — and for two simple reasons.
One, after years of Russian collusion hoaxes, the laptop disinformation farce, and the warped lies about the “suckers” and “fine people on both sides” — the shrill Left became predictable.
So, the bored public began tuning them out, switching channels, hitting the mute button, and pulling the plug.
Like the deleterious effects of inflation that eventually render a currency worthless, nonstop hectoring, hysterics, pontification, and distortion finally made all such criticisms of Trump mostly as valueless as 1930s German marks.
Second, the wearied public never heard reasoned counterarguments from the likes of a Rachel Maddow. Instead, on spec, she kept mouthing, “The walls are closing in” on Trump.
Former President Joe Biden did not explain why his open border was a better idea than Trump’s closed one. He preferred mumbling about “semi-fascists!” and the “ultra-MAGA!”
The Never Trumpers did not critique the Trump deficits. Instead, they hammered away that Trump was Hitler, or Mussolini, or Putin — or just a dangerous dictator or autocrat.
Angry retired generals never demonstrated why Trump was, in their view, an existential threat to democracy. Instead, they shouted nonstop in op-eds and interviews that he was a fascist, Nazi-like, no different from the guards at Auschwitz, a pathological liar, and should be summarily removed.
Worn-out voters began to understand that these psychodramas were substitutes for substantive criticism or occasions for legitimate debate.
Indeed, the exhausted public finally concluded that the hysterics increased in direct proportion to the poverty of the charges.
So, what did 10 years of such derangement achieve for the Left?
Trump now has control of the White House and both houses of Congress operate under Republican majorities.
The Supreme Court is mostly conservative. Almost all of Trump’s issues — the border, immigration, the economy, foreign policy, and crime — poll well over 50 percent.
No matter, the Left is still hammering away at the trivial and irrelevant — and remains paralyzed in furor and hysterics.
When Snoop Dogg performed for the Trump inauguration, Ann Navarro of The View, in racist fashion, called the African-American rapper “a trained seal.”
When Pete Hegseth went before the Senate for confirmation as Secretary of Defense nominee, Democrats asked almost nothing about nuclear strategy, recruitment shortfalls, or a paucity of artillery shells.
Instead, what followed were animated gotcha lectures about Hegseth’s prior adultery.
No sooner had Hegseth finished his successful audit than the Left rounded up his former sister-in-law, now divorced from his brother.
A hardcore Democrat, she confessed she wanted his nomination rejected. She further claimed — with no evidence — that she had “heard” from his ex-wife that Hegseth was a wife-beater.
His former wife immediately denied the charges. She pointed to their prior divorce settlement that recorded neither had ever lodged such a complaint against the other.
Next, the Left went after Elon Musk. Recently, he had finished an address by touching his heart and then extending his arm out to the crowd.
To the left, that greeting now became proof of a “Nazi salute.”
Yet in no time, the internet cited photos of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Elizabeth Warren all extending their stiff arms out in identical fashion to Musk.
We were next told by critics that Trump was not technically president because he did not place his left hand on the Bible as he swore his presidential oath.
The Constitution, of course, demands no such act. But it does explicitly state that no religious test shall be required to hold public office.
During a National Prayer Service for newly sworn-in President Trump, the Episcopal bishop of Washington D.C., Mariann Budde, hijacked the sermon. She rebuked Trump — sitting right in front of her — because he supposedly had portrayed illegal aliens and transgender children “in the harshest of lights.”
Budde later bragged that she had used the occasion to sandbag Trump with a “one-on-one conversation.”
She talked grandly of mercy, but not of the thousands of Americans who have been physically assaulted or attacked by illegal aliens, or tens of thousands of deaths due to illegally imported fentanyl, or the unfairness of open borders to legal immigrant applicants, or the suffering of our citizen poor when their social services are overwhelmed by some 12 million illegal entries of the last four years.
In sum, the Left wants no debate because they know voters have rejected what they saw and suffered during the last four years of the Biden administration.
Forgetting nothing, learning nothing, like zombies, leftists keep screaming banalities. But like addicts and their feel-good fixes, their hysterics only further turn off the public as they destroy themselves.
The fact that the American People support Trump is Proof that the American People have lost their trust of the M.S. Media Bottom Feeders and t heir Gutter Level Media Bottom Feeders
if america believes an election drubbing will change the tune of the left it is about to learn a bitter lesson if it hasnt yet . while democrats draw breath no such change will occur . evil never goes away it just morphs into more evil of various types . even the so called rinos dwell on the fringes of outright evil having a bet each way aka [ liz cheney ] and others , just so they can still get invites to the cocktail canapes set and remain in the elite camp . selling their souls [ providing they think they have one ] is a cheap price to pay . the decay of america may be slowed for the next 4 yrs. but the collapse is inevitable . the don has his work cut out and his tenure is very short and the dems will continue to white ant everything . if they cant destroy trump they will try to burn the house down and everyone with them . LA a prime example .
In that sense, the Left and Islam are alike. Neither will ever stop. Ever.
Well, they will when they’re finally forcibly stopped but yes, they’ll never stop voluntarily.
“Budde later bragged that she had used the occasion to sandbag Trump with a “one-on-one conversation.” ”
Marian Budde has a smug, eminently punchable face. It is that false pride that will be her ticket to irrelevance and Hell.
Thank you. This woman’s “sermon” is all the proof we need that you can’t fix stupid. Transgender Christians? Just look at what has happened to Anglican church attendance in recent years. Says it all.
She exposed herself as a foolish and deranged harpy but she’s too stupid to realize it. And damn, is she ugly.
Please. The proper term is “facially challenged”.
Addendum to this post:
She looks so pleased with herself. Definitely not reading the room.
Jesus’ first words in response to questions about coming social upheaval and “Judgment Day”, ” Beware the false teachers and prophets, for they will deceive many!”
Ignorant mob, cheap politician, and religious professional are the demographics enabling the murder of Christ. Fortunately, that evil combination could not keep “A Good Man” down.
I don’t think Trump has to worry about Budde. She seems none too bright.
A great Understatement to be sure
She’s already forgotten. Even after reading this article and commenting on it I’ll forget her in five minutes or so.
I might have some nightmares tonight, though. She looks like a zombie dyke.
That photo at the top takes the perfect camera angle from which to capture Mariann Budde. It is the God’s Eye view, and it makes her look appropriately small.
And damned ugly.
It isn’t the ugly on the outside that’s important, it’s the ugliness that appears when she opens her mouth…
Like most old farts, my reaction is, What took them so long?
Then I realize I’m much older than the average voter, and that they all need to experience what I’ve experienced. The left operates on PT Barnum’s principle, There’s one born every minute.
The Democrats tell us that everyone who voted for Trump is a racist.
I have another theory.
I think a lot of people voted for Trump because they got tired of being told they were racists.
You can’t win an election by insulting and lecturing the voters.
As a matter of fact, the approval demographic runs 55% whites, 56% Blavk & 57% Hispanic.
Another great summary by VDH across the issue front. Now is the time to look for the common denominators of the left’s arguments — such as, no mustard seed size kernel of truth is too small to popcorn into a gotcha. Borderline bullying levels of certitude, likely un-tethered, if pervasive, could reduce counter-article length appreciably.
Common denominators re: arguments may match common denominators of Democrat hatched national strategies.
As the American candle flickered its last sputters, perched and ready to plunge into the abyss of global maniacracy, like a deus ex machina appeared the most unlikely of heroes, the Orange Man. When all were hopeless he blew on the candle and wonder of wonders, it flamed like phosphorus, lighting the way into a millennium of enduring freedom and democracy. The West was forever inoculated against the plague of Marxism. The East may forsake the hammer and sickle for the crescent moon. (We can’t all write like VDH.)
It wouldn’t take much doing to turn that sickle into a crescent moon for a joint flag.
The Industrial Military Complex is too big to eliminate. But it’s direction can be changed. I believe it is Musk’s role is to apply a wrench and retool it from bombs and tanks to space ships and etc.
In WW II industry went from cars to bombs. Then back again. It wont matter to the Complex what they build as long as they can keep going.
The upside is the military product they now provide will not have to be destroyed each year (with wars) so the new bombs to be needed. The cities built on the moon over the next decades and century will bring back all sorts of value – yet to be identified.
Lobbyists will begin to switch direction and push for Military Industrial Complex to retool and redesign. No loss to them. All gain. Like the Hudson Bay endeavor in the 1600s.
This is Musk’s role.
Immediately following 11-4-24, the Dems have become a non-stop comic opera: An absurd cacophony of pathetic outcasts moaning and whimpering, with strange lyrics that no one understands. And all the while telling a bizarre story created in an insane asylum. A grim production to say the least. I guess it’s up to us to provide some punch lines.
I don’t believe gimmiecrats can or will ever understand the cumulative effect of their hectoring, their too-lazy to find facts to support, their self-appointed superiority of character, and their focus on themselves. The cumulative effect causes adult people – who are used to groping with and solving real-world problems – to turn to others of like mind and attitudes and to tune out the progressive livers in fantasy land: they are left, uiltimately, preaching to each other and to wonder where all their fringe people went in the process (they went to the other side). I say to them, lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way: the reset is on and we aren’t referring to Hillary’s red button. Trump is in the building and Trump’s people are everywhere – the reset is larger than any one individual: good people are coming out of the woodwork, ready to prevail. Gimmiefcrats are no longer cool.
Very eloquent. Thank you.
Why wasn’t a real Christian preacher such as John MacArthur invited to give a speech.
The Bible specifically prohibits women from being preachers so this lady is neither a preacher nor a Christian.
I wonder which god she actually believes in.
A Reporter asked Trump if Leaders of other countries called to congratulate him and he replied… Yes many many, I dont know how many.. but a lot””… CNN reported… “” Trump doesn’t know how many countries there are in the World”..
This ”person” called a Bishop and Im really not sure what this person has between the legs however she/her/he/him/It told Trump the LGBTXYZ crowd are now in fear of their lives just like the Village People dancing and singing alongside Trump on Stage to the song YMCA and they all looked very fearful indeed.
Snoop Dogg Dude was called a trained seal by a woman that hates anybody that doesn’t fall into her line of hate filled thinking so why wasn’t she called a racist.
The mud is going to fly 24/7 for the next four years just like the previous Trump four years and its already started with an Impeachment five minutes after becoming President..
These Far Left stupid people are truly fascists.