In January of 2020, the prospects for our country were looking good. Under Donald Trump––a populist outsider who galvanized the voters whose interests and concerns the bipartisan political establishment either ignored or dismissed––our future was promising.
From the beginning of his administration, Trump had started fulfilling his campaign promises to fix the problems that troubled his constituency, such as a porous border, free-loading allies, China’s economic predation, and feckless globalist shibboleths like the “rules-based international order” that under the globalist Barack Obama gave us the Munich-class appeasement of Iran with the nuclear deal, and the economically poisonous Paris climate accord, putting the interests of the globalist Davoisie over our own national interests and security.
Looking ahead back then, it seemed that a booming economy, record low minority unemployment, energy independence, our country’s restored prestige abroad, and three Constitutionalist Supreme Court Justices all pointed to a likely second term for Trump.
Then Covid happened. Reckless mitigation protocols like shutting down schools and the economy created the kind of crisis wannabe tyrants never let go to waste. More specifically, the lockdowns provided a rationale for multiplying mail-in ballots, which are so prone to corruption that only one-third of nations holding regular elections allow them.
We don’t know for a fact that these unusual circumstances contributed to the election of a notorious political mediocrity and addled serial grifter. But that doesn’t mean it’s a fact that the election was clean. The unseemly haste and vehemence with which the Rhino and NeverTrump “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” Republicans announced that the election was completely legitimate was itself suspicious, given the numerous anomalies of the campaign and election, and the “trout in the milk-pail” circumstantial evidence like ballot harvesting––after all, you may not know who put the trout there, but you know for sure it didn’t swim into it by itself.
At any rate, Trump was indeed the victim of egregious political malfeasance and corruption that made election fraud more believable in the case of the “by any means necessary” progressive Dems:
- The Dems had weaponized the FBI and DOJ to peddle the Russia collusion hoax, and a Democrat House held multiple show-trial hearings and staged two impeachments that criminalized political differences.
- The political establishment and media were despicably unfair to Trump, indulging preposterous double-standards like “election denier,” an epithet never applied to two noisy and bitter “deniers” like Hillary Clinton and Georgia’s Stacey Abrams.
- The Dem House made preposterous charges of fomenting an “insurrection” on January 6, based on specious evidence and hear-say, with the committee stacking the deck to make sure no Republican could cross-examine dubious witnesses.
- The bankrupt media, dead-tree and social, before the election colluded with the FBI to keep hidden the bombshell scandal of Hunter Biden’s laptop, which is filled with evidence of the Biden family corruption––a huge in-kind contribution to Biden’s campaign.
All despicable, all true. But once the election was over save for the formality of recording the electoral college votes, all those legitimate grievances were in the past, where Trump should have left them. His obsessive harping, like the Ancient Mariner, on the 2020 election grew tiresome and annoying for many voters. Then there’s Trump’s throwing his support only to those Republican midterm candidates who soothed his “stolen election” pique. Even though the charge of electoral fraud could be true, Trump’s constant dwelling on it when nothing could change the outcome put off many voters and helped to drain what should have been an electoral tsunami for the GOP.
Nor did Trump’s cheesy publicity stunts like hawking his “official Donald Trump Digital Trading Card collection” comprising “limited edition cards featuring amazing ART of my Life & Career,” give him much gravitas for a run in 2024. Neither did a lunch with notorious anti-Semites Kanye West and Nick Fuentes. Then there’s his tin-eared statement that the contested outcome of the 2020 election “allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.” Sounding like a “living Constitution” progressive isn’t a winner for conservatives.
Even more oddly, Trump began the new year by blaming the Republicans’ disappointing midterm election results on their “mishandling” of the “abortion issue” by not allowing exceptions like rape. But as Robert Spencer pointed out, not one Republican candidate in November ran or “firmly insisted on No Exceptions, even in the case of Rape, Incest, or Life of the Mother,” as Trump claimed. Such comments suggest an effort to deflect attention from Trump’s failed midterm candidates.
These unforced errors, along with the House committee’s recommendation that the DOJ should indict Trump, and the release of six-years of his tax-records, have contributed to perceptions that he is damaged political goods. As the Wall Street Journal reported recently, polls are starting to notice: “By 2-1, GOP and GOP-leaning voters now say they want Trump’s policies but a different standard-bearer to carry them. While 31% want the former president to run, 61% prefer some other Republican nominee who would continue the policies Trump has pursued.”
Worse, Trump’s gaffes and legal problems have made him look like a sore loser, and that’s politically toxic. The fact is, as Hillary Clinton learned, Americans don’t like losers, especially ones who continually whine about their losses.
Again, there’s no question that what has happened to Trump hasn’t been fair, and in some cases has been patently illegal. But democratic politics since the ancient Athenians has never been fair, for it is often based on subjective perceptions rather than objective achievements. No matter how many Trump policies have benefitted voters, many have been forgotten in the perception, fair or not, that he is a self-absorbed loser.
And don’t forget, in democracies, the most important question is, “What have you done for me lately?” The future, not the past, is what motivates voters. That’s how Trump won in 2016: he was a fresh set of eyes on our problems that under political guildsmen like his predecessor Barack Obama and his opponent Hillary Clinton, had been allowed to fester.
All this brings us to contemplate the next few years, about which Biden’s two years of abject failures have left us pessimistic. All threaten the integrity of our Constitutional order, our prosperity, and our freedoms:
- The “woke” assault on our families, sexual morality, history, national heroes, popular culture.
- The school curricula polluted by crude, unscientific racist fads and anti-science transsexual propaganda.
- The disastrous Covid mitigation protocols, about which Hoover senior fellow Scott Atlas writes, “professors with prestigious titles and affiliations denied scientific data about risks, effective mitigation and biological protection,” and “who spouted politicized opinion as if it were objective truth and demonized views counter to their preferred narrative.”
- The war on police, and the rogue prosecutors filling the streets with violent felons.
- The suicidal war on carbon that has left our electric grid vulnerable to severe weather and the machinations of our rivals.
- The censorship hollowing out our First Amendment.
- The inflation and a looming recession brought on by feckless spending and metastasizing debt.
- The de facto amnesty policy on the southern border that is allowing millions of unvetted illegal aliens and tons of dangerous drugs to be distributed throughout the country.
- The foreign policy of retreat coupled with an involvement in Ukraine, now costing $100 billion with little explanation for why, and no plan for how this stalemated conflict will end short of a dangerous escalation.
We need bold new policies to slow down our country’s suicide, and a fresh face younger than 60 and untainted by the D.C. company-town’s failures.
But right now, Donald Trump isn’t that fresh face anymore. His persona, policies, and in-your-face personality once were exciting and new compared to the old blue-suit and blow-dried hair Republican company men who many conservatives believed, fairly or not, had serially assumed the preemptive cringe in the face of the Democrats’ assaults on Constitutional rights and freedoms. Now Trump seems predictable and stale, an old champion who’s past his prime.
Again, Trump and his supporters will dispute that assessment. But its truth is not the point. The Roman poet Vergil wrote, “They have power because they seem to have power.” Perception, especially in a media world saturated with information, opinions, and images––an ever-shifting kaleidoscope spinning 24/7/365––frequently decides elections, not facts, truth, or principles.
Ultimately, however, what I or anybody else thinks is not the point. This spring the presidential campaign will rev up, and in 2024 the voters will decide who will represent the Republican Party. Will Donald Trump catch lightning in a bottle once more? I wouldn’t count him out. But in 2016, Trump was the new kid in town, facing off with one of the most unpleasant and mediocre establishment candidates since World War II. There’s a good chance that won’t be the case in 2024. There’s a governor in Florida who’s young and accomplished and has shown he will fight against the “woke” lunacy of our times. Dems aren’t rooting for Ron DeSantis the way they are for Donald Trump.
Obviously, a lot can happen in two years, most of it unforeseen. Trump himself in 2016 proved that banal truth. But in the end, we the people will make the choice, and for good or ill, we the people will have to live with it.
This is a disappointing article as it is out of touch with the reality of “We the People “. We still love Donald Trump and his America First policies. He’s the only political leader in my 74 yrs of life that actually did what he said he would do. You sound like the media as well as the academia you are who need to make up conflicts and tales to keep your phony baloney jobs. Please keep underestimating us. That should be fun.
Susan – I am continually astounded at the way conservative writers
and scholars like Bruce Thornton – and all the others, including on
other websites – have all joined in in bashing Donald Trump. It’s
like they’re listening to the siren song of a pied piper and can’t help
themselves – while they accuse ordinary voters of reacting to
political candidates rather than using their ability to reason.
Thornton does give a good rundown of some of Trump’s
accomplishments and what is assailing the country at present
but then turns around and does what he accuses voters of doing –
treating Trump like damaged goods. I have yet to read a writer
who backs Trump 100% and believes that his tweets and
alleged gaffes are like fresh air. To help us breathe in an
atmosphere of media control, social media censoring, trying not
“to hate” when we opine and searching for the correct pronouns.
I agree, Annie. I didn’t vote for the Donald in the 2016 primary and immediately realized my mistake. I absolutely revere the man these days.
All you have to do is remember where everything was in Jan 2020. All was right in the world and much of that was due to Trump’s policies which were against the UniParty.
Ron DeSantis – great guy – will belong to multinational donors. Trump wasn’t which is why they had him removed.
Exactly summarized. “” Ron DeSantis-great guy-will belong to the multinational donors. Trump wasn’t which is why they had him removed.””
I agree, Susan. Very disappointing. Nobody is going to do what Trump did. Another politician, who can be bought off, isn’t going to turn upside down, on it’s head, what Biden has done.
As much as I love DeSantis he is seeking the help from Rino’ such as Jeb Bush. What does that tell you?
And DeSantis is funded largely by globalists. Will he have the character to remain unbent by that kind of pressure?
Kynarion, I think what you meant to say was “remain unbent by that kind of money?”
Yes Susan, a very disappointing article and the author is obviously out of touch with the MAGA base. This was just a Trump hit piece.
Thank you for saying exactly what I was thinking!
What lies ahead for Trump and US people? <– The sentence's correct version.
I dislike extreme, word-choice quibbles as much as the next person.
This, however, is no quibble, but is grammar at its most basic. '
Another example: We do not say, 'US go'. but 'WE go' because 'WE' is the pronoun's correct subject form. .
Equally basic, we say 'Give US this day our daily bread', not 'Give WE this day our daily bread', because 'US' is the pronoun's correct object-form.
And we should say 'What lies ahead for US, the people?' not 'What lies ahead for WE, the people?' US is the correct object form for 'we. Prepositions like 'for' take the objective form. Basic damned literacy!
And the Constitution's preamble begins 'We, the People' because 'WE' is the subject of the sentence following the 'WE'. 'WE' is the correct subject pronoun. It does not read 'US the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union — yada, yada.
I am no English teacher or purist, but English is my native language.
Thank you for bringing this up. It grates on my nerves. I was an English teacher, and probably a rather frightening one at that, and would never have tolerated anyone confusing subject pronouns with object ones. Yes indeed, it is “What lies ahead for Us, the People?”
The headline needed quote marks to make its reference to the Constitution clear. “What lies ahead for Trump and ‘we the people’?” The author ends his essay with a double reference to the phrase, which is resonant for anyone thinking about constitutional history. He didn’t intend for it to mean “what lies ahead for Trump and us.” He was juxtaposing Trump with the heart of America’s founding document, and exploring the ramifications of doing so.
I would expect Thornton’s opinion from Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney. Just let the fraud go on and attack the personality of perhaps the best thing that has happened to the presidency in many, many, many decades. Then, again, Mr. Thornton is apparently just another so called ‘journalist’ who makes a living reporting about people and a man who worked his backside off and has actually made life better for Americans, rather than doing the same himself.
As for, ” No matter how many Trump policies have benefitted voters, many have been forgotten in the perception, fair or not, that he is a self-absorbed loser.”
Who are those who think that way? You? Millions disagree, Thornton. Apparently you think that 80 million people voted for that buffoon in office. Wow.
The reality is what matters.. Reality to the facts is what wins elections. If GOP run with Trump in 24, then be prepared for the socialism and woke will win again. Even if the present cadaver in the WH seeks a second term.
Wow! This critique sounds like a litany of leftist views. So, you don’t like President Trump’s style, huh? Ok,
But this article seems to aim to be strangely devoid of emotion.
Yet the left whose views about President Trump you echo, runs on negative emotion. That is criticism and then hate,They also utilize mocking as you have done. Good job, You ignored the sentiment, the very heartbeat, of the non-elite of America.
You miss that our feelings are in line with president Trump’s. We feel cheated. We feel a crime, many egregious crimes, have been committed against us. We feel our right to fair voting has been stolen. You would allow such behavior. And ask us to politely shrug it off. We don’t wish to. We do wish to solve the underlying problems that the egregious acts were a symptom of. We want to see consequences for bad behavior. Any parent or dog owner knows only consequences stop future bad behavior. We want to look at what happened as the only viable path to a more normal functioning truly representative government and social world. You’d rather we don’t.
I think we know who put the proverbial fish in your bucket.
I think most so called journalists prefer people like Joe Biden. Joe makes the typical journalist/opinion columnist fees superior and Joe’s sets the bar fairly high for those folks, IMO.
It didn’t happen to Trump. It happened to us.
It’s happened in successive national elections. It’s not a fluke. It is massive malfunction and intentional and intended to remain.
Biden is a liar, a thief and the face of corruption. This corruption is on a Republic killing scale and it remains in place, intact, like the spores of the Plague in abandoned rat colonies.
We are in the water, and the Democrats are coming back to strafe the lifeboats.
And it’s continuing to happen to us.
An idiotic fool consumed with his insecurities called MAGA supporters a threat to democracy . . . following the slander of Jussie Smollet, the DNC press, and an FBI witch-hunt fueled by Hillary’s campaign smear.
MAGA conservatives only take prodding with a sharp stick only so long; then they bite back bigger.
Gee, Bruce, I would pay all the money in the world to be able to write as you do. Yours was an outstanding summary of everything that has transpired since Trump came down that escalator in 2015. But aren’t you blaming the victim for our current state of affairs? That election in 2020 was STOLEN pure and simple and I am speaking as a Certified Public Accountant with audit experience.
Trump has suffered the most GROSS abuse of any politician, or any person for that matter, that I have witnessed in my lifetime. I regularly email his website thanking him profusely for the enormous sacrifice he has made for ordinary Americans like myself. To turn on him now seems a terrible betrayal. Sure I am concerned about his age, but there are plenty of public figures still running things at even older ages like Pelosi. The best ticket would be Trump/DeSantis.
Years ago, after the divorce between “the Donald” and Ivana Trump, I read a piece she wrote about him when she was writing a column. Instead of bitterness and hatred, she wrote a shockingly glowing account about Trump, saying that he had an extraordinary ability to motivate people. And isn’t that is what a good leader does……galvanize the masses? Yes, we know all about his embarrassing rude ways that pearl-clutching RINOs with their fancy country manners melt down over. They sold us down the river long before Trump came on the scene.
What we need, Bruce, is honest, courageous judges.
Donald Trump is a man who actually, genuinely likes the ‘little guy’. He has shown it over and over again as told by those who know him, regardless of their ideological bent.
It is most probable that the United States government is illegitimate
because of likely election fraud, secondary to proliferation of mail-in
ballots.
One of the best Presidents in American history, Donald J. Trump,
previously ran the country. He is now considered whiny, peevish,
appears as ‘damaged goods’ from the (corrupt) DOJ indictment,
also a ‘sore loser’ from his gaffes and legal problems (??). And
the polls say he’s not preferred. He’s now seen as old and stale.
Everybody who is anybody is saying so. All falling nicely in
goosestep with the Globalists. While No One is doing a single
thing about the use of mail-in ballots.
Maybe the fact that everyone is saying this makes it work in his favour, he’s antiestablishment but became part of the establishment during the lockdown hysteria, now he can be anti again.
His enemies do have one more thing up their sleeves, the dangerous warp speed injections, the results and side effects are becoming clearer to anyone who bothers to look and the media will use that against him rather than face the consequences themselves.
Some people will blame Trump for the “vaccine”. And if it had not come out at warp speed the same people would have blamed him for doing nothing while “billions of Americans died”. He was in a no-win situation, and the Big Pharma and Fauci faction were in a win-win situation.
True, The election was stollen from President Trump so the globalists and elites could put their One World Government in place.. As we see, the present administration does nothing for the benefit of America, its all about enhancing the world now, spending us into oblivion, foreign wars, attacking moral values, and constitutional laws, and due to the decline in sanity, stability, and rational governing, the world has become an evil place.
I would disagree with Ms. Pinkard. I think the article is pretty spot on. I am extremely conservative on social and fiscal issues and think that Trump has “jumped the shark” on multiple occasion as noted. He has served his purpose. .He helped awaken the American people to the depths of the deep state, but has let his narcissism take complete control over himself. I voted for him twice and was a huge supporter, but his recent comments and behaviors have shown his true colors. He still believes the “jab” is the greatest thing ever. That should tell you something besides all the other gaffes he’s made.
It is an absolute certainty that more illegitimate votes were cast in 2016 than ever before, thanks to COVID considerations and left’s “the ends justify the means” mentality.
It is also an absolute certainty that the number of illegal votes cast was a tiny fraction of the number of votes LOST because Trump’s massive oblivious ego, and his inability to control his mouth.
So THAT’S why he got 10 million more votes.
Democrats have honed cheating to a new & higher level.
The brain-dead fantisist made a Freudian slip when he said “greatest election fraud team in history”. The documentary 2000 Mules demonstrated (among many other examples) that *Biden’s handlers most certainly did.
Trump being Trump was in effect when he was President and attacked for his Trumpiness on a daily basis in the media and in DC. If Trump can accomplish what he did during his first term in a second term, so what if he’s Trumpy?
Besides, 2024 is a ways off; a lot can change between now and then.
BTW, those tasteless Trump cards sold out in less than 24 hours.
Trump, despite ongoing missteps, is still the only one on the political scene who is saying what needs to be said–like firing all the leaders of the alphabet agencies to cripple the administrative state. If DiSantis is to be the one he will need to adopt more of what Trump is advocating. Otherwise, he just won’t bring over enough of the Trump base, the Left will hold on to power, and America, as founded, will essentially be over. One of the greatest achievements of Western Civ will pass away. Hello, brave new world.
Correct. Yes, he is truly the purest America First anti-globalist. That’s why he has been so horribly persecuted by the left, all financed by Soros and now we find out, Sam Bankman-Fried. (I depise hyphenated names. If ever there was a mommas boy, this guy is it. I saw a picture of his mother carrying fruits and vegetables to the prison when SMF was in the Bahamas so her vegetarian brat didn’t have to eat jailhouse food.)
Curious. All my mainstream Republican friends repeat the DeSantis mantra verbatim, DeSantis is the “nice” Trump, it’s not 2016, Trump killed the ‘22 red wave, etc. They are like the borg of spoon fed political propaganda. Do they not weigh the chilling fact the swamp Republicans Trump exposed and destroyed are ALL backing DeSantis? Do these people just like being played?!
It should give everyone pause that Ron DeSantis has accumulated 200 million, 95% from corporate donors, is backed by the worst RINOS on earth, and would never have been governor without Trump. DeSantis obviously has talent. But he’s also obviously being “handled” by RINO scum trying to scam us. Again.
That’s exactly my concern, the possibility that De Santis will turn coat and become a RINO. Let Trump have his second term, it is highly unlikely that he will become a RINO at this point.
But De Santis? He hasn’t been tested by the blitzkrieg of the Swamp. I’m not as sure about him as I am about Trump.
And why the rush? WHY THE RUSH?! De Santis can wait for 2028!
Good to see you off the Ann Rand propaganda.
I’m sticking withTrump, period. President Trump proved his mettle in the White House. He’s been through the fire and is still going through the fire and has not caved in.
Florida is the minor leagues, the very minor leagues. The D.C. Swamp is the major leagues. It’s easy to be a conservative in Florida. But can De Santis withstand the blitzkrieg juggernaut of the Swamp like President Trump has and is still doing? Or will he cave in and become a RINO?
I’ll stick with the man that has proven for 7 years that he can and always will fight the Swamp. De Santis can wait for 2028.
That’s the short term.
In the long term a Donald Trump or De Santis can not save America, no one president can. A conservative president will only be able to buy time for America. To slow down the collapse of America for a few years.
The poison destroying America comes from the ideas, ideologies, and philosophies being taught at the universities. From there those poisonous ideas trickle down to the high schools, elementary schools, libraries, publishing companies, newspapers, internet, MSM, military, government, and the rest of the society.
If no new philosophy of reason is intoduced as an antidote to counteract the philosophies of unreason being taught at the universities, then the cancer of unreason will win and destroy America. The posions of irrationality are all coming from the universities. The philosophy of reason that is the antidote for unrason is Objectivism.
Bruce Thornton, tell your fellow philosophers to embrace and teach Ayn Rnad’s philosophy of Objectivism at their universities!
“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” –
Abraham Lincoln
“The present state of the world is not the proof of philosophy’s impotence, but the proof of philosophy’s power. It is philosophy that has brought men to this state—it is only philosophy that can lead them out.” – Ayn Rand
Gee THX. I thought you found your reason there….for a minute.
Trump can save this country if the RINOs would get out of the way and stop sabotaging him.
As for Thornton telling his fellow philosophers to suddenly start teaching Randianism, that of course will never happen. Everyone likes their cushy jobs and Objectivism doesn’t pay the bills.
As I have said on more than one occasion, get off your butt, start sending out resumes, and apply for work in the real world. You might get lucky and we wouldn’t have to read your gibberish ever again.
The gibberish is contained in your Holy Book.
That little book of Oriental fairy tales, Oriental mythology, and Oriental magical thinking, you call the Bible, invaded the West and prepared the way for the modern, secular, magical thinking, of Marxism and Nazism.
The Marxist and the Nazi are in essence mystical, magical thinkers, believing in their own versions of the unreal. Just like the Jew, Christian, and Muslim are mystical, magical thinkers, in their versions of the unreal.
“Christianity prepared the ground. It paved the way for modern totalitarianism by entrenching three fundamentals in the Western mind: in metaphysics, the worship of the supernatural; in epistemology, the reliance on faith; as a consequence, in ethics, the reverence for self-sacrifice.” – Leonard Peikoff
Eliminating spirituality from human existence will end in emptiness that will be enthusiastically filled with secular wokeness, or something similar, and adulation for the Almighty State, the new lord, as humanity is transformed into a giant colony of collectivized insects.
THX, Christianity is not about altruism. It’s about looking at yourself for the rat you really are, being deeply sorry about it and realizing that Jesus took the penalty for our sin to save our sorry rear ends from eternal damnation. You have no understanding, like many liberal Christians, what Christianity is really about.
The biggest difference between myself and you is that I don’t dispensing “gibberish”, as you call it, from the Bible. I don’t have a damaged ego to massage.
All you ever do is dispense the gibberish from the dead girlfriend in the vain hope that someone will somehow convert to your way of thinking. If it hasn’t happened now on these pages it’s not gonna happen.
Must get beyond boring posting the same Objectivist gibberish day after day, hoping something will change.
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. But re: you….I am not expecting change from you. You are way too far down the rabbit hole.
This article represents exactly the kind of thing that must be sold to conservatives to abandon Trump and get back on the track of the One World Order. Trump said was that we, the American people, are the target and he [Trump] was just standing in the way. It is true.
The left is once again out to pick our candidate for us. I predict it will be DeSantis, who, although having done an excellent job as governor, is now being groomed to finish off Trump using YUGE sums of globalist cash.
I have little confidence DeSantis will be a true servant of the people after accepting so much money from globalists. I hope I am surprised.
Trump continually talks about election malfeasance because it is true: the republican party in the swing states completely allowed Article 1, Section 4, Clause 1 of the Constitution to be violated.
The beta case for ballot harvesting was the 2018 election(California) and they just keep doing it with republican help(Arizona). Trump is absolutely in the right to keep bringing it up.
Oh, and don’t forget: Trump endorsed 235 candidates in 2022. 219 won = 93%. Keep betting against him. I don’t care if he farts in a bottle and sells it, I know exactly what I am getting with him(not donor controlled). Everyone else will be at the mercy of multinational donors.
Our professional political class is an unmitigated disaster. Trump isn’t.
The claim that 93% of Trump’s endorsements won is misleading. Nearly all of these races were pro forma elections in which the Republican would have won anyway. In the critical high-profile races for senate and governor in states like Pennsylvania, Arizona, New Hampshire, Michigan and Georgia his candidates lost. True, Vance won his senate race in Ohio, but only by 6 points. The Republican DeWine was reelected governor of Ohio by 25 points! So there was a 19 point spread between the Trump endorsed republican and DeWine. These critical races were in swing states. The fact is that the Republicans can’t win the presidency without Georgia and Arizona, and Trump is batting 0 in these states. How will he win them in the general election?
This comment section has given me new hope that we have not all lost our collective minds. Thank you America.
Amazing how these so called scholars and professors are wise in their own mind, and yet they don’t comprehend the lack of God in our society and why the world is passing away. Every nation has distress with perplexity.
Only the wise understand that humanity has reached a time of total depravity in policies, and governmental bodies, Why…..because nothing will work as it denies the Creator and sides with the world in politics and society. (OUR BLESSINGS COME FROM GOD. Society has now turned into the Days of Noah, and Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah 9:6-7. “For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; (and the Government will rest on HIS shoulder; and his name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, and Prince of Peace. There will be no end to the increase of His government or of the Peace on the Throne of David, and over His kingdom, to establish it and uphold it with Justice and Righteousness from then on and evermore.
We elected a President , Trump, who worked for the American people….not the world….but the elites, globalists, rulers, and potentates want to be God and reject the Will of the People.. Dior Consequences result.
Anne, you are a great Christian.
Mr. Thornton,
If anyone wanted a single article to best summarize American politics since the pandemic, it would be this one of yours.
Well done.
I stopped reading Brucee’s above el crapo when he first began blaming Trump for all the Bolshevik Communist Dems have done to him and America. Sad. Thornton can be an effective writer. He horribly missed the point on this anti-American screed.
“on the 2020 election grew tiresome and annoying for many voters.”
It seems Mr Thornton is living in a fantacy world where commieKKKrats are true believers in democracy. And what happend in 2020 was no big deal.
Mr. Thornton you need to wakeup, what happened in 2020 was non military deep state coup d’etat. Until the perpetrators who staged it are brought to justice. There is no going forward. 2020 election is a wound which still bleeding. Until it is cured America will not heal.
Correct. The election fraud was UNBELIEVABLE, Gateway Pundit has been reporting EVERY detail about the fifty-ways-to-Sunday the 2020 election was stolen, including courts cases state by state, grass root groups and canvassers finding MASSIVE fraud in the voter rolls, videos of ballot harvesting, chain-of-custody violations all over the place.and so much more. The details reported by the Hoft brothers is incredible, and Joe was an international auditor by profession. These guys are no crackpots.
I am a Certified Public Accountant with audit experience. The fraud was UNBELIEVABLE. UNBELIEVABLE.
IF? a tree falls in the forest, DOES? it make a noise?
There are times when President Trump can cross the line of Common Sense.
Donald Trump is a fighter without the Queensbury Rules. Donald J Trump is the ONLY individual as shown by his 1st Term who can REDIRECT America back to being GREAT.
The Left and the GAGGLE/Party use the “fundamental transformation of America” to RESET/NEW WORLD ORDER into something IT was NEVER meant to be. It is NOT a Monarchy or Oligarchy,
America has a 2-Party System, BUT when viewed during the 21st Century one can see in vivid living color that IT is moving into a UniParty. The left desperately NEEDS change. They will do ANYTHING so the ENDS will ALWAYS justify the necessary MEANS. The Right, RHINO WHIGS Do NOTHING “Democratic Socialists” liters ENABLE them . The Right is desperate to get along to belong. They pretend to have, they seek acceptance regardless of the cost to the Voters that elected them.
Look at the current process of their “ability” to elect a Speaker.; Rep crenshaw described the 2`1 NO voters as Extremists and Terrorists. If that doesn’t sound like a Leftist then WHAT? does? Further, mccarthy does is not looking for Common Ground. Common Ground then allows for Compromise. Compromise leads to an Agreement that BOTH parties BENEFIT.
Welcome to the UniParty.
DISTRACTIONS and Omission is the coin of the Realm for the Leftists and the RHINO WHIGS.
I am SO sick of these intellectually schizophrenic pieces by self-appointed *conservatives’…WTH?…you agree there was fraud, but Trump should’ve shut up about it? Apparently, the author does not view election fraud as anything other than vulgarian obsessing, instead of the crime that it is as well as an existential threat to the nation’s existence as a republic, and exponentially, to the world around us. No, he should never *shut up about* this *impolite in civil society* theft of his rightful place as US President, and OUR rightful expectation that OUR votes count. Not ballots, VOTES.
I agree 100% with Bruce Thornton’s article., and made similar arguments in an article on a pro-Trump website two weeks ago which may be found at https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/12/the_electoral_map_favors_desantis_over_trump.html
Like my own article, nearly all of the comments on Thornton’s article are negative. Yet no one has refuted his main point: that Trump is probably not electable due to his own reckless statements and behavior. Simply put, DeSantis is far more electable than Trump. That doesn’t mean that we should dismiss Trump’s many accomplishments while in office. We owe him a debt of gratitude. However, we ourselves a candidate who can win in 2024 – and it is unlikely that Trump is that candidate.
Headline, Mr. Thornton: 150,000 Votes In The 2020 Election Not Tied To A Valid Address In Wisconsin: Election Watchdog
The leftist canvasers covering the windows in Michigan was a nice touch. Transparency isn’t their thing.
Conservative canvasers were continually ejected from counting-rooms for any “infraction”, usually to cheers from flaming leftists who thought they, and they alone, should check signatures.
In Georgia, a DNC bitch lied about a plumbing leak, and said it all had to stop for the night . . . except it didn’t stop. The liberals stayed behind, and viola! – the votes for Sleepy Joe shot up exponentially.
“2000 Mules” painstakingly demonstrated how drop-boxes were stuffed while captured on camera. (Not all caught on camera – in several drop-box locations, the cameras were disabled. Musta been a coincidence.)
I think the opinions expressed in the article are closer to reality than the opinions expressed in the subsequent comments. Clearly Bruce Thornton favors Trump’s accomplishments and detests the swamp. He also points out that Trump has definitely been treated unfairly over and over. But he is correct that for many voters the continual whining about losing the election is wearisome. And his disagrees with Trump’s assertion about 2022 being about abortion restrictions. Pointing that out doesn’t make Thornton a socialist or a swamp-lover as some commenters would say. Seems to me he nails it.
Excellent Headline! “What Lies Ahead?” LIES? Impeach Trump and his little dog too!, Russia Collusion 2.0, FBI Raids of His cars, Vacation homes, his Golf Bag and Golf hat, FBI seized LS His Golf Umbrella a downpour! Trumps Tax Returns Show No Russia collusion but he likes Bagels that are not necessarily Kosher! He exaggerated his business ability by 00.8%!, What new Lies will the press assemble to get what they want? We shall see.
The claim that 93% of Trump’s endorsements won is misleading. Nearly all of these races were pro forma elections in which the Republican would have won anyway. In the critical high-profile races for senate and governor in states like Pennsylvania, Arizona, New Hampshire, Michigan and Georgia his candidates lost. True, Vance won his senate race in Ohio, but only by 6 points. The Republican DeWine was reelected governor of Ohio by 25 points! So there was a 19 point spread between the Trump endorsed republican and DeWine. These critical races were in swing states. The fact is that the Republicans can’t win the presidency without Georgia and Arizona, and Trump is batting 0 in these states. How will he win them in the general election?
No need to even discuss the topic…until election fraud is prosecuted and eliminated it does not good to even consider another Conservative-to include Trump-being elected to the White House. Kiss it goodbye until Elections are fair again.
Essentially, the folks that are so hyper-critical of Trump are actually using him as a surrogate to criticize the working class base of the modern GOP. They do not feel that regular Americans, deserve adequate representation in Government. We should have started a new Splitter Party after the 2020 election. Now we are back to “hold your nose and vote” for the Uniparty Establishment that caused you to lose everything you once had… because once elected the results are no different than if you had voted for a Leftist. The article should have been titled, “We don’t want regular folk in our Elitist Republican Party.”
“Law enforcement authorities in Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina have been searching for the man they believe is behind a string of robberies that began in 2009, starting with a bank in White House, Tenn., the F.B.I. said.” Isn’t it about time those bank presidents stop whining about what happened 13 years ago. There is nothing we can do about those robberies … except maybe recover the money.
One of the clearest articles explaining where we are.