“Elections Have Consequences”

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Trump Won

Barack Obama used those words before reminding Republican lawmakers: “I won.” Harsh? Maybe, but so true. Democrats, writes Roger Kimball, who few would describe as “fair and balanced,” tend to understand his law of the political universe more clearly than do Republicans.

Here’s the stock rule: “When Democrats win elections, they wield power. When Republicans win elections, they seek, or at least agree, to compromise.”

Talking about the “Suicide of the West,” Mr. Kimball quotes French writer Louis Veuillot: “When I am the weaker, I ask you for my freedom, because that is your principle; but when I am the stronger, I take away your freedom, because that is my principle.”

Roger asks readers to ponder the behavior of Joe Biden’s Department of Justice, especially the behavior of what Roger calls the “despicable Merrick Garland, the Attorney General, these last three and a half years.” (you were warned about “fair and balanced.”)

Had the Democrats won the 2024 election, we would have seen many more examples of this principle in action. Assuming the Dems had kept the Senate, we would have seen them dispense with the filibuster, thus turning that chamber into what outgoing West Virginian Senator Joe Manchin called “the House on steroids.” They would have packed the Supreme Court, adding a few new “progressive” members to the bench to counter the power of Justices like Clarence Thomas. They likely would have imposed term- or age-limits on the Justices as well.

Roger Kimball also gives a brief inventory of the “consequences” of a Kamala victory. Donald Trump would have been bankrupted and jailed. Likely, that would have also happened to Elon Musk. A seldom subtle Mr. Kimball writes, our country just dodged that fusillade:

• The First Amendment, as John Kerry promised, would have been gutted if not discarded altogether in order to further the censorship and surveillance regime of the woke, progressive elite.
• Moreover, you could have counted on a virtual ban on fracking, and the mining of coal would have been enacted, further depressing America’s prosperity.
• The trans insanity of the last decade would have been extended, destroying women’s sports and disfiguring, mentally as well as physically, many thousands of confused teenagers.

To the surprise of many, Donald Trump is not acting according to script.

In 2017, he was allowed to assume office but not to take power. That was because the order of the universe had dictated that only Democrats were allowed to take power. Even before he turned the key at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, there were calls for his impeachment. He had hardly clicked on the lights in the Oval Office before the Russia Collusion Hoax—organized and paid for by Hillary Clinton’s campaign—got underway.

Why are Democrats surprised that Trump hasn’t docilely lined up for a rerun of his first term. Mr. Kimbal lists the many ways the newly minted, forthcoming Trump administration differs from his first go-around, to the surprise of Democrats.

Various bad hats were clamoring to declare their reformation, and the economy responded to the decisive Trump victory with a 2000-point shot of adrenaline. Above all, one sensed a collective sigh of relief as it was borne upon us that we were finally awakening from the rancid nightmare of woke hysteria.

Unlike 99.7 percent of politicians, Trump clearly meant what he said when he promised to Make America Great Again. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, and Vivek Ramaswamy were not brought along for political window dressing. Trump brought them along for the same reason he chose JD Vance as VP: to field competent lieutenants to help realize his agenda of making America richer, freer, more secure, healthier, and more efficient.

The confused media outlets. still blinking, are not believing what just happened to their political and social assumptions as Trump began making his Cabinet nominations and other senior appointments.

• Susie Wiles for Chief of Staff: super competent and the first woman in that position. Hmmm.
• The China hawk Marco Rubio for Secretary of State.
• Perhaps everyone’s favorite Tom Holman , the new “border Czar.”
• Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be Secretary of the sprawling Department of Health and Human Services

Easy to forget, adds Mr. Kimball, if Matt Getz had done anything, the DOJ would have nabbed Getz before voters could say “Donald J. Trump.”

The courtesy of “presumed innocent” is a courtesy not accorded to one’s political opponent.