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An Enduring Donald Trump
When Joe Biden won the White House in 2020, he inherited from President Donald Trump a secure border, an economy rebounding after the COVID quarantines, 1.23% inflation, no wars abroad, and cheap energy.
Looking back on the Biden presidency, it seems so “abnormal” that a better word might be disastrous. Biden caved in to the Left’s fringe policies of destroying the border, welcoming in 12 million illegal aliens, nihilist critical race and legal theories, institutionalizing a third sex, and mandating woke/DEI quotas and indoctrination sessions.
Four years later, the Biden administration is still wildly unpopular, notes Victor Davis Hanson in American Greatness. MAGA, on the other hand, exemplifies Trump’s vision for America.
Trump promised voters to not only restore the achievements of his 1st-predidency, but also to expand its successes.
- Trump personally remains transparent, upbeat, and energetic—eager to meet with anyone, anytime, anywhere, to talk about anything.
An energetic Trump offers a sharp contrast with the era of the non compos mentis Biden. The change is welcomed by an electorate exhausted by past presidential stumbling, wandering, incoherence, mind freezes, and angry, ‘get-off-my-grass’ aged fragility.”
- Trump’s enduring two impeachments, five civil and criminal court indictments, incessant lawfare, a 95% negative media, attempts to remove him from states’ ballots, and two assassination attempts has earned him grudging admiration even by some of his former enemies.
By expanding his MAGA base and permanently branding it as an ecumenical movement that welcomes shared class interests, has allowed Trump to fixate on the left’s tired old tribal racial and ethnic chauvinism.
- Donald Trump was also able to win over disaffected Democrats, independents, and minorities in a way the “Democrats could not with the evaporating and bitter Never Trump dead-enders.”
RFK, Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Dana White, and Kid Rock, what as a group VDH calls a “veritable campaign menagerie,” ensured that the left couldn’t demonize MAGA Republicans as right-wing aristocrats, warmongers, or laissez-faire capitalists.
The endorsements of the Biden-Harris legacy media, calcified Hollywood endorsers, blowhard university faculties, and tech barons proved overrated. Popular and dynamic internet influencers, podcasters, bloggers, and maverick entrepreneurs upstaged the elites.
- Trump himself proved more experienced and reflective than in 2016. His team was also more disciplined and street smart, led by savvy chief of staff Susan Wiles.
Trump as Everyman:
- Posing for a mug shot after being railroaded by a weaponized lawfare indictment
- Serving McDonald’s drive-through customers
- Riding in a garbage truck cab
- Raising his fist and yelling “fight, fight, fight”—after having his head nearly blown off by a would-be assassin.
The 2023 presidential election showed who the public trusted more, liked better, writes VDH. Voters picked a Trump reboot over “grouchy Joe Biden or inane, inauthentic Kamala Harris and their shared extremist agendas.”
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