By Steven Yates
November 7, 2024
… because who knows what American leftists, or globalists, have up their collective sleeve.
Trump won — in the Electoral College, at least! He also appears to have won the popular vote for the first time! That is to say, he won using the rules the Bidenistas claim they played by back in 2020, during and following the “jankiest” (James Howard Kunstler’s colorful term) election in recent memory.
As of this writing, five states remain to be called, four of which are leaning toward Trump — but with 277 electoral votes to Harris’s 224, he’s officially over the line!
Some of my fears have been proven groundless, such as a Venezuela-style theft of the election by Democrats, or — God help us! — voters actually hand Kamala Harris the presidency! Other matters continue to worry me. I’ll get to those in due course.
Trump’s base of support is cheering; Trump delivered a victory speech that did not sound at all like the “man in cognitive decline” corporate media has been portraying of late. While not giving out details, in effect he pronounced this election a turning point. To me, he sounded perfectly lucid and in command — unlike his immediate predecessor whose most lucid recent moment was to call his supporters “garbage.”
Voters have solidly and soundly rejected the far left Democrats (Republicans have taken both the House and the Senate!), based both on the economy as they perceived it during the past four years (an inflationary disaster!), and on the immigration mess that Kamala Harris is personally blamed for having worsened, and then some!
Leftist writers are weeping and wailing!
Tom Nichols, in the establishment Atlantic Monthly, writes: “An aspiring fascist is the president-elect, again, of the United States….” He alleges that “Trump’s minions will continue his assault on democracy, the rule of law, and the Constitution.” Nonsense! His “minions” will assault leftist domination of these institutions and try to purge deep state globalism behind them.
Nichols goes on to demonize this as a “dark moment” and a “national emergency.” He goes on to state that “if there was ever at time to exercise the American right of free assembly, it is now…” raising the question of just what he has in mind, especially as when Trump supporters exercised such rights they risked being physically attacked while leftist rioters in, e.g., 2020, largely got a pass.
Nichols’ Atlantic Monthly colleague David Frum intones darkly that “the rest of us need to prepare to live in a different America: a country where millions of our fellow citizens voted for a president who knowingly promotes hatred and division….”
Leave it to leftists to decry the promotion of “hatred and division” when excelling at this very thing themselves.
Across the ocean, British establishment left wing journal The Guardian calls today a “day of despair” followed by the usual litany of what leftists anticipate Trump doing, ending with “there will almost certainly by a nationwide abortion ban and this will further degrade women’s citizenship, rob them of their dignity, steal their dreams and ruin their health.”
Once we get past the hysterics here … yes, Trump and his “minions” might challenge the death culture leftists have spent the past half-century bringing about. I don’t think legislation or judicial decree is the way to do this, but challenging the death culture has to begin somewhere.
Given such pronouncements … these are only three examples of an across-the-board howl of anguish coming from the organized left…
… we can’t pretend this fight is over and rest on our laurels!
Who knows what leftist activists will do, once they overcome the shock of realizing that a majority of their fellow citizens were willing to vote an “aspiring fascist,” a “convicted felon” and “rapist” into the most powerful office in the world?
A friend pointed out to me this morning that when the AP called the election results prior to all the votes being counted, this might give leftists their first grounds to contest the results — will we be allowed to call their efforts “baseless conspiracy theories” I wonder???
She also observed that leftist Judge Juan Merchan will be overseeing Trump’s sentencing hearing soon. That’s for his conviction of “34 counts of falsifying business records” related to his having arranged paying hush money to a porn star.
Bookkeeping mistakes, transformed into felonies for the first time in U.S. history.
That hearing will be on November 26.
What will Merchan do?
Could a Democrat judge actually sentence Trump to a prison term?
This would be unprecedented!
If he did, I’m sure Trump’s legal team would point out that such a move would precipitate chaos, and file an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court would immediately reverse the sentence.
I’m not sure Merchan will have the nerve, though.
He might well be too afraid of having his courthouse burned down — or his house torched.
No, that’s not a threat. Just a statement of fact.
Trump won back the White House after losing it for only the second time in U.S. history — for a reason.
Ordinary Americans — by the tens of millions — are sick and tired of being lied to about everything of importance.
They were lied to about the origins of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, told they were “racists” and “conspiracy theorists” if they said it was made in a Chinese lab (funded in large part by Tony Fauci and Co.).
They were lied to about the honesty and fairness of Election 2020.
They were lied to about January 6, which was no “insurrection”; there was no attempt to overthrow the U.S. government on that date.
They were lied to about the necessity of Covid lockdowns which destroyed their businesses and disrupted their lives over something with a comparatively very low fatality rate for anyone not in a nursing home or with a seriously compromised immune system.
They were lied to about the “safety and efficacy” of the Covid-19 mRNA shots given Emergency Use Authorization rather than real approval after just four months of testing.
They were lied to about Joe Biden’s declining cognitive state … and doubtless figured out that Kamala Harris was directly implicated in that particular lie.
They were lied to by those pretending that Kamala is anything more than a product of the Diversity-Inclusion-Equity (DEI, if you prefer) political-corporate environment of recent years, and that she would be anything other than an utter disaster, worse than Biden has been, as a figurehead-president representing what is still the most powerful nation and the largest economy in the world, before figures like Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and enemy nations like Iran and North Korea.
They’ve been lied to about the economy ongoing, presented with government-corporate numbers that reflect Inside the Beltway and billionaire class status which does not reflect the realities of the man (and woman) in the street.
They’ve been lied to about Trump being a “threat to democracy” when left-liberals have been busy using a mixture of legislation, technocracy, and top-down bureaucratic harassment of various forms to dismantle actual, Constitutional republican democracy — government by the people — for the past half-century (and globalists, longer than that).
They’ve been lied to about both the civil and criminal lawfare cases brought against Trump, whether over January 6, the evidence-free claim that he sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll, the classified documents he had at Mar-a-Lago, that they presented a danger to national security, the first time in history the FBI staged an armed raid on the residence of a former U.S. president! Every U.S. president has found himself accidentally absconding with such documents amidst the tens of thousands of items he has to remove from the White House when he leaves. Finally, there are the above-mentioned bookkeeping errors which leftist New York turned into “felonies” just for this prosecution (they changed the law for this case).
They’ve been told that the Democrat-hijacked legal system and its procedures represent the “rule of law.”
Then there were the earlier lies about Russian collusion, the origins of which were traced back to Big Intel and the Clinton Foundation. There were the earlier lies about Charlottesville, who really provoked the violence, and the circumstances of Heather Heyer’s death.
There have been ongoing lies about Trump telling thousands of lies and spreading “misinformation” when he was questioning official narratives.
To this day, corporate media maintains the cover stories on most of these — and if you question them you’re a “fascist” or a “racist” or a “conspiracy theorist.”
We the People have had enough lies! We’ve had enough official narratives!
We’ve had enough of Globalism, and Cultural Marxism!
It’s time to TAKE AMERICA BACK!
Where do we go from here?
It’s one thing to say all this, though, and another to do it. Early in his speech Trump spoke of the need to “heal” the nation. That’s the truth.
If it’s time to stop the lying, it’s time to start the healing and the rebuilding.
And to tell the truth, wherever we know what it is and can do so.
There are the things Trump is emphasizing, such as stopping the colonization of the country by illegal migrants and restoring the economy.
Then there’s what he doesn’t emphasize as much … such as education, which is badly in need of reform.
He’s said he would abolish the Department of Education.
That will do for a start. Get rid of the hundreds of thousands of paper pushers who either never spent a day in any classroom or fled the classroom due to incompetence.
Imagine the money that will free up that could be used for real educational institutions (and we need new ones!).
Here’s an agenda: recover what is true about the world, versus what isn’t true. Recover what we can identify as the conditions of a healthy civilization and start restoring those from the 30-plus year demolition job done by the cultural left.
These last, of course, would have to be spread across several articles, so I will stop here by congratulating President Trump on his victory over the real forces of darkness in this country … and by repeating my warning over what the leftist-globalist alliance might try between now and January.
There are things I’ve not mentioned which still loom in the background, such as the threat of the forced adoption of central bank digital currencies, and the Great Taking.
Let’s arrange things so that globalists don’t dare even try!
Paraphrasing what Thomas Jefferson wisely said over 200 years ago, though, vigilance has always been the price tag of liberty, and always will be.
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Steven Yates is a (recovering) ex-academic with a PhD in Philosophy. He taught for more than 15 years total at several universities in the Southeastern U.S. He authored three books, more than 20 articles, numerous book reviews, and review essays in academic journals and anthologies. Refused tenure and unable to obtain full-time academic employment (and with an increasing number of very fundamental philosophical essays refused publication in journals), he turned to alternative platforms and heretical notions, including about academia itself.
In 2012 he moved to Chile. He married a Chilean national in 2014. Among his discoveries in South America: the problems of the U.S. are problems everywhere, because human nature is the same everywhere. The problems are problems of Western civilization as a whole.
As to whether he’ll stay in Chile … stay tuned!
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