It appears to be a clean sweep. Former President Donald Trump is now the President-Elect. The U.S. Senate has fallen into the hands of Republicans, and the U.S. House has followed in its train. The conservative wing of the Republican Party is pretending not to gloat.
Leading Democrats are in abject disarray. Their party lies
broken between two opposing groups – those who have vowed to continue an absurd
politics dramatically rejected by a plurality of voters, and those, fewer in
number, who value prudence above campaign braggadocio.
Some Democrats have suggested a corrective move to what used
to be considered the vital “moderate” center of American politics, but this too
may pass. It was German Chancellor Otto
von Bismarck who noted that Americans never solve their most pressing problems,
choosing instead to “amicably bid them goodbye.”
The Democrat effort to install as president a candidate that
had awkwardly bypassed all the checks and balances of conventional American
presidential politics – primary contests, the production during a national
nominating convention of a coherent party platform, frequent admiring interviews
by a friendly left-leaning legacy media – was a spectacular failure, as was the
attempt to smear Trump and his supporters as fascists in utero.
Trump’s virtues are his vices. It has often been said by his
supporters that he is no politician, but rather an astute businessman given to
making deals, some of them tenuous, with assorted competitors. It is not
impossible to imagine an astute historian writing, ten or twenty years hence,
that Trump could not have won the presidency in 2024 without the unwitting
assistance provided by dirty-trickster Democrats with knives in their brains
who had hoped to jail Trump before he had accomplished a clean sweep of the
presidency, the US Senate, and the US House of Representatives.
Behold their handiwork. Here in Connecticut, Senators Dick
Blumenthal and Chris Murphy have lost political clout as chairmen of this or
that committee or sub-committee whose chief business it is to secure the reelection
to office of Blumenthal and Murphy. The five Connecticut Democrats who serve in
the US House also have lost considerable clout. The day after Trump won the
Senate, the humorous and caustic New York Post featured Majority Leader Chuck
Schumer on its front page under a screaming headline: “CHUCKED OUT; Republicans
to flip Senate, oust Schumer from power.”
Blumenthal, the Hartford Courant tells us, is now
encouraging a Democrat led Senate to confirm 26 federal judges before the new
Congress convenes on January 3, and good luck with that.
The United States is still engaged in two world-changing
foreign wars, one in Ukraine and one in Israel. Afghanistan has been
redelivered to the Taliban, who have proceeded to imprison women in burkas or
niqabs and deny them public education on doubtful religious grounds, without
causing eruptions here in the United States among ardent women’s liberation
groups.
Even after their rout, Democrats continue to argue falsely
that the Supreme Court decision reversing Roe
v Wade had deprived women of a constitutional right to abortion or, as
abortion rights activists prefer to call it, women’s “health care.”
Connecticut has since 1991 incorporated Roe v Wade into its state statutes, and Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the high court
decision that reversed Roe v Wade,
supports the right of state legislatures to make decisions affecting abortion.
The high court justices -- including, most notably, Ruth
Bader Ginsberg -- found that Roe v Wade
had been injudiciously decided and that state legislatures, rather than court
officials, should decide all such highly fractious political issues. Dobbs, in fact, prevents courts from
judicially readjusting reasonable state legislative decisions affecting
abortion. Listening to fright-mongers in the recent election, one would wrongly
suppose that Dobbs deprived women in
Connecticut of abortion options. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Dobbs decision prevents courts from
reversing Connecticut’s hyper-progressive abortion laws.
Democrats erected their 2024 national campaign on the shaky
pillars of abortion and public distaste for Republican presidential candidate
Trump, pricked by suits and threats of imprisonment in cases that some judicial
scholars regard as spurious.
None of it worked. All of it was impotent political yeast
that did not make the dough rise.
And the American public recognized the Harris-Walz
subterfuge a distraction that drew attention away from a defective campaign.
Trump is not a fascist. Hidden campaigns, too clever by far, are prospectively
undemocratic. The distaste shown by the Biden-Harris administration for Prime
Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu was perceived by the general public as
imprudent at a time when Israel was conducting an apparently winning war with
its most bitter enemies, seven Iranian supported terrorist groups.
At some point, the Democrat Party will bid goodbye amicably
to its most disruptive elements –- warmly embraced WOKE agitators, larval
mini-Marxists, the DEI college professoriate, and idiot Hamas supporting
students at Yale, Harvard and Columbia, at which point sense will return to the
cast-off party of John F. Kennedy and the late departed Joe Lieberman.
And what a great waking-up morning that will be.
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