“What a glorious morning this is!” —Samuel Adams (1775)

Just ahead of the presidential election, Harris declared, “There is an overwhelming call for a fresh start.” Turns out, she was right!

A few weeks ago, I began contemplating how I would respond to the two potential outcomes of the 2024 election. At the top of my worksheet, I noted that if Donald Trump was reelected, I would make this the shortest column I have ever written — just two words: “Thank God!”

While that alone would suffice, Trump’s victory is a historic comeback, and worthy of some additional context.

This week marks the 40th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s historic 1984 landslide reelection.

I graduated college the year of Reagan’s election in 1980 — having spent the previous four years enduring the catastrophically failed domestic and foreign policies of Jimmy Carter. From the ashes of those failures, Reagan rose, defeating Carter in the general election by carrying 44 states.

Unlike any other president in the preceding decades, Reagan was, in fact, a uniter — so much so that he was reelected in 1984 by historic margins, winning 49 of 50 states. He lost only Minnesota, the home state of his opponent Walter Mondale, Carter’s former vice president — and by only 3,800 votes, at that. Oh, and, of course, he lost the bureaucratic stronghold of the District of Columbia.

Reagan won 525 electoral votes (the most in history) and 58.8% of the popular vote. That was a very RED map.

On his decision to become a Republican, Reagan noted: “I did not leave the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party left me.” On voting Republican, he declared, “I know what it’s like to pull the Republican lever for the first time because I used to be a Democrat myself, and I can tell you it only hurts for a minute, and then it feels just great.”

Yesterday, millions of Americans learned for the first time just how great it really feels!

How fitting that on this anniversary, we had the privilege of being up all night, watching President Donald Trump soundly defeat socialist Kamala Harris and the corrupt Biden/Harris regime, a perilous threat to “democracy.”

Trump’s considerable and well-documented record of domestic and foreign policy successes stands in stark contrast to the abysmal Biden/Harris record of policy failures, especially their long list of disastrous foreign policy decisions over the last almost four years. Still, Trump had an enormous uphill battle.

Trump would have covered Biden in a sea of red, but once Harris kicked Biden to the curb, this became a slog.

The Demo Machine had and has a well-oiled strategy to rig this and future elections, predicated on their 2020 election three-prong approach.

First, over the last four years they have orchestrated a massive effort to suppress (conservative) free speech by collaborating with their Leftmedia publicists and social media platforms, in order to keep a chokehold on public opinion.

Second use deep state assets to set up Trump and other candidates for lawfare prosecutions.

And the third prong, they have very effectively implemented their bulk-mail ballot fraud strategy promoting the inclusion of unauthenticated votes by mail and in person.

Combined, this is precisely how Demos plan to perpetuate permanent majority control of the executive and legislative branches — and ultimately, state governments nationwide. Their planned systemic election corruption, if left unchecked, will become virtually impossible to undo, which is to say that Republicans must use their majority tenure to stop this strategy.

Those machinations notwithstanding, against the odds, astoundingly Trump dodged another bullet — and, by extension, so did all Americans who love our country and embrace our legacy of Liberty.

Amazingly, and a testament first and foremost to a groundswell of grassroots American Patriots, Trump and JD Vance not only won the electoral vote 312 to 226, but they have a lead in the popular vote (currently 75,899,000 to 72,889,000), which I hope they will hold if California ever completes its vote count.

The Democrats have a significant disconnect with grassroots folks, and consequently this election took the completely by surprise. But I can tell you one thing that was no surprise – of all the states Harris won, only two, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, require a photo ID to vote.

Trump and Vance increased their voter constituencies broadly, most notably women (+2%), men (+3%), Latino/Hispanic (+15%), black (+5%), Asian (5%) and young voters (+10%). Additionally, compared to Biden’s 2020 support from suburban and college educated women, the Democrat’s most loyal constituency, Harris lost ground with that demographic.

The Trump/Vance ticket won about 13% of black voters and 47% of Latino voters. In 2020, Trump won 8% of Black voters and 32% of Latinos. The increases were primarily among black and latino/hispanic men.

The Trump/Vance ticket won Catholic voters nationwide by 58%, that 18-point margin being the largest voting gap in decades.

Trump earned a “YUGE” 50% increase in support from Jewish voters in New York, winning about 45% of that vote compared to just 30% in 2020. Who would have thought they would support the “NAZI Party.” While predictably, he lost deep blue New York with only 44 percent of the vote, that was a 12-point improvement over 2020. Of course, it was Peanut the squirrel and Fred the raccoon who helped Trump win New York.

Heck, even the Amish were campaigning hard against Harris, which helped Trump and Vance win Pennsylvania.

And in California, were some big chunks of blue turned red, Harris’ hometown voters booted “progressive” politicos.

Harris’s sidekick, Tim Walz, of stolen valor infamy, lost his home county in rural Minnesota, and he and Harris also lost the county of his birth and youth, Cuming County, Nebraska, by a 60 point margin.

Trump and Vance were was outspent 4-1 by the leftist billionaires and their collaborators, Harris spending more than $1.1 billion and ending up tens-of-millions in debt – this from the candidate who was going to “fix our economy.” But, that could not overcome the words Trump borrowed from Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”

The success of that question hinged on whether Trump could make the case that Harris was Biden 2.0, despite her deceptive socialist “New Way Forward” slogan.

Attempting to get to the bottom of why they lost, predictably, the Demos formed a circular firing squad, blaming each other. But the fact is, they are ALL to blame.

To that point, the Party’s elder socialist, Sen. Bernie Sanders, declared, “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”

Obama’s former chief of staff, David Axelrod, muddled through a similar conclusion: “I think we owe people the respect for what they do and what they mean, you know, and all these blue-collar workers and people who do things with their hands in the back, they make this country go. [They] feel like they are thought of as less and that their priorities are not the priorities of the Democratic Party.”

There reason for that, as Axelrod concluded, is the Democratic Party “itself has increasingly become a smarty-pants, suburban, college-educated party and it lends itself to the kind of backlash that we’ve seen.”

Notably, Axelrod’s comments about “all these blue-collar workers and people who do things with their hands,” is drenched with evidence of how detached he and his left-elite ilk have become. I suspect Axelrod, like most white-privilege suburban Demos, has not one substantive personal relationship with any “deplorable.”

The hard reality is, on Election Day, a huge coalition of voters composed of what Harris and her ilk described as “deplorable,” “fascist,” and “garbage” — Americans from all walks of life — broke through the Demo hate and division barriers to vote for Trump and other Republicans nationwide.

Clearly, the Republican Party is, once again, the Party of working men and women, the Party of American families, the Party of Liberty, just as it was under the leadership of President Reagan — until George H.W. Bush managed to undo much of the grassroots unity Reagan created. It has been born again, as reflected in our mission statement, to sustain the endowment of American Liberty in this generation and extend it to the next by, first, advocating for individual rights and responsibilities; second, supporting the restoration of constitutional limits on government and the judiciary; and third, promoting free enterprise, national defense, and traditional American values.

In addition to the presidency, Republicans have retaken the Senate with what could be a 54-plus-seat majority, and the implication for the composition of the Supreme Court with appointments over the next two years is enormous — as it was when Trump was elected in 2016. Also, I suspect Republicans will retain their narrow majority in the House.

All being said, as you well know, it is going to be very challenging for Trump, Vance and their administration to clean up the domestic and foreign policy disasters Biden and Harris have created and are leading behind in their wake. And as Trump endeavors to do that, the Demos will redouble their efforts to thwart his administrative efforts, and will continue to suppress Liberty on all fronts.

But, as a wise elder once advised me in the midst of a disaster, “Start where you are and move on from there.” And we are prepared to do just that in order to “Make America Great Again” (also Reagan’s 1980 campaign slogan).

A couple of final notes…

First, what distressed me most about the prospect of a Harris/Walz victory was that Harris would become commander-in-chief for 1.3 million uniformed American Patriots. Just one heartbeat away from that command would be her disgraceful VP candidate Tim “Stolen Valor” Walz.

Now, one heartbeat away from Trump, who already has the overwhelming support of military personnel and Veterans, is Marine Veteran JD Vance. You can rest easy with that Trump pick!

Second, we all owe a debt of gratitude to Elon Musk, who acquired the social media platform X for $44 billion. He did so with one objective: “I acquired X in order to preserve freedom of speech in America, the First Amendment, and I’m going to stick to that, and if that means making less money, so be it.” Of his alliance with Trump, he said: “I have never been materially active in politics before, but this time I think civilization as we know it is on the line. If we want to preserve freedom and a meritocracy in America, then Trump must win.”

Third, I am so grateful that America has been “unburdened from what has been!” Unfortunately, millions of Democrats refused to wash the Biden/Harris blood from their hands, opting instead to remain the vanguard of the Democrat Party’s “confederacy of dunces.” But many of them are not forever lost, and we must endeavor to win their hearts and minds in the coming years.

Finally, George Washington declared in 1790, “The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.”

Indeed.

Our Creator always has a plan, and I’m grateful His plan was revealed as such this week.

Thank God!

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