WOW!
Just plain wow!
I went into Election 2016 with high hopes, but I must say
that I was not totally surprised …
Oh, OK, I WAS!
Look, I was convinced that Trump would carry New Hampshire
along with all the states that George W. Bush had carried in 2004 (except for
Colorado and New Mexico), plus that one house seat in Maine.
Good enough, right?
But Trump overdelivered!
At a victory party in Redondo Beach, I turned into a
right-wing version of Howard Dean: “He won Pennsylvania! And Michigan! And Wisconsin!
And he’s gonna take the White House! Yeaaaagh!”
Some people looked at me like I was crazy. Anyone would have
been crazy to think that Trump would sweep the Rust Belt.
I had my hopes, but they became a reality on Election Day.
What a deal!
My South Bay home is generally a sleepy place in a blue
state—so blue, that even reliably Republican Orange County, CA took on a slight
azure shade on Election Night. Yet even with a sad turn of events in California
(another article for another day), there is too much to rejoice about.
And that’s just the Presidential election (About the US
Senate … another article, another day).
I rejoice with the #NotTrumps, of which I was one. Hey, give
me a break. I needed a record or something to trust. Now that I see he is the
real deal, I am ready to make deals with this President.
I rejoice with the cynics who are simply glad that Hillary
was stopped.
But there is so much about what happened on Election night!
1. Instead of amnesty-hispandering on amnesty, Trump talked building
a big beautiful wall. And he won! Build
the wall, repeal Obamacare, rescind the executive orders, then Lock Her Up and
throw away the key! How could the RNC autopsy group have gotten their 2012 loss
so wrong? Because they were listening to people who had been indoctrinated with
a media line that the answer to a political party’s problems lies in rejecting
Americanism and giving into a leftist, elitist, globalist i.e. Democratic
agenda.
2. Trump actually outperformed Mitt Romney with “minorities”.
I believe that these numbers will trend for the better as more Americans—regardless
of their skin color—recognize that conservatism is for everyone, a
color-neutral agenda which benefits the working man as much as the billionaire,
with no cronyism and no other favoritism than God’s grace.
The American Dream is for everyone, without hand-outs or
bigger government at the expense of individual liberty.
3. The trade deals! NAFTA,
TPP, OMG! The trade deals have been raw deals for this country. I admit that I
haven’t paid attention to how slanted they were toward the politically connected
corporations at the expense of every one of us regarding our international
trade. Don’t get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with able-bodied citizens
forming a business partnership, but no company should get an easy deal or
better regulations because they know a guy in Washington DC. That game ends
today.
4. Evangelical Christians, all voters of faith turned out in
YUGE numbers. Finally, they realized
that sitting out this election was not an option. Dinesh D’Souza’s cautionary
speech to Liberty University was a welcome reality check. We need to put
our principles in practice, not just hold meetings, rant about the state of
affairs, but not worth with what we’ve got. A red sea of Biblical moralist is
washing away the Left-wing filth that defines the Obama Administrations’
tattered, teetering legacy.
5. The pollsters were all blown out of the water. Aside from
the one or two who had predicted a Brexit victory earlier this year, pollsters
have egg on their face, along with the rest of the breakfast banquet. I just
loved seeing those arrogant bean-counting academics getting kicked in the
teeth, and then have to a muster a smile and apologize at length.
Larry Sabato was groveling and rolling all over his website:
“Mea
Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa!” Here’s why the pollsters were wrong (if they
were genuinely tying to be accurate): the massive Trump-tsunami does not give a
Wikileaks drip-drop about academic opinions on elections. They don’t read
Sabato, Real Clear Politics, etc. They just want their country back, and they
want leaders who respect them and promise to “Make America Great Again.”
Those “people” looked down on by Beverly Hills supermodels,
public sector union bosses, La Raza activists, and anyone who lives and
breathes on a university campus—those “forgotten men and women” do not answer
polls, never get the calls, and just hang up the phone because they are too busy
living their lives, raising their families, enjoying or trying to hold onto
their American Dream.
Pollsters don’t understand these dynamics. Even free-market
enthusiasts like Libertarian
Cheerleader John Stossel missed it. Interesting enough, he released an
article on Election Day affirming a Clinton victory with a bare GOP hold on
Congress.
WRONG!
However, I agree with US Senator Rand Paul, that Sabato,
FiveThirtyEight.com, etc. were spinning numbers, doing everything they could to
stifle the Trump vote. This time, We the People were wise to it. Let’s never
forget what happened to Virginia US Senate candidate Ed Gillespie on Election
Night 2014. Polls with double-digit downers for our candidates will no longer
serve as the last word on anyone’s viability. Never again.
In 2014, I was jumping out of my seat, then trolling the
local Democratic club leader when Republicans took back the US Senate. This
year, for three days straight I have been celebrating this consummate GOP winning
streak!
Just awesome!
If nothing else, this Trump-tastic victory radiates a new
birth of freedom and a total abrupt disdain for the arrogant, elitst, globalist
phalanx of K Street, Wall Street, and the New York Times Fifth Avenue
chattering classes.
God Bless Donald Trump!
As for the media, the GOP Establishment, the lying press and
their handlers, and all the Democratic party hacks: “You’re Fired!
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