I went to bed last night around midnight, Eastern Time, with the Presidential count leaning towards Trump. It wasn’t officially recognized yet, but the pattern was pretty clear. He was clearly ahead in Georgia, and Michigan, and Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, and just barely ahead in Arizona. No word on Alaska or Nevada, but there was little reason to doubt he’d take both of those easily. Everyone has been saying for months now that it was likely to all come down to Pennsylvania, but the maps told a different story: Trump was ahead by far enough, in enough other states, that he could lose PA and still easily win.
And yet, I’m ashamed to admit, I doubted. I wavered. I’d seen similar cause for optimism 4 years ago, only to wake up the next morning and find the numbers inexplicably pulled out from under us under circumstances far too many people have been far too willing to subject to as little scrutiny as possible.
I had seen President Trump’s life miraculously saved, by turning his head at precisely the right time to dodge a bullet that “should have” killed him. I’d seen attempt after attempt to somehow bring him down fail. I’d seen virtually every source of evidence, other than the polls which I knew full-well to have a significant leftward bias, predicting a clear, easy Trump victory. And yet I fell asleep feeling much like the father from Mark chapter 9: “Lord, I believe; help thou my unbelief.”
Morning in America
Then I woke up this morning to a very different story. It wasn’t going to take days and days to count Pennsylvania, as everyone had been predicting. Trump won it. Trump won the other “blue wall” states of Michigan and Wisconsin. Trump won Georgia. Trump won every single one of the states people were calling “too close to call,” “toss-up” and “battleground states” a few days ago.
Trump won!
And he won clearly and decisively. The numbers aren’t all final yet, but it’s looking like the final electoral count will be 312-226, a bigger margin than Biden ended up with, and a bigger margin than he won by in 2016. He won about 7% more (as of this moment) overall votes than Harris, so Leftists can’t claim he lost the (nonexistent) “popular vote”. Republicans won the Senate back and, though not all the results are in yet, it sure looks like we’re keeping control of the House of Representatives too. A Republican governor even won in Puerto Rico, despite manufactured controversy over a tasteless joke someone told at a recent rally. Both the abortion and the marijuana ballot measures in Florida were defeated.
It’s a very, very good morning.
No “joy” on the Left
Remember when the media tried to make us all believe that Kamala Harris, one of the worst Presidential candidates in history, being anointed as the party nominee after never winning a single primary delegate was creating “joy” among Democrats? Yeah. That didn’t happen. Not all the numbers are in, and what data we do have I haven’t had time to do any serious analysis on, but it sure looks like, generally speaking, Trump got about the same number of votes as he did in 2020 while Dem voter turnout simply collapsed. Even if you don’t believe the official numbers, that Joe Biden somehow actually got 81 million votes in 2020, the turnout numbers we’re seeing for Harris are just catastrophically below predictions.
Gee, who’da thunk it? Running one of the worst candidates of all time doesn’t get people excited to vote for you. Talking relentlessly about how you’re going to make things better that you made worse, and the guy who made all these things better just a few years ago was going to make them worse, doesn’t get people excited to vote for you. Repeatedly giving incoherent messes of non-answers to relevant questions asked by voters and interviewers doesn’t get people excited to vote for you. The thing that’s been obvious ever since the Afghanistan withdrawal, and inevitable since the 1-2 punch of the failed assassination attempt and the Biden debate, actually did happen afterall.
If you’ve been paying attention to reality, and not to the media trying to spin things, you’ve seen this coming for years now, and you were right. We had reality vs. chaos and insanity on the ballot last night, and reality won decisively.
We were ready this time
Over at National Review, there’s a whole lot of coping and a fair bit of gaslighting going on. Mark Antonio Wright is asking, if the Democrats are really cheaters who steal elections, why didn’t they steal this one?
Dude. Mark. Have you really not been paying attention? They tried! We had instances of Antifa terrorists firebombing ballot dropboxes in multiple states. We had election workers in Pennsylvania try to shut down both early and Election Day voting in red districts. We had the Biden DOJ actively interfering with efforts to keep illegal immigrants from voting. We had officials trying to keep Republican poll observers away from the counting efforts.
But this time around, we were ready for it, with legal teams on standby to shut down their tricks. (Except for the firebombs. But those don’t seem to have had much of an effect, thankfully.) We got the citizens in to vote. We got the states to take illegals off the ballot. We got the votes counted in a fair and timely fashion. Because we were prepared for it.
Why were they unable to cheat their way to victory this time? Three words: Forewarned! Is! Forearmed!
Don’t get complacent
It’s tempting to just declare victory here, celebrate, and enjoy the hard-earned win. Wokeness has been openly in retreat for the better part of this entire year, culminating in the events of last night. And maybe we’ve earned a bit of celebrating.
But just remember, the purpose of a retreat is to regroup. To “live to fight another day,” as the saying goes. We’ve still got a long way to go before we can call any real victory in the fight against the extreme Left.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
— Ephesians 6: 12-13
Have these words ever been so apt? We won an important battle last night, but the war continues.
Keep your armor on.
Do you still believe Trump to have been the better choice, given his performance so far in this second of his administrations?