I fell asleep final night time watching election protection and praying for a powerful Trump victory, waking myself a number of occasions to the sound of speaking heads on the tv pouring over predictions and discussing each candidates’ paths to the White Home. I’m undecided precisely what time it was when my fiance woke me as much as inform me that sufficient of the numbers had are available in to declare President Trump the winner, however the announcement set my thoughts relaxed and allowed me a number of further hours of relaxation.
This morning I discover myself reflecting on the irony of double requirements, lack of sophistication and a few of the obtrusive causes that Kamala Harris, and Democrats normally, ought to have simply been capable of predict their demise on the polls this election.
Radio Silence
Let’s begin with the very fact Kamala Harris determined to not tackle the nation final night time, as an alternative heading residence and leaving her supporters excessive and dry after they’d spent numerous hours ready for the Vice President to look. Even when Harris was holding out for extra concrete numbers, she might have mentioned that and thanked steadfast advocates for his or her dedication to the marketing campaign. Selecting to be a no-show is disgraceful, and if she will be able to do this to her personal folks, we’ve to marvel when or if a concession name can be made to President-Elect Donald Trump. The irony of the double normal takes form whenever you suppose again to previous criticism positioned on President Trump and his supporters for his or her skepticism and hesitation relating to the 2020 election outcomes.
What’s extra essential for the nation, nevertheless, is the reflection on what went mistaken for Democrats, and the truth that the reply to that query can also be the idea for why the US has turn into so polarized. Whereas the self-sabotage record is lengthy and distinguished by topics resembling identification politics, open borders, taxpayer-funded gender transitions for convicted criminals and numerous different absurdities, it will probably all extra merely be boiled all the way down to the progressive embrace of the novel woke agenda.
Polarization takes place when two teams discover their opinions and beliefs in such stark distinction that their variations turn into irreconcilable. With conservatives, I don’t see a lot has modified through the years, and what has advanced appears to have come within the type of elevated tolerance, acceptance and a willingness to know concepts and existence that have been as soon as thought of overseas or taboo. Other than that, it’s enterprise as standard, advocating for smaller authorities, defending inalienable rights enshrined within the Structure and selling robust household values.
Left-Leaning Outer House
In distinction, Democrats have launched themselves into leftist outer area, taking part in host to woke insurance policies which have set us again to the extent that we should now query what makes a person and what makes a lady, licensing society’s sycophantically unwell to assault others based mostly on pronouns, arguing in opposition to the fact that solely a lady can provide delivery and that one way or the other it’s racist to need folks to immigrate into the nation legally. The left has overtly supported defunding the police and promoted socialism. They’ve flooded our southern border to the purpose that we’ve tens of millions right here illegally, a lot of whom place an excellent monetary pressure on our means to supply social providers and catastrophe aid, and worse, many gang members and criminals spreading violence and terrorizing residents throughout the nation. Democrats have additionally continued to indicate their willingness to recreation the system by threatening to pack the Supreme Courtroom and flaunting their means to weaponize the judicial system in opposition to political opponents.
Democrats have even colluded with personal companies to restrict free speech in blatant violation of the First Modification of the US Structure, which comes as no shock to those that have spent years defending the Second Modification in opposition to the left’s want to dismantle and abolish the proper. Considering again 20 years, I can recall way more rural liberals standing up for gun rights, nevertheless, the radicalization of the get together has turned the argument into an all-or-nothing subject as anti-gun politicians and organizations have seized management of the dialogue throughout the Democratic get together.
Second Modification Fail
We all know the place Kamala Harris stands on the Second Modification, however that isn’t essentially what she tried to promote publically late within the marketing campaign. Prior to now, Harris made a concerted effort to distance herself from liberal colleagues, attempting to show she was essentially the most anti-gun, by calling for a ban on the manufacturing and sale of semi-automatic firearms together with a declaration that she would confiscate these firearms already owned. Later, she insulted People’ intelligence, downplaying the concept of confiscation by as an alternative calling for a “obligatory buy-back,” however the authorities can’t purchase again that which it didn’t promote, and obligatory merely means to conform or face felony expenses. I feel we’ve a phrase for that. It’s referred to as confiscation.
Throughout the marketing campaign, nevertheless, Harris modified her tone, claiming she now not helps confiscation, as if to say that her continued help for banning semi-automatic firearms isn’t a blatant violation of the Structure she swears to guard out of the opposite aspect of her mouth. She even rolled out “Tampon” Tim Waltz, an Elmer Fudd-like caricature of a Second Modification-supporting liberal who made for higher memes than did the cackle-prone confiscation queen herself. People noticed proper by way of this terrible schtick for what it was, extra lies and deception, which have permeated her marketing campaign, and leftist politics normally, on all prevailing points.
Other than this failing agenda, the Harris marketing campaign picked up the place Biden left off, focusing their race as a referendum on Trump quite than any effort to elucidate to People why we’re at the moment within the precarious form we’re in and what they plan to do to vary it. Even the hot-button matter of abortion didn’t be a galvanizing power as you may solely marketing campaign on killing infants a lot earlier than it finally ends up sounding morbid.
Moreover, Harris was unable and unwilling to separate herself from an unpopular President Biden, whose approval rankings have hovered round 40% for many of his 4 years within the White Home, the lesson right here being you can’t rally folks round an already failing agenda only for the sake of teamwork. It’s nearly not possible to step out as Vice President in help of your personal failing administration whereas telling People how significantly better you’re going to make issues for them in the event that they provide the huge promotion, and much more so whenever you’re on the ticket with out being voted there in any professional major election within the first place.
Message Despatched, Message Acquired
America has despatched a message with this election, and the message is that the novel left must backtrack to the middle. A return to normalcy is so as, not simply pretending to be regular whereas kowtowing and pandering to society’s fringe components. It’s notably admirable that the Founding design of our Constitutional Republic permits us to right our course after we get steered to this point astray. I hope that brief recollections discover longevity, nevertheless, as a lot work is important to repair the injury and heal the injuries brought on during the last 4 years of this administration, from inflation and a failing economic system to lawlessness and the assault on American liberties.
