WAKING UP IN THE SAME AMERICA TODAY THAT I WOKE UP IN YESTERDAY, PRICELESS!!
The silent majority knew it was time to come out of the
shadows and vote! They wanted to preserve the American Dream, the Constitution,
and our Constitutional Republic when others, who were bought with entitlements,
free passage and supporting illegal immigrants and refugees with taxpayer’s
dollars to sway our election process!
The last 3 days I’ve been unable to share my thoughts, but
one thing is for sure, and that’s Trump should dump this pair of do nothing traitors
who took the money from the TPP bribe to betray the American worker!
IT’S TIME TO START DRAINING THE SWAMP, AND THE FIRST TWO TO
GO SHOULD BE PAUL RYAN, AND MITCH MCONNELL!!
GOOD BYE MITCH MCCONNELL!
GOOD BYE PAUL RYAN!
ANALYSIS: SIX THOUGHTS ON DONALD TRUMP’S BREATHTAKING
SURREAL UPSET VICTORY.
(1) This was an upset of epic proportions. Based on all the
available data -- including, reportedly, to the Trump campaign itself -- most
analysis did not see this coming. Myself
very much included. Based on polling and electoral models, the GOP nominee
looked like he needed to win every state carried by Mitt Romney in 2012, flip
Florida, Ohio, and Iowa, then find a way to break through Clinton's "blue
firewall" to cobbled together the remaining electoral tallies. I called
this plausible and laid out an accurate road map to how it could happen, but
did not believe he would pull it off. Not only did he do so, he burned the
so-called firewall to the ground. He won Wisconsin. He won
Pennsylvania, he won
an electoral vote in Maine. And as of this writing (5:00 am ET), he may yet win
Michigan and/or New Hampshire. These are feats no Republican presidential
ticket has accomplished in decades. The state-level polling was wrong. The data
was wrong. The models were wrong. Hidden
Trump voters were real. Rally sizes were
indicative of the enthusiasm gap. An
inferior ground game didn't matter. Getting outspent by a lot didn't matter
(the consecutive low-budget vanquishing of Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton
destroyed the Left's "money runs politics" meme). Having an
unfavorable rating of roughly 60 percent, with large majorities rejecting his
qualifications and temperament, didn't matter.
A sizable chunk of those people voted for him anyway. Much, much more on these details to come!
(2) The abject political humiliation of Hillary Rodham
Clinton is complete. She's spent
practically her entire adult life building up to this moment, and she choked,
losing to Donald Trump -- the least popular (per finalized exit polls)
presidential nominee in American polling history. We already knew that the American people
neither liked nor trusted Mrs. Clinton.
Now we know exactly how deep those sentiments ran. The Democratic establishment heavily tilted
their primary in the favor of an incorrigibly corrupt liar, and they've paid an
extraordinary political price for their myopic machinations. Hillary Clinton may have wriggled off the
hook for her many scandals, but fate caught up with her. Her ultimate indictment was delivered by the
American people.
(3) The policy legacy of President Barack Obama is a
smoldering wreckage. Trump ran as the
anti-Obama in virtually every way imaginable, and he prevailed. Obama explicitly argued that the election of
Hillary Clinton was necessary to secure his legacy; voters responded with a
decisive, "no thanks." It's
all in jeopardy now. The reckless Iran
deal. The failing, unpopular Obamacare
scheme. The slew of legally dubious
executive orders. And the list goes
on. Obama will now hand over the White
House and the highest office in the land to a man who effectively launched his
political career by questioning his eligibility to hold that office. It's truly unbelievable.
(5) Senate Republicans' decision to follow the Biden Rule
and decline to confirm the lame duck president's Supreme Court pick to replace
the late Justice Scalia has been vindicated.
The people must decide this election first, they argued. And now the people have spoken. Donald Trump has floated a strong list of
possible nominees, and conservatives must do what they can to hold him
accountable and ensure that he follows through on his pledge to appoint a
jurist in the Scalia
model. If he does,
this is a massive, massive victory for constitutionalists, and a devastating
blow to Democrats, who were licking their chops over tugging the federal
judiciary significantly to the left. The
courts were the top reason to oppose Clinton's candidacy, in my view.
(6) I've made no secret of my views on Donald Trump. Those views have not changed -- although I
was very happy to describe his victory speech as gracious, magnanimous, humble,
serious, conciliatory, and yes, even presidential. I pray that he will internalize and respect
the profound awesomeness of the office and the power it entails. I will pray for our new president. Over the course of my opposition to Trump,
people have asked me what I would do if he were to win. I answered that question in a mid-September
essay:
If he should win, I'll admit that I was wrong about his
viability (I've consistently pegged his chances of prevailing at about 20
percent, largely because his opponent is so terrible), celebrate America's
delicious rejection of Mrs. Clinton, relish the brutal affront to Obamaism, and
set about supporting and opposing Trump's actions in office, as necessary. I
appreciate that many will disagree with this approach, but it's the best I've
got under the circumstances. My job, as I see it, is to offer political
reporting, analysis, and commentary rooted in reason and prudential judgment,
and guided by a moral compass -- and to do so with intellectual honesty and
transparency.
I meant every word of that.
And now here we are today. The
'20 percent' miracle happened, thanks in large measure to the surpassing,
historic terribleness of Hillary Clinton.
The
"unelectable" man was elected. (Yes, the stronger showings of other major Republicans
down-ballot strongly indicate that a less flawed GOP nominee may have crushed
her by an even more astonishing margin, but that argument is moot now). I continue to harbor grave worries about the
temperament, character and ideological underpinnings of President-elect
Trump.
I'll leave you with this throwback to the day Hillary
Clinton clinched the Democratic nomination for president. I called her the
"Unpopular, Corrupt, Shameless Habitual Liar Democrats Deserve." In a
year in which I've been wrong about several things -- defensibly so, I'd argue,
but wrong nevertheless -- I was right about her. And with that: Onward, to this
new, improbable chapter in American history. ~~Guy Benson | Posted: Nov 09, 2016 5:01 AM
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