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It appears to be a clean sweep. Former President Donald Trump is now the President-Elect. The U.S. Senate has fallen into the hands of Republicans, and the U.S. House has followed in its train. The conservative wing of the Republican Party is pretending not to gloat.
Leading Democrats are in abject disarray. Their party lies broken between two opposing groups – those who have vowed to continue an absurd politics dramatically rejected by a plurality of voters, and those, fewer in number, who value prudence above campaign braggadocio.
Some Democrats have suggested a corrective move to what used to be considered the vital “moderate” center of American politics, but this too may pass. It was German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck who noted that Americans never solve their most pressing problems, choosing instead to “amicably bid them goodbye.”
The Democrat effort to install as president a candidate that had awkwardly bypassed all the checks and balances of conventional American presidential politics – primary contests, the production during a national nominating convention of a coherent party platform, frequent admiring interviews by a friendly left-leaning legacy media – was a spectacular failure, as was the attempt to smear Trump and his supporters as fascists in utero.
Trump’s virtues are his vices. It has often been said by his supporters that he is no politician, but rather an astute businessman given to making deals, some of them tenuous, with assorted competitors. It is not impossible to imagine an astute historian writing, ten or twenty years hence, that Trump could not have won the presidency in 2024 without the unwitting assistance provided by dirty-trickster Democrats with knives in their brains who had hoped to jail Trump before he had accomplished a clean sweep of the presidency, the US Senate, and the US House of Representatives.
Behold their handiwork. Here in Connecticut, Senators Dick Blumenthal and Chris Murphy have lost political clout as chairmen of this or that committee or sub-committee whose chief business it is to secure the reelection to office of Blumenthal and Murphy. The five Connecticut Democrats who serve in the US House also have lost considerable clout. The day after Trump won the Senate, the humorous and caustic New York Post featured Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on its front page under a screaming headline: “CHUCKED OUT; Republicans to flip Senate, oust Schumer from power.”
Blumenthal, the Hartford Courant tells us, is now encouraging a Democrat led Senate to confirm 26 federal judges before the new Congress convenes on January 3, and good luck with that.
The United States is still engaged in two world-changing foreign wars, one in Ukraine and one in Israel. Afghanistan has been redelivered to the Taliban, who have proceeded to imprison women in burkas or niqabs and deny them public education on doubtful religious grounds, without causing eruptions here in the United States among ardent women’s liberation groups.
Even after their rout, Democrats continue to argue falsely that the Supreme Court decision reversing Roe v Wade had deprived women of a constitutional right to abortion or, as abortion rights activists prefer to call it, women’s “health care.”
Connecticut has since 1991 incorporated Roe v Wade into its state statutes, and Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the high court decision that reversed Roe v Wade, supports the right of state legislatures to make decisions affecting abortion.
The high court justices -- including, most notably, Ruth Bader Ginsberg -- found that Roe v Wade had been injudiciously decided and that state legislatures, rather than court officials, should decide all such highly fractious political issues. Dobbs, in fact, prevents courts from judicially readjusting reasonable state legislative decisions affecting abortion. Listening to fright-mongers in the recent election, one would wrongly suppose that Dobbs deprived women in Connecticut of abortion options. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Dobbs decision prevents courts from reversing Connecticut’s hyper-progressive abortion laws.
Democrats erected their 2024 national campaign on the shaky pillars of abortion and public distaste for Republican presidential candidate Trump, pricked by suits and threats of imprisonment in cases that some judicial scholars regard as spurious.
None of it worked. All of it was impotent political yeast that did not make the dough rise.
And the American public recognized the Harris-Walz subterfuge a distraction that drew attention away from a defective campaign. Trump is not a fascist. Hidden campaigns, too clever by far, are prospectively undemocratic. The distaste shown by the Biden-Harris administration for Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu was perceived by the general public as imprudent at a time when Israel was conducting an apparently winning war with its most bitter enemies, seven Iranian supported terrorist groups.
At some point, the Democrat Party will bid goodbye amicably to its most disruptive elements –- warmly embraced WOKE agitators, larval mini-Marxists, the DEI college professoriate, and idiot Hamas supporting students at Yale, Harvard and Columbia, at which point sense will return to the cast-off party of John F. Kennedy and the late departed Joe Lieberman.
And what a great waking-up morning that will be.
