Not Going Back
By Mitch Berg
Trump won. Perhaps you saw it in the papers.
So now what?
David Strom’s got the prescription at HotAir. One of a huge list of pullquotes:
Trump didn’t run to be a modest correction to the status quo, and he didn’t win because of any particular policy proposal. He won because a majority of Americans are disgusted by our establishment and how it has abused us.
Trump has a mandate. He must use it to remake the power structure in society.
Squishy Republicans in the House and Senate will hem and haw, squirm and squeal, and they will speak of caution and the midterms.
Don’t let them betray the millions of Americans who genuinely voted for the Trump Vance Musk Kennedy Shanahan Ramaswamy team. You don’t assemble a dream team to play T-ball.
Bureaucrats must be fired. The military leadership must be changed. The Department of Education should be axed. The FBI should be moved out of Washington. Entire agencies should be ejected from Washington and dispersed to the states. Anthony Fauci should be investigated, and when it is proven he committed perjury before Congress he should be jailed.
It’s time to clean the Augean stables, drain the swamp, or whatever metaphor you like to use for cleaning up a huge mess. It’s not just the policies that were bad; the entire system has been corrupted and must be replaced. If a #resistance exists, as it did in Trump’s first term, it must be rooted out and destroyed.
Trump’s first win reminded me of Jesse Ventura – nobody, least of all he, expected it. He governed creditably – even estimably – but there was the impression he was winging it.
Not this time. It can’t go that way.
Burn the swamp.
Because to borrow a phrase – I’m not going back.
November 7th, 2024 at 11:23 am
Shapiro has made the point several times that the Census f***ed up the Congressional Apportionment and has admitted to the issues. That should be corrected for the midterms. Getting a few more House Seats in Red States should be a good incentive. The fact that the several swing seats from 22 have already swung, should be the goad to govern like they’ll leave town in 2 years anyways.
Democrats lose power after they’ve done something that is rarely repealed.
Republicans lose power because they don’t use it over fears of losing power. It’s time to fix that.
November 8th, 2024 at 10:30 am
Quoth Governor Klink “Political capital is meant to be used.”
Use their own statements against them.
November 8th, 2024 at 2:23 pm
Burn the swamp, and the ships you used to cross it. There is no going back. The Left kept squealing that Trump would ignore or abuse the Constitution. There’s no need: the Constitution gives him all he needs to root this filth out. That’s probably why they’re so scared.
It is enticing, however, to imagine Trump taking them up on their proposal to expand the Supreme Court. Watching the heads explode as he picks three more justices would be worth all of the popcorn I’d have to buy.