Happy New Year, America! As Ronald Reagan once said, “It is morning in America.” Once again, a strong Republican president must clean up the mess left by a weak Democrat president. Reagan had to do it when he followed the Jimmy Carter administration, and Trump had to do it in his first term when he followed the eight-year-long Barack Obama administration.
Now Trump must clean up the even bigger mess left by the Joe Biden administration. Victor Davis Hanson explains the situation as only he can.
A combination of two self-evident truths.
Joe Biden’s inept administration proved an
ungodly disaster, not just for America but for the West as well, who looked
abroad for a stronger America but found it weaker.
And second, Trump Invictus is now
liberated – “In the fell clutch of circumstance / I have not winced nor cried
aloud, / Under the bludgeonings of chance / My head is bloody, but unbowed.”
He is without worry over another election,
or a discredited and defanged media (“so doves do peck the falcon’s piercing
talons”), much less a third Nancy Pelosi-contrived impeachment.
Instead, he stalks indomitable, after failed
de-balloting capers, failed lawfare vendettas, and failed assassination
attempts. To quote Shakespeare of his recent visit to Notre Dame and the once
hostile Euro crowd who now mobbed him, “He doth bestride the narrow world /
Like a Colossus, and we petty men / Walk under his huge legs and peep about /
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.”
In sum, our weakest president is to be
followed by our most audacious.
Biden’s bumbling arrogance nearly
destroyed the American military in Kabul. It ruined Western deterrence. It
showered the creepy Taliban with a multibillion-dollar windfall arsenal.
His lies, his incompetence, and, yes, his
narcissism demoralized Americans and our allies, but at least ensured he would
never reach 50% approval again.
What immediately followed from the Kabul
nightmare was as bad or indeed worse: two theater-wide wars in Ukraine and the
Middle East, appeasement of Iran, hammering of Israel, a nonexistent U.S.
border, 12 million illegal aliens, the hyperinflation of staples, the
weaponization of the executive branch, third-world lawfare, looting and shoplifting
legitimized, spiking crime contextualized, and printing trillions of debased
dollars normalized.
Biden sought to turn the once-preeminent
U.S. military into a cruel cultural woke joke.
The trainwreck of the last four years was
force-multiplied by Biden’s own feebleness, masked by the most scandalous
media-politico conspiracy of suppression of it in U.S. history.
But now there is a giddy sense that
restoration and normalization are not just possible but on the horizon.
The truth now is set free, and it smothers
the old lying denials about the origins of COVID, about the truth of
diversity/equity/inclusion, about the naked greed of the Biden family
syndicate, about the dementia of Joe, about the chauvinism of three sexes, and
about the joy and momentum of the fracking, gun-toting, McDonald’s veteran and
border hawk Kamala Harris.
No one fears or listens to the
now-defenestrated frauds and tiring dissimulators: the Bidens, a Fauci,
Mayorkas, Garland, Milley, Austin, Jean-Pierre, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, or
McCabe – and their old lies that Hunter is brilliant, Biden is fit as a
[fiddle], no gain-in-function viruses, a bat caused COVID, the border is
secure, Chinese army generals are more trustworthy than Trump, the laptop was
Russian, Trump is a Putin puppet, and always their nauseating “I can’t recall,”
“I don’t remember,” “I have no recollection,” and “I am not at liberty to say.”
Our allies are feeling more confident, our
enemies scared.
The idea of an impending deterrent and
reliable Trump administration has terrified Iran and helped collapse Syria.
Israelis buoyant. Not so Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis.
In anticipation, the dollar reigns, the
stock market stays strong.
Even Trump’s traditional enemies, whether
on Wall Street, Silicon Valley, or in corporate board rooms are whispering that
they secretly are delighted with their old nemesis’s dream of more and cheaper
energy, less government regulation and taxation, and confidence again that everything
is now possible when a government says an exhilarant yes to dreams rather than
a crabby no to them.
Suddenly the woke bullies are on the run.
The porous border really can be closed; illegal alien gangs and criminals will
be sent packing….
Each of us, at least for this brief window
of opportunity, again feels, “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of
my soul.”
It
is morning in America once again, but the mess left by the Biden administration
is both wide and deep. We will notice some changes right away, but extensive
changes may take time. Trump and his administration can do much to bring sanity
back to America, but they need the help of all Americans
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