An Extraordinary Election : Part II, The Revolution of 2016

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED LAST TUESDAY? • • • America had a revolution. Oh, to be sure, there were no guns or barricades or take-overs of TV stations or army troops leaving their barracks. But, there was a determined act -- voting -- on the part of 60 million Americans who had had enough. Enough of "big" government ignoring what actual Americans want from their representatives in Washington. Enough of unconstitutional decisionmaking by a radically out-of-step President. Enough of being ridiculed by a far-left Progressive media that laughed at Christian beliefs and family values. Enough of a criminal family that believed the United States was their Corleone Kingdom. Enough of a Democrat Party that had moved so far to the left that even it own stifled moderate members disagreed with it. Enough of extreme left revolutionaries paid by George Soros to destroy constitutional America while posing as champions of racial equality. In short, enough. • • • WHAT DOES DONALD TRUMP'S VICTORY MEAN? It means that Progressive Leftist One-World Globalist ideas, as the governing political philosophy of America, are dead. The revolution will take time to filter through every facet of American life -- the old regime will not die easily. But it will happen everywhere and in every aspect of American life because on November 8, Americans retook control of their country, entrusting President-Elect Trump to fight for their revolution at every step -- at every “safe space,” at every blasphemous utterance that “the Constitution is for slaveholders,” at every "death to police," at every budget-busting porkbarrel bill that raises its head in Congress, at every media attempt to win by force of vicious words what they could not win at the ballot box. President Trump and Americans are ready for the job. And, as the work unfolds, everyone must be alert to the signs of complacency that could kill the revolution, and to the thinking that says the revolutionary mission is for somebody else, someone elected, to carry out. That is what got America into the mess, and being reticent, being polite when someone pushes the revolution aside locally -- whether it is an Obama-appointed liberal judge or a ranting radical -- can torpedo the good beginning. Winning was the first step. Securing the victory will be hard work. • • • A NEW VALLEY FORGE. The story of Valley Forge is full of comparisons to the winter of 2016. General Washington didn't stay at Valley Forge with his soldiers during that icy cold winter of 1777 because it was comfortable. He stayed to protect the Revolution from complacency and exhaustion and despair. The Commander of the Continental Army, the future first President of the United States, led his exhausted troops into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, on December 19, 1777. Things could hardly have looked bleaker for Washington and the Continental Army. The British had successfully occupied Philadelphia, leading some members of Congress to question Washington’s leadership abilities. No one knew better than Washington that the army was on the brink of collapse. In fact, he had defied the Continental Congress’ demand that he launch a mid-winter attack against the British at Philadelphia and instead fell back to Valley Forge to rest and refit his troops. Though he had hoped to provide his weary men with more nutritious food and badly needed winter clothing, Congress had been unable to provide money for fresh supplies. That Christmas Eve, the troops dined on a meal of rice and vinegar, and were forced to bind their bleeding frost-bitten feet with rags. “We have experienced little less than a famine in camp,” Washington wrote to Patrick Henry the following February. Washington was desperate to keep the army intact. Many deserted. For those soldiers who remained with him, Washington expressed deep gratitude and awe. He described men marching without clothes, blankets or shoes -- leaving bloody trails in the snow -- who displayed “patience and obedience which in my opinion can scarce be paralel’d.” Meanwhile, Washington faced the displeasure of Congress and rumors of plots to replace him. But, Congress met with Washington's typical stoicism and composure. On December 31, he wrote to the Marquis de Lafayette that he would continue “to observe one steady and uniform conduct, which I shall invariably pursue, while I have the honour to command, regardless of the Tongue of slander or the powers of detraction.” Furthermore, he told the press that if Congress could find someone better suited to lead the army, he would be happy to resign and return to private life at Mount Vernon. The winter at Valley Forge could have signaled the end of the American Revolution. Fortunately for the Americans, Washington did not give up. During this time, Washington made several key additions to his officer corps, adding the Prussian General Friedrich von Steuben, who was tasked with implementing a new training regimen, and Nathanael Greene, who served as quartermaster general, relieving Washington of the duty of supply procurement. Washington, supported by a loyal officer corps, was now free to focus on strategies to beat the British. He was further buoyed by France’s agreement to join the revolutionaries in February 1778. Once Washington’s detractors in Congress realized they could not sway his troops’ loyalty, they gave up on any secret plans to replace him. In March 1778, Washington led his troops, their bodies and supplies replenished and their confidence restored, out of Valley Forge to face the British again. • • • THE WINTER OF 2016. The revolution of 2016 is little different. President Trump will carry the heavy load for America, but he needs every American to do his and her part. We can't retire and assume "everything will be okay." It won't. We learned that lesson the hard way in 8 painful and destructive years of pure Progressive leadership. That gives significance to the coming fight, to attending school board meetings, to voting on petitions, to supporting politicians who want to rein in the judiciary. To being the kind of American citizens that the Constitution expects us to be. • MAINSTREAM MEDIA. The MSM is clueless about why they lost. They think it was the poor choice of words, or emphasis on the wrong story line, or bad luck. The media sees constitutional republicanism as evil, and so they do not report facts, they "create the narrative" -- not reporting history, but trying to create it. The MSM has a smug self-regard because of its 50 years of unbroken victories in the culture wars. They see the Supreme Court as their ultimate policy-making machine, requiring only the "right" justices to carry out their Progressive package of unconstitutional reforms. But, the Supreme Court was envisioned by the Founders as the ultimate guardian of the Constitution, of the individual against the state. Its capture by the left to lead the charge to destroy the Constitution and substitute for it the sensibilities of "right-thinking" people was the core goal of Hillary Clinton and her fawning MSM acolytes. That is why the MSM seemed often during the campaign to be talking not about the surge of Donald Trump and his supporters but about a victory that existed only on their own minds. That all came tumbling down on the night of November 8 as the voting results poured in. The reaction of the MSM was to deny what was happening -- to apply their usual spin to a reality they could not understand or face. That is why America had to wait until Hillary called Trump to concede at 3 a.m. to be sure they had won the revolution of 2016. The MSM would not give Trump either Michigan or Arizona and end the Progressive victory fiction. • The pollsters were no better, substituting their own bias for honest polling. For months, they predicted a substantial Hillary win -- NBC/SM, Ipsos, NBC/WSJ, ABC/WaPo, Herald, Bloomberg. Only IBD and Dornslife predicted a Trump win and they were ridiculed by the MSM pollsters, who called them "non-scientific." The entire media, even Fox News, reflected the bias against Trump, a bias well-documented in the Wikileaks disclosures of the Podesta emails, showing the media conniving to feed Clinton debate questions and coordinating their coverage with Hillary and the DNC. When the Hillary landslide did not materialize, they freaked out. One of the New York Times’ lead op-ed writers, Thomas Friedman, wailed : “at the moment I am in anguish, frightened for my country and for our unity. And for the first time, I feel homeless in America.” The leftist Huffington Post’s senior politics editor, Sam Stein, wrote that Americans “chose to jump into the abyss.” Slate produced outrageous headlines such as “White Women Sold Out the Sisterhood and the World by Voting for Trump” and “White Won.” The latter article’s sub-heading was “We are still the country that produced George Wallace. We are still the country that killed Emmett Till.” David Corn wrote in Mother Jones that “America is broken.” ABC’s Martha Raddatz, who had moderated one of the presidential debates, had to hold back tears acknowledging Trump winning the presidency, insinuating soldiers’ lives could be in danger. CNN’s Van Jones called the election of Donald Trump a “nightmare,” which represented a “white lash against a changing country...a white lash against a black President in part.” MSNBC’s commentators were apoplectic. Chris Matthews cried, “This is a shot against meritocracy, I think.” Rachel Maddow told her audience, “you’re not having a terrible, terrible dream. Also you’re not dead and you haven’t gone to hell.” • But, the deplorable Americans of 2016 understood the “seemingly dominant media” scam. Not only were they wise to it, they were fed up with it, and with Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and the other financial powers that paid ridiculous speaking fees betting that Hillary’s hypocrisy and lies would win the election. The smart money lost that bet because they got caught up in the same MSM fiction-over-fact scam. Trump won. Dennis Prager laughed at Paul Krugman’s post-election moaning, writing : "Trump voters were not the ignorant, biased, sexist yahoos they said we were. Early information based on exit polling (concededly often flawed) apparently revealed that white women were just not that into Hillary. White women led Trump to victory....white [male] college grads voted 49% Trump, 45% Clinton. • • • QUO VADIS, DEMOCRAT PARTY? On January 23, 2009, Obama said to then House Republican whip Eric Cantor : “Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won.” But, ultimately, Obama lost. His eight years in office have led to a significant weakening of his party's numbers both in Congress and state governorships and legislatures, and he and the Clintons are leaving the Democrat Party in shambles. • House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and the next Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, along with Senator Bernie Sanders, seem to be supporting the far-left Moslem convert and House member Keith Ellison of Minnesota to head the Democratic National Committee. The Democrat Party under a Moslem with ties to the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), affiliated with the Moslem Brotherhood and on the US terrorist list, will lose even more clout. Somebody with good sense ought to remind the DNC that Ellison comes from the poisoned well that defeated them in 2016. There must be someone more acceptable to the Democrat base, if there still is one. • The Trans Pacific Pact seems to have died unborn. Mexico and Canada have expressed their willingness to renegotiate NAFTA. The 1.4 million people who admitted they were here illegally and gave the government their names and addresses to apply for Obama’s Executive Order amnesty, realize that their amnesty will be cancelled when Trump takes office. Many are reported to be self-deporting themselves. Trump on Monday told CBS he will soon begin deporting the 2 to 3 million illegal immigrants with criminal records. • The Iran deal to supposedly curb its nuclear enrichment was never submitted to the US Senate for ratification, as should have happened. That means that President Trump can simply ignore it. Likewise, the Paris Climate Deal that Obama signed committing the US to reduce production of greenhouse gases was never presented to the Senate for consent. Obama's Clean Power Plan, which would effectively shut down many US coal and gas fired power plants, was put into effect by EPA regulation, not by law. Trump can open up new areas for oil exploration that were ruled off limits by Obama, again without legislation. Ironically, if Obama had acted legally and had these measures approved by Congress, as he should have done, President-Elect Trump might have had more difficulty getting all these measures overturned, especially in a closely divided Senate where 60 votes are often required to avoid a filibuster. But, since Obama acted unilaterally, much of his legacy is as durable as Hillary Clinton's landslide victory prediction. • Egypt’s Al-Sisi was the first to telephone Trump and thank him for the much-deserved support against the Moslem Brotherhood, which Trump seems to want to add to the terrorist list along with CAIR. Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu has been invited to the Trump White House. The South Koreans have said they want to set up an auto plant in the US. The Philippine president and Russia’s Vladimir Putin have expressed a desire for better relations now. • America is filled with truly hurting and broken people, but they are very different from the growing number of college students demanding safe spaces and trigger warnings. The loudest cries often come from students attending the most expensive and elite colleges. Poor single moms trying to work their way through community college don’t have time to wallow in fake victimhood. There are students who legitimately struggle with mental illness and they should get the help they need, but as a nation we cannot afford to celebrate and promote psychological fragility. Colleges training centers for the brain, places where students learn to build mental muscle. The training is hard and sometimes painful. But it makes one stronger. • On the West Coast we see kids holding Mexican flags, rioting, and burning our flag while screaming “This is not my country” in cities that didn't vote for Trump. Last night, as a public service to its viewers, Fox News Channel started running English-language subtitles under the anti-Trump sound bites. The riots continue, and we know many are paid demonstrations of the sort Democrat facilitators Move On and OWS are known for. And the question has been raised -- why has President Obama not stopped them. Is he trying to find leverage to force Trump to clear him and other administration officials of the wrongdoing they think is about to be revealed? Or is he simply one of the leaders of the Progressive Destroy-America gang? • • • Dear readers, the meaning of Donald Trump's victory is clear. The sacred Bill of Rights – the First Amendment freedoms of religion, speech, assembly, and petition for redress of grievance; the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms; the Fourth Amendment right to be secure in persons, homes, papers and effects, and against unwarranted searches and seizures; the Sixth Amendment guarantee of speedy, fair and non-political trials; the Seventh Amendment commitment to rule of law, and fidelity to the rules of common law; the Ninth Amendment protection against federal overreach and preservation of rights “retained by the people;” and the Tenth Amendment’s glorious guarantee of rights “reserved to the States respectively, or to the People.” But there is more. Trump's victory also stands for other Founding principles -- separation of powers, a constitutionally-limited non-imperial presidency, a limited federal government, a Congress to control the President, and a Supreme Court to check both Congress and the President. And, as Donald Trump told us early on, he was not bought by anyone. He footed the bill himself and with the small donations of an average of $86 sent to his campaign and to the Republican National Committee. No one bought this election or paid-to-play in its future success. Foreign money was absent. No media or party elites dictated it. It was the common man’s democracy speaking out for the Constitution and for fair, smaller, less intrusive government that lets Americans get on with their lives and businesses free of unnecessary regulation, too high taxes and Big Brother watching to control our thoughts or words. But, don't forget the lesson of General Washington and his soldiers at Valley Forge. Be alert for creeping Progressive ideas. Do your civic duties with a smile, especially for your police, and a good heart. Support President Trump because he will need all of us, even if his rallies will be fewer now that he has America's work to do. And, above all, thank God for the miracle that He has again bestowed on the Shining City on the Hill, because when all is said and done, America is His work for Humankind.