Donald Trump: Saving the West From Itself

In quite possibly the greatest comeback since Lazarus, Donald Trump has done the unthinkable – becoming the 45^th and 47^th President of the United States. Despite predictions of a close race, Trump won the Electoral College comfortably, control of the Senate, the swing states, and even the popular vote. Yes, I know about Grover Cleveland (22^nd & 24^th), and while he undoubtedly had to fight against the horrors of 19^th Century tailoring and moustache maintenance, I suspect big Don might have had it slightly harder.

Hated by Democrats and Republicans in almost equal measure; the media who granted Kamala Harris 66% more airtime, and ensured that 89% of Trump’s coverage was negative; the FBI and the CIA; the Deep State; Hollywood and almost every major celebrity; the House of Representatives and the Senate, Trump has managed to survive multiple investigations, indictments, convictions, impeachments and assassination attempts.

And yet, this cuts little ice with his enemies. To be fair, I understand why some people don’t like the Donald – he’s brash and self-aggrandising, a hothead and an exaggerator. He grabs Liberals by the pussy (and that’s just the men) – in short, I love the guy! He’s a real person in a fake world, and warts and all, he’s undeniably authentic. That’s the part these Washington wankers can neither understand nor forgive.

And while he may lack their slick, well-choreographed lies, in place of that he has something they lack – patriotism. He loves the flag, he loves America and he loves the West – and he’s standing up for it. Maybe the Democrats could try campaigning on that ticket, just once?

In the fallout from the election campaign, team Harris are casting around desperately in search of someone or something to blame, other than themselves. It would never occur to them that framing Trump for their past four years of mismanagement was unlikely to resonate with the electorate, nor that offering ‘change’ in the form of continuity was a manoeuvre even CNN couldn’t overlook. Then there was Harris herself – a woman so devoid of talent, no amount of maniacal cackling, suspected earpieces or historic blowjobs could cover it up.

One thing the Harris team certainly could have improved on was the ‘cheating’. I mean, surely they could have got that part right? What happened to those reliable busloads of votes – the price of Gas just too high? With precious little deviation down the years, Democrat candidates usually poll in the region of 65 million votes come election night (that’s 69M for Obama in 2008, 65M in 2012, 65M for Clinton in 2016 and 67M for Harris this time around). Surely, she should have aimed for an even 100M just to be on the safe side? I mean, if we’re seriously expected to believe that sleepy Joe polled 81M – a man who couldn’t sell out a rally in a phone box (and that’s up against Trump’s 74M incidentally), then why not aim high?

Electoral integrity notwithstanding, for the vast majority of the great and the good, the wrong man won – and that’s something the Establishment simply cannot fathom. In the aftermath of Trump’s victory, many have felt the need to release a ‘statement’ on the matter – presumably to explain this bizarre turn of events to the plebs, and what their response to it ‘ought’ to be.

Here’s Barack Obama’s offering, which should stand you in good stead if there’s ever another Covid run on toilet paper:

Across the Pond meanwhile, we were treated to the feculence of London Mayor Sadiq Khan:

While Liberal condescension is a feature of the landscape, genuine fear usually isn’t. But panic certainly seems to have set in Stateside – all those celebrity endorsements which seemed a little too forced, have now translated into highly public meltdowns:

https://x.com/DailyCaller/status/1854230965989650450

Most telling for me was the UK commentariat, whose ‘analysis’ of the Trump victory was of course all about them. Take LBC resident hernia, James O’Brien, apoplectic with rage that ‘an alarming number of people don’t care at all about liberal, democratic norms…, as long as it brings down the price of petrol’ – in other words, people on the breadline care more about their own lives than the things we instructed them to care about!

https://x.com/TPointUK/status/1854165017572028898

Another hot take came from Alastair Campbell’s bartender, Rory Stewart, who after claiming a Harris victory was a done deal, gave this mea culpa:

For the record – I was completely wrong about Kamala Harris. It is heartbreaking that Trump is now the President.

Therein lies the problem with the modern Left – they cannot even countenance another point of view, apart from one that is ‘literally Hitler’. The man in the street knows precisely what happened on election night and why it happened – they wanted Trump back, and they went out and voted for him; it’s Liberals who need ‘liberal, democratic norms’ explained to them.

Trump ally Nigel Farage recently claimed that America’s 45^th and 47^th President is not ‘vindictive’, and was unlikely to pursue his political opponents. After waging war on Trump for the past decade, those opponents had better hope Farage is right. Vengeance aside, the Trump Presidency Mach II does pose some interesting questions for the political landscape:

• What now for Trump’s most outspoken critics, those who consider him nothing short of the antichrist? Do they quit the country as they regularly promise, or valiantly ride out the storm?

• What does the next Trump Presidency mean for global stability? Are we likely to see an end to the war in Ukraine?

• Is Trump going to shore up the borders, get the economy back under control and Gas prices down – i.e. actually make America great again?

• Closer to home, what does the Trump Presidency mean for Britain – particularly with malcontents like Starmer, Lammy and Khan currently at the helm? And do we see Nigel Farage bridging the gap?

Here’s what I think the Trump Presidency indicates in the grand scheme of things: the West survives, at least for the next four years. More to the point, the re-election of Trump is one in the eye to wokery, DEI, chicks with dicks, and open borders, – in short, a much needed dose of reality. A slap in the face to all the smug Liberals endlessly lecturing us on what we’re allowed to say and think. And to quote big Don after his recent stint at McDonalds, ‘I’m lovin’ it!’

Frank Haviland is the Editor of The New Conservative, and the author of Banalysis: The Lie Destroying the West.

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