Trump Again, Thank God

This year, I’m thanking God for Donald Trump. Imagine a world without him.

President Kamala Harris would be ordering 100,000 American soldiers to defend the front lines in Ukraine this winter. Wars would be raging around the world. She’d have removed any remaining barriers to entry for the entirety of the world’s poorest and most culturally alien immigrants. All pushback against sexual medical mutilations of minors would cease, and trans pediatric clinics would be awash in federal funds. DEI rules would increase institutional racism at every federal institution, university, and corporation.

Massive tax increases would make today’s inflated prices look good. The constant sight of Vice President Tim Walz on TV would catastrophically lower national testosterone reserves dramatically. The birth rate would enter an unrecoverable spiral, and Alejandro Mayorkas would spike the football and declare victory on the completion of the Great Migration. Meanwhile, Donald Trump would be in prison for life as a political enemy. In protest, there would be mass disengagement from civic life as people who realized their country was gone quit the military, quit law enforcement, and quit even identifying as American.

It would have been the end of the end of the end.

And yet: prices are still too high. The birth rate isn’t bouncing back. DOGE has been defunded. Around 2 million illegals have been deported or left voluntarily since January. At that rate, we may see a total of 8 million deported in four years — which is mind-bogglingly good, but far from the 20–50 million entrants who should not be here. The H-1B visa program is still being abused to ruin citizens’ working lives. Our biggest cities remain unrecognizable to those who grew up in them. Local crime — not really under the jurisdiction of the president — produces lurid and insane murder stories that involve felons with dozens and dozens of arrests allowed to roam the streets freely by woke DEI judges who continue to practice “sentencing reform” religiously.

It’s easy for a cynic to make the case that the Trump presidency has failed, that it’s already over, and that without a more effective economic agenda the midterms will send a blue wave crashing into D.C. and sweep Trump into more endless impeachments and trials.

It’s easy — and tempting — to decide that there is no hope, that there never was very much in the first place, and that the shimmering mirage of MAGA was just a mirage all along.

Maybe so. But here is the thing that keeps me from spiraling into doom: not only did we win in 2016 against insurmountable odds — almost a miracle — we won again one year ago in decisive fashion. We just won. All seven swing states. This happened recently. We can pretend it’s over, but the truth is this country does not want what Democrats are selling and voted to send Kamala Harris and Tim Walz packing.

The Trump administration now has one task to focus on from now through the rest of their term: to meaningfully improve the lives of American citizens. Not visa holders. Not AI CEOs. Not billionaires. The people who put Trump over the top are the only people who matter. And if Trump cannot make their lives materially better in the next 18 months, their crushing disappointment will keep J.D. Vance out of the White House in 2028.

Therefore, here is the plan: Trump needs to host listening tours, rallies in small towns, meet with working-class families and crime-victim families. He needs to move heaven and earth to make food production and transportation cost less. He needs to set the table for J.D. Vance to stomp Gavin Newsom, AOC, Mark Kelly, or any other buffoonish and ridiculous Democrat who will try to end the MAGA movement.

But the real enemy to MAGA has revealed itself, and it is not the Mamdani Left. It’s not even Gavin Newsom. It is, as always, the traitors who come from all sides: the Never-Trump holdovers who refused to hold a vote on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill banning the Census from counting non-citizens, and the neocons who think they can go back to a pre-Trump utopia where foreign wars are back in play.

Today, J.D. Vance posted this on X:

“After four years of house prices doubling (and in some areas, tripling) many young people feel priced out of the American Dream of homeownership. A welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota reveals that large numbers of new arrivals aren’t assimilating and are funneling our tax dollars to literal terrorist groups. An innocent woman was set on fire in Chicago as the mayor resists federal law enforcement resources to bring peace to one of our great cities. The Obamacare insurance system is buckling under its own weight. And the country is $38 trillion in debt. Our administration is working hard on addressing all of these problems. But you know what really fires up the beltway GOP? Not any of the above. Instead, the political class is really angry that the Trump administration may finally bring a four year conflict in Eastern Europe to a close. I’m not even talking about the substance of their views. Much of what these people have said about the Ukraine war has been proven wrong, but whatever. We can agree to disagree. But the level of passion over this one issue when your own country has serious problems is bonkers. It disgusts me. Show some passion for your own country.”

We have a Vice President calling out his own faithless party for their eternal refusal to put Americans first. That is enough, for now, to hold onto, to fight for, and to keep believing in. The MAGA coalition is not as fragile as some cynics want to make it. It has withstood everything — from Trump’s locker-room conversations to Mueller and Russiagate and the dossier and Stormy Daniels and Epstein and a bloody assassination attempt. They tried killing Trump multiple times to end the movement. They successfully killed Charlie Kirk to end the movement. They are trying to kill all of us with nonstop crime, high interest rates they refuse to cut, and prioritizing non-citizens over Americans.

Don’t let them make you give up. They know that a demoralized opposition is one that can be conquered. Resist the attempts by both the Democrats and the Republican traitors to demoralize you. Have hope.

And above all, take a minute to thank God that we won last November. I will never not be thrilled and amazed at how our fate was victory, snatched from the jaws of defeat. By God, we won. And by the grace of God, we will win again.