It’s been a rough four years by all accounts. At least, socially. Psychologically. I don’t know what has happened to critical thinking in America. If you are not as cynical as I am at this point, you can’t possibly be paying attention. I remember a time, not too long ago, when I laughed at the conspiracy theorists who spoke of organizations like the “Deep State”. In my view, to suggest that the sociopolitical landscape of our country was being incrementally disrupted in a manner so broad and insidious that only a knowledgeable minority of the American public could detect the process… well, that was tinfoil hat time.

This was back before the Obama years. Ah, the Obama years. Suffice it to say the man was able to turn identity politicking into an art form. Obama’s inheritance of an economic recession is often hailed as a burden, when in fact it was one of his many saving graces. (Want to make a community organizer look like an economic savant? Buy low, sell high.)

Enter celebrity rich guy Donald J. Trump. The appeal of Donald J. Trump should not be the mystery it seems to half of America. An unrestrained, no-nonsense businessman with virtually no filter was a stark and awe-inspiring contrast to a say-anything, do-nothing DC diplomat. The timing of a Trump presidency was great from an economic perspective, if poor from a social one. Trump’s inheritance of a burgeoning class war and a media in lockstep with the progressive left was NOT to his advantage. Particularly given his unique prowess for unflinchingly saying things in the most raw and offensive manner possible. I think that probably suited him well in the business world, because it gives him an intimidating aura of self-assuredness that would throw adversaries off their game.

It also suited our country, overall, in the ways that count. I think history will be far more kind than the liberal elite and this particular generation of social media junkies.

Donald Trump viewed the country’s domestic economic concerns as a challenge on which to flex his corporate muscles on a grand scale and bring jobs and manufacturing opportunities back to America en masse. His detractors will probably tell you he cares more for his interests than the nation; while I disagree with that assessment, it makes no difference. An American business tycoon with many foreign interests benefits linearly with this objective. On the foreign policy side, Trump approached world leaders with the same raw tenacity and lack of diplomacy as he did his business consorts. This approach apparently worked well with similarly brusque personalities in Russia, Asia and the Middle East, and less so with the career diplomats in Europe. I would argue that managing more our most tenuous relationships is more important than being invited back to tea with the Queen, but I suppose that is a subjective opinion. It did keep us out of additional wars and resulted 3 Nobel prize nominations for this President… not one of them based on his skin color (which I’ve been told is a humorously unflattering orange. Stop me if you’ve heard this one…)

So who wants to admit that Trump’s personality, and personality ALONE, was his undoing? It’s basically all the media outlets were able to attack when they weren’t making stuff up. And they really only needed to disgust the moderates enough to vote for safe Joe (paying no attention to Kamala… which is frightening as hell…)

I mean, when it comes to the leftists, they were all in. Out to undo Trump and everything he stood for at any cost. Most people who voted for Hillary were raw. They were raw because she lost, and she wasn’t supposed to. They were raw because the Russian collusion theory fizzled, after their politicians and everyone in the media told them it would be Donald Trump’s undoing. They were raw because Donald Trump was able to appoint two Supreme Court justices. They were raw because unemployment had reached its lowest point and the economy was flourishing under the Trump administration (prior to coronavirus). They were unable to pin a worldwide pandemic entirely on Donald Trump. (Although they tried – and some people bought it.)

Biden’s entire campaign was based on little more than pure hatred for the current President. I can’t even think of something more at the moment. Oh right, he wants to get us back in to the Paris Climate Agreement because the average Joe voter thinks that equates to understanding “science”. He has a plan for coronavirus. It just so happens to be a carbon copy of the Trump administration’s plan… Another way he’s into “science”.

What’s interesting is that Trump’s statements on the virus over the summer months were wildly hailed as dangerous and stupid when he suggested we were on the way to a vaccine by the end of the year. The media who chastised his concerns in early 2020 as xenophobia had now convinced their sheep that he was overly optimistic in his messaging. And here we are, just a few days after Joe Biden is declared the official president-elect, and suddenly Pfizer’s vaccine is 90% effective. Just like that; the media just acquired this wonderful news.

I wonder if Ms. Harris will keep her promise from the VP debate – that she wouldn’t take any vaccine Donald Trump told her to take. Hmm.