Donald Trump won his second term. He didn’t just win it, he won BIG or as he would say, yuuuuge - far and away more Electoral College votes than the 270 he needed.
Just how many more remains to be seen as three states have yet to report their winner. Over 300 for certain. He has so far swept all the “battleground” states which have reported, and at this point is ahead in most of the remainder.
Right now the MAGA Republican Party is as much Trump’s as the 1930s Democratic Party was FDR’s. You can’t imagine anyone else running it, although inevitably someone else will eventually do so. J.D. Vance is very talented, perhaps he will.
Now the Dims have to figure out what set of fixes will enable them to be competitive again. When you lose the presidency and the Senate in a single election, introspection is definitely in order.
From our point of view on the right, a move toward the center seems the logical, if painful choice. Plus a repudiation of some sort of the Squad and its hangers-on like Sens. Warren and Sanders.
I actually voted for Bill Clinton when he first ran for president, hoping to encourage the Dims to move toward the center formerly occupied by the likes of Sens. Sam Nunn and Scoop Jackson. Those were serious people who knew how to govern.
Fixing the Dims is someone else’s problem, I propose to enjoy being on the winning side for a change. Four more years of “The Donald” lie ahead, if he can close the border, deport criminal aliens, eradicate DEI, and roll back transgenderism, I’ll be happy. I’d love it if he could shrink the FedGov by a third, but that may be a bridge too far.
