This election truly felt like the finale of the classic movie "On the Waterfront," where the bloody but undaunted Terry Malloy leads the persecuted dock workers in turning their backs on the crime boss who has plagued their lives and walking away from him.
Trump rose bloody but defiant in July, and he led us to victory. We turned our backs on the Democrat Marxist tyrants who tried to bully and threaten us into believing we could never oust them. The Democrat Party truly operates like a political mafia (it’s no coincidence powerful Democrats have had mob ties for decades) but they will no longer be in charge of our country. The 2024 election, like the finale of "On the Waterfront," was the triumph of the underdog and the ordinary citizen — the people whom the elites call “garbage” — over the thugs in expensive suits.
The 1954 Oscar-winning film "On the Waterfront" is a classic crime drama directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Rod Steiger, and Eva Marie Saint in a fictionalized story about the all-too-real mafia apparatus controlling labor unions. Inspired by a real crime problem highlighted in a series of 1948 New York Sun articles, dockworkers on the waterfront are dependent for employment and even survival on crime boss “Johnny Friendly” (Cobb) and his thugs.
The “Union” thugs harass, oppress, terrorize, and even kill dockworkers. The mob decides who gets to work every day and every other aspect of work on the waterfront. All that changes when Joey Doyle is thrown off a roof by mobsters who want to stop his planned testimony against them. Joey’s sister Edie (Saint), supported by Catholic priest Fr. Barry (Malden), goes on a crusade to expose the mob and peg the murderers of her brother.
Terry Malloy (Brando), a boxer who killed his career to help Friendly win a debt, falls in love with Edie and begins to turn against the mob, leading to the murder of his mobster brother (Steiger). Terry then testifies against the mob and exposes the rot, but is only beaten nearly to death for his pains.
But then comes the climax. Friendly tries to tell the dockworkers to get to work, but they turn their backs on him. They won’t go without Terry. Fr. Barry gets Terry, blood streaming down his face, to his unsteady feet. The priest pushes Terry forward, urging him on, refusing to let Edie help him. Terry stumbles into the warehouse, bruised but not broken, and the dockworkers follow him, leaving Friendly hysterically screaming at them, alone, abandoned not only by the workers he terrorized but even by his thugs. The power of the mob is broken. A new era has dawned, thanks to Terry Malloy.Nov. 5 felt as if I were living that finale in real time. The Democrat apparatus (whatever their real feelings) talked so confidently and smugly. They had ignored our children murdered by terrorists or illegal aliens, poured money into the coffers of jihadis and foreign oligarchs while shortchanging suffering Americans, destroyed our economy, locked up our fellow Americans who disagreed with them, and put us on the brink of world war, yet they sneered that we were “garbage” and “Nazis” and “fascists.”
They had filed countless court cases and charges against Trump. They had riled their supporters up to such a fever pitch of hatred that at least two men tried to shoot Trump, and one succeeded. Trump survived, but Corey Comperatore did not.
Yet in the political arena, all Democrats accomplished was their own defeat. Like Johnny Friendly, they went too far. We saw the truth they didn’t want us to see. Like Terry Malloy, Trump has faults, but he is the leader and fighter we need. Just as Terry got up with blood on his face to lead the rebellion against Friendly, ensuring the death of Joey Doyle was not in vain, Trump rose after being shot with blood on his face, his fist raised, shouting, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”
We the People heard his call. We rejected Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Tim Walz, and all their works. We left them screaming and crying in impotent rage. We voted for Comperatore, for Laken Riley, for Quandarius Davon Stanley, for every victim of the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous policies and propaganda.
Terry rebelled and took on the mob after his brother and pet pigeons were murdered. We rebelled after our loved ones, our rights, and our pets were assaulted by the Democrats and their favorite thuggish illegal alien criminals and radical activists. For the dockworkers in the movie, their community was at stake — for us, our country and perhaps the world was at stake.
The mob bosses here in America have not completely given up. We are not living in a movie, so the battle to save, reform, and strengthen our Republic has just begun. But the first great step has been taken. We the People, led by Trump, are not only walking away from the Democrat Marxists but towards a freer and more prosperous future, led by the man who took a bullet for America.
