It is commonplace for people to complain about aging, but there are quite a few mental and emotional benefits accrued when one puts several decades under one's belt. My personal favorite is perspective. Life is a lot easier when you know that everything isn't an existential crisis. Knowing when something isn't an existential crisis is the key to identifying real existential crises.
Honestly, I'm getting better with that each passing year.
We have all been justifiably celebrating the fact that President Donald Trump is kicking butt in his second term. If he hadn't won last November, the United States of America would be having its final chapter as a free and glorious republic written. Kamala Harris was a walking, breathing existential threat to the nation.
Yes, things are lighter now, but we are not out of the woods yet. President Trump will be turning over the keys to the White House on Jan. 20, 2029. Forget the third-term nonsense; the transition is happening. We will once again be in looming crisis mode for the 2028 election, and the GOP will have to proceed with a new leader of the party. If all that Trump has done to transform the GOP takes hold and remains after he is out of office, the party will be in a good position to battle the leftist poison.
If it backslides and once again becomes the Bush/Cheney/Romney capitulation party, the commies will run roughshod over the Constitution.
The amount of damage that the Democrats can do in a short period of time has grown by orders of magnitude in recent years. This is largely because the '60s radicals who took over public education and academia (which I wrote about in "Don't Let the Hippies Shower") have had decades to accomplish their indoctrination mission. Selling the false commie dream is easier when they're pitching it to people who have been educated to believe that America is an awful, racist place.
It takes a very long time to undo the havoc the Democrats have wrought. I've written on several occasions that, despite the breakneck pace at which President Trump is going about things, his four years aren't going to be enough to deal with the density of damage that Biden's commie cabal did in its four years. Think of it like a broken femur — it only takes a second to snap, but the healing is a very drawn-out process.
The healing is impossible if, just as the bone is 70% mended, someone takes a sledgehammer to it.
At this rate, it would take about eight consecutive years with a Republican in the White House to effectively counter every four years with a Democrat in office. If the Republican president is saddled with the Democrats being in charge of both chambers of Congress, he or she will mostly be functioning as a tourniquet (so many injury analogies today).
President Trump has, for the moment, transformed the GOP into a party that does more than simply pay lip service to a desire to win. Republicans now do the things for the American people that they need to in order to win. The party needs to remain strong and a reflection of Trump long after he is back in private life. As I wrote in a column earlier this week, "The greatest hope for the United States of America is in the Republican Party being able to keep the Democrats at bay until they either course-correct or implode."
When you come to a fork in the road, block the commie path for as long as you can.
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