Trump has already remade America in his image

Bye President-elect Donald Trump won a second term on Tuesday.he actually won the race many years ago. In hindsight, Trump’s victory makes sense given where the country is now. He has completely transformed America into a country in which half the voting population will vote for a person convicted of multiple charges, who is this habitual liar and who is political ignoramus.

Of course, many on the left would level smears (often justified) against Republican political figures of the past. But just ten years ago it seemed inconceivable that George W. Bush, Paul Ryan, Dick Cheney and others would be rejected by Republican voters in favor of anything (gestures wildly).

America is now a country in which a man facing multiple felony charges for allegedly trying to help overturn a fairly decided presidential election has made it back to the White House. We are a nation in which tens of millions of voters seem perfectly comfortable with a man becoming the judge of his own affairs when he returns to the presidency.

We are now a country that no longer has a party representing conservatives who stand for freedom, lower taxes and less regulation. The Republican Party is simply gobbling up everything Trump feeds it, and if includes huge tariffs it will be disproportionately passed on to middle- and low-income Americans, and so be it. There is no more choice should the government step in and regulate free speech (see Trump’s attacks on Big Tech“); The only open question is who should be in charge of the legal system to check the government’s takeover of free speech.

Because of Trump, we have now become a much rougher and unkind country in which politicians can call their opponents “low IQ” and “unscrupulous.”mentally retarded” as their supporters applaud such behavior. We are a nation where a vice presidential candidate can blame single childless women destroying America or fall into a trap Racist Lie About Legal Haitian Immigrants Eating Other People’s Pets and just brush it off without consequences. Even Democrats have begun to adopt Trump’s harsh language, with one television ad run by progressive Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis. ended with the farmer asking Baldwin’s opponent: “What the hell is wrong with this guy?”

One of the consequences of Trump’s presence on the national stage is that the “political scandal” has effectively ceased to exist. In the not-too-distant past, humiliated politicians who found themselves in positions of compromise quietly walked away, hoping to retain a modicum of their dignity.

Not anymore, and no politician at the center of a scandal is required to come forward and lie about his involvement in illegal activities. On Tuesday evening about 40% percent North Carolinians voted for governor Lt. Governor Mark Robinsona man who allegedly visited pornographic sites and boasted of his status as a “black Nazi.” (Robinson denies this information.)

Trump’s “lie and move on” strategy is a model for other Republicans. Georgia 2022 U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker once allegedly held a loaded gun to his ex-wife’s head and threatened to shoot herallegedly paid for abortions for several girlfriends and had secret children that he never publicly acknowledged. More 49% of Georgians eligible to vote voted for him.

For more examples of Trump’s toxic influence, feel free to Google “Matt Gaetz,” “Lauren Boebert,” “Marjorie Taylor Greene,” and “Laura Loomer.”

Of course, the public has had a low opinion of politicians since the founding of the country, but Trump has destroyed the idea that elected officials actually believe in anything. When she ran against him for the GOP nomination last year, Trump accused former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley of being unqualified to be president because of her parents’ Indian upbringing, frequently calling her “birdbrain” and ridiculing the military. her husband’s service. service. Haley hit back, calling Trump too old, too chaotic and too “unhinged” to be president.

Naturally, Haley ended up supporting Trump and spoke at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee to support his campaign.

The parade of Republicans willing to humiliate themselves by abandoning their past criticism to curry Trump’s favor is long—see Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Trump’s vice-president pick, Sen. J.D. Vance, a Republican. -Ohio, which once directed to the former president as “American Hitler.”

Now the game is over. The public is well aware that no one really has any first principles – just like houseplants, elected officials will simply grow where the light shines. And Trump represents the darkest light in American politics. Things will never be the same.

Trump has ushered in a new, grotesque version of American politics that may still be in its infancy. He has demonstrated that attention, not actual improvement in the lives of citizens, is the new coin of the state, and all his assistants are going to continue his work.

Take, for example, Vice President-elect Vance, who is poised to take over the GOP mantle when Trump’s time is over. He’s already proven that he’s just as disgusting and vile as Trump, but he has decades of public career left to impose his brand of faux populism on impressionable MAGA minds.

It’s also worth mentioning that many of the events leading up to Trump’s re-election were imposed on themselves by the Democrats. Whether it’s an unpopular, older president who decides to run again and is forced to bow out in favor of an unpopular, younger vice president, or Democrats who have failed to secure the border, accepted undeserved student loan relief, and exaggerated their arguments on abortion, Americans are not me. I don’t give in to the performative optimism propagated by the left.

There are presidents who serve two full terms and have less impact on American public life than Trump did during one term. (Honestly, how much has the country changed since Barack Obama’s two terms?) This makes him already one of the most successful presidents of the last century. And the country may never recover.