Feels good, man.
Maybe part of it is being belatedly vindicated for what I wrote in 2021:
My absolute confidence in this has recently been confirmed yet again in as unambiguous a manner as I could have asked for. Yes, I know no one else believes that. Yes, I know it seems utterly impossible at this point. Nevertheless, it is true. Persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but Donald J. Trump will serve his second term.You don't see it? Well, why should that surprise you? You're not supposed to see the future.
Still, I caution everyone not to get their hopes up and not to give in to cheap this-worldly optimism. Remember the first rule of politics: They never keep their promises.
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You got me with the meme of Bono. Coffee all over my keyboard.
It is indeed a huge relief that Trump won. It's not so much that everything will be great now, as that we have averted total cultural discatastrophe.
As an American in a "blue" county, I saw the same in general. Very few "Trump" signs compared to 2020, but election day there was a much longer line of blue-collar males than I witnessed in 2020.
I think Trump supporters respond to the anti-Trump violence by simply not publicizing their views. The left didn't really care about Kamala (or whoever) at all, they just really hated Trump.
The best I can guess at is more like a "quiet rage", sort of unhappiness and turnout. I don't think people really believed Trump would win or that he is a savior or any such thing, or that there wouldn't be a massive stolen fraud again - but two assassination attempts, being belittled nonstop, mocked, etc. people are disgusted and want to express it a non-violent outlet.
I wonder when the media city riots will start again, or if the incumbents will try to initiate WW3 before handing over the office.
I find myself thoroughly relieved. I'm far more excited about RFK, Tulsi, Musk, Vance, Vivek supposedly being on his team than I am about Trump himself. I'm also cautiously optimistic that two assassination attempts have maybe blunted the man's ego enough that he will let capable people do what he originally claimed: drain the swamp. But probably his ego will win the day and crafty deep state folks will flatter him once again into the same blunders from his first presidency.
Regardless, I am happy to take my chances w Trump than that truly awful combo of Harris-Walz. My god, what a cluster that would have been!
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