IT’S ALL THEY KNOW: Liberal Media Scream: CBS sucks up to Biden to the end: ‘Did deliver.’ He delivered for the Chinese and the Iranians, certainly.
January 25, 2025
I know that sounds odd. A year ago, Trump was finished. The swank people who tell us what to think had written him off. There he was, staggering under scores of indictments in at least four separate jurisdictions. Would he not be bankrupted, incarcerated, swept ignominiously into the dustbin of history?
Somehow, Trump not only survived but thrived. Did he merely ride the cresting wave of the Zeitgeist or also help define it? The same question might be asked of Caesar, Napoleon, FDR, or Ronald Reagan.
There are still some flaccid, hand-ringing mutterers who can’t absorb the reality of what Donald Trump represents. He represents beneficent change. The anti-Trump whiners congregate in their faculty lounges, their DEI workshops, their climate-change seminars in Aspen. Here and there one finds pods of sad people like Chris Mayes, the Attorney General of Arizona, who has vowed to resist aspects of Trump’s immigration efforts. One might as well vow to resist a tornado.
Roger Kimball
Roger Kimball
Related TopicsDonald Trump, US Election, Republicans, Immigration, Migrant crisis
24 January 2025 2:52pm GMT
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Thomas Carlyle would have admired Donald Trump Credit: Morry Gash/AP PoolThomas Carlyle would have been impressed by Donald Trump. The author of On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841) thought that history organised itself around great men the way that iron filings form patterns in a magnetic field.
The eighteenth century, Carlyle thought, had lost its moral elasticity and spiritual tautness. He prophesied that his own time would be a crucible of renewal in which “the world will once more become … a heroic world”.
Over the last year, Donald Trump has emerged as a Carlylean figure, an historic man of action who, having triumphed over extraordinary adversity, has become a totem of the age, a man through whom the highest ambitions of the country find expression.
I know that sounds odd. A year ago, Trump was finished. The swank people who tell us what to think had written him off. There he was, staggering under scores of indictments in at least four separate jurisdictions. Would he not be bankrupted, incarcerated, swept ignominiously into the dustbin of history?
Somehow, Trump not only survived but thrived. Did he merely ride the cresting wave of the Zeitgeist or also help define it? The same question might be asked of Caesar, Napoleon, FDR, or Ronald Reagan.
There are still some flaccid, hand-ringing mutterers who can’t absorb the reality of what Donald Trump represents. He represents beneficent change. The anti-Trump whiners congregate in their faculty lounges, their DEI workshops, their climate-change seminars in Aspen. Here and there one finds pods of sad people like Chris Mayes, the Attorney General of Arizona, who has vowed to resist aspects of Trump’s immigration efforts. One might as well vow to resist a tornado.
Elsewhere, in the real world, what had been an anti-Trump consensus is disintegrating. Even Politico has absorbed an inkling of the truth. Trump is, a recent column tells us, “someone with an ability to perceive opportunities that most politicians do not and forge powerful, sustained connections with large swaths of people in ways that no contemporary can match. In other words: He is a force of history.”
He is a powerful figure, but he is also a vehicle for the Normals, at home and abroad, who have finally had enough.
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I HAVE A GUEST POST UP AT SARAH HOYT’S BLOG: Today Is Not That Day.
MATTHEW CONTINETTI: How to Make Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ a Reality.
SPANK THEM HARD:
Oh my goodness this is NOT an emergency management meeting, this is a spanking for Democrat officials who’ve failed citizens.
This is just fantastic. Happy for LA residents. pic.twitter.com/UHzSF0CEir
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) January 25, 2025
#JOURNALISM:
Fauci’s security detail was a two-year deal. It expired in December 2024 – while Biden was still president.
CNN can’t even do the most basic reporting in their quest to “get” Trump.https://t.co/IKorYRm8mf https://t.co/Dgh1nm4ki8
— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) January 24, 2025
THIS ISN’T WRONG:
“These people are unemployable. They're toxic, bad energy, team-killers, and walking lawsuits.”
— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) January 24, 2025
IT’S NOT LIKE WE DIDN’T WARN THEM:
Political violence was excused when Biden's DOJ decided January 6 rioters who didn't kill people should get longer jail sentences than BLM rioters who did kill people. Everything else is downstream from that. Here we are. https://t.co/TTWq86jfoR
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) January 24, 2025
THIS WEEK IS SEVERAL CHAPTERS IN A FUTURE HISTORY BOOK: The Tide of Accountability is Finally Rolling In.
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RECIDIVISM RATE STILL AT ZERO: The death penalty works, Part 2.
YEAH, BUT THE AMERICAN LEFT KNOWS SO MUCH BETTER! Benjamin Netanyahu Defends Elon Musk.
SHUT UP AND FORECAST: A Local Meteorologist Got Fired Over Her Social Media Post About Elon Musk.
THEY’RE GOING TO NEED A LOT OF NEW STAFF: Trump State Department Defined as ‘Common Sense’ and America First.
THE DECISION ISN’T UP FOR POPULAR VOTE – BUT THE CASE IS TRASH: Majority of Georgia Voters Want Trump’s Fulton County Case Tossed Out.
THE LEFT IS CIRCULATING THIS AND IT’S UTTER NONSENSE:
If I have to explain why: Parents who are waiting citizenship but haven’t received it yet have green cards and are not illegal. This is complete nonsense.
APPARENTLY BASED ON THIS INCIDENT: Reported ICE visit to Chicago school was actually Secret Service, officials say.
THE SPIES WHO CRIED WOLF: Nothing about this is shocking.