ONLY THE BEGINNING: Donald Trump Is Ready to Fight. So Are We.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
January 20, 2025
WALL STREET JOURNAL: How MAGA Is Taking Back the Culture: In sports, entertainment and marketing, displays of conservatism are crowding out progressive postures.
Across many facets of society—in sports, entertainment, the classroom and the workplace—there are signs that MAGA isn’t just retaking the White House. It is gaining a firmer foothold in the broader culture.
Instead of taking a knee to call for social justice, NFL players are doing the “Trump dance” in the end zone at football games. Mainstream entertainers, among them the country singer Carrie Underwood and the rapper Snoop Dogg, agreed to perform at events celebrating Donald Trump’s inauguration, something music stars largely shunned eight years ago.
A new generation of Trump-friendly comedians and wellness influencers is populating YouTube and other social media, while a snippet of audio featuring Barron and Melania Trump has become one of the hottest online memes, with celebrities such as Paris Hilton and brands including Frontier Airlines using it in their TikTok and Instagram posts.
“Every time I walk on campus, I see a few MAGA hats. That’s definitely new,” said Carson Carpenter, 19, a senior at Arizona State University. Conservatism, he said, “has really become intertwined in our pop culture…. It’s really showing that conservatism is cool now.”
Off campus, Americans who once hid their support for Trump now wear it on their sleeves, or their hats. Trevor Traina, a tech entrepreneur and former ambassador in the first Trump administration who lives in San Francisco, said he felt the shift when he co-hosted a June fundraiser for Trump in the ritzy, liberal neighborhood of Pacific Heights.
Instead of the expected protests, Traina said, the event drew “more than 100 people in red MAGA hats walking around Pacific Heights. And, you know, in my life, we’ve never seen anything like that. Republicans in San Francisco used to walk around with Groucho Marx glasses and scarves over their heads, you know, scurrying in the shadows.”
The preference cascade has cascaded.
ICYMI: MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: This Monday, Have A Happy DJT Day.
Well, no. There never was, it was always a lie.
SAD! Limp Cheers, Tiny Crowds: March Protesting Against Donald Trump Falls flat. “For an event that billed itself as the ‘People’s March,’ not a lot of people ended up marching.”
To be fair, the way leftists bill themselves is always a lie.
Change is in the air on all sorts of things:
Young people are waking up: In the Harvard-Harris poll conducted a few months ago, it found 18-24-year-olds were split 50/50 on support for Israel or Hamas (left photo).
In their most recent poll (right photo), it found that 79% of them support Israel. pic.twitter.com/L652vRVh4Q
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) January 20, 2025
UPDATE:
🇦🇷🇺🇸MILEI: WE'VE CUT 900+ REGULATIONS AND OFFERED TO HELP TRUMP AND ELON DO THE SAME
"Today we have already eliminated more than 900 regulations, due to more than three per day.
In this line, we have made ourselves available to Trump and my friend Elon to share what we have… pic.twitter.com/haSTYPgDBV
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 20, 2025
MAKE THEM PAY FOR THIS: Democrats Now Threatening People Who Donated to Trump’s Inauguration. “Perhaps I am too optimistic about the seeming collapse of support for progressive ideas in the general public, but it sure looks like Trump’s magic has been working once again. Elizabeth Warren has always been a crazy leftist harridan, but now she seems to be a crazy leftist harridan with no ability to intimidate.”
Regardless, Elizabeth Warren and Michael Bennett should face a civil rights suit for this, and Congressional ethics complaints. Make the rubble bounce.
I THINK DEMOCRATS THINK THIS TOO, NOW: Don Surber: They should have just let him win in 2020.
January 19, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
ALL SORTS OF GAZA AND IRAN NEWS, over at Rantburg.
A READER SENDS PICS FROM THE RATHER PERFUNCTORY ANTI-TRUMP RALLY IN PORTLAND: “The attendees were cracked and depressed. Trump broke them.”
Related (From Ed): I snuck inside “The People’s March” to see what the anti-Trump folks are up to and I took pictures of all their signs 😂.
MESSAGE: WE MATTER. FAA requires mishap investigation for failed New Glenn landing.
EXPERTS: EVERYTHING IS AWFUL. A Salon Hair Wash Can Be a Serious Health Threat, Expert Says.
NO PASARAN! The Smug Liars’ “Screw-You” Party.
ANYTHING THAT PRODUCES A NUMBER GETS MORE RESPECT THAN IT SHOULD: The problem with pulse oximeters. I was at the doctor’s and my pulse ox reading seemed kinda low to me — I think it was like 95 or something — and when I said something the nurse shrugged, wiped off the little sensor with an alcohol wipe, and put it back on my finger, where it then read 99.
HOW MUCH RANGE DO E.V.s LOSE IN THE COLD? “As EV research and data group Recurrent explained in a data analysis report this week, the level of range degradation in cold weather depends on the vehicle and its factory equipment. After analyzing data from 18,000 electric vehicles across 20 models, the research group found that, on average, EVs with a heat pump are 83% of their normal range in winter conditions. Without a heat pump, the average drops to 75%. Across all EVs analyzed, the average is 80% range.”
SALES: Tesla Begins Discounting Cybertuck for 2025.
My local dealer seems to have a lot of them on the lot lately.
REGULATORS ON THE JOB: FAA grounds SpaceX Starship launches after breakup in Texas. SpaceX had the failure analysis in hand the first night. And I don’t think the FAA has the expertise, honestly, to evaluate what’s going on.
TIKTOK HAS CUT A DEAL WITH TRUMP AND IS RESTORING SERVICE.
Lmao I opened TikTok to find the message that it’s unavailable is gone and this starts playing.
Trump Rally and Inauguration is gonna be 🔥 pic.twitter.com/cu9pQTycfy
— AliceInCommieLand (@NovaRockwell23) January 19, 2025