And Now, What? Reflections on November 5 & its Aftermath

Apologies for having neglected this little blog for so long. I have been traveling back-and-forth to Spain, spent some 10 days as poll watcher in North Carolina, and have been writing on X/Twitter.

Well, what do we make of the electoral results of November 5? What do we Magas do now? To start, we gloat. Yes, gloat. I do not hesitate in rubbing the noses of my "Blue Friends" in the Trump victory. I, particularly enjoy reminding them that I had predicted Trump would win the popular vote and get 312 electoral votes. I am also enjoying watching MSNBC, CNN, and the other mainstream media outlets conduct postmortems on the election. Harris lost, per them, because of racism, patriarchy, bias against a mixed race marriage. prejudice against LGBT (etc), hatred for immigrants, and so forth--you can fill in the rest. YAWN! There is mild criticism of Harris not going on "right wing" podcasts, not responding forcefully to anti-trans ads fro the Trump camp, not holding enough rallies, not enough time to introduce herself, and some other technical issues. They have nothing that gets to the fundamentals of why this incompetent fraud lost. The reason she lost is simple: the leaders of the Democratic Party are CRAZY. Yes, it's that simple. THE modern American "left" is insane. Its leaders are stuck in a bubble echo chamber, hearing only themselves, and their, yes, insane ideas. They are as, even old Bolshie Bernie Sanders recognizes, completely detached from working people and their concerns and aspirations. Note to the DNC: Abortion on demand is not the top concern of most Americans, even most American women. Transgender affirming "medical care" for children is not what parents worry about. Providing tax-funded free stuff, including medical care, and accommodations to millions of illegal aliens, many of them criminals in their home countries, is not what the average American favors. What do we worry about? It's not Project 2025, but taxes, inflation, employment, crime, and war. 

Assuming the crazies don't kill him before January 20, Trump must work at warp speed. He will have at best two years to put the Big Ship on a proper course. After two years, the next presidential campaign begins, and it's likely that the Dems will take the House of Representatives. He has to be ready to go with a package of executive actions and draft legislation making its way thought Congress, at hyperwarp speed. He must immediately close the border, tell Mexico that remain in Mexico is back or we shut the border completely to all people and goods, that Mexico must take back the people who entered the US via the southern border, and instruct ICE and Border Patrol that deportations are back on.  Employers must be told that immigration laws will be enforced; he must inform states, counties, and cities that provide safe haven for illegal migrants that federal funding has ended. Begin lifting restrictions on oil exploration and production. He must begin to implement tariffs on the worst trade offenders, while introducing legislation to lower taxes on workers and on companies that make their stuff here, especially ships, planes, cars, trucks, computers. Must begin to cut the massive federal bureaucracy--Departments of Energy, Interior, Education, Labor, and Commerce are prime targets--and move chunks of it out of DC, e.g. move Agriculture closer to where there is agriculture. Wokeness in the military, intelligence, and law enforcement must end.

There is so much more, but that will do for now. I will write about foreign policy in a bit.

Meanwhile, resume gloating.