By late summer, Trump had the confidence of a man holding history in his hands. To many Americans, his defiance in the aftermath of the shooting – rising bloodied, fist in the air, chanting “Fight!” – made him an inspirational figure for the first time.
Time Magazine (“Man of the Year” issue)
Quick. What did the Silent Majority learn from Daniel Penny last week? Easy: that a Marine’s skill means nothing unless he has the will to use it. Black Lives Matter (BLM) would have (white) Penny cower in his subway seat while (black) Jordan Neely threatened to hurt and kill every man, woman, and child in the car. Wrong! America is still the Home of the Brave, and Semper Fi still means “always faithful” to confront and overcome adversity – like crazed hoodlums.
The Few. The Proud. The Marines. That slogan attracted Daniel Penny to become a man whose skill was exceeded only by his will. While others cower in foxholes (or subway seats), someone has to charge the enemy’s machine gun (or take down the assailant). Poor Alving Bragg, because this is 2024 – not the summer of 2020 – and New Yorkers want someone to Make Subways Safe Again.
BLM claimed Daniel Penny was acquitted because he was a white man, despite mixed-race witnesses expressing their gratitude and a mixed-race jury deciding “not guilty” should be the reward for Penny’s bravery. The guilty parties, in fact, were the father that neglected Nelly and the Democrat district attorney that decriminalized anti-social behavior. Let 2024 be a wake-up call to Democrats: 77,289,764 Americans just voted FOR feeling safe, and AGAINST feeling afraid.
Hopefully, over the last fourteen months, Bibi Netanyahu shamed America’s academic, diplomatic, intelligence, and military leaders into growing a backbone. While they were mollycoddling anti-Semitic bullies, negotiating with terrorists, ignoring drones over New Jersey, and pussifying OUR armed forces, Bibi was defending HIS homeland whatever the cost. Without his iron will, Hamas would be arming and tunneling anew under America’s protective gaze, and Hezbollah’s missiles would be raining down on Israeli heads.
But no! Netanyahu ignored America’s bad advice and executed a precise and strategic decapitation of America’s enemies. No way Biden’s ham-handed Pentagon would come up with those exploding pagers. America deserves such a leader, whose counter-attack took out missile batteries, tunnels, and terrorist leaders; thereby leaving Hamas and Hezbollah enfeebled, Syria’s dictator in exile, Iran and Russia embarrassed, and America’s new president with a real shot at pacifying the Middle East.
What if Elon Musk lacked the will to bet $44 billion against censorship, or feared Democrat reprisals against Tesla? Odds are Big Media would have pulled off a repeat of the 2020 election (a Media Research Center survey found 17% of Biden voters in seven swing states said they would not have voted for him had the “laptop story” not been buried). Thanks to Musk, online citizen journalists have supplanted legacy media by live-streaming Venezuelan gangs in Colorado, and fact-checking debate moderators in real time.
Why believe what ABC reports about “woke” school boards in California, when parents with iPhones are live-streaming the dad-gummed meetings? Further, the more Musk learned, the more he realized the “enemy of freedom” was the Democrat Party. Which is why he gave over $260 million to the Trump campaign, told Silicon Valley it was “OK” to support the GOP, and came up with the idea of DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency). Which is to say heroes come in many forms.
Let’s close with the will of America’s president-elect. Call Trump narcissistic. Dislike his tariffs. But don’t you dare call his W-I-L-L into question. Democrats and their media allies impeached, indicted, leaked, and misquoted him to break his will to seek re-election (and Republicans’ will to re-nominate him) – and how’d that work out? With his WILL trumping his EGO. He heeded Susan Wiles’ and Lara Trump’s advice (soften abortion stance, and encourage Republicans to vote early), and made peace with Governor Kemp to win Georgia (by 115,000 votes).
How many of us were convinced Joe Biden had won the 2020 election? Most; so, when Trump’s will refused to concede to an idiot campaigning from a basement in Delaware, we believed it was Trump’s ego run amok. Now, it looks like those diners and rallies taught Trump a thing or two, because he now enjoys 54% voter approval, which dwarfs Nancy Pelosi (36%), Liz Cheney (32%), Chuck Schumer (27%) and Mitch McConnell (17%).
Maybe Trump was wrong about the 2020 vote count, but 77.3 million voters just said he wasn’t wrong about the idiot in a basement in Delaware – or the leftist lawfare and media attacks against him. Because the more dirt they heaped on Trump, the more Republicans rallied around him, and the more Trump persevered, the more new voters flocked to his strength. Maybe Democrats need to learn that a “strong man” is not always a fascist.
Liberal pols and pundits would be wise to accept “strength” as the measure of good men’s will. Because that (will) is what drove Edison to keep tinkering until he invented the electric light bulb, Washington to persevere the winter in Valley Forge, and nine white men in black robes to overturn the doctrine of “separate but equal” in 1954 (when America was 89.3% white). Let me be blunt: strong-willed men are what Made America Great in the first place…
…and what will Make America Great Again.