op ed review 11/13
Fri Veterans Day: REMEMBER OUR FALLEN
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Donald Trump has been elected the 45th president of the
United States in a stunning US election victory. (likely 320 electoral votes)
Republicans retain control of House and
Senate, “a stinging blow to Democrats in a
night full of them.”
Republicans make gains in
governorships, approaching a historical high set in 1922.
Pull up this map and check “show
counties” to see the 95% of US landmass that went for Trump.
“The
Math: Trump 2016 Would’ve Beaten Obama 2012”
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/442059/dont-blame-clinton-trump-2016-wouldve-beaten-obama-2012
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/442059/dont-blame-clinton-trump-2016-wouldve-beaten-obama-2012
Victory ensures conservative majority on Supreme Court for a
generation.
The Democratic Party Establishment Is Finished: “The Democrats will now control next to nothing
above the municipal level…We are going to be unpacking this night for the rest
of our lives, and lives beyond that. We can’t comprehend even 1 percent of
what’s just happened. But one aspect of it, minor in the overall sweep, that
I’m pretty sure we can comprehend well enough right now: The Democratic Party
establishment has beclowned itself and is finished.”
Trump's
'deplorables' shake up the elite.
Trump actually did pretty well with women voters.
Evangelicals voted overwhelmingly for Trump.
Trump got a greater share of the Latino vote (29%) than Mitt
Romney.
Trump doubles Mitt Romney’s support among African-American
voters
Most importantly, “The Reagan Democrats have returned to the
Republicans…”
In blue collar Grays Harbor County, WA, Trump is first GOP win since 1928.
A British view: “I
was right. Trump’s triumph has crushed the lefty luvvies, useless pollsters,
multicultural mafia and gender Nazis who refuse to listen to regular people.
So, from a Brexiteer, thank you America!”
Hollywood Freaks Out: ‘About to Throw Up’
Media Lashes Out at Voters: 'WHITE SUPREMACY,'…. 'HATE
Trumps History….' 'Nation GONE WRONG'.....”An American Tragedy”….”…a terrifying
moment for America.”
Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV): “….the ascendance of hate and
bigotry in America.”
Hillary Supporters Burn American Flag, Riot, Threaten to
Kill Trump After Losing Election
MELTDOWN of the night:
Rachel Maddow loses it as Trump wins.
Pollsters suffer biggest embarrassment in history...
“…..a devastating blow to the credibility of the nation´s
leading pollsters, calling into question their mathematical models, assumptions
and survey methods.”
Bozell: A
Massive Repudiation of the Press
Biggest losers: Far left and NeverTrumps
“Hillary Couldn't Stop Crying, Told Friend She Blames Comey
and Obama For Loss”
Whoops! Newsweek has
to recall 125,000 copies of its souvenir Madam President issue
What Donald Trump´s “ultra-conservative” Supreme Court will
look like
Dow rises 200 points as Trump shocks the world.
Donald Trump
isn’t just skeptical about global warming. He is what the alarmists would call
a full-on climate change “denier”. “The Left Just Lost The War On
Climate Change”
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Daniel Greenfield 11/9
This wasn’t an election. It was a revolution.
It’s midnight in America. The day before fifty million
Americans got up and stood in front of the great iron wheel that had been
grinding them down. They stood there even though the media told them it was
useless. They took their stand even while all the chattering classes laughed
and taunted them.
They were fathers who couldn’t feed their families anymore.
They were mothers who couldn’t afford health care. They were workers whose jobs
had been sold off to foreign countries. They were sons who didn’t see a future
for themselves. They were daughters afraid of being murdered by the
“unaccompanied minors” flooding into their towns. They took a deep breath and
they stood. They held up their hands and the great iron wheel stopped.
The Great Blue Wall crumbled. The impossible states fell one
by one. Ohio. Wisconsin. Pennsylvania. Iowa. The white working class that had
been overlooked and trampled on for so long got to its feet. It rose up against
its oppressors and the rest of the nation, from coast to coast, rose up with
it.
They fought back against their jobs being shipped overseas
while their towns filled with migrants that got everything while they got
nothing. They fought back against a system in which they could go to jail for a
trifle while the elites could violate the law and still stroll through a
presidential election. They fought back against being told that they had to
watch what they say. They fought back against being held in contempt because
they wanted to work for a living and take care of their families. They fought
and they won.
This wasn’t a vote. It was an uprising. Like the ordinary
men chipping away at the Berlin Wall, they tore down an unnatural thing that
had towered over them. And as they watched it fall, they marveled at how weak
and fragile it had always been. And how much stronger they were than they had
ever known.
Who were these people? They were leftovers and flyover
country. They didn’t have bachelor degrees and had never set foot in a
Starbucks. They were the white working class. They didn’t talk right or think
right. They had the wrong ideas, the wrong clothes and the ridiculous idea that
they still mattered. They were wrong about everything. Illegal immigration? Everyone
knew it was here to stay. Black Lives Matter? The new civil rights movement.
Manufacturing? As dead as the dodo. Banning Muslims? What kind of bigot even
thinks that way? Love wins. Marriage loses. The future belongs to the urban
metrosexual and his dot com, not the guy who used to have a good job before it
went to China or Mexico.
They couldn’t change anything. A thousand politicians and
pundits had talked of getting them to adapt to the inevitable future. Instead
they got in their pickup trucks and drove out to vote. And they changed
everything.
Barack Hussein Obama boasted that he had changed America. A
billion regulations, a million immigrants, a hundred thousand lies and it was
no longer your America. It was his. He was JFK and FDR rolled into one. He told
us that his version of history was right and inevitable.
And they voted and left him in the dust. They walked past
him and they didn’t listen. He had come to campaign to where they still cling
to their guns and their bibles. He came to plead for his legacy. And America
said, “No.”
Fifty millions Americans repudiated him. They repudiated the
Obamas and the Clintons. They ignored the celebrities. They paid no attention
to the media. They voted because they believed in the impossible. And their
dedication made the impossible happen. Americans were told that walls couldn’t
be built and factories couldn’t be opened. That treaties couldn’t be unsigned
and wars couldn’t be won. It was impossible to ban Muslim terrorists from
coming to America or to deport the illegal aliens turning towns and cities into
gangland territories. It was all impossible. And fifty million Americans did
the impossible. They turned the world upside down.
It’s midnight in America. CNN is weeping. MSNBC is wailing.
ABC calls it a tantrum. NBC damns it. It wasn’t supposed to happen. The same
machine that crushed the American people for two straight terms, the mass of
government, corporations and non-profits that ran the country, was set to win. Instead
the people stood in front of the machine. They blocked it with their bodies.
They went to vote even though the polls told them it was useless. They mailed
in their absentee ballots even while Hillary Clinton was planning her fireworks
victory celebration. They looked at the empty factories and barren farms. They
drove through the early cold. They waited in line. They came home to their
children to tell them that they had done their best for their future. They bet
on America. And they won. They won improbably. And they won amazingly.
They were tired of ObamaCare. They were tired of
unemployment. They were tired of being lied to. They were tired of watching
their sons come back in coffins to protect some Muslim country. They were tired
of being called racists and homophobes. They were tired of seeing their America
disappear. And they stood up and fought back. This was their last hope. Their
last chance to be heard.
The media had the election wrong all along. This wasn’t
about personalities. It was about the impersonal. It was about fifty million
people whose names no one except a server will ever know fighting back. It was
about the homeless woman guarding Trump’s star. It was about the lost Democrats
searching for someone to represent them in Ohio and Pennsylvania. It was about
the union men who nodded along when the organizers told them how to vote, but
who refused to sell out their futures.
No one will ever interview all those men and women. We will
never see all their faces. But they are us and we are them. They came to the
aid of a nation in peril. They did what real Americans have always done. They
did the impossible.
America is a nation of impossibilities. We exist because our
forefathers did not take no for an answer. Not from kings or tyrants. Not from
the elites who told them that it couldn’t be done.
The day when we stop being able to pull of the impossible is
the day that America will cease to exist.
Today is not that day. Today fifty million Americans did the
impossible. Midnight has passed. A new day has come. And everything is about to
change.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“And
so this is how the Obama era of Hope & Change really ends. With the world
turned upside down, and with President Obama having to pass the baton to Donald
Trump…..Trump stands today as the greatest disrupter in modern politics, the
winner of the biggest upset imaginable, but for most of the campaign, he was
not even the best argument for his own candidacy. That distinction belonged to
the millions upon millions of everyday Americans who found in him the
bare-knuckled brawler they were desperately seeking. Their choice started as a
surprise, as Republican primary voters turned their backs on a parade of
supposedly better-qualified candidates to make the TV celebrity with the funny
hair their battering ram against an arrogant establishment. Their movement grew
and spread until, early Wednesday, as the key states swung red one after
another on TV maps, the last walls of resistance came tumbling down. It was a
hallelujah moment, the ultimate underdog leading the forgotten masses to
triumph. All the more so because Trump’s voters often took great risks and were
routinely insulted and demeaned for their passion. But they wore those insults
as badges of honor, proudly calling themselves the “deplorables” and the
“irredeemables.”
-New York Post
“Democrats and
independent voters surged to Trump. This kind of switch to the Republican
Party, largely of white, working-class voters is not entirely without
precedent. These are, historically the “Reagan Democrats,” who gave Ronald
Reagan a similarly stunning election result in 1980, and a massive landslide
re-election in 1984. They had, post-Reagan, substantially drifted back to their
Democratic roots or withdraw from politics entirely. The blue-blooded Bushes
did not inspire them, and Mitt Romney left them cold. Trump brought them back.”
-John Bolton
“There is a measure of real justice in the America’s
rejection of Hillary Clinton. The electorate has directly and intentionally
rebuked her corruption, her double standards, and her arrogance. This election
was less about the love of Trump (though many millions do certainly love him)
than it was about rejecting the colossal hubris of the progressive
establishment. This is a good thing, a very good thing indeed.”
-David
French
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LEFTIST WATCH
Left-Wing Bigotry And Hatred Is On Full Display After Trump
Win
Trump derangement syndrome from screenwriter Aaron Sorkin: “The Klan won last night. White nationalists.
Sexists, racists and buffoons.”
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ARTICLES
Black Lives Matter helped propel Donald Trump’s unforeseen
ascent to the White House. The public understood the threat to law and order
posed by the movement’s calumnies about the nation’s police—and so, uniquely in
the presidential race, did Trump.
Donald Trump’s Win Wasn’t About Racism
Dilbert’s Scott Adams, the new superstar pundit.
Bestselling author and early Trump advocate Ann Coulter
appeared on 'Good Morning Britain' shortly after the Republican candidate officially
won the presidency. "It was entirely predictable, that's why lots of us
did predict it," she said about Trump's victory. "It is all part of
the same thing," Coulter said about the issues Trump won on: Jobs, economy,
immigration, and trade. "That is globalism vs. nationality." She
continued: "Part of the trade deals are very important. We've lost our--
the number of manufacturing jobs has been halved in the past 20 years. People
don't know in this beautiful city. They don't know in San Francisco. Or
Washington or L.A. Go out to America. These people used to have great jobs and
their kids could look forward to futures better than theirs. Now, it is good
for Wall Street, because they get to arrange the international deals, but it is
terrible for the people who live here. And dumping millions of unskilled
workers on the country: Look at how awful it has been for the African-American
community in this country. Trump is going to change the country."
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NOTEWORTHY WEBSITES
Give this to your distraught liberal friends: “A Democrat's Guide to Moving to Canada”
New Trump transition website reveals policy goals:
"Building That Wall", End "War On Coal", Repeal Obamacare,
Dismantle Dodd-Frank
Trump victory merchandise:
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WISE WORDS
“I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about
anything else that can happen to you.”
-Will
Rogers
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