PRESIDENT TRUMP: I think one thing that's happening is people are learning that Democrats can't govern, and that their policies are terrible. They don't want to see a woman get pummeled by a man in boxing ring… they don't want a child to leave home as a boy and come back two… pic.twitter.com/R99QHCATxy
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) January 23, 2025
Increasingly think Trump's 4 years out of power may have been a inadvertent blessing for him. The party is now entirely unified with him, the lefts theory of democracy illegitimacy is broken, and the vanguard of talent to help him accomplish his goals has had 4 years to prepare
— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) January 22, 2025
I’m very pleased with the first three days.
I spent three years on this website ridiculing Blumpf.
In early 2021 though, I began to get the sense that Trump and MAGA were changing. The shocks of 2020 – COVID, the Summer of Floyd, Joe Biden winning the 2020 election – were having a radicalizing effect that was beginning to register in polls. The Biden presidency kicked it into overdrive.
In 2024, I bet the man who stepped back into the Oval Office on Monday would not be the return of Blumpf, and if so then at least he would be gone in 2028. Donald Trump has had four long years to nurse his resentments and reflect on the mistakes that he made in his first term. He has been shot. He has been sued to oblivion. He has been smeared as a rapist. He has been targeted by the FBI and the DOJ. They tried to put him in prison for the rest of his life. These things would have radicalized anyone.
Anyway, it has been very satisfying to watch Trump to evolve into the type of man we needed to take power in 2017. He personally wasn’t ready for command eight years ago. The party wasn’t ready. The conservative base wasn’t ready. The personnel weren’t ready to govern.
Obviously, we have a long fight ahead of us in the courts, but the strategy of overwhelming the defeated and demoralized Democrats by flooding the zone with action appears to be working. There has been so much ground seized on so many fronts that it is hard to ignite a reaction to any one thing.
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