In the runup to the election I said how worried I was about rising conflict between the two warring American social and political factions once the winner had been determined. I thought it likely, barring massive fraud, that Trump would win, and I thought that if that happened the seething Left would stage massive chimpouts in every Blue city.
That hasn’t happened. Instead, it actually seems that there is some sort of sea change underway, and that we may actually in fact have passed peak Wokeness. Instead of taking a knee during the National Anthem, sports figures are now doing the “Trump Dance” on the field. Public figures, such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are now dropping pronouns from their social-media profiles. The prominent anti-Trump media personality Joe Scarborough has even gone to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring.
To be sure, there’s a long way to go yet. There is still the inauguration to get through, and there may still be some sort of surprise in store (World War III, for example.) It’s awfully hard to believe that such people as Chuck Schumer and Jamie Raskin are just going to take their defeat lying down, and I’d be surprised if they aren’t plotting some kind of riposte.
Nevertheless: was I wrong? Is there suddenly some sort of seismic shift toward sanity and normality under way in America? Does the spasm of madness that was so dominant just a year or two ago now begin to seem, to millions now awakening, like a crazy fever dream? Can this really be happening? Or is this just the eye of the storm?
It’s too soon to tell, but I’ll dare to hope.
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Yes, the ‘eye of the storm’, I’m afraid. While we ponder, the left is surely scheming their next moves to blunt Trump.
And, reportedly Biden, the monster, has approved Ukraine’s launch of US made missiles into Russia. This won’t end well.
I don’t think you, Malcolm, were being too pessimistic at all. :-(
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