We interrupt our regularly scheduled program to bring you this important announcement…

Copyright (c), 2024, Thomas Kratman, Harry Kitchener

So, yes, Trump won.  Indeed, he won convincingly; having the White House, both houses of Congress, a majority of state governorships, and, from his first term, the Supreme Court.  It’s hard to imagine a more convincing win in the modern era.

What does that mean for you, dear leftist with some sense of self-preservation?

The first and most important thing is that the war doesn’t have to start now or, at least, not soon.  The right is going to get what it wants in spades.  And you are going to lose everything you think of as “progress” which you’ve gained in the last sixteen years.  ESG?[1]  DOA.  DEI?[2]  DOA.  CRT?[3]  DOA.[4]

And it doesn’t stop there.  The ruination of the military and its distraction from its core task of winning the nation’s wars?  That’s over.  Contracting of free speech rights?  No more.  Censorship on behalf of the government?  However much you wanted that before, with the left wing in power, and Obama on his third term, you do not want it now.  Similarly, packing the Supreme Court and the end of the Senate filibuster; we would suspect that these don’t seem quite as desirable to you as they did before the election. 

And the Deep State that foments ostensible leftism while actually pursuing its own goals?  The Supreme Court’s gutting of the Chevron Doctrine is only the beginning.  Trump, if he learned anything at all from his first term, is going to castrate the Deep State like it’s never been docked before.  Control and ruination of America’s educational system?  Kiss the Department of [shoddy] Education goodbye.

Naturally, you hate all this.  Yes, yes, we know you do.  And you’re going to want to fight it, to fight it in the streets, with demonstrations and riots, to fight it on the increasingly less friendly Internet, to fight it in the increasingly irrelevant mainstream media. 

We’d suggest that you can do everything in that list except riot and burn.  Rioting and burning in red states will get you shot or imprisoned.  Rioting and burning in blue cities and states may well turn them red.  Enough of it starts the war, and you’re on the losing end of that proposition.

We return you now to our regularly scheduled programming…

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[1] Environmental, Social, and Governance

[2] Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

[3] Critical Race Theory.

[4] Dead on Arrival