By Former Rep. Bob Barr
As with any national election, there are winners and losers. There are celebrations and there are postmortems. There is recrimination and there are congratulations. After their shellacking at the polls Nov. 5, Democrats unsurprisingly are pointing fingers, casting blame and channeling their anger; some already scheming for 2026 and 2028.
Meanwhile, the one person most responsible for what still is unfolding as a historically significant election is doing exactly what he should be doing. Donald J. Trump is laying the groundwork to begin dismantling a federal government that has been allowed to grow into a morbidly obese and regulatory oppressive behemoth under successive Democrat and Republican administrations. Not since Ronald Reagan took on Uncle Sam in his first term has the left faced such a serious threat.
What makes this go âround far different from Reaganâs 1980 drubbing of Jimmy Carter is the magnitude and multitude of attacks leveled at Trump before the election â a barrage no presidential candidate before him had endured. Sure, Reagan was attacked by the Democrat Party throughout the 1980 campaign, even as he had to fight off efforts by the GOP establishment that never really warmed to his anti-Washington rhetoric. But the campaign against Trump, which began even before Joe Biden was sworn into office Jan. 20, 2021, is something our country never previously had witnessed.
To the horror and dismay of Democrats and many moderate Republicans, and against all odds, Trump still prevailed.
Also unlike Reaganâs 1980 win (with his coattails ushering in a GOP majority in the Senate) â after which politics settled down into a ânormalâ transition â Trumpâs opponents largely have refused to accept Harrisâ loss or to acknowledge that his victory at the polls represents a rejection of the liberal agenda pressed by Biden and his Democrat predecessor, Barack Obama. This situation mirrors that in 2016 when Democrats refused to accept Trumpâs first win, and instead declared open cultural, political and legal warfare against his administration.
Even facing strong headwinds from Democrats in Congress and those entrenched in the massive federal bureaucracy for the entirety of his first term in office, Trump was able to enact much of his conservative agenda; most notably in judicial appointments, strengthening Americaâs energy sector, focusing the nationâs attention on illegal immigration that had grown during the Obama years (and then exploded during Bidenâs) and reinvigorating our free-market economy.
While Biden immediately after being sworn in set about to dismantle much of Trumpâs signature accomplishments by opening our southern border to virtually all comers, and by massive infusions of inflationary dollars into the economy, the policy issues for which Trump as President had fought remained front and center up to and including the 2024 election cycle.
For the entirety of Bidenâs four years as president, the political domestic landscape was defined not by him or even by congressional Democrats who enjoyed a majority in the Senate. This was a severe handicap for Biden, even before he bowed out in July.
Trumpâs master stroke of declaring early in 2022 that he would be a candidate in 2024 guaranteed that he, and not the incumbent Democrat president, would define the parameters for the remainder of Bidenâs presidency. This gamble also played to Trumpâs advantage by forcing the Democrats to do what they do best â overreach…
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