I’m rather pleased with the results from our most recent general election, on both a statewide level and nationally.
Even though the city and county races were decided back in May, we elected good, solid folks for our city government, an amazing crew running our county, and with the statewide offices being decided at the same time as our general election, I believe we did well, at electing capable people who will do what they see as best for us, within the confines of the will of the people.
Again, good people who are committed to do the right thing for our state.
When it comes to the national elections, which tend to be much more polarized by party line, a clear mandate was delivered with Donald Trump decisively winning both the Electoral and the Popular votes, and Republicans in charge of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
Those of us who follow such things refer to this as the “Trifecta.”
This most recent election was a referendum on the past four years, which were plagued by inflation, economic policies that left many of trying to figure out what they were attempting to accomplish, and by all of us being reminded bad things happen when our United States projects weakness.
I waited to do a “happy dance” until the final ballot counts were returned, and it was crystal clear who the winners were. It required a little more than one week after the close of the polls.
While you might have personal issues with some of those who prevailed, they did win.
Wishing that any of them fail is akin to hoping the pilot crashes the airliner in which you are a passenger. You might have milliseconds to enjoy your smug superiority, but you’re going to be lining exactly the same hole in the ground.
We need to get behind our new elected officials and give their approach a bit of time to take hold. Part of this is going to be undoing things that were broken in the past four years.
Our Executive in Chief, one of the few we have who knows exactly how to run an organization as large as the federal government, now has the experience to deal with the built-in insanity that is politics. Trump learned important lessons during his first term, and he has demonstrated that he learns quickly and adapts. It’s not going to stop him from trying new things, though. Which is not safe politically, but exactly what we need.
I looked back at the news from the first 100 days of Trumps first term. There were riots. Cities were burning. The left was in shock that their anointed one didn’t become our nation’s first female president. When Biden won in 2020, those of us on the right didn’t light our cities ablaze. We had things to do, and there was some level of curiosity to see if a contrasting approach would work.
It didn’t.
And now we are headed back to the path that was proven to work for four years starting in 2016 and restarting in about two months. I know better than to expect that the left will greet Trump’s programs and policies with any level of curiosity.
They are convinced they know better.
The people have spoken, however, because the policies of the past four years failed. We are going back to what worked.
It’s not too much to ask the Left to step up and give it a chance, is it?
