A couple of days ago, The American Mind published a scary tale in which I pondered the question: what would America be like in the (admittedly unlikely) event that Kamala Harris should win the 2024 presidential election?
The brief answer: it wouldn’t be pretty.
Although Harris has recently been pretending that she is in favor of border security (just as Donald Trump is), fracking (just as Donald Trump is), and law and order (ditto), she would quickly revert to form. The border would remain open and America’s oil, gas, and coal would remain in the ground. Who knows what would happen to Trump’s idea, also adopted by Harris, of exempting tips from federal income tax? We do know, however, that Harris would continue the Biden-Harris assault on free speech, weaponizing the DOJ against critics of her administration.
Assuming the Dems got control of the Senate, Harris would pack the Supreme Court, reinstituting the left-wing bias that had prevailed throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Donald Trump and his close supporters would finally be neutralized, bankrupted, and jailed for life. The federal debt would continue to skyrocket, as would taxes and anything like economic innovation would be stamped out by regulatory zeal masquerading as environmental sensitivity. The left-wing sacrament of unrestricted abortion would be nationalized, nominally by the readoption of Roe v. Wade but in fact by the sanctification of infanticide. The discriminatory culture of ESG and DEI would be further institutionalized, thus undermining any support for meritocracy or such traditional values as colorblind justice.
In short, though there would still be a place called the United States of America, the polity and the political values that existed under that name for nearly 250 years would have vanished, absorbed by the statist, freedom-tarnishing energies of an unaccountable administrative state. The masks would be dropped, the euphemisms retired. The basic hatred of what the United States has been would come to the fore. Harris gave us a little taste of what to expect in her remarks on Columbus Day (a holiday she wants to rebaptize as “Indigenous Peoples’ Day”): “European explorers,” she said, “ushered in a wave of devastation, violence, stealing land, and widespread disease.” Were she elected, the “fundamental transformation of the United States of America” into a one-party socialist redoubt would be complete.
As I say, I regaled readers with that horror story in my essay for The American Mind. Here I would like to offer a few thoughts on the alternative story: What if Donald Trump wins the election? What then?
It is important to understand that Trump’s election, supposing it happens, would be a process, not a single event. As I write, scarcely two weeks out from election day, pollsters are screaming that the race is “a dead heat,” “too close to call.” They warn that we may well see a reprise of Bush v. Gore in 2000, when the world was introduced to the phenomenon of the “hanging chad” and the election came down to a handful of votes in Broward County, Florida, and, then, the Supreme Court. If that is the case, the already-long election season, which starts well before November with early voting, absentee voting, and other expedients, is likely to dribble towards Thanksgiving or even later.
As I have said on many occasions, I do not believe that will happen. Yes, I expect that the Democrats will cheat. There will, I predict, be a certain quota of posthumous voting, double, triple, or quadruple voting, and boxes of dubious votes from nursing homes, hospitals, prisons, and other institutions of the higher subterfuge. There may also be various “anomalies” introduced by the Dominion Vote Rigging Machines.
Still, there is no COVID this time, and Republicans, though they are being outspent by a factor of at least 2 to 1, have a much stronger ground game than in the past. They also have at the top of the ticket the most charismatic politician since Ronald Reagan. Moreover, they have as their VP candidate the brilliant, articulate, and laser-focused J.D. Vance. They also have Elon Musk, RFK Jr., Vivek Ramaswamy, and Tulsi Gabbard.
Then there is the GOP’s secret weapon, the elephant in the room, the Empress With No Clothes. I mean, of course, Queen Kamala and her errant page Tampon-Tim Walz. The ambient static from the media is designed to distract us from the simple truth that they are fantastically bad candidates, deeply, irredeemably out of touch with most voters. Last week, I wrote about the campaign’s horrible, no good, really bad week. Nothing in the following week, including Bret Baier’s quiet but annihilating interview and her non-appearance at the Al Smith dinner, did anything to undo the damage.
All of which means that the election will not be close. Trump will win in something close to a landslide. We will know the results late November 5 or sometime November 6. But that doesn’t mean that he will simply coast into the Oval Office on January 20, 2025. Get ready for some serious insanity. The loser females in the pink hats at the mall at Trump’s 2017 inauguration will seem like a garden club outing compared to what will happen this time. Expect the NeverTrumpers to reprise gambits like appealing to electors to betray their oaths and refuse to vote for Trump. Rep. Jeremy Raskin (D-MD) has already suggested that should Trump win, Congress should deploy Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to declare him ineligible to be seated.
No, absent a successful assassination attempt, Trump will win comfortably. Here are just a few of the major achievements you can expect within the first 18 months:
- The United States will once again have a southern border. The tsunami of illegals invading our country will collapse. Anyone with a criminal record discovered to have come here illegally will be deported.
- The Ukraine war will be brought to an end. Trump will broker a deal that leaves Russia with Crimea, a corridor into Crimea, and the Russian-speaking bits of the Donbas. The slaughter will stop.
- Fracking and other methods of extracting fossil fuels will resume in earnest. In short order, America will resume its place as an energy-independent nation. The price of gas will fall. Nuclear power will be aggressively pursued.
- Huge brakes will be applied to the regulatory Leviathan strangling American business and hobbling entrepreneurs.
- Trump will extend his original tax cuts, introduce new tax cuts for the middle and working class, and probably lower the corporate tax rates to 15 percent from 21 percent. Investment in the U.S. will soar.
- Trump will expel the poison of wokeness from the military and the government. ESG, CRT, and DEI initiatives will be canceled in all government agencies. The cancer of Title IX insanity will be excised from academia. Legal efforts to abolish public sector unions, beginning with the teacher’s union, will be undertaken almost immediately.
- Elon Musk will help eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse throughout the government. He was able to fire approximately 80 percent of Twitter employees directly when he acquired the company and the platform has become much more robust, secure, and user-friendly in the process.
The NeverTrump lobby is screaming that Trump is a combination of Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini. But voters remember Trump’s first term. Unemployment was at the lowest level it had been in decades; minority unemployment was the lowest on record. Wages were rising, especially at the lower end of the scale. Illegal border crossings were at their lowest level in years. Inflation was a tame 1.2 percent. America was not at war, nor was it countenancing major conflicts anywhere in the work. The FBI wasn’t going after concerned parents at school board meetings or people who posted things on Twitter with which Trump disagreed.
One of Harris’s favorite campaign slogans is “We’re not going back.” The problem for her is that millions of voters look back on the first Trump administration with fond longing. That is the world, the America, they want. They will have an opportunity to express that longing on or around November 5, when they will almost certainly return Trump to office.
I echo Mr. Kimball’s sentiments. I think this race is in no way close at all despite the Democrat’s oversampled polls.
I also agree with his list of pro-American changes a Trump victory will bring. However, I think the blowback from the Left will be even more than Mr. Kimball envisions. I believe we will see riots that will pale 2020’s Summer of Love. If you think the Left was angry after 2016, 2024 will show what true anger really is.
The why’s are simple. Throughout the land, the religion of DEI is faltering as corporations abandon the false catechism that religion sought to impose. Even Universities are having second thoughts. The Left will not be happy about this.
The unraveling of The Great Replacement strategy will also bring anger by being thwarted. Though the DoJ has been doing yeoman’s work to ensure the casting of illegal ballots be accomplished this election season, it will be far few of the goal and without enough time to enshrine the theft for future elections.
Harris’s loss will also anger the Cat Ladies over the loss of the sacred right (rite?) of nationalized, legalized, and subsidized infanticide. Jezebel will not be happy, at all.
So those wise among us should celebrate the positive changes the second Trump presidency will bring, but with one hand on the holster—'cause it’s going to get ugly.
One thing is for certain and that is if Harris should be installed she will keep the southern border wide open. There will be no need for border agents. Mesoamerican gangs and cartels will eventually control the inflow of upwards of 75 to 100 million people over the next 8 years. The Federal Treasury will be depleted. Local police will be useless. They will do what they are told and will be lucky if they get paid. Ultimately the Federal government will become just as useless and survival will depend on decentralization of power among the states and communities. History, no longer taught anywhere in public places, is resplendent with accounts of masses of humanity suffering enormous defeats and losses. Nothing is too big to fall when destroyed from the inside. Yes, America will survive as a borderless territory but it will take a certain type of people who would want to live here. Half of America has no clue as to what 8 years of a Harris presidency will do in terms of destruction, chaos and dystopia.
When Cortes and the Spaniards arrived in Mesoamerica they did not encounter peaceful maze growing farmers. Historical accounts depicted a people who plundered neighboring tribes, kept slaves and sacrificed thousands of young women and boys every year. The Spaniards were powerful and seasoned men who had fought wars in N. Africa and Spain against enemies far less brutal. They were aghast. I would expect a renaissance of such behavior and no amount of Christianity will mitigate the carnal, primal behavior. The Federal Government will stand down. Think ISIS in the Homeland’s Heartland.
Well let’s get Maximus’s pessimism factored into the vote counting schemes. I believe you are right but should we lose by a close margin, as some predictors predict, the way the country will be governed will be world’s apart. That is why I dropped an alternative scenario into the equation. Consider that approximately 170 million registered voters can cast ballots legally. If either side wins by a mere one (1) vote the direction the county goes will be 180 degrees apart. The disparity, fear and hate between the people and the Harris government is unmeasurable.
I have VIP tickets to the Madison Square Garden Trump event. My wife refuses to go because the Roosevelt Hotel is across the street and she speaks to women friends who hire body guards to accompany them to work in the morning and home in the evenings because the Venezuelan gangs living there are so aggressive. People vote based on the bubble they live in. A lot of people are clueless. And a lot of people who control the levers of power have been bought off.
Bukele solved his crime problem by putting all of the gang members in super-max prisons. Maduro solved his by sending them all here to the United States. Harris/Biden seem to like the Maduro plan much better.
Everett I have been watching and bemoaning this for decades. Remember I lived in LI, NYC and Chicago. I am going to be introduced to a retired Federal judge who can’t sleep at night because she had to listen to testimony about how HS girls, from the LI Brentwood school district, were tortured to death slowly as part of an MS13 initiating processes. This is my bubble. I look every which way, including sideways, plus up and down. I was never this suspicious when I was young and middle aged but what I (we) have seen in terms of gross incompetence or deliberateness, which culminated in 2020 with the steal, and the management of Covid-19, has made me think that all bets are off until the fat lady sings. 2022 was supposed to be a red wave so I am not willing to forget that so quickly. I think you are right but everyone of us should consider the clarion call of Paul Revere. We are facing a potential existential crisis of Biblical proportions.