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America’s Victory: Trump’s Win Saved America

President Donald Trump’s election victory on November 5 was an epochal event in American history. The American people gave Trump a mandate with almost 51% of the vote. He received over 73 million votes, more than four million more than his opponent. A new American coalition—traditional Republican voters united with lower middle class, working class, African Americans, Hispanics, and white women—provided the monumental victory. At such a significant time, it is important to consider how America arrived at such a historical moment and what must be accomplished in the years ahead.

Retrospectively, Americans must understand how they came to this place in their history. According to the exit polls, a whopping 72% of Americans understood that their country was on the wrong path. America’s political ideology, culture, and traditions were under assault by the so-called “progressive” wing of the Democrat Party. The Biden-Harris administration weakened the economy, caused inflation rates not seen since the 1970s, opened U.S. borders to some 15 million people and facilitated their relocation throughout the U.S. and so weaponized the legal system to wage lawfare against Trump, his major political and legal advisors, and against many of his supporters.

In the realm of foreign and defense policy, the debacle of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the failure to deter the war in Ukraine, the horrific attacks against Israel on October 7, 2023, and the subsequent wars it unleashed. Significantly, the Biden-Harris regime failed to deter Communist China’s hyper-aggression directed against U.S. allies like the Philippines and partners like Taiwan, and most importantly against the American people through the deaths of a quarter of a million of our fellow citizens from Chinese-provided fentanyl and the intellectual capture of so many of the American elite who parrot the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) policy positions to advance the CCP’s interests.

The deeper cause of how America arrived at this point is the embrace of Marxism by the Democratic Party and thus its increasing totalitarianism and alienation from the American people. In its embrace of this ideology, the Democrat Party demonstrated that it had completely become detached from the American experience, ideology, history, and culture in its effort to transform America into a one-party state on the road to totalitarianism. The American people saw this effort to continue the “fundamental transformation” of America—as Obama identified it on the eve of the 2008 election—and rejected it.

Prospectively, there is so much that must be accomplished to repair the great costs that the Biden-Harris administration has inflicted upon the American people. As Trump has already stated in the immediate aftermath of his historic election victory, his first actions will be to “dismantle the Deep State and return power to the American People.” His stated goal is to return the government to the people, not the unelected bureaucrats that have installed themselves as a fourth branch of government. As such, the reform of government employment policies will be a major objective for his administration.

Likewise, a second Trump administration will address inflation, uncontrolled illegal immigration, economic stagnation, and the enormous national debt that risks destroying the Republic. The U.S. is in dire fiscal and economic circumstances and Trump will have to confront these issues immediately as they will be thrust upon him on January 20.

In foreign and defense policy, the situation is just as dire. U.S. conventional and nuclear forces must be strengthened. The defense industrial base must be restored to meet the threat from Communist China. The principal danger, the CCP, must be defeated by cutting it off from U.S. trade and investment—decoupling must be pursued with vigor. Furthermore, all Chinese entities should be prohibited from raising capital in U.S. markets. Its hyper-aggression must be checked by credible U.S. military power in conjunction with its allies and partners, like Japan, Korea, Australia, Thailand, India, and Taiwan.

Increasingly, Americans recognize that the CCP is illegitimate. It is the product of Soviet imperialism, and so is a colonial government ruling the Chinese people. Xi Jinping has no more legitimacy to rule the great Chinese people than we do. The second Trump administration will need to use the bully pulpit of our nation to inform the world of the CCP’s illegitimate control over the people of China.

Trump’s victory also provides the opportunity to save more than America. It provides the chance to defend Western civilization, upon which America’s foundation, history, politics, culture, and intellectual life are anchored. The Progressive Left’s (that is, Communists’) attack against America’s political ideology, history, and culture is part of a broader effort to destroy Western civilization. Initially, the left undermined it through the “ideas industry,” universities, K-12 education, think tanks, media, social media, television, and film. Then they labored hammer and tongs to overthrow it. Trump has the opportunity to repair the tremendous damage that the left has done carefully and deliberately to Western civilization. Working with European, British, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian allies and other peoples around the world who value the contributions of Western civilization, Trump can begin to fix the damage.

Under Trump, the direction of the nation is clear—as it is for any ship embarking on a new journey. The ship of America must be sounded, the damage repaired, and a renewed course, like the ones originally charted by the celestial constellations that guided Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Reagan, must be set. If we stay true to our constitutional principles, America will once again have a fair wind and a following sea as it returns to its political ideology, principles, and traditions. That course opens the door to the best years in America’s history.

The American people understood their plight and were searching for decades for an effective leader, only to be disappointed and frustrated with Republican Party candidates, which led to a profound alienation of the base from the Party establishment. Trump had brilliant careers in real estate and television before he entered politics. But he chose to throw his hat into the ring because he identified with what was happening to the American people.

In turn, the American people saw clearly that Trump was the vessel that would enact their course change. His tremendous courage, acumen, charisma, indefatigable physical stamina, thick skin, and political instincts are without parallel in modern American history. As such, the American people have unquestionably placed their trust in him to empower the saving of America. Trump has accepted that sacred challenge. He has excelled and will do so again in this colossal task because it is evident to Americans that he loves America, the American people, and is a fighter. The American people gave Trump his victory because they saw that Trump’s triumph is America’s.

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James E. Fanell and Bradley A. Thayer are authors of Embracing Communist China: America’s Greatest Strategic Failure. The views expressed are their own.

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About James E. Fanell and Bradley A. Thayer

James Fanell is a government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, a retired captain in the U.S. Navy and a former director of intelligence and information operations for the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Bradley A. Thayer is a Founding Member of the Committee on Present Danger China and the coauthor with Lianchao Han of Understanding the China Threat.

Photo: WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - NOVEMBER 06: Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump points to supporters with former first lady Melania Trump during an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center on November 06, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Americans cast their ballots today in the presidential race between Republican nominee former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as multiple state elections that will determine the balance of power in Congress. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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  1. Avatar for Alecto Alecto says:

    Trump certainly is victorious in this election. Whether or not the combination of Republican held executive and congressional power can begin the reversal of the steep decline and illegitimate foreign influence in this country remains to be seen. It’s too early to tell whether the next four years can eradicate the Deep State, rid the country of millions of illegitimate and illegal residents and fraudulent asylees and refugees, and return to a country of Americans ruled by and for Americans.

    I continue to pray and hope that all of the January 6, 2021 political prisoners will be freed on Day One and that those responsible for denying these citizens their rights to Free Speech, Assembly and Petition the Government for Redress will be made whole by an American administration which submits itself to rule by the Constitution, and not its party donors.

  2. While I definitely think that the US dodged a bullet on November. 5th, I find the hyperbolic fan-boy prose of the authors a little much. If Trump can course-correct the economy, get something permanent done on immigration, begin the process of dismantling the administrative/Deep State & holding those bad actors within them accountable for their abuses, his second term will be a remarkable success.

    But let’s be realistic…we did not arrive where we are overnight and we are not going to reverse it that way, either. What I hope the election achieves is a breaking of the DC Uniparty. A lot of long-term narratives about the American electorate were broken this time around and, I think, this one may have also permanently crippled mainstream media’s stranglehold on information.

    The biggest gift likely to come out of 2024 is a young & extraordinarily capable VP choice that can continue the fight after Trump leaves office at the end of his presidency

  3. Likewise. Just this morning I read an article about Mitch McConnell calling for a Republican Senate leadership vote before the new incoming Senators can be seated in January. This is an effort to install as many treasonous RINOs in leadership positions as possible before Trump is inaugurated. In other words, it is a sign that McConnell and his acolytes have no intention of rubber-stamping Trump’s agenda, or his nominees.

    And there is no guarantee Republicans in the House will keep their razor thin majority as the vote counting manufacturing is still going on in the People’s Republic of Kalifornia. There are three crucial districts still in play–five full days after the election–that are still being tabulated, cured and otherwise manipulated to elect Democrats.

    The point of this comment is simply this: We the People can vote for whomever we wish, but the powers-that-be will give us who they want. And in those rare circumstances where they can’t, the bureaucratic state make life as unbearable and difficult for those who defy them as possible.

    Last Tuesday was a welcome blessing we should all be thankful for. But we’re a LONG ways from celebrating victory.

  4. I will breathe a huge sigh of relief when the Turtle is gone; I just hope the Republicans can resist installing a younger version of him as majority leader – that Josh Hawley would endorse John Cornyn for that position is appalling.

  5. Avatar for Alecto Alecto says:

    I hadn’t read that Hawley endorsed Cornyn? If that’s the case, he needs to be talked down from the ledge before his poor judgement or possible budding corruption saddle him with the Uniparty label! What did Cornyn promise him and when did he accept?

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