Make room, Grover Cleveland: Donald Trump connected Tuesday became nan 2nd feline to triumph a second, non-consecutive 4 years successful nan White House — and pinch nan astir multiracial conjugation nan GOP’s seen successful decades, possibly ever.
Coupled pinch Republicans winning clear power of nan Senate, and a beardown chance to support their constrictive House majority, Trump has awesome prospects to make bully connected his vow to usher successful a caller “golden age.”
“My connection to Americans coming is simple: We do not person to unrecorded this way. We do not person to settee for weakness, incompetence, diminution and decay,” he said Monday.
“With your ballot tomorrow, we tin hole each azygous problem our state faces — and lead America, and so nan world, to caller heights of glory.”
Doing it will beryllium a lot tougher than saying it, but he’s successful acold amended style to move decisively and wisely than aft his astonishing 2016 victory.
With nan benefits of experience, he should combine a acold stronger White House team, and much coagulated Cabinet; it’ll beryllium acold harder for “deep state” types to blindside him.
Yes, Democrats and overmuch of nan media will re-enter “resistance” mode — but this coagulated triumph guarantees their obstructionism will get acold little traction.
Nothing for illustration nan phony Russiagate ungraded is going to kneecap him this clip around. His foes only person nan prosecutions to autumn backmost on.
But nan national cases will astatine worst frost erstwhile he’s sworn in, and will beryllium intolerable to effort earlier then. The Georgia lawsuit was already connected its past legs and seems judge to die.
In New York, Judge Juan Merchan would beryllium insane to effort for immoderate jailhouse clip now, and nan appellate courts person each nan much logic to flip nan lawsuit completely: It’d beryllium correct by nan law, and bully for nan authorities to not consequence a vendetta pinch nan adjacent president.
Meanwhile, Trump has a master squad astir him now, allowing him to return decisive, effective executive action connected Day 1: getting power of nan border, unleashing America’s power sector, upending Biden regulations that stifle nan US economy.
And, yes, starting to put retired nan fires crossed nan globe.
On that front, callback his words that last run day: “We’ll thief nan world — a batch of group deliberation we’re isolationists, we’re not.”
Israel tin respire a immense sigh of relief: Washington will now person its backmost arsenic it confronts Iran and its proxies — and renewed sanctions will quickly commencement slamming Tehran’s income.
No much cutoffs of nan weapons Jerusalem needs.
As for Ukraine: Trump’s said he wants a cease-fire, but he besides won’t person Joe Biden’s qualms astir “escalating” nan war. Vladimir Putin is connected notice, it’s clip to trim a woody that guarantees Kyiv’s independence, permanently — and if he wants to get now-occupied Russian territory back, he’ll person to move backmost from nan Ukrainian territory he’s squatting on.
At home, Trump (with thief from nan Democrats’ move to nan acold left) has besides created a caller winning Republican coalition, pinch Latino voters breaking decisively to nan GOP and blacks progressively down connected nan Dems.
Working-class voters of each races now thin Republican, and if Trump delivers for them successful his 2nd word arsenic he did successful his first, it’s a full caller ballgame for elections to come.
As John Podhoretz notes, this is an unthinkable individual accomplishment for Trump — aft 2 impeachments, aggregate prosecutions including absurd judgments (still connected appeal) successful kangaroo New York courts, relentless media hostility, 2 assassination attempts and a precocious move of Democratic nominee.
He powered done to victory, and that’s different immense separator successful pursuing his schedule astatine location and abroad: Never count this feline out.