For the first time in four decades, Republicans are basking in the embrace of pop culture. Boxers and football players are doing the “Trump dance.” Leaning right is the new counterculture.

It’s fun for conservatives to swim in the mainstream—especially after having been marginalized by the left for so long. But Republicans will make a great mistake if they draw the wrong lessons from the 2024 elections.

Republicans didn’t win because a majority of voters signed onto their agenda. They won because the Biden/Harris administration was an utter, arrogant failure; and because Donald Trump is a unique and engaging pop culture figure who was able to capture key constituencies of working class and minority voters.

Republicans haven’t yet cemented this new coalition. They can—but they’ll need to enact policies that make these new voters’ lives noticeably better.

Let’s get to work!

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Democrats spent the last four years shrieking about the necessity of obeying the law and accepting election results to “save democracy.” And now—in Pennsylvania, Democrats had been openly flouting the law to include illegal ballots—and defeated Senate incumbent Bob Casey was supporting it.

Several counties in Pennsylvania controlled by Democrats were including misdated or undated ballots to attempt to rescue Casey’s seat. The state supreme court ruled that these ballots violate the law, which didn’t stop Democrat commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia. “People violate laws any time they want,” she declared while continuing to count the illegal ballots in Bucks County.

So: The state Supreme Court had to weigh in again, commanding them to stop.

What has ‘democracy defender’ Bob Casey said about this? Nothing.

The shenanigans need to stop. Until they do, Casey and Democrat attorney Marc Elias will keep trying to corrupt the process in a vain attempt to cling to public office. Isn’t that what Democrats spent the last four years claiming Republicans would do?

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In 18th century Russia, Field Marshal Gregory Potemkin ordered the construction of pretty facades so Empress Catherine wouldn't see the true, grim state of newly annexed Crimea. They became known as “Potemkin villages.”

Fast forward to 2024. Kamala Harris’s entire campaign was the modern-day equivalent of a Potemkin Village. All that celebrity support — Beyonce, Oprah, Meghan The Stallion and Cardi B? Bought and paid for.

Polls that showed Donald Trump with a lead over Harris were dismissed as right-leaning “garbage.” Real Clear Politics, which used the polls in its aggregation, were actually deplatformed by Wikipedia. As it turned out, the “garbage” polls were most accurate—and even underestimated Trump’s support.

The Harris campaign’s Potemkin Village looked great—until election night when the pretty façade collided with reality. Now left-wing voters are realizing they’ve been lied to and misled.

No wonder legacy media ratings are collapsing.

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