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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Look at those Trump appointments! It brings to mind the GOP convention in 1964, when Barry Goldwater said, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice”—and an institutionalized journalist turned to his friend and said, “My gawd, he’s going to run as Goldwater!”

Well, Donald Trump has run as a disrupter, and one doesn’t disrupt by changing the spokes on the wheels, they change the wheels—or the car. Donald Trump, like Ronald Reagan before him, identified the problems of the deep state and big government well, but, while slaying other monsters, in both cases, from tyranny and terrorism to a laggard economy, they were unable to do much about the government here.

That’s a lesson Trump has learned—and he was not shy in what he campaigned on. The Democrats said the worst they could of him as well—and tried to destroy him.

And yet he won. Big. With a mandate. People heard and saw and said they want this. And Trump, with these picks, is going to govern … as Trump, just as the people wanted … a disrupter.

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There are so many takes on the 2024 election and so little time.

Over at Fox News I listed my top 10.

Right now, I’ll just note one: Our national security.

Americans know our national security is endangered by China-Russia-Iran-North Korea’s axis of dictators and we don’t like the prospect of being #2 or even tied for #1. “Peace through strength” is the best option for the President-elect to follow—and to do so with a sweeping set of goals.

The rapid expansion of our fleet, especially under the seas, should be a priority along with the on-going development of asymmetrical weapons and systems.

The selection of Florida Congressman—and Green Beret—Mike Waltz as National Security Advisor and Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense indicate that the Team Trump is serious.

These are good men—and they are serious men. I hope all his senior appointees at DOD commit for the entire four years.

The nation needs them.

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There’s a catchphrase in political and media commentary: Never go full Hitler. Comparing anyone to Hitler is over the top, given the historical depth of Hitler’s evil.

But Democrats and the legacy media did it. They went full Hitler on Trump—comparing our next president to the Führer.

Look no further than Joy Reid of MSNBC:

“We've laid out the stakes in this crucial election where one side stands for freedom while the other meets the textbook definition of fascism. Namely a far-right dictatorial regime like Hitler's Germany or Franco Spain, or Mussolini's, Italy.”

We see the results of that strategy in TikTok meltdowns of pitiful souls.

The left will pay a price with its base for its deceit. The rest of America has already seen through all the Democrat hoaxes when it comes to Trump.

Look no further than President Biden who has now hosted the American Hitler for lunch. Really? Americans are seeing it clearly: they have been cynically exploited.

This transition can’t happen soon enough.

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There are many reasons to celebrate Donald Trump’s victory, but perhaps none greater than this: It marks the end of the Obama era.

We’ve heard a lot about “norms” in recent years. No one broke a bigger “norm” than Obama in 2016. Rather than leaving the nation’s capitol like every other president, he stayed in D.C. and effectively established himself as a shadow president.

He knew Russiagate was a hoax, and yet he quietly encouraged it. And even in the waning days of the last presidential campaign, Obama was peddling the discredited “very fine people” hoax—deliberately lying about what Trump said about the Charlottesville protests.

Barack Obama’s presidency ushered in an era of hard-left politics and racial division that has left our country more bitter and more divided. Trump’s win was a repudiation of him and what he stands for. It’s about time.

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Congratulations to President-Elect Trump, the most unlikely figure in American history in many a generation and one who will be fascinating biographers and historians for decades and decades to come.

If you are shocked, blame legacy media and the deeply dysfunctional blue bubble which Team Trump should absolutely ignore. Cancel your subscriptions. We aren’t buying their nonsense anymore. There’s a new and alternative media out there.

Wednesday morning, indeed, was morning in America again. The sense of relief concerning our national security is immense for me and I’m sure for many of you.

I hope that President Trump’s Second Inaugural draws heavily from President Lincoln’s First, especially these lines: “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”

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