With Trump’s virtual landslide victory, we may finally be “unburdened by what has been,” as the long, progressive totalitarian nightmare that began with Obama’s “transformational” presidency may, at last, be coming to an end. It is probably too much to hope that Kamala Harris will de-transition from a “black female” (her dual intersectional qualifications for office) to just one more of the millions of Americans of mixed race; from her chameleonic southern preacher revival meetin’ drawl, Detroit jive-talk, and Jamaican patois, to her normal college-educated mid-Atlantic accent; or from a “working class” victim of systemic American sexism and white supremacism to the wealthy child of privilege that she has always been.
Nor dare we to hope that the Democrats will stop trying to shame blacks as Uncle Toms who have wandered off the reservation and failed to vote in lockstep with their “blackness”—on the prejudicial premise that their loyalty to the Party’s progressive ideology is an immutable characteristic like the color of their skin. To assume that members of a racial group must all think alike might have struck them by now as the most blatant form of racism, as though Clarence Thomas, Al Sharpton, Lebron James, and the beleaguered black residents of America’s Democrat-ruled inner cities have everything, indeed, anything, in common.
That blacks must all think with their blood and women with their gonads—but then, isn’t the mere notion of the “women’s vote” a cisgender heresy?—is the corollary, of course, of the postmodernist conception of “diversity,” which for progressives has always meant absolute ideological uniformity, lurking under the diaphanous veneer of ethnic or sexual heterogeneity. But then this is the Party that accepts fideistically that all males are misogynist, all masculinity is “toxic,” all whites are racist, all women are unreservedly pro-abortion, and all homosexuals are evangelists of transgender orthodoxy and child sexual mutilation.
Only progressives, it seems, have failed to notice that their infatuation with DEI—that is, segregating people by race and sex, and discriminating in favor of some at the expense of others—is the very definition of racism and sexism. Again, the irony has always escaped them that the imputation to free individuals of the progressive velleities of official leftist victim-groups is the very essence of prejudice. And now that Trump’s Latino supporters have also refuted that tribalistic calumny, before the sun sets on the Biden administration and Kamala’s stars begin to shine in the darkness; before, that is, the violent post-inaugural resistance begins in earnest, the Democrats may finally seal the border against the Hispanics who have so faithlessly repudiated them at the ballot box.
Kamala’s campaign of “joy” had a predictably short shelf-life. “Joy,” one supposes, was her vacuous updating of Obama’s even more shopworn mantra of “Hope and Change” (which required two meaningless slogans instead of one). Inexorably, the campaign degenerated into lugubrious fear-mongering, apocalyptic ululation, and even more unhinged convulsions of Trump Derangement Syndrome than before—which is to say, a bitter, resentful, and joyless stasis that has persisted since 2016.
Kamala’s “closing argument” was that Trump and his supporters were: 1, Hitlerian; 2, Nazis; 3, fascists; 4, racists; 5, sexists; 6, homophobes; and 7, garbage; and that Trump, upon assuming office, would suspend electoral democracy, eternize his own dictatorial rule, and exact revenge against his political enemies by sentencing them to internment camps. As I’ve said before, the Muses upon whom the Democrats depend for their polemical ravings are more like the vengeful Furies than the visionary goddesses of Mt. Helicon.
Trump had four years in office during which he might have: reinstated slavery or Jim Crow; expelled all American blacks to Africa; repealed the right of women to vote; deported as many illegal aliens as the “xenophobic” Obama administration; incited pogroms on the Upper West Side; neutered the influence of the American Israel Lobby; immured his Jewish son-in-law; and packed Schumer, Pelosi, James Comey, Robert Mueller, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, et. al. off to slave labor camps in Alaska. None of which happened, to the great disappointment, no doubt, of the infernal ghosts of Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin, Lenin, Mussolini, and Hitler, who, were they abroad in the flesh today, would properly resent the comparison to Trump as to a pusillanimous and undeserving pretender to their exclusive fraternity.
In calling Trump a fascist, a threat to democracy, a would-be dictator, etc., the progressive beau monde has made itself the prime clinical exhibit of the psychological law of projection. In indicting half of the American population for the crime of “hate speech” (and, in blatant violation of the First Amendment, censoring or sending hundreds of them to human rights tribunals for it), it has never occurred to the Church of Inclusion that “fascist,” “Nazi,” “racist,” and “homophobe” are not terms of endearment, nor the sort of pillow-talk recommended by Ovid in his manual on The Art of Love. In any case, as we all know by now, “hate speech” is simply any speech that progressives don’t like to hear about themselves.
Through the weaponization of the DOJ, FBI, CIA, and the entire surveillance state against Trump and his supporters, and their subornation as the Democratic Party’s Palace Guard and Ministry of Truth, the progressive Left has revived the defining fascist methodology of the 20th century of criminalizing the thought and speech of the Enemies of the Revolution, inciting violent mobs against ideological dissidents, and contriving to crush all cells of political opposition by prosecuting both their leaders and adherents for confabulated crimes in kangaroo courts. Their targets have included non-violent January 6 “insurrectionists,” peaceful pro-life protestors, and parents unwilling to “affirm” the indoctrination of their children into the barbarous (and lucrative) cult of what Jordan Peterson has aptly referred to as “trans butchery.” Many of the aforementioned deplorables (including traditional Catholics) have been designated and surveilled as “domestic terrorists,” and are still languishing in the progressive Gulag without benefit of the normal safeguards of the judicial process or regard for their natural civil rights.
It is hard to recall a more overt or obdurate refusal to accept the legitimacy of an election than Hillary’s plain declaration that the election was illegitimate, followed by the orchestration by her failed campaign of the three-year-long prosecution of Trump and criminal conviction of his “co-conspirators” under the auspices of the manufactured hoax of “Russian collusion.” And as for election interference, how can you beat the suppression by a Democrat-compliant media and discreditation by Biden’s “intelligence community” of Hunter’s laptop as a “Russian plant,” on the very eve of the 2020 election? A threat to democracy? How else does one describe the DNC’s legal machinations to keep Trump off the ballot in a number of states? As for “election integrity,” the Democrats’ proficiency at ballot harvesting and obstruction of the requirement for voter ID as “racist”—though one can’t think of a better description of their assumption that blacks and Latinos are simply too unintelligent to be able to navigate the process—may have undermined voters’ confidence in the fairness of elections for decades to come. Frankly, I’m surprised that the Democrats haven’t yet revived the fantasy of Russian interference on behalf of Trump in the wake of their most recent defeat, as the covert reason for the “authoritarian” Putin’s wily endorsement of Kamala.
Finally, the disposal of a duly elected presidential candidate (who received the backing of 15 million Americans) in a DNC palace coup, followed by the last-minute coronation of his replacement by a woman who had yet to win a single primary vote, constitutes the sort of subversion of democracy—the primary process being democracy’s bedrock—that is more reminiscent of a third-world banana republic than anything we have witnessed in American politics since the nation’s founding. While the analogy is admittedly flawed (in that Biden and Lear, while both senescent, mentally diminished, demanding of sycophancy, and angry, Lear at least was honest and repentant), it is hard not to conclude that Nancy Pelosi and Kamala would have been superlative in the roles of Goneril and Regan.
In their post-election autopsies, the Democrat Party and their mainstream media mouthpieces continue to enshroud themselves in a mandorla of righteous indignation, and plough the same barren fields of self-exculpation as in 2016. As with the rejection of Hillary, that of Kamala can once again only be explained by rampant American misogyny, to which the sin of systemic racism must also be appended (though the latter mysteriously sank into abeyance for a time when Obama was elected and re-elected). It is unlikely to percolate into the Democrats’ victimological consciousness that Biden’s crippling inflation, his Soros-funded prosecutors’ and judges’ winking at rampant lawlessness, and his open border policy (dispersing hundreds of thousands of illegal invaders convicted of or wanted for crimes including rape and murder now living off the fat of the land) were predispositive in their defeat; nor will they acknowledge that not all women are abortion absolutists, or that, by a significant majority, American parents are not always delighted when their brainwashed children come home from elementary school declaring their avidity for double mastectomies or surgical emasculation.
Be assured, in any case, that the “resistance” (as they are calling it, by way of a self-aggrandizing analogy to the World War II French underground) is already underway. And never underestimate its ferocity, however psychotic its rationale. We all remember the “pussy-hat” march of 2016, with Madonna’s threat to bomb the White House, followed by the “comedian” Kathy Griffin playing Herod with a blood-drenched mask of Trump’s decapitated head.
These are tough acts to follow, but one should never underestimate the creativity of the Trump-deranged imagination. Progressive “influencers” on TikTok and Instagram are now advising wives to deny sex to their MAGA husbands—Aristophanes’ Lysistrata makes another comeback!—and to stockpile contraceptives, abortifacients, or undergo tubal ligations, because Trump’s spies will be tracking the progress of their pregnancy to ensure that they carry to term; which begs the question whether the mentally unstable should be reproducing in the first place. MSNBC’s Joy Reid just warned us that all “brown” people should immediately go into hiding because, whether full American citizens, green card holders, or illegals, Trump’s Gestapo will make no distinction in his imminent purge of non-white Americans by means of “mass deportation.” Maybe Joe Biden should offer his Delaware basement, since he won’t be needing it for any future campaigns.
But to give credit where credit is due, Kamala has at last restored a modicum of hope and joy to the remnant of the normal and the sane in America, that has been vilified and diabolized for the past eight years. Let us rejoice again, I say, at the by now familiar spectacle (a re-run of the post-election bathos of 2016) of the lachrymose histrionics of the talking heads on CNN and MSNBC and the faculty and students at Harvard, Princeton, and Georgetown, whose classes have been cancelled to allow for the funereal exchange of hugs in common rooms stocked with comfort food and teddy bears, where the bereaved will receive professional grief counseling from the accredited graduates of the psychology, social work, women’s studies, and queer studies departments. Given the tsunami of Trump-deranged tears that are being shed throughout the land, President Obama’s erstwhile promise of lowering the level of the oceans will, alas, remain an unfulfilled miracle for years to come.