Andrew Klavan, You Magnificent Bastard, You Were Right!

About four years ago I was watching a podcast by Andrew Klavan.  And this was at the height of bad things happening.  I guess I was as negative as I’d ever been.  I can’t remember the exact topic of this video but at a point in the exposition he addressed all the ground the Right had lost over the years to the Left and he seemed to know what I was thinking and said something like, “All of this stuff can be reversed.”

And at the time my mind rejected that statement.  So many things had been normalized by the Left and generations had grown up thinking of these things as the status quo that I just couldn’t see how it could be turned around.  Part of the reason was I knew that the Republican establishment had already adopted all of these changes into their worldview.  They’d even accepted giving citizenship to unlimited illegal aliens just so the Democrats wouldn’t call them mean names.  At that point the only half way measure I could think of to avoid the end of freedom in America was to move to a red state like Florida and hope that the governor would resist all of the communism for as long as it was possible.  I even contemplated moving to Hungary and learning to speak Magyar.  There at least they aren’t ashamed of being of European heritage.

Fast forward four years and we see that Trump has smashed all kinds of barriers.  He isn’t shy about saying that something that’s wrong or crazy is wrong or crazy.  What he’s doing to DEI and affirmative action in general is completely revolutionary from the perspective of the last sixty five years of progressive change.  He’s trashing everything that’s happened since the Johnson administration.  And he’s not asking permission.  He’s just doing it.  Sure the corrupt judges are fighting him tooth and nail but he’s doing it anyway.  Even if he fails at some things he’s pushing in all directions at once and he’s got the bastards on the run.

So, four years later and I finally learn that Andrew Klavan was kinda right.  Now, it took a trump to unleash the power of the executive branch under a strong, determined president but it does show you that hopelessness is in a sense weakness.  Trump is succeeding because he had the sense to see that the people running the show were doing the things they were doing despite what the majority of Americans wanted.  It was an illusion that we were outnumbered and that the Democrats were about to become the permanent majority.  Half of their “coalition” can’t stand their messaging.  All that was needed was someone talking sense and making a case for sanity and prosperity.  Even minority voters are starting to tire of the “all white people are racist” trope.  They’re more interested in someone restarting the economy and producing well-paying jobs where they live.

So all these years later, I just want to say, Andrew Klavan, you were right.  Crazy doesn’t have to be forever and we can begin winning the culture war if we have leaders who actually want to win.  And there’s a special bonus that comes along with this.  I get to enjoy the schadenfreude as RINO bums like Liz Cheney and Mitch McConnell get kicked to the curb.  What a beautiful world.

Andrew Klavan, you magnificent bastard, you were right!