2016 was the Star Wars election where a plucky band of rebels blew up the Hillary Death Star and sent Barack Obama careening into oblivion, or was it Jeb Bush?\u00a0 2020 was the Empire Strikes Back Election.\u00a0 The rotting corpse of Emperor Bidentine was installed on the throne and the rebels were battered and scattered.\u00a0 Now here we are for Return of the Trumpi.\u00a0 To torture this metaphor a little further I\u2019m not sure if Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy are annoying enough to be Princess Leia and Yoda.\u00a0 But at least I\u2019m sure that Chris Christie is Jabba the Hut.<\/p>\n
Alright, enough of that.<\/p>\n
As a reviled civic nationalist, I have been fighting a rear-guard action against the string of successful predictions of the dissident right for something like twenty years.\u00a0 They\u2019ve been right about the Bushes and right about the Republicans in general and now we\u2019ll find out if they\u2019re right about the finality of, \u201cWe\u2019re not going to vote our way out of this.\u201d\u00a0 What we have in front of us is the acid test.\u00a0 Joe Biden has created the perfect storm to force the populace to vote for the Republicans.\u00a0 If he manages to win the 2024 election then nothing remains to dispute the truth of, \u201cWe\u2019re not going to vote our way out of this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Granted, I\u2019m already pretty sure it\u2019s true.\u00a0 But I\u2019ve been tempted back into the game by just how awful a mess Biden has made of the country.\u00a0 It\u2019s becoming harder and harder to see the America as it was just a few short years ago.\u00a0 There\u2019s not even the pretense that this isn\u2019t the trajectory they mean to for us to be on.\u00a0 It\u2019s just homeless encampments, unchecked urban violence and rust belt poverty as far as the eye can see.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard for me to see how anyone who isn\u2019t either a welfare recipient or a true believer could look at what is happening to America and not say, \u201cenough.\u201d\u00a0 So that\u2019s why I still have any lingering doubts about the finality of the Left\u2019s victory.\u00a0 I desperately want to believe that even leftists who strive for all the progressive platitudes but live in the real world wouldn\u2019t be horrified by the collapse of the beautiful world they once lived in and want someone to fix the zombie apocalypse that has unfolded before our eyes.\u00a0 Even if that someone is Donald Trump, the very devil himself.<\/p>\n
So, here we go again.\u00a0 Another countdown to the \u201cmost important election in our lives,\u201d another round of pathetic headlines by the New York Times and the Washington Post assuring us that Joe Biden, notwithstanding the fact that he can\u2019t count past three, is the greatest president since Harriet Tubman and possibly a living saint.\u00a0 And that his only begotten son Hunter is completely above suspicion and, by the way, possibly a good choice for president in 2028.\u00a0 Oh, the pain.<\/p>\n
Well, the only thing left for me to do is figure out who will be the Ewoks.\u00a0 Maybe we are.\u00a0 At this point I feel pathetic enough to fit the part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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