This wasn’t an election. It was a revolution.
It’s midnight in America. The day before million of Americans got up and stood in front of the great iron wheel that had been grinding them down. They stood there even though the media told them it was useless. They took their stand even while all the chattering classes laughed and taunted them.
They were fathers who couldn’t feed their families anymore. They were mothers who couldn’t afford health care. They were workers whose jobs had been sold off to foreign countries. They were sons who didn’t see a future for themselves. They were daughters afraid of being murdered by the “unaccompanied minors” flooding into their towns. They took a deep breath and they stood.
They held up their hands and the great iron wheel stopped.
The Great Blue Wall crumbled. The states fell one by one right down to Pennsylvania. The working class that had been overlooked and trampled on for so long got to its feet. It rose up against its oppressors and the rest of the nation, from coast to coast, rose up with it.
They fought back against their jobs being shipped overseas while their towns filled with migrants that got everything while they got nothing. They fought back against being told that they had to watch what they say. They fought back against being held in contempt because they wanted to work for a living and take care of their families.
They fought and they won.
This wasn’t a vote. It was an uprising. Like the ordinary men chipping away at the Berlin Wall, they tore down an unnatural thing that had towered over them. And as they watched it fall, they marveled at how weak and fragile it had always been. And how much stronger they were than they had ever known.
Who were these people? They were leftovers and flyover country. They didn’t talk right or think right. They had the wrong ideas, the wrong clothes and the ridiculous idea that they still mattered.
They couldn’t change anything. A thousand politicians and pundits had talked of getting them to adapt to the inevitable future. Instead they got in their pickup trucks and drove out to vote.
And they changed everything.
Americans were told that walls couldn’t be built and factories couldn’t be opened. That treaties couldn’t be unsigned and wars couldn’t be won. It was impossible to ban Muslim terrorists from coming to America or to deport the illegal aliens turning towns and cities into gangland territories. It was all impossible. And they did the impossible. They turned the world upside down.
It’s midnight in America. CNN is weeping. MSNBC is wailing. It wasn’t supposed to happen. The same machine that crushed the American people for two straight terms, the mass of government, corporations and non-profits that ran the country, was set to win.
Instead the people stood in front of the machine. They blocked it with their bodies. They went to vote even though the polls told them it was useless. They looked at the empty factories and barren farms. They drove through the early cold. They waited in line. They came home to their children to tell them that they had done their best for their future. They bet on America. And they won.
They won improbably. And they won amazingly.
They were tired of seeing their America disappear. And they stood up and fought back. This was their last hope. Their last chance to be heard.
The media had the election wrong all along. This wasn’t about personalities. It was about the impersonal. No one will ever interview all those men and women. We will never see all their faces. But they are us and we are them. They came to the aid of a nation in peril. They did what real Americans have always done. They did the impossible.
America is a nation of impossibilities. We exist because our forefathers did not take no for an answer. Not from kings or tyrants. Not from the elites who told them that it couldn’t be done.
The day when we stop being able to pull of the impossible is the day that America will cease to exist.
Today is not that day. Today millions of Americans did the impossible.
Midnight has passed. A new day has come. And everything is about to change.
They were fathers who couldn’t feed their families anymore. They were mothers who couldn’t afford health care. They were workers whose jobs had been sold off to foreign countries. They were sons who didn’t see a future for themselves. They were daughters afraid of being murdered by the “unaccompanied minors” flooding into their towns. They took a deep breath and they stood.
They held up their hands and the great iron wheel stopped.
The Great Blue Wall crumbled. The states fell one by one right down to Pennsylvania. The working class that had been overlooked and trampled on for so long got to its feet. It rose up against its oppressors and the rest of the nation, from coast to coast, rose up with it.
They fought back against their jobs being shipped overseas while their towns filled with migrants that got everything while they got nothing. They fought back against being told that they had to watch what they say. They fought back against being held in contempt because they wanted to work for a living and take care of their families.
They fought and they won.
This wasn’t a vote. It was an uprising. Like the ordinary men chipping away at the Berlin Wall, they tore down an unnatural thing that had towered over them. And as they watched it fall, they marveled at how weak and fragile it had always been. And how much stronger they were than they had ever known.
Who were these people? They were leftovers and flyover country. They didn’t talk right or think right. They had the wrong ideas, the wrong clothes and the ridiculous idea that they still mattered.
They couldn’t change anything. A thousand politicians and pundits had talked of getting them to adapt to the inevitable future. Instead they got in their pickup trucks and drove out to vote.
And they changed everything.
Americans were told that walls couldn’t be built and factories couldn’t be opened. That treaties couldn’t be unsigned and wars couldn’t be won. It was impossible to ban Muslim terrorists from coming to America or to deport the illegal aliens turning towns and cities into gangland territories. It was all impossible. And they did the impossible. They turned the world upside down.
It’s midnight in America. CNN is weeping. MSNBC is wailing. It wasn’t supposed to happen. The same machine that crushed the American people for two straight terms, the mass of government, corporations and non-profits that ran the country, was set to win.
Instead the people stood in front of the machine. They blocked it with their bodies. They went to vote even though the polls told them it was useless. They looked at the empty factories and barren farms. They drove through the early cold. They waited in line. They came home to their children to tell them that they had done their best for their future. They bet on America. And they won.
They won improbably. And they won amazingly.
They were tired of seeing their America disappear. And they stood up and fought back. This was their last hope. Their last chance to be heard.
The media had the election wrong all along. This wasn’t about personalities. It was about the impersonal. No one will ever interview all those men and women. We will never see all their faces. But they are us and we are them. They came to the aid of a nation in peril. They did what real Americans have always done. They did the impossible.
America is a nation of impossibilities. We exist because our forefathers did not take no for an answer. Not from kings or tyrants. Not from the elites who told them that it couldn’t be done.
The day when we stop being able to pull of the impossible is the day that America will cease to exist.
Today is not that day. Today millions of Americans did the impossible.
Midnight has passed. A new day has come. And everything is about to change.
Comments
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ReplyDeletePut a :OT of activist "civil serpnts" out to pasture.
This unelcted herd infests all countries around the globe and are primarily political oportunists who canand will bring down a government that does not bend to their will.
We have all encountered such individuals at all levels of government.
The Brits have a wonderful term for them: "Jobsorths".
As in:
"I can't help you; it's more than me jobsworth".
A displaced Seth Efrikan, Jeremy Taylor recorded a song about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz44_Sp0K8A
They were the grandparents who had saved and scrimped, who didn't want to be an anchor on their children as they aged; these are the people who watched with unbelieving eyes as the cans of beans and the loaves of bread shrunk while the prices increased ten times or more; these are the people who watched as the Government inflated the dollar and taxed them as multi-millionaires on their savings which dwindled rapidly as they had to remove more and more just to live in a more impoverished manner, while this same Government gave their savings away to anyone who had openly breached our borders.
ReplyDeleteSpectacular column. I shared it on Steven Crowder’s Mug Club.
ReplyDeleteA lovely article, heartfelt and decent.
ReplyDeleteWe in England give thanks to your blessed nation ,and it's great courageous patriots and truth tellers,seekers.
But, as a people; you barely squeaked home ; and the next few months will be dangerous for you.
The result you get when Democrats can't cheat or are allowed to cheat by RINOs
ReplyDeleteJontyD.
Unfortunately, Republican economy usually worse for the little guy but sure guns gays and gynecology
ReplyDeleteHuh?
DeleteExcellent column - thank you! One minor question - why "50 million Americans" (rather than 70 or 73 million)?
ReplyDeleteInspirational. But realize the Wall is not gone, the war is not over. The Blue Wall sycophants in government are burrowing deeply, like parasites , waiting to derail and sabotage everything attempted to fix our government. Unless Elon can trim the government payroll, eliminate useless departments and agencies, the opposition will remain near the real levers of power to frustrate all attempts to repair things.
ReplyDeleteWe are going to be subjected to the Mother of All Propaganda campaigns by all the elite media and NGOs, crying for illegal immigrants being deported, criminals being punished, "downtrodden" overpaid government employees being fired, money-soaking programs being terminated.
It will be time to armor up and harden our hearts. This will be a bloody term.
VERY good reading, Daniel. And true. Every word.
ReplyDeleteI just read that Arizona and Nevada also went RED. Don't know if it's true, but sounds good.
ReplyDeleteOh, excellent, inspiring article. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI have long considered your article entitled 'Whither Goest Thou, America' as the Best in Class. I still do. But now that honor will need to be shared with this one.
ReplyDeleteTime will tell. I have reservations, but, willing to re-think!!
DeleteI am glad to see you having some hope! Love your work, but it is (necessarily) so often dark and foreboding.
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