Forecast: Sunny With a Chance of Riots
Donald Trump has left everything he has to give on the table. Two, three, four events a day — each rally seemingly longer than the last — for more than 60 days in a row.
A populist coalition unprecedented in its width — from black Americans to whites, from Amish farmers in Pennsylvania to Hispanic voters in Miami, from Vietnamese fans in Seattle to Arab-Americans in Detroit — is the wind at his back. Emotional about his last ever Trump rallies Monday, these massive crowds of 20K, 50K, 100K, you could tell he wanted to stay and show off his dance moves to the chords of YMCA.
His speech is a tour of the Biden-Harris failures — an open border that spikes violent crime and Fentanyl, a culture that allows men to play in women’s sports, an economy on the edge of a depression, and a world on the precipice of World War 3.
His closing argument: Kamala Broke It, Trump Will Fix It.
MAGA — aggrieved at a federal government that puts illegal migrants ahead of US citizens — has responded to his America First agenda with wild enthusiasm and much affection. Trump asked them to embrace early voting as the only way to assure a victory “too big to rig.” This they did, also heeding the GOP call to bring 10 others to the polls. To MAGA nation this election is not about two parties, or two personalities. It is about saving the nation from an assault on our values, including free speech.
This is no time to stop — the election is Tuesday, and we too must leave nothing off the table. If you haven’t voted yet, go early, as lines may be long, trying your patience. Breitbart’s Mike Slater had a marvelous riff this morning about the Pilgrims. Fleeing religious persecution, they landed in Massachusetts after violent storms without adequate provisions to withstand the winter. More than half of them died along the way. As you wait in line, he said, channel their sacrifices in founding this country.
Given the massive GOP early voting turnout, this election should be a Trump landslide. Reports of a tight race, suggested Rasmussen head pollster Mark Mitchell, are just not true, as they were not in 1980 when pollsters said the race between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter was close, and Reagan won 49 states in a landslide.
Still, as a dear friend wrote me this week, there is much to worry about. The Dems and the federal government are doing all they can to enfranchise illegal migrants. Virginia’s Gov. Glenn Youngkin had to go to the Supreme Court to win against the DOJ’s lawsuit to prevent him from kicking non-citizens off the voting rolls.
Electronic voting machines are suspect, and a voter in Kentucky posted on X as he hit the screen next to Trump’s name, only to have the computer flash Kamala’s name.
Team Harris has hired Dem lawfare expert Marc Elias to choke any Trump victory. Already he has filed 60 court challenges of voter ID, calling it racist. Meanwhile RNC co-chair Lara Trump readies an election monitoring force of over 100,000 poll watchers and 500 lawyers for Tuesday election. See you in court.
The Pentgon has updated Directive 5240.01, which authorizes military-intel agents to use lethal force against American citizens who protest elections. Businesses in deep-blue DC and Portland have already boarded up their windows, and the several states have activated their National Guard units for election week.
And the regime media, ever dishonest, one of the groups most threatened by Trump’s populist uprising, may withhold calling any results for days. A recipe for chaos.
We do not know how this movie ends. But we do know our nation’s history. And it is impossible not to see the hand of God in the miracles along the way.
Few military experts thought the ragtag army that George Washington commanded during the Revolutionary War could possibly prevail against the world’s largest empire. When British General Lord Cornwallis surrendered to GW in Yorktown after five years of fighting, the British were stunned. The new Americans thanked God.
“The God who gave us life,” said Thomas Jefferson, “gave us liberty.”
After the bloodiest war in our history ended in 1865, the fields were littered with the bodies of an estimated 618,222 — 360,222 Union deaths, 258,000 Confederate deaths. Amid the bloodshed, President Lincoln proclaimed a day of fasting and prayer.
Recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven, we have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
Was it only three months ago that we watched in horror as a sniper was allowed by the Secret Service to perch on a rooftop with an easy shot at Trump on the podium? Many times since, Trump has praised God, marveling at the accident of fate that had him turn his head to the right just at the moment a bullet intended for his head grazed his ear, and just at the right angle. Afterwards, many said, “God voted early, in Butler.”
We don’t need God to vote again. We just need him to guard the vote.
Pray to the God who saved our nation when we were outnumbered by the greatest empire in the world. Pray to the God who healed our nation after we shed so much blood to wrench the awful bane of slavery from our Constitution.
Pray to the God who spared Donald Trump’s life, for “such a time as this.”