Judging by their lectures in the campaign’s closing weeks, Barack and Michelle Obama are surely very disappointed in the American people today: We’ve all once again fallen short of their expectations . . . that we vote like a bunch of Europeans.
Sharing in the disappointment are the editors of The New York Times, whose site for much of Wednesday was topped by:
‘TRUMP’S AMERICA’
VICTORY CHANGES NATION’S SENSE OF ITSELF
That led a “news analysis” (i.e., an editorial like this one, but pretending otherwise) from the paper’s Peter Baker bemoaning the public’s terrible, senseless decision, complete with references to Mussolini.
OK, fine: Trump’s victory may change Baker and the Obamas’ sense of America — but that was always their self-flattering fantasy, a cover for their deep contempt for the public as it actually is and has been.
What Americans voted for Tuesday, including many with a deep distaste for Trump’s persona and theatrics, is a return to a time before Obama and an end to a radical doctrine he created (that became liberal cant) of social division, grievance and forced social engineering.
They voted for prosperity for all.
Peace through strength.
Sane social policies that don’t presume our nation was built on bigotry nor insist you need to be a biologist to say what a woman is.
Which is what the nation thought it was voting for back in 2008 to launch the Obama era.
Then, voters were sick of seemingly pointless wars, appalled and impoverished by a ruinous-to-average-folks financial crisis.
While many took an added pleasure in voting in our first black president, we weren’t looking for a progressive revolution.
But Obama, like a kid born on third base who thinks he’s hit a triple, saw himself as a visionary prophet — and forced that revolution on us anyway.
Voters responded with the “shellacking” of the 2010 midterms.
Yes, they re-elected Obama in 2012 — but only because he managed to paint his opponent as an enemy of the common man.
Yet he somehow still figured those resisting his vision were dimly “clinging to guns and religion.”
And he chose a successor every bit as arrogant, but worse at hiding it: Hillary “Deplorables” Clinton — who lost to Trump in an epic shock to the elites.
And who then offered all manner of vows to understand Trump’s voters — only to instantly drop them when given the chance to write Trump off as fluke imposed on the nation by dark Russiagate dealings.
America voted for normalcy again in 2020, as that was what Joe Biden offered.
Except Biden then delivered the reverse — needlessly open borders; vast and brazenly political spending in lieu of any real strategy for economic growth; a war on American energy; gobs and gobs of claptrap wokery; a continued foreign policy of appeasement that only emboldened and rewarded our enemies.
When Obama then installed Kamala Harris as the latest face of his revolution, the American public of all colors, ages and genders finally called time.
Voters at last saw through the industrialized demonization of Trump and woke up to the truth that his policies are far closer to the American ideal and what they consider normal.
Americans’ sense of this nation never really changed.
Let’s all pray that our self-proclaimed betters in their Martha’s Vineyard mansions will finally realize that this was the death of “Obamaism” once this latest thumping fully sinks in.