Say what you will about campaign 2016, but news media pundits and egg-head pollsters basically neglected, (or simply ignored), a huge swatch of angry voters who’d had enough of phony economics and an administration seemingly focused only on re-writing our Constitution. The result was a decisive Trump victory. For my part, I believe it was actually the hypocrisy of the Left which finally caught up with them. And while the issues President Elect Trump will face when he’s sworn in are many and daunting, “We the People” have decided that politics as usual is no longer acceptable.
Now we can debate things like nearly 95 million able-bodied Americans out of the workforce, 68 million Americans on welfare, the lowest home ownership rate in over 50 years, and skyrocketing healthcare costs as just some of those issues likely on the minds of voters as they went to the polls last Tuesday, but I think this election was a bit more than that. In and of itself, the election of Barack Obama in 2008 was certainly a “change election”, but ultimately delivered only a smothering tide of divisive and unprecedented ideological rhetoric. This however, may be an election of revival more than change, a time to revisit those Constitutional tenets and principles which have served our nation exceedingly well for generations, and which have been left smoldering but not necessarily extinguished throughout this eight year Obama experiment. We’ll see…
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