It's the rematch no one wants, but it's the one we're going to get.
Last night's stunning victory seals it: Donald Trump, who defeated Nikki Haley by more than 10 points in the New Hampshire primary, will be the Republican nominee.
So here we are again: in a corner, a fossil who can barely keep his eyes open, speak clearly and forcefully, or show that he can know where he is at all times.
This contender is supported by a left-wing media that insists that Joe Biden is and will remain calm and energetic on the campaign trail – his 82nd birthday is just around the corner – and that America has never been better under his leadership.
In the other case, it is an agent of chaos whose own high-ranking former advisors continue to warn us about him.
He is accused of 91 crimes in four states. He tried to overturn the results of the last presidential election. He is a sexual predator and a madman who shows his age, 77 years old, and now speaks slurred and incorrectly even on the stump.
America deserves better. But now it's inevitable.
And as we put our nation's soul and body on trial once again – this exorcism we must endure – one thing becomes clear: It is time to prepare for President Trump 2.0.
Last night's stunning victory seals it: Donald Trump, who defeated Nikki Haley by more than 10 points in the New Hampshire primary, will be the Republican nominee.
So here we are again: in a corner, a fossil who can barely keep his eyes open, speak clearly and forcefully, or show that he can know where he is at all times.
In the other case, it is an agent of chaos whose own high-ranking former advisors continue to warn us about him. America deserves better. But now it's inevitable. (Pictured: Nikki Haley).
In contrast to 2016, all surveys indicate this.
Take a look at South Carolina, Haley's home state. Trump beats them by 30 points. It depends on when, not if, she gets out and Trump is left as the winner.
You can see it now: Most 24-hour cable news personalities are crying into their coffee, wondering how this could have happened.
Before I continue, I want to make it clear: I am not a fan of Trump. The idea of another Trump presidency is abhorrent to me — but like so many Americans, I feel the same way about Biden.
November 5th seems to be entirely Sophie's choice, and voters' disgust is borne out by polls that have shown for months that nearly 60 percent of Americans don't want a repeat of 2020.
Count me in. The world is burning, America is in decline, and this is the best we can do?
Still, we need to talk about this likely outcome — one that Democrats and their supporters in the left-wing establishment reject at their peril.
Not least because they laid the foundation for a Trump resurgence.
Not that they would ever admit it.
Even those voters who resent Trump, his first term, and January 6 will engage with him again, not least because of the hysteria and hypocrisy of the left.
They really learned nothing from 2016, when we were assured of an absolutely certain Hillary Clinton victory.
Let's take the scandal that dominated this election cycle: Russia-Gate.
It was a complete hoax that many mainstream media outlets initially took as fact and repeated for years. When all the evidence finally pointed to a hoax – and Hillary's former campaign manager testified in federal court that it was Hillary who personally agreed to the spread of the hoax – the same media never actually acknowledged it as such.
Smash cut to 2024 and it's the same boring story.
Hunter Biden's laptop, influence peddling and blatant presidential corruption remain virtually untouched by left-leaning publications that propagate the White House line and ignore the Bidens' dishonesty, dismissing it all as, yes, another possible Russian hoax – or better yet, one MAGA witch hunt.
And the New York Times wonders why Trump is popular.
Even those voters who resent Trump, his first term, and January 6 will engage with him again, not least because of the hysteria and hypocrisy of the left. (Pictured: Hunter Biden).
These criminal offenses facing Trump in several states, including District Attorney Alvin Bragg's absurd indictment for paying hush money to a porn star, have made Trump a political martyr – an outcome that any dispassionate observer could have easily predicted.
Multiple impeachments? The same thing.
How often can you tell Americans that the sky is falling? That democracy will die?
How many times can the other side accuse them, accuse them, insult their base, call them “fascists” or “idiots” and believe they will achieve the desired result?
How can the Democrats claim to be the only party that respects the rule of law and the democratic process while at the same time trying to keep the other party out of the election by any means possible?
Trump may be madness personified, but so are his opponents.
And we can also thank Biden for abandoning his original, implied pledge to be a definitive president who takes office only to save us from Trump and return America to normal.
“If Biden is elected,” one of his top advisers told Politico in 2019, “he will be 82 in four years and not running for re-election.”
The most patriotic thing Biden could have done was exit stage left.
Instead, his hubris and hunger for power will give America another four years of Trump.
That and the Democratic Party's cowardly failure to oust Biden (despite public warnings from Barack Obama's former campaign guru David Axelrod) and a complete lack of younger talent that leaves us facing the very real threat of a President Kamala Harris. Shudder!
If you want to know who to blame on Election Day: Blame Joe Biden.
Blame it on the New York Times and MSNBC, as well as the complete lack of humility among progressives who can't imagine why anyone thinks differently than they do – who can't stand the idea that no one is smarter or more sophisticated than their cohort.
The most patriotic thing Biden could have done was exit stage left. Instead, his hubris and hunger for power will give America another four years of Trump. That, along with the Democratic Party's cowardly failure to oust Biden and a complete lack of younger talent, presents us with the very real threat of a President Kamala Harris. Shudder!
The latest polls from ABC News and Ipsos show Biden with a record-low approval rating of 33 percent – the lowest of any president in fifteen years.
More than three out of five Democrats want another candidate.
Nationally, according to a new poll just this week, Biden is a whopping seven points behind Trump.
This is not the case as most mainstream media would have you believe, because the majority of Americans are stupid. Far from it.
No: They are tired of being told not to believe what they see, or that the economic hardships they suffer are not real, or that crime and riots are not destroying America's major cities.
That the refugee crisis is not out of control and if they believe that, they are racist.
That we should all constantly marinate in the shame of slavery, that the hard-won progress we have made means nothing.
That the terrorists who kidnapped, raped and murdered innocent Israeli citizens and burned babies in their cribs are the true victims. Or that Israel cannot be trusted to tell the truth, but Hamas can.
That the world still fears us. That Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan did not signal to his enemies and friends alike that we are a exhausted superpower in decline.
The average American is tired of being harassed about DEI and trans orthodoxy.
They are tired of the insistence over pronouns and tired of being told that girls and women must compete against biological men or they will be labeled transphobes. That children should be exposed to all kinds of sexual content in school, no matter how age-inappropriate or deviant.
And they are tired of being told that America fosters the worst, most stubborn society on the planet – even as migrants tirelessly stream across our open borders for a chance at the American dream.
These leftist policies and philosophies do no harm to the rich, white, liberal elite – who, by the way, shape much of this dominant narrative. Their smooth lives remain unaffected by the refugee crisis, the homeless crisis or rampant crime.
It is the once core Democratic voters of the middle and lower classes, the black and brown voters, who are suffering. Whom the Democrats ignore at their peril.
The refugee crisis, more than any other issue, will cost Biden a second term. (Pictured: Eagle Pass, Texas).
Average Americans are also tired of being harassed about DEI and trans orthodoxy. They're tired of the insistence over pronouns and tired of being told that women have to compete against biological men or they'll be labeled transphobes. (Pictured: Trans women took the podium at the recent Illinois State Cyclocross Championship, left. Riley Gaines with trans swimmer Lia Thomas, right).
Look no further than what's happening in Chicago.
The impoverished black community there is angry that money, resources and real estate are going to illegal immigrants at their expense. The city has been successfully sued three times, all by minorities, over plans to convert two parks and a high school into migrant housing.
As plaintiff J. Darnell Jones — a Democrat, a DEI consultant and a Biden turncoat — told the Free Press, “What the Democratic Party doesn’t want black people to hear is that this is a Biden policy.” Biden will allow the borders to remain open.”
Others like Jones said they would either sit out this election or vote for Trump.
Hey everyone – don’t tell Joy Reid!
While she and AOC and their ilk stoked these racist embers – Reid said that Nikki Haley lost Iowa because “she's still a brown lady… in a party that is deeply anti-immigrant” – in her estimation, black, brown and Hispanic people would Communities that do this are also considered “deeply anti-immigrant.”
The refugee crisis, more than any other issue, will cost Biden a second term.
The successful petition to the Supreme Court to allow federal agents to cut Texas barbed wire – as the court ruled Monday in a 5-4 decision – is not, in his opinion, a victory.
A CBS News poll released this month shows that 68 percent of Americans disapprove of Biden's handling of immigration.
Did you know that there are 19 border walls and fences in Europe alone? In countries like Spain, France, Greece, Hungary, Norway and Finland?
Are these nations that the left would describe as xenophobic? Racist?
Of course not. These are the countries they routinely portray as more sophisticated and wiser, proof that socialism can work.
Tell that to the single mother from a purely middle-class enclave in Brooklyn who told me a few weeks ago of her sheer disbelief when her son's school expelled all students so that migrants could find refuge there.
This was James Madison High School, which, reported, was evacuated to make way for 1,900 migrants. Strangers with no criminal background checks who, unlike Madison's students, were allowed entry without facial scanning security measures.
Children, who have already lost so much education and social services due to Covid, are now less prioritized than illegal migrants. Talk about motivating people to vote.
And of course it's not just about immigration.
Combine this catastrophe with soft policies on crime and soft drugs, cities hollowed out by remote work, a cost of living that is unbearable for most, and a complete refusal on the part of the left to even acknowledge these permacrises – and you have, once again, President Donald J. Trump .
Combine this catastrophe with soft policies on crime and soft drugs, cities hollowed out by remote work, a cost of living that is unbearable for most, and a complete refusal on the part of the left to even acknowledge these permacrises – and you have, once again, President Donald J. Trump .
Biden should heed the warning of George W. Bush, another incumbent who rarely loses a second term and whose turning point was admitting during a debate with Bill Clinton in 1992 that he didn't know what a gallon of milk was cost.
Do you think Biden has any idea?
On Monday, he joined Lael Brainard, chair of his National Economic Council, to explain to us why we should believe the economy is going gangbusters, even as most are struggling to buy groceries and put gas in their cars, and given stubborn interest rates are forcing them to give up their dream of ever owning a home.
Do you think inflation only hurts unless a Ukrainian energy company lines your pockets?
For these reasons, Trump will win unless he is sentenced to prison before Election Day.
We are told it will be unsurvivable, but it won't be. We are told that democracy will die, but that will not be the case.
Just like last time, we will do it. And hopefully learn a very hard lesson – one that will prevent us from ever having to endure an election year like this again: two complete failures of gerontocracy fighting for the weary soul of America.