Spoils system

To the victor goes ‘em.

Spoils Must Be Taken, and With No Hesitation or Reservation
The time for restraint will be after the course correction.

As Barack Obama famously said, in what was more or less the only truly substantive thing to come out of his mouth, “Elections have consequences.”

What we’ve been finding out in the 10 months since Trump’s election is that elections aren’t supposed to have consequences when Democrats lose them.

And to that, I say bullshit.

The November 2024 election needs to have been the most consequential election of this century, and for a very specific reason: Republicans must take from it a public mandate to remake America into something that actually works. We’ve spent a quarter-century, or maybe more, watching our culture, politics, and economics stagnate and decline, and because of that, we should be re-examining virtually every aspect of our national habits and institutions.

Why on earth would President Trump, elected in an electoral landslide, not remake the Smithsonian and Kennedy Center into institutions reflective of the tastes of the people who voted for him? As president, he has the power to do so. Certainly, the Democrats who preceded him in that office did exactly what Trump is doing, and more.

I’ve written before that Obamunism was built to obliterate flaccid Bush Republicanism. It did that. You saw the proof in the 2008 and 2012 election cycles.

But MAGA was built to obliterate Obamunism. And it’s doing exactly that.

Let it.

Republicans must be willing and able to exercise the full scope of their constitutional power at the municipal, state, and federal levels, given the state this country was left in by Team Obama and their acolytes. When water no longer comes out of the taps, when the homeless — er, “unhoused” — control the train stations, when elections are brazenly, luridly rigged, when billions are spent on nonexistent rail lines, when borders are erased and millions of invaders invited in… restraint is weakness.

Let’s have restraint later. Scrub out the woke, set things right, and return America to a sustainable path of Judeo-Christian morality, entrepreneurial capitalism, and ordered liberty, and then it will be time for restraint.

Hopefully, by compact with a Democrat Party, which is so reformed through humiliation and disempowerment that it looks nothing like the collection of freaks, kleptocrats, and revolutionaries currently serving as its active ingredient.

This. This. Right. HERE, people. Or, as a wiser man than I once said: