As of this writing, the results of our roller-coaster presidential election and several Senate and House seats remain unsettled.
We can, however, already confirm one positive overarching takeaway with certainty: That promised “blue wave” never materialized.
If anything, the blue tide receded. Liberals lost multiple Senate races that they expected to win after spending hundreds of millions of dollars, and Nancy Pelosi will actually lose seats in the House. Moreover, minority voters supported President Trump at levels unseen since 1960.
More broadly, it’s important to recognize that reason for continuing optimism remains no matter how the outstanding races conclude. In that regard, a personal story seems instructive.
My first political memory dates to the tight 1976 presidential election between President Gerald Ford and challenger Jimmy Carter. My mother, a Goldwater Republican despite her impoverished rural Arizona upbringing, hissed that she feared that my father had voted for Carter. From that point forward, I considered the Carter presidency an unmitigated disaster, which in many ways it was. But although I lamented his presidency for every minute of its existence, the Reagan Revolution wouldn’t have been possible without it. Had Ford won in 1976, it’s almost inconceivable that Reagan would’ve been elected to bring dramatic change four years later.
In similar vein, no matter how this year’s presidential election settles, a healthy dose of humility and recognition that history unfolds in curious ways is in order.
Optimism should always prevail.
And for conservatives and libertarians, the reasons for optimism abound.
Consider that most had no expectation of President Trump winning the 2016 election. If someone from the future informed them that Trump could miraculously win, with no assurance beyond one term, and would nominate three phenomenal Supreme Court justices, appoint approximately 30% of all federal judges and successfully implement a wide array of substantive policy changes, such as repeal of so-called “Net Neutrality” internet regulations and relocating the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, they’d have taken that offer in a heartbeat.
Perhaps if President Trump and his Senate allies had not confirmed new Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett in recent weeks, the prospect of a Trump defeat in this year’s election might’ve caused greater gloom. But with Justice Barrett joining the Court in addition to Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh earlier? Label conservatives thrilled however this election plays out.
All of that and more were already achieved in a presidency that most didn’t even expect to happen in 2016. Conservatives would’ve jumped at that prospect without hesitation.
Fast-forward to today. Wasn’t Joe Biden supposed to win a landslide victory, in a thunderous rebuke of Trump’s presidency and governing principles?
Instead, even in a best-case scenario Biden will eke out a razor-thin victory in states like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin that before 2016 hadn’t gone Republican since 1984 or 1988.
Furthermore, the polling services once again were wildly incorrect, providing yet another rebuke to their biased business model.
President Trump is also a singularly controversial candidate who motivates his opposition like hornets, yet he kept the race down to the wire in a year like 2020 that included a sudden worldwide pandemic, a nationwide economic shutdown, widespread frustration, social media censorship and mainstream media bias against him. That’s simply remarkable, and it speaks to the success of President Trump’s broad agenda of deregulation and lower taxes to offset those headwinds. In a year like 2020, any challenger should’ve won on a level resembling Reagan’s in 1980.
And for Republicans to likely maintain Senate control and expand their House proportion? That’s truly remarkable, and again speaks to the offsetting success of their record of confirming judicial nominees and unleashing American prosperity before the pandemic and to bring a V-shaped recovery since.
So no matter how the outstanding unresolved races end, the bottom line is that sometimes your side wins and sometimes your side loses. But most of the smart set confidently anticipated a nationwide blue wave that didn’t come close to materializing. President Trump did not suffer the rebuke that so many hoped would occur after throwing everything they had at him over the past four years. Senator Lindsey Graham (R – South Carolina), who led the successful confirmation battles over Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett, was not unseated.
Conservative principles endure because they work, regardless of the year and regardless of the particular leaders implementing them. We were told to expect a stinging rebuke of those principles in this election, but that simply didn’t occur, and reasons for optimism continue.
OAN reported today that our CIA ran a program on our election computers that they came up and ran on other countries elections when they want to choose the winner. (I don’t think that is right either and needs to be addressed by Congress)
So this program ran on US election computers and changed these votes. It has been reported and is true.
Democrats need to admit this and attempt to get our country back on target because without elections that we believe are honest…..we don’t have a country.
If Trump had a loyal Eric Holder as his AG ( which would never happen) he would have won this election with 310 electorial votes.
Holder is who an AG should be. Holder made Obammer.
What does it take to be posted on this website. I suspect that Biden has shut down any
anti-Biden website. We are a nation of propoganda media and AMAC is an example.
I voted 8 times in 4 states. No problem
John Durham needs to be jailed for not prosecuting Brennan, McCabe, and Comey. Durham is another swampster and I
suspect that Barr is also. Trumps ONLY mistake is than he did not appoint an AG with fangs, venom, and claws. Trump is
paying the price for this mistake.
The house needs to vote to impeach Biden next week. Biden should be harrassed daily just like Trump.
Trump needs to set many traps for Biden just like Obammer did to Trump. Trump needs to pardon Flynn,
Roger Stone, and Manafort. He needs to jail Brennan, McCabe, and Comey. If there are no charges, jail
them anyway and make up charges.
This election is still on-going. This is not “post-election”.
Without a stalwart like President Trump the establishment Republicans will find it most easy to go back to their quid pro quo with the Dems as the American people suffer. We have no choice. This fraudulent election must be overturned before the Electoral College votes.
I cannot accept Biden’s claiming victory over President Trump. We must audit all the controversial State’s ballots like PA, MI, and other States that simply cannot accept ballots that vote Republican. This is one sickening Election I have ever seen and I am near 70 years old
The march toward socialism/marxism continues as the left has gotten so bold that they have cheated right if front of everybody and because the deep state is in charge of the FBI and doj there will be no serious investigation into this horses–t! I saw them get away with this 20-25 years ago in the washington state governors race. The republican, Dino Rossi, won handily but they kept finding “new bags and boxes of ballots” everywhere. All of them had a majority of “votes” for the democrat(won’t say her name) and they kept finding ballots until Rossi’s lead was eliminated and the dems won. Conservatives knew what had just happened but it wasn’t investigated. I am sure this has happened in other states as well. These were all dry runs for the national elections. Now that they have pulled it off in the presidential election look for them to “run the table” in the congressional races next. Why not? They have NEVER been called on any of this and history shows this is how marxist dictators take over. Look at Venezuela.
Trump Republicans are TRULY become the only Americans left!!! Anyone voting DemocRat must, by fact and logic, have been brainwashed and, therefore, not competent to vote!!! We must be ready to “Take-up Arms and FIGHT!!” Join the Trump Movement – The American Revolution Version 2!!! Become a Counter-Revolutionary!!! Stand-up for America!!!! Remove Every DemocRat!!!!!
At this moment, the only thing that is certain is that the majority of Americans have been brainwashed by the Mass Media, the Education Unions, and the Entertainment Industry!! Fact, the DemocRat Party has become the Communist Party in America!!! The “ole line” Republicans have also become Communists!!! No voter who has not been brainwashed “could possibly vote DemocRat”!!!! Trump Republicans are TRULY become the only Americans left!!!!! We must be ready to “Take-up Arms and FIGHT!!” Join the Trump Movement – The American Revolution Version 2!!! Become a Counter-Revolutionary!!! Stand-up for America!!!! Remove Every DemocRat!!!!!
Regardless if Biden wins. Going to hate to see the “Wicked Witch From The West”
All of the reasons to celebrate enumerated here only have validity if the election process can be trusted, as it was in the past. The fact is, there are numerous ongoing cases of fraud and abuse, and if this election were to go to Biden under these conditions all hope for future fair elections will be lost. The gains made in Trump’s Supreme Court nominations will be invalidated by a packed Supreme Court padded by Democratic partisan justices. The Senate hangs by a thread in Republican favor, and only if the two Georgia runoff races go to Republican candidates Perdue and Loeffler will we be able to stave off the insane agenda the Democratic party has for our nation should they control presidency, Senate, and House. Much hangs on the litigation ensuing now. Our ability to survive as a nation of freedom and integrity remains only if three things hold true: the presidential election results are verified and trustworthy, no matter the winning side, the Senate remains under Republican control, and the sanctity of the Supreme Court is left untouched. Our system of delicate checks and balances must survive this madness, or our great republic will no longer exist.
❤????????CHRISTrumPence and all his/our honorable US TRUMPlican Lawmakers successfully US 2020 Elected/Reelected Landslides
Amen & Amen????????❤
Biden is not MY President!
I supported AMAC through this entire election process from 2016 on, and in fact had many others join and not be part of AARP, now that you write a message that we should all support a no effort event to overthrough Our President, and just be okay with sentate being here, I am dismayed. and this Senate will not always be as aggressive to support his efforts, a few as we know are only interested in reelection. I am sad so see some so eager to move on and support Biden, I will never do this, as it is not Biden it is the agenda that I cannot follow….the path forward is not left for me….and please remember that 50% of this country is really not doing well with this mess we are in, you cannot ask us to turn overnight to regroup and just follow the new crowd coming in, and remember please the past four years and what this President has had to endure….how can you turn so fast…
Impeach Biden NOW !!
Barr needs to bring charges against Robert Meuller, James Comey, John Brenner and a host of other Obama crooks before he leaves office.
The Durham investigation has obviously been a waste. When you are handed a blank check, as Durham was, you need to realize that there
is limit to the time you have it. He definitely didn’t. Did the dems get to Durham ? Sounds possible
I accept no “come together” bs from Joe Biden. Biden needs to be impeached in his first 30 days and accused of Russia-Ukraine collusion of which
he is guilty. I want to see his income tax reports yesterday. What is he hiding ? Will he appoint crooked, inept Hunter as secretary of defense ?
I think he will and he needs to be impeached now for that alone. I think the repubs will control enough of the house to impeach Biden and I pray for it.
Get ready, as a taxpayer, to bail out California. This is a key Biden project.
Its clear that Fox has moved away from Trump and toward Biden to become CNN Lite. Oh well, I have always known that
talk radio is the last bastion of clear thought and the dems will destroy it any way they can. Expect Sean Hannity to either
leave or be fired at Fox. Mitch McConnell being the rhino swampster that he is cannot come out to support Trump. Yet another
rhino phoney. Many of the major rhino big mouths (Lindsey Graham, Mitch, even Tom Cotton ) are quiet. A few such as
Ted Cruz and Kevin McCarty are vocally supportive of Trump. Watch carefully who does what over the next days. We will learn
who they really are.
We will have to allow the courts that have our presidents litigation filed take their course. If the result is Jo and his Ho are determined to be the next occupants of the white house, then we the people are going to have to take physical measures. We will not be allowed to communicate through any electronic means by then, so we have to get organized in other ways. It will take a humongous group of conservatives to arrive in D C and enter the chambers of congress and physically remove all 535 current occupants and lock the doors. We then go back to the 50 states and demand special elections and when those are held, the elected employees will be mandated to remain within their state and not move to D C. There will be laws presented to them that will be voted on and put in place. Their voting will be done electronically from their respective states. There will no longer be appointments to committees, there will no longer be perks for them that we the people are not privy to, like insider trading, special health care, and many others. They will be mandated to hold town hall meetings bi-weekly and they will not address we the people, they will hear our concerns and list of priorities and then put a bill together and get it voted on. Campaigns will be limited to 6 months duration. There will be no parties, no PAC s and no campaign money.. The mainstream “free” press and media will be obligated by law to print and/ or display publicly, every candidate’s platform free. There will be no parties, every candidate will be an independent. There will be no lobbying. If any elected employee is found to be inviting a meeting with a representative of any special interest they will be investigated and if found to be guilty of fraternizing with a representative of a special interest, they will be immediately removed from office and their last political opponent will be installed in their place. The polls will be open during a full 2 day weekend, with only in person voting and voter I D will be required. 2 term limits will be the law, and a third term will be permitted only if a petition of 35% of their constituents is presented to the secretary of state prior to the commencement of the 6 month campaign period. one debate per campaign month will be held and hosted by rotating mainstream media. any candidate who wants to participate in the campaign can submit a reasonable expense account to the secretary of state and if approved, it will be submitted to the treasury for reimbursement. For our government to be trustworthy, all money and all quid quo pro ( appointments to committees )must be eliminated from our government and politics. This will be some of the priorities when we physically remove the current denizens of the swamp and permanently close it. It will take a mass movement and it could be begun by organizing the Bikers For Trump and thousand of us joining them. We just won’t be able to organize through the social media, as they will block us.
The news media blames the spike in covid on people goin to the poles. Such stupidity. I think a few democrats should be jailed and other state vote counters for FRAUD. President Trump should get another 4 years for free!! Maybe the democratic party should have their life long privledges pulled!! Makes me sick how people act and disgrace this country.
I agree with many here. Today I have posted at least 20 separate articles of documented cheating and “errors” all favoring the Democrats. This commentary makes no mention of the sudden shutdown of ballot counting the night of the election when Trump was well ahead in several key states, and in the middle of the night Trumps nearly 700,000 vote lead in PA disappeared in Bidens’ favor. I have the photos from Fox news showing Trump leading by good margins (as much as 14.5 points with 86% of the votes counted). He was ahead in Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin when the counting was shut down on the fake news media (YES, I’m including Fox news in there). Fox even gave Biden the victory check mark in Virginia when Trump was leading and the count was far from over.
You know the old saying, you don’t realize how good you had it until it’s gone. With a Biden administration a lot of folks are going to see changes they won’t like: Higher Taxes, more crime and corruption and rioting, higher prices, poorer health care, fewer jobs, higher unemployment, and less freedom. Yes, someday many will realize what Mr. Trump did for America, but too late.
what we can say is that at least Trump won fair and square in 2016, and that is something to be proud of! that CANNOT be said about this election. the dems have always praised any candidate who can sleep or cheat their way to the top, and in this case, both occurred – biden cheated his way to the top and kamala lewinsky slept her way to the top.
There is nothing to concede in a fraudulent election except that is is, in fact, fraudulent. State and federal laws have been and are being broken in plain sight of state and federal authorities. Numerous video and eye-witness accounts are available from every state currently called a “swing state” and many others as well. Your civil rights, my civil rights and those of our children and grand children have been and are being violated as I type this. If you are aware of a crime being committed and you do nothing about it you are complicit in that crime. I guess I’m glad that Timothy H. Lee has come to grips with how he personally is going to deal with this but his article strikes me as something written by a sports fan who’s team has just lost an important game by someone that has accepted this farce as a fait accompli.
If we, all of us, do not stand and demand immediate and complete adherence to the rule of law and swift action to bring it about we will have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and squandered our birthright as Americans.
Biden/Harris promise major changes that might make it impossible to return to anything resembling the U.S. of today. If they add D.C. & Puerto Rico as states and add to the number on the Supreme Court (to say nothing of some of their other promises), they can make impossible a pendulum swing as Timothy Lee tries to hold out hope. Biden’s an old man, he will be the oldest president, and Harris makes him look conservative by contrast.
One thing that I don’t understand is why most Republicans did not say anything about Kamala Harris becoming President fairly soon after the election if Biden gets those 270 electoral votes.
As Willie Brown mentioned she slept her way to authority and not much was mentioned about her time as AJ in CA. The 25th amendment was mentioned about being used against Trump but I think she will use it against Biden if he gets the top spot based on his losing it at times.
This should be the last straw for any of us Trump supporters that have had to endure illegal activities from the Democratic Party and the swamp people for over 4 years now without any of these Trump haters being held accountable for their crimes. What will it take to get justice?
Sorry, but until January in Georgia I’m holding my breath. Two run offs for Senate? Rep’s should win with Biden screwing us, but don’t know this year. I’m not into cheating, but I believe mainstream media is and kinda wonder why Dems kept Reps from observing. I only take a shower about once a week, but from the stench, I don’t think the Dems bathe at all.Just wonder why only Dems were the only ones allowed and Reps were keep so far ago they needed binoculars?
The voting results are dense oc RAT results.Any AMERICAN with even a small amount of common sense can see that the demon RATS are probably the most evil bunch of mostly sidewinding democrats that the queen of the darkside,mad dame clintstone could conjure up.The votes are fraudulent,PERIOD !!!
This not going to be a earth shattering statement but I felt that I had to at least say that for 4 years I felt much more positive and that freedom to live like an American was provided by a president that actually spoke for me. I’m upset. I’m upset that there is a undertow of darkness running our country from the career politicians and their henchmen who step on our necks with the intention of squeezing every penny they can out of us…..without even the slightest regret or guilt. So here we are Republicans and Independents that are beat up, called every name possible and cheated out of our hard earned money. I hurt for President Trump and his family. I would like to tell him how much I appreciated his fighting for me. I refuse to call one of the biggest crooks ever to come out of the Washington swamp my president and I will RESIST him as they resisted us……I’m a Viet Nam vet and I’m upset again just like when I had to take my uniform off to keep civilians from getting angry when I walked thru the airports in 1972. Thank you President Trump I will always call you my favorite President. The democrats are liars. cheats and thieves……..and forgive me but I pray that they too will get their day in the barrel.
I hope he announces he is running again if they steal this election.
It fact remains that many votes were illegal and still no one is being prosecuted for breaking the law! How many more times should Trump supporters cower to the Democrats?
Normally, it IS a case of ‘someone wins and someone loses.’
However, in THIS case, we ALL lose if Kamala/Biden win; they have been very forthright about their desire to change our country’s gov’t from a Constitututional Republic to a Communist regime with fascist overtones.
THAT is why Trump MUST win. Otherwise, it’s time for Patriots to step up and defend our Constitution.
As Thomas Jefferson said: The tree of Liberty, from time to time, MUST be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Once again the cemetery vote turned out for the DIMMs! When the GOP watchers were thrown out, the DOJ should have IMMEDIATELY sent federal marshals to escort them back in! Will SCOTUS do the right thing? With Judas Roberts, who knows?
Thank you for the encouraging article. No matter what the final outcome of the election..which looks like it will be disappointing…I remind myself that God is sovereign and He controls the outcome, fraud or no fraud…I rest in that…and trust Him for America’s future.
I personally have my grandfathers pitchfork ready, for that is what I will need if this poor example of an election is allowed to stand as the others like it in the past have been allowed. biden will take our guns and amo. so get you heirlooms out and get ready!
Who sold these voting machines to the polling places, who serviced them, some one is responsible !!!!!
It’s the year 2020, why are we still using the same old archaic voting system ? People have used our present system to rig many elections !!!!!!
We all knew mail in votes would be a cluster F___ someone should have stopped it
Optimism is a good thing. Missplaced optimism isn’t. It’s different now. This is not the same old political game. The Dem’s, or more specifically, the Progressives are not playing a political game. They are playing for keeps and by any means necessary. If the Progressives (i.e. Socialists, er well, let’s just call’em what they are, Communists) are allowed to take power, they will never give it up short of successful armed rebellion; which is why they will try to take our guns away a soon as possible. If Biden is installed as president, he will shortly be removed either by the Dem’s suddenly “discovering” that all that Biden family coruption is real, or they will invoke the 25th ammendment and remove him that way. I predict Kamala Harris will be president within six months of Biden being sworn in. (Progressive’s are not known for patience.) This isn’t a “oh well, we’ll get’em next time” scenario; there never will be a next time. The vote fraud is real. The danger is real. The stakes are permanent.
If you hate The United States of America, vote for Democrats.
(And it appears that about 2 out of 3 Californians, minus fraudulent votes, hate The United States of America.)
Oh this article is just in line with, suck it up and let the dems cheat and win! Just put or little heads down and keep our mouths shut. Well this Retired Marine Gunnery Sargent is tired of seeing this bull continue. I know not what to do yet, but accept another cheating and do with a substandard president that is, in my humble opinion, one step removed from a very serious case of Alzheimer’s, that will be replaced by a woman that will make obama look like a Sunday school gathering, is not what should happen! Then to watch the rinios poke their stinking heads up and not support President Trumps effort to correct this just sucks!
Tomorrow I am going to burn the phone waves up calling my Senators, and point this fact out. Our votes for this President, was canceled by a cheating bunch that should be in jail. Also I am going to point out that The vast number of American Service Men and Women that gave their lives only died in vain if this is allowed to carry through to a biden being in the white house or any other that has cheated in this fashion, of either party.
Do not know if it will do any good but got to try.
AMAC this is not a good article, quit patting us on the head!
This was the strategy all along with this chinaflu, keep everyone isolated and create easy access for control of the vote count, all the major cities controlled by socialists are ONLY COUNTING votes as being for them, there is ample proof of how the country wanted to vote, and it was NOT for the traitors in the demonrat communist party.
How soon will it be before jackass Joe is impeached? The Democrats would waste no time if a republican was elected. I thought it was illegal to use your political influence to get your unqualified son a multi-million dollar job with foreign governments, and to even threaten them to cut off aid if they didn’t fire a person questioning hunter bidens position. Instead you get nominated to run for the presidency, and possibly win. I hope the republicans begin an impeachment against him. The only drawback, harris would become president! Maybe having jackass Joe would not be so bad. The only good is if there is an honest investigation into the elections. God help america!
The illegal votes in the presidential race also adds votes illegally to the house and senate races, how many of these seats have been stolen?
Cannot be optimistic, sorry.
Who is to say the left won’t steal senate and house seats just as they are stealing this election?
Ben Sasse is advising Trump to concede. I hope Sasse loses his next Senate election.
And what happened to my Pat Toomey who has declared there is no evidence of fraud in the Pa. counting? I loved this man. Who or what has corrupted him?
Trump won more women votes, more minoritiy votes, more black vote, all at record levels, which means Biden won fewer of these.
So how could Biden be beating Trump when that is true?
There are videos of people admitting that the post office is urging postmarking ballots early when they came in late. And there is so much stealing of ballots so the left can fill them in. Josh Shapiro brags that the Pa. Court – all liberals – allowed signatures not to match. What is that about?
Trump was ahead 700,000 votes in Pa when the polls closed. They stopped the counting to give the counters “a rest”.
In the middle of the night hundreds of thousands of ballots ere dumped and ALL went to Biden. No witnesses because no on is allowed to watch the counting.
No fraud? Give me a break. Since early Wednesday Trump has gone from 700,000 votes ahead to ten thousand behind. suddenly they found enough votes to give Biden a 710,000 jump up.
Excuse me, but President Trump won reelection. You expect me to believe Biden, a two-time prior loser, running for office by hiding in a basement, senile, sexual predator, and old 50 year treasonous career politician won this time against the most popular hard working president ever. Trump was harassed by the media, tech globalist, and double crossed by his own party his entire term in office. They tried to turn us against him. NO! Trump did not lose. Do not ever accept China Joe as president of this great country.
This has got to be the biggest rip off of and any election in my 77 years of life/ it started on nov.3rd ELECTION NIGHT/At 11 PM/// Trump was going to be President again/ Then they shut down the voting centers and the phony mail ballots from the crooked liberals were brought in during the night/Every state that was not declared on election night should have the ballots counted in person and get rid of the phony ballots from dogs and dead people and people from other states in which their voting//Where is the Justice Dept and the FBI or are they in bed with the MEDIA and LIBERALS// Again a sad day for this country and close to 70 million AMERICANS//PURE GARBAGE//////
IN EARLIER TIMES A CORRUPT FEDERAL CROOK WENT TO FEDEAL PRISON NOT THE WHITE HOUSE! HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED!