In a just world, donald trump would have won the Nobel Peace Prize for securing the historic Abraham Accords peace accords of 2020. Likewise, in a just world, top-tier Hollywood studios would now be bidding for the rights to produce the film adaptation of the greatest comeback story ever. American history: Donald Trump, the former and future president.

Trump’s landslide election victory this week will go down in the history books. His countless enemies illegitimately spied on his 2016 campaign. They fabricated a “Collusion with Russia” narrative out of nowhere, then I spent years “researching” it. He was charged twice. He was prosecuted in four different jurisdictions; 91 criminal charges in total. They have tried to humiliate him, ruin him and imprison him. The murderers have tried to kill him… twice.

They have failed, repeatedly and catastrophically. Trump has solidified his status as the most important American political figure since ronald reagan. He has become the first Republican presidential candidate to win the national popular vote since George W. Bush in 2004. He has disrupted America’s political coalitions for a generation or more, expanding beyond his white working-class base to reach the complete tapestry of modern American democracy. life.

And it has done it all despite the passionate opposition and contempt of ruling elites from sea to sea. Grover Cleveland, that venerable “Bourbon Democrat” of the 19th century, will never again be the only answer to the trivial question: “What president has served two non-consecutive terms?” Now we can add the Mar-a-Lago maestro to the list. It is a fascinating and amazing story.

In addition to it being the greatest comeback story (political or otherwise) in American history, there are at least two other crucial takeaways from Tuesday’s fight.

First of all, it is evident that the 2008 Barack Obama Democratic Party The intersectional coalition is dead. It’s not that the coalition is hurt or in danger; is that it is dead. Trump made historic gains among Hispanic voters, black voters, young voters and other demographic subgroups that have been vital to Democrats since 2008.

Trump won the most Hispanic county in the country (97% Hispanic in Starr County, Texas) by 16%. Queens County, New York, famous for being one of the most ethnically and racially diverse counties in the country, moved more than 20 points toward Trump from its 2020 performance. Overall, Trump won just under half the national Hispanic vote and made historic gains among black men. Voters under 35, such a central Democratic constituency in the not-too-distant past, are now an undecided voting bloc.

Obamaism is dead.

This is a seismic shift in the American political landscape, and it’s unclear where Democrats go from here. They can shout “Nazi!” or “fascist!” until his lungs give out, but the reality is that his policies on a range of issues (from race to gender to immigration to crime to the economy) have alienated large swaths of modern America.

Democrats seem inclined to make the senile president of the United States a scapegoat, as if Uncle Joe were somehow to blame for not withdrawing from the race weeks, or even months, earlier. This is pure confrontation. The problem, Democrats, is not that Biden stayed too long. Nor is the problem, as the insufferable Sunny Hostin wryly suggested on “The View,” rampant sexism or misogyny among the American electorate. The problem is that the Democratic Party is no longer a dominant political organization.

Second, Trump, J.D. Vanceand the MAGA movement in general are now fortunate to have a unique opportunity. That opportunity, as this column put it in July after Trump chose Vance as his running mate, is to “effect a transformative change in American political life by changing old arbitrary political lines and building a lasting generational coalition of the broader center.” .

It is imperative that Trump and (perhaps even more importantly) his future allies in Congress understand this. The cultural and civilizational divide in the United States, which was reflected in this election, is less a traditional ideological division between “right” and “left” than a more prosaic, but no less stark, division between normality and sanity, on the one hand, and decadence and rarity, on the other hand.

Republicans are on the verge of controlling the White House, the House of Representatives and the US Senate. These opportunities are rare and Republicans must take advantage of them. Every day, the presidential and congressional agenda must be aimed at prioritizing the common man who has been left behind for decades by both parties.

Let the Democrats continue to stare at their navels and morally boast about their “virtue.” Simply enact tangible policies, from the economy to trade to immigration and everything in between, that will improve the common man’s lot in life.

The opportunity to remodel the republican party as America’s majority party is ready for the taking. And what a Hollywood ending that would be.

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