OPINION:
Want to hear something that may be music to your ears, especially if you were delighted by the results of the Nov. 5 election?
“Anxious gloom grips much of the District.”
That was the take of Washington Post staff writer Kyle Swenson in a feature article last Wednesday about a place called Kraken. It’s a “rage room,” a business where customers pay $29.99 to smash things with crowbars, wrenches and baseball bats for 15 minutes of “stress relief.”
One customer placed five dinner plates on the floor, each bearing a letter spelling out “TRUMP.”
As the Post reported, “The plates were soon rubble.”
“I feel better,” said the customer, a supporter of Vice President Kamala Harris from Howard University.
Join the club. I have felt a whole lot better since Nov. 5, and even more so now that the GOP has recaptured the House of Representatives, Senate and White House.
Confining the violence to a paid bashing session is far better than anticipated riots in many places.
Downtown businesses in the District, which voted 92% for Ms. Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, had boarded up their storefronts, as had businesses in other major cities.
The sheer size of the Donald Trump-J.D. Vance victory, which included the popular vote, has tempered the hotheads, at least for now.
In January, feminists will be out in force again in Washington in their unique haberdashery, marching against the new administration because it’s not dedicated to killing unborn babies and castrating boys.
But we should, in the meantime, enjoy the holidays and celebrate the things that matter most. And because of Mr. Trump’s triumph, several good things will be happening:
• The Pentagon will again be under the control of a defense secretary who thinks the armed forces are there to protect the United States, not to hold drag shows and subject hapless service members to diversity, equity and inclusion nonsense.
• The southern border will again be secure. People here illegally, beginning with tens of thousands of criminals, will be deported.
• The nation’s auto industry will be freed from the climate hysterics at the Environmental Protection Agency, which issued emissions rules designed to force all Americans into unwanted electric vehicles. This is good news, especially for Ford Motor Co., which has lost over $5 billion trying to comply with government dictates.
Electric cars and trucks piled up at dealers’ lots while EPA bureaucrats insisted that dealers sell an electric vehicle for every purchase of a gasoline-powered vehicle. Maybe the dealers should have offered an electric car as a bonus for customers who bought gas-powered cars. This would have made great sense under the Democrats’ version of economics.
• The Department of Education will be notified that it may be short-lived. At the least, it will have to stop imposing LGBTQ ideology on children, including transgender insanity, a social contagion with no biological basis. Washington educrats will also have to stop recommending anti-American history lessons and anti-free-market, pro-socialist economics. School districts that continue to miseducate children should lose federal funding.
• Entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a new Department of Government Efficiency outside of government, which is important. They plan to forge ways to reduce the federal bureaucracy by eliminating waste, obsolete programs and duplication.
• House and Senate committees will continue exposing how the FBI, CIA, National Security Agency and other agencies were transformed by Democrats into instruments of political suppression. Mr. Trump will clean house, especially at the FBI, whose agents raided his Florida home.
• The 51 national security experts who sent the false letter just before the 2020 election that implied Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian misinformation will probably lose their security clearances. That’s the least that should happen to them, legally speaking, for their disgraceful behavior.
Former CIA Director John Brennan, who signed the letter along with James Clapper, former director of national intelligence and Leon Panetta, a former CIA director and defense secretary, recently denied that the letter constituted a lie. It was just “a yellow flag,” Mr. Brennan said. That’s Democrat-speak. To paraphrase Harry Reid after he was caught lying while he was Senate majority leader about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s tax status, “It worked, didn’t it?”
• The new Congress will pass laws enhancing election integrity to counter the ways that Democrats loosened voting rules during the COVID-19 pandemic. Voter ID and citizenship laws will blossom, and registration rolls will be cleaned up.
• The 47th president will appoint judges who see the Constitution rightly as a limitation on government, not a blank check. This will help counter the many “living Constitution” judges who have turned the nation’s founding document into Silly Putty.
• Colleges will be put on notice that they will risk losing federal funds if they don’t protect Jewish students on campus from Hamas-backing mobs.
• Jan. 6 defendants, some of whom are still being mistreated by the Justice Department under President Biden, will see justice done at last.
There’s more, but you get the idea. Good things are happening. You can tell by the uptick in business at the Kraken.
• Robert Knight is a columnist for The Washington Times. His website is roberthknight.com.
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