OPINION:
On Tuesday, we did it. We elected Donald Trump.
A friend sent me a note on social media this past Wednesday morning: “Well, he did it!”
That was all it said: He did it.
Indeed, he did.
On Tuesday night, after months of shaking his fist in the face of big government, Big Pharma and the Beltway oligarchs who were threatening his life, liberty and property, Donald Trump became the president-elect.
After having the Department of Justice turned against him, after having the FBI criminally lie about him, after being falsely accused of everything from Russian collusion to fomenting an insurrection, after having to spend untold time and money in a kangaroo court defending himself against hatchet men funded by liberal megadonor George Soros, after two partisan impeachments, after one witch hunt after another, after being subjected to bogus charge on top of bogus charge, after suffering politically motivated attempts to destroy his businesses, wealth, family and legacy, after not one assassination attempt but two, after literally being shot in the ear and rushed off the stage with blood streaming down his face, he did it.
We have watched for months as Mr. Trump continued to fight, and last Tuesday, he triumphed over the tyranny of the establishment and won not only the Electoral College but the popular vote to become the 47th president of the United States.
Yes, Mr. Trump did it, but there’s more to the story.
Not only did he do it, but so did we.
We, the “basket of deplorables.”
We, the “irredeemable rubes.”
We, the farmers who “lack gray matter.”
We, the ranchers accused of destroying the planet with our horses and cows.
We, the “toxic males” who still act like men.
We, the “weak and unintelligent” women who still like biological males.
We, the backwoods Christians who “cling to guns or religion.”
We, the ones they’ve called racists, sexists, fascists, bigots, xenophobes, homophobes, Islamophobes, transphobes, Nazis, crazy, stupid, intolerant and hateful.
This past week, we stood up en masse and said we’ve had enough.
We’re tired of their arrogance.
We’re tired of their insults.
We’re tired of their condescension.
We’re tired of them.
On Election Day, over 70 million of us waited in line for hours just to tell the mainstream media, the grand and glorious leaders of the great reset, together with all their “useful idiots” in Congress and our courts, in no uncertain terms, to leave us the heck alone.
Stay out of our churches.
Stay out of our homes.
Stay out of our locker rooms, our showers, our classrooms and our sports.
Stay away from our kids and stay off our land.
We, the people, grabbed a megaphone bigger and louder than CBS, NBC, ABC and CNN combined and shouted that we would no longer be insulted, degraded, demeaned and ignored.
On Tuesday, we looked the self-satisfied smart ones who obviously think they are our intellectual and moral superiors in the eye and said, no more. We’ve had it. You and your pedantic politics have gone too far. We are done with you. We will no longer let you control our lives and ruin our country.
You are not going to tell us when we can go to church or where we can send our kids to school.
You aren’t the ones to decide what we wear on our faces or what to inject into our bodies.
We don’t want to hear any more of your nonsense about the systemic evils of America, and we, sure as the sunrise, aren’t going to let you continue to lecture us about your butchered pronouns.
This is our country and our home. These are our children. It’s our town, our village, our border and our neighborhood, and you can stop trespassing on our land and our rights.
Yes, we did it. We fired a cannonball across the bow of their Orwellian ship of state, and it was a shot heard around the world.
On Wednesday, the morning after the election, CNN political commentator Scott Jennings said, “President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris was a signal that working-class Americans are fed up with the current administration.”
That is perhaps the understatement of the century.
Yes, we are fed up.
We are fed up with the smugness. We are fed up with the moralizing. We are fed up with the disrespect of our values, our faith and our freedom. And we are fed up with being called garbage.
And last Tuesday, we did it. We elected Donald Trump.
• Everett Piper (dreverettpiper.com, @dreverettpiper), a columnist for The Washington Times, is a former university president and radio host. He is the author of “Not a Daycare: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth” (Regnery). He can be reached at epiper@dreverettpiper.com.
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