A Red Wave goodbye to victimhood politics. Welcome to Ameritocracy.
There is bad news if you're an illegal immigrant on death row awaiting a sex change operation so you can play women's volleyball.
Republicans swept the 2024 elections. They took the presidency, the popular vote, the Senate and likely the House. The people won; the Democrat machine lost. Voters saw through the tech oligarchs, censorship, dishonest legacy media, lawfare and the desire to grow government.
Yet with a few months left in the Democrat administration, they might revert to type and go out with more weaponization of government. Democrats' well-worn lawfare abuses and misinformation will be legendary, which we hope will be documented well in our history books. After Trump's shift at McDonald's, Democrats will likely march some French fries into court to testify that Trump salted them.
Trump will be better at governing this time. When he first came to DC in the upset election of 2016, he had no real idea of the treachery of the entrenched Swamp. He took Mike Pence's advice on whom to hire. It was chaotic, and only a few survived.
Big shifts in Hispanic and Black male voters were the real story. There has been a big change in the constituencies of each party. Now the Republicans are the party of working class, "average" Americans. The Democrats are the party of coastal elites, racial identity politics, and groups of purported victims who want government to give them DEI-like privileges. They want to take resources from people who never did anything to harm anyone. America pushed back.
Pandering politicians tell Hispanics and Blacks that they cannot succeed because Republicans want a level playing field. It is good to see a rejection of pity politics. Let's give everyone an equal chance to succeed in this America full of opportunity.
We live in a great country, but we have to stop thinking we are each other's enemies. Divisive politics need to be set aside so we can move forward together as a nation.
There is no reason to make this more complicated than it is. America does not want open borders, crime, higher taxes and DEI-driven politics. We want America to be a meritocracy, and perhaps one will emerge. You cannot put your thumb on the scales of success and expect that there will not be resentment.
It is time that members of the Democrat Party machine engage in some self-reflection, but they won't. They have become a party of out of touch, coastal elites who do not understand the core of middle America.
Democrat mega-donors were no longer buying in because of their virtuous causes and policies. They were paying Mafia-like protection money for their enterprises and themselves. They saw government weaponization against those who pushed back and knew it could happen to them. Reduce the permanent political class and agencies in D.C. and push what's left out to the states.
Big cities like Detroit, New York, Philadelphia and Atlanta need to change. Yes, they are exciting cities, because there are so many ways to die there. They need to really examine the trajectory of their extreme left policies. It will not end well.
New York just government agents to a citizen's house to arrest and kill his MAGA hat-wearing pet squirrel. I want a government whose funding and scope does not allow that to be possible. That is where Elon Musk and RFK Jr. come in.
It is hoped that Elon will reduce and right-size government agencies to make them more efficient. RFK Jr will be allowed to Make America Healthy Again by tasking agencies with reigning in the Pharmaceutical, Food, Intelligence and Military Industrial complexes.
If Trump can end the wars in Ukraine and Gaza by doing a deal, he will be a hero. Dems have become the party of war, and government lies to us about its involvement.
Ron Hart is a libertarian op-ed humorist, an award-winning author, and a frequent guest on TV and radio. He can be contacted at on X.
