Back from the dead: Donald Trump is America’s political Lazarus

It's over.

We survived Election Day without riots (Okay, the usual people did riot a little ), tanks or whatever else the Democrats in the media threatened or promised.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (R-Md.) will have to conjure up something new and different for his first impeachment bill, assuming he attempts to block the certification of Trump's election.

The word "historic" is tossed around like a football in politics — thrown by nerds who never learned how to properly throw a football. It's applied to everything and everyone based on skin-color and sexual identity.

Those "historic" traits were of course never an accomplishment, since they were existence-related.

Trump, in contrast, is actually "historic," He is the greatest comeback politician in political history.

Not only was he dead, he was persona non grata in polite (and impolite) Washington. New York City didn't want him either. In true political fashion, they tried to throw him into prison. He is now headed back to the White House instead, in the greatest comeback since the Red Sox won the American League championship after going down 3-0 to the Yankees.

Only Grover Cleveland was elected to two non-consecutive terms as president, and no single human being is alive today was alive during his lifetime, with the oldest person on the planet having been born 3 months after Cleveland died in 1908.

The closest thing to what Donald Trump has pulled off can be found in 1968 with Richard Nixon.

Nixon lost in 1960, under suspicious circumstances, and left the national stage after losing a bid for Governor of California in 1962. "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference," he famously said after that election.

Well, we did hear from him again just six short years later. We all know how that worked out in the end, but the story itself is one of a remarkable comeback.

Donald Trump outdid that.

Half the Republican establishment buried him, the other half hoped he'd just go away. No matter what you think of how the 2020 election turned out the way it did, Trump felt wronged and it burned in him. It wasn't revenge he was seeking, it was redemption. He got it.

Whether you see it as the American people correcting a wrong or a recoiling from 4 years of failed policies does not matter. As my father used to say, it doesn't matter if you win by 1 or 1 million, it's still a win.

Donald Trump not only won, but had coattails. He has what did not have much of in 2016: a mandate.

House races will settle in the coming days, but there can be no doubt that the American public has spoken. People want something different — dramatically so.

All the indictments in the world couldn't stop Trump. Two attempts to kill him didn't slow him down. The entirety of the left-wing establishment media was a paper tiger attempting to block him.

Will the audiences of MSNBC and CNN accept that they are the fringe? That they have accused everyone who isn't in their group of being crazy? Or will they just get crazier?

Will the employees of the New York Times and Washington Post hold their potential readers in less contempt, or more?

Honestly, don't expect the tone to change from the first Trump administration to the second one. And I'm not talking about the posture he takes. I'm talking about theirs.

Donald Trump is a constant — he'll be him.

Press pearls will be clutched, as though everything he does is somehow unprecedented. Confrontation will return to the briefing room (goodness, suddenly we need to hold truth to power!). And fortunately, press conferences will no longer be rare or short.

Were I advising him, I'd tell him to pull up a little, at least take his foot off the gas every now and then. But what the hell do I know? I haven't been elected president even once, let alone to two non-consecutive terms.

Trump's enemies will still hate him and lose their minds. His fans will cheer for the rest of his life. But he will be remembered in history not as the absurd "Hitler Jr." that the partisan Democrat media tried to paint him to be, but as the greatest comeback politician since Lazarus.

Well, that and his dancing to YMCA .