Thank You, Democrats | Opinion

Dear Democratic Party , and its allies and accomplices,

Donald Trump supporters I know have asked me to dedicate some space to thank you for all you did to make their momentous win on November 5 a reality. They insist they couldn't have done it without your help. Here's a partial list of the many people and things Trump voters told me they believe fueled their victory.

First of all, thank you for not listening to us or trying to understand us over the past 8 years. Thank you for choosing to call us names like "fascist," "bigot," and "racist" whenever we disagreed with you.

Thank you, liberal media sources, for giving Never Trumpers a platform—for proving, finally, that there are conservatives you'll give equal airtime. Thank you for running with Fusion GPS and the Democrats ' fake Russian Dossier story.

Thank you to the former 51 former intelligence officials who signed a letter in 2020 falsely claiming the Hunter Biden lap was Russian disinformation. A special thanks to former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for removing it from your platform and for banning President Trump's account.

Thank you to Anthony Fauci and the public officials, experts, and media figures who scolded and threatened Americans who didn't agree with mask mandates or universal compulsory vaccines. You started a movement.

Thank you to the mayors and governors who locked down our schools, churches, and businesses without concern for the damage you did to our way of life and our kids' mental health—and all in the name of protecting us.

Thank you, Democratic Party, for impeaching President Trump not once but twice.

Thanks, Jack Smith , Alvin Bragg , Letitia James, and Fani Willis , for using your legal power and discretion to prosecute President Trump.

Thank you, NCAA leadership, for using your rulemaking power to allow biological men to compete in women's sports. And thanks for calling us "transphobes" for standing up for the rights of our sisters, daughters, and wives to not share locker rooms with people with male genitals.

Thanks, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson for your answer to a question about what defines a woman during your Senate confirmation hearing. "I am not a biologist" was the perfect response.

Thank you, President Joe Biden , for signing the Inflation Reduction Act, which increased inflation.

Thank you for imposing electric vehicle mandates on auto manufacturers that drove up the price of gas-powered cars and left American manufacturers with mountains of EV losses.

Thank you for your commitment to put American coal miners out of their jobs—while China continues to build coal-powered plants fueled by dirtier coal from Russian and Indonesian mines.

Thanks for your student debt cancellation, which infuriated those of us who paid our student loans, and others who never went to college in the first place. That sure was unifying.

And thank you for doubling down on Hillary Clinton 's "basket of deplorables" comment with your description of us as "garbage."

Thank you, whoever you are, for coming up with the term "Bidenomics."

Thank you, Janet Yellen , for insisting that inflation was "transitory" for months on end, while grocery, electric, gas, and housing bills skyrocketed.

And thank you, Democratic Party, for blaming that inflation on price gouging and greedy business owners. Keep that tired old talking point going!

Thanks to the DEI officers across the country for not including conservatives and Christians in your diversity and inclusion regimes.

Thanks to the Defund the Police movement for making our streets less safe and letting us know what you think about the 750,000 men and women in law enforcement who protect us. Thank you especially to donors like George Soros for funding progressive district attorneys who turned their cities into open shooting ranges.

Thank you, college presidents, especially Ivy Leaguers like Claudine Gay of Harvard, for finally defending free speech on your campuses—for Israel haters and antisemites. What courage!

Thank you, college professors, for teaching our kids that all white people are racists and privileged, that socialism is good and capitalism is bad, and that Israel is an oppressor.

Thanks, President Biden, for seeking a second term.

Thanks to everyone who concealed the president's cognitive impairments until you couldn't.

Thanks, Democratic Party, for installing an unproven candidate rather than letting Democratic voters choose their own.

And thank you, Kamala Harris , for accepting the coronation.

Thank you to all the celebrities—Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Harrison Ford , Robert De Niro, Will Ferrell, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey , and more—for being so self-important that you actually believed your endorsements would change the outcome of an election. Thanks for mocking our marriages and our values in your campaign ads. Thank you for your ominous warnings that "it is entirely possible that we will not have the opportunity to cast a ballot again." Now we know what you really think about us!

Thanks, Kamala Harris, for telling two college students who shouted out the words "Christ is Lord" that they were at "the wrong rally"—to cheers from your adoring fans. And thank you for fully embracing war hawks like Dick and Liz Cheney . Those moments really showed us what you mean by "inclusivity."

Thank you, Democratic Party and its allies, for continuing to push the "Democracy is at risk" narrative. Thank you for continuing to blame your problems on messaging and messengers and not your product offerings.

And please—keep doing what you're doing. We love it! You've become the single best recruiting tool the Republican Party has had since the Carter administration.

My Republican friends and Trump supporters thank all of you for all you've done to make the GOP a bigger, more diverse and inclusive party, and apologize for any people or things they failed to mention.

We love you, Democratic Party! Keep up the great work.

Lee Habeeb is vice president of content for Salem Radio Network and host of Our American Stories. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, Valerie, and his daughter, Reagan.

The views expressed in this are the writer's own.