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If you were under the impression that a nationwide drubbing and the collapse of their electoral coalition would cause the Democrats to reconsider their long march to the left, think again. Instead of listening to the unmistakable message voters sent them by reelecting Donald Trump and handing the Republicans a Senate majority, they are desperately casting about for ways to frustrate the will of the electorate. They are, for example, putting pressure on Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor to retire immediately so that President Biden can nominate a replacement who could be confirmed by the lame duck Senate before the new GOP majority is sworn in next January. This means the electorate doesn’t want the government “Trump-proofed.” This seems crazy, even by increasingly unhinged Democrat standards, but a report in Politico confirms that it is indeed the subject of serious discussion: “This isn’t simply some flight of fancy happening among progressive activists online. It’s a conversation members of the Senate are actively engaged in … The conversations have gone far enough that a possible replacement has been bandied about: D.C. Circuit Judge J. Michelle Childs, who was on President Joe Biden’s SCOTUS short list.” The good news is that time constraints and certain irascible Senators will probably scuttle the scheme. Moreover, as the Economic Times points out, it would require Justice Sotomayor to submit a “conditional” resignation: One Democratic senator suggested that Sotomayor could resign with conditions, allowing her departure only when a replacement is confirmed. However, the idea brings challenges: a conditional resignation does not guarantee that Sotomayor’s preferred nominee would be confirmed. Moreover, Democrats are already grappling with a packed legislative schedule, making the prospect of pushing through a Supreme Court confirmation difficult. The party would also need to ensure enough Senate votes for a swift process, which may be hard, especially with unpredictable votes like that of retiring Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia. This is an accurate summary of the scheme’s challenges, but it misses the point. A conditional resignation would effectively allow Sotomayor to veto any successor that doesn’t pass an ideological litmus test. This would be profoundly undemocratic. Retiring justices don’t get to choose their own successors. Only elected officials possess the power to do so. That such a scheme is being discussed at all is exactly why the voters soundly rejected the handpicked Democrat presidential nominee, four Democrat Senators and a thus far indeterminate number of Democrat House members. Exit polls published by NBC News show that more Republicans than Democrats believed democracy was “very threatened.” This brings us to unconstitutional attempts by the Biden-Harris administration to “Trump-proof” its foreign policy failures and its metastasizing regulatory regime. Regarding the former, Politico describes the effort thus, “Despondent Biden administration officials are mulling how to protect their national security priorities before president-elect Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office in January. Whether it’s sending funds to Ukraine or imposing new sanctions on extremist Israeli settlers, an array of options are on the table.” Never mind that many voters cast ballots for Trump so he would halt Biden’s dangerous foreign policy blunders. As to the regulators, the Washington Post reports: In just the past two days, the administration has finalized plans to limit oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and to save an imperiled bird — the greater sage grouse — by restricting drilling, mining, and livestock grazing across nearly 65 million acres of its habitat in 10 Western states. Officials have met behind closed doors to wrap up work on a study justifying the administration’s pause on approvals of new liquefied natural gas exports — a pause that Trump has promised to end … The administration also moved this week to restrict fossil fuel exploration on Alaska’s North Slope, by narrowing the scope of an oil and gas lease sale [in ANWR]. This outrageous regulatory overreach is precisely why the voters gave the Biden-Harris administration the bum’s rush. Americans understand that the high cost of energy is a core driver of inflation and that our dependence on foreign energy sources is a national security problem. According to the Interior Department itself, “The U.S. produces enough domestic energy to provide for 84 percent of its demand, but continues to rely on foreign energy, primarily oil, to make up the difference.” What sane administration would restrict domestic production of energy when we rely on often unfriendly foreign producers for 16 percent of our energy needs? This is nuts and the voters are well aware of it. Yet, even after last week’s resounding rebuke of such policies, the Biden-Harris administration is moving as fast as possible to prevent President-elect Trump from responding to the will of the voters. As the New York Post reports, he has already received the highest raw popular vote count in 2024 than any Republican in history — and the counting continues. This means the electorate doesn’t want the government “Trump-proofed.” They want the Democrats to get the hell out of the way and let the man do the job he was elected to do. Yet, neither the White House nor its congressional accomplices are listening. They have learned nothing from their humiliating defeat. Long may they languish in the wilderness. READ MORE from David Catron: Early Turnout: Harris Falters Among Black Voters Whoever Yells ‘Fascist’ First Loses The post Desperate Democrats Learned Nothing Last Week appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Something beautiful happened last week. The bells of Notre Dame rang for the first time since a terrible fire consumed the magnificent cathedral, originally completed in 1260 for the glory of God, five years ago. To a poetic mind, the chimes reverberated the cheering across the Atlantic after the landslide electoral victory of Donald Trump. Christendom may be dying in Europe, but Tuesday in America, it expanded. Catholics…. learned in time just how immoral the Left can be, celebrating child murder and mutilation while crushing religious liberty. Cultural observers like me had predicted this presidential race would partly be a battle of the sexes. Not so much of men versus women but of real men and traditional women of all races versus angry witches and their male lackeys. And, boy, did the four candidates ever represent their different sides. You had a tough guy tycoon and a self-made ex-Marine going up against a DEI-pick minority female and an imp. Naturally, the regime media tried to paint the latter pair as the second running of Hillary and Bill Clinton. Only for the first time, the press had an uncensorable obstacle — Elon Musk’s X platform — that exposed the Democratic ticket for the clown show it was. And previously forbidden mockery followed. Normal people recognized Kamala Harris as an empty pantsuit and Tim Walz as a creepy weirdo. The media effort to turn their ridiculous spouses into male and female role models only increased conservative scorn. Yet they still thought they could win with their old reliable weapon — abortion, or rather the conservative threat to it. Hence, their usual messengers screeched the false alarm of a federal abortion ban right up to the moment of decision. “Take a look out the window. It’s raining women,” Michael Moore posted on his website early Election Day. Moore’s additional threat to Trump will long be a self-own classic. “So, Donald, if you’re reading this, that’s why there’s so many women packing the polls today,” Moore wrote. “It’s a tsunami. We arranged it. Don’t ever mess with us again — we the commies, the Gays, the Jews, all those complaining women plus Al Roker (Al Roker?), Taylor Swift, Colin Kaepernick, Lizzo, Stephen Colbert, and 27 others — we are the cabal who controls the weather (Al Roker?) and we’re not sorry we’ve wrecked your day.” Oddly enough, this appears to be the last post on Moore’s website. For what happened later that day and throughout the night, Moore and his ilk could never have foreseen. Because the concept of real men, normal women, and the true faith are so repulsively alien to the Left. Yet the combination of the three changed history to save America for the foreseeable future. Michael Moore was half right. Women did turn out for Harris, but only by a seven-point majority, 53 to 46 percent, according to an AP survey. And young women under 30 shifted 11 points toward Trump since 2020. This was easily surpassed by men, with 54 percent going for Trump.  More than half of men under 30 supported Trump, the reverse of 2020. Trump also doubled his share of black men. And he won half the Latino male vote. What could possibly account for such a Democratic disaster? The answer is something that unites, not separates, men and women of different races, and at an increasingly younger age. Something far beyond liberals’ comprehension, even while they pathetically ridicule it. Something that explains Trump’s staggering gains among Latinos and the Democrats’ mortal loss of them. The answer is Christianity. Ridicule believers enough and you pay a heavy price, like Harris-Walz just did. A CNN exit poll found 63 percent of Protestants and other Christians went for Trump, only 36 percent for Harris. This, despite a concentrated leftwing effort to bastardize the religion into a progressive force (read Megan Basham’s invaluable Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda). Catholics voted 54 percent to 44 percent for Trump over Harris, which radically altered the 50/50 split with Biden in 2020. They learned in time just how immoral the Left can be, celebrating child murder and mutilation while crushing religious liberty. And my state led the way this election in defeating evil. I live in Key Biscayne, Florida, a small island off Miami. It’s rich in families, many with more than three kids. Often, I walk to or past my parish church, St. Agnes, to the sight and sound of wholesome young people of both sexes right outside it — the majority of them Latin like me — listening to gospel music. When the priests in Mass spoke out against Amendment 4, an infernal act that would have codified abortion on demand, they took it to heart. Amendment 4 went down in flames, along with pro-marijuana Amendment 3 and Kamala Harris. Florida voted 56 percent to 43 percent for Trump. And we won’t have to hear that grating voice and cackle for the next four years. Matt Walsh tweeted, “Every leftist who unironically used the term ‘Latinx’ played a part in making this happen. Thank you.” Now, not only a statist blockade but a secular cloud has been lifted from this country. The result may be as durable as the Counter-Reformation that saved the Catholic Church from Protestant divisions in the mid-1600s. Among President Elect Donald Trump’s many intentions for making America great again is a subtle yet welcome one. “We will proudly say Merry Christmas again,” Trump said at one of his last rallies as a candidate. And thanks to his election, it will be. Want to know the real story behind the Trump electoral landslide? Read my shockingly timely new political thriller, The Washington Trail, available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and wherever fine mysteries are sold. READ MORE from Lou Aguilar: We Can Be Heroes for One Day — Election Day The Last Halloween for Democrat Witches     The post Trump Victory Is the American Counter-Reformation appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Revoke Biden’s Orders and Memoranda Beginning on January 20, 2025 President Trump will have the opportunity to repair the damage that Joe Biden and Kammy Harris have done in the past four years. But the next four years will pass quickly, so Trump has to start on his first day and keep charging ahead. Hamas still holds about one hundred Israeli and three U.S. citizens as hostages. Biden did nothing to gain their release. Trump can force it. The Dems will have their own agenda. If they get a majority in the House — which seems unlikely at this writing — they’ll impeach Trump by Saint Patrick’s Day. The agenda for Trump’s first month begins on Inauguration Day. The simplest and best action Trump can take is to revoke all of Biden’s executive orders and presidential memoranda. According to Ballotpedia. Biden has signed 142 executive orders and 221 presidential memoranda. (That number may increase between now and Inauguration Day.) Both of those actions direct federal officials to take — or refrain from — certain actions that are at least purportedly in their power. The difference between them is that EO’s have to be published while the presidential memoranda don’t. Trump should revoke every one of Biden’s executive orders and presidential memoranda. Some of them are the means by which Biden opened our borders. Revoke them all. Every. Single. One. Trump’s staff should have a document accomplishing that ready for his signature on Inauguration Day. Also on Inauguration Day, Trump should have legislation in hand that would authorize and fund construction of the wall across the Mexican border. It should also close our borders to all but legitimate commercial traffic, legal immigration, and tourists with proper visas. That bill, which should be HR-1 if Republicans keep the House, should be sent to the House and Senate for consideration beginning that day. Nothing — other than cancellation of the Biden executive orders and presidential memoranda — can be done immediately but much can be done or at least begun within the first month of Trump’s new presidency. Biden has supposedly made the civil service Trump-proof. He has done that by converting a lot of political appointees — who are usually called “Schedule C’s,” political but not senate confirmed — into regular civil service jobs. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La) has already posed a good solution to that problem. Transfer all of them out of D.C. to places they may not wish to be and essentially force them to quit rather than be reassigned. Why not Minot? When I was a young Air Force captain that was the place the colonels always threatened me with reassignment if I screwed up. Fortunately, I didn’t. Mid-level politicals, used to being wined and dined at Café Milano in Georgetown, won’t be eager to be reassigned to Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, which will have plenty of room for them (and more can be built). The average temperature at Minot is a balmy 17ºF in January. (The average low is -2ºF). Have fun there, boys and girls. That will take time, but they can all be reassigned immediately out of political power until that is accomplished. Personnel is Policy I remain hopeful that Trump’s new cabinet will be filled with the right people, but the augurs say otherwise. As I wrote last week, the people in charge of the transition and picking new people for Trump 47 need to have the First Law of Governance —  personnel is policy — as their guiding principle. Unfortunately, the Trump transition team is in the hands of billionaire investment banker Howard Lutnick and Linda McMahon, who was a top executive in World Wrestling Entertainment before she became Small Business Administrator in Trump’s first term. Neither apparently is guided by “personnel is policy” and we — and Trump — will suffer accordingly. (READ MORE from Jed Babbin: For Trump, Personnel Decisions Will Be Crucial) Trump said the other day that he wouldn’t invite either Nikki Haley or Mike Pompeo into his new government. Trump views Haley as disloyal so her banishment is understandable. But Pompeo was a terrific secretary of state. Exiling him isn’t a good idea. No House members should be considered for cabinet posts. The Republican majority — if there is one — will be so slim that no one should be removed from it. As for senators, only those whose state governors are Republicans should be considered. Republican governors can appoint Republicans to a senator’s unfinished term but House members — even those in “safe” Republican seats — are too much of a risk in the special elections that will follow. The next thing Trump should do, once he has a good team in the Pentagon, is to renew the old Defense Guidance process from the Reagan days. In Defense Guidance, a strategy is outlined by the White House and the Pentagon budget derived from it. He may have to go through the highly-politicized “Quadrennial Defense Review” but Defense Guidance should be its foundation. Get real warriors to help devise the strategy and cut out all of the Biden nonsense that saps U.S. military strength. Trump must quickly reverse the Biden policy of allowing transgender people in the military and compel the military — by firing all the generals and admirals who have bought into it — to drop Biden’s “wokeness” policies that have made our military a divided mess. Reversing Biden on NATO, Ukraine, Middle East Trump can also immediately reimpose the economic sanctions on Iran that he had in his first term. Those sanctions brought ruin to the Iranian economy. Iran is reportedly plotting to assassinate Trump. For a host of reasons that needn’t be rehearsed here and regardless of that, Trump should, by a secret presidential directive, task the CIA to cause the overthrow of that evil regime. Dealing with Europe and NATO will be much harder. They buy gas from Russia via the two Nordstream pipelines that still are operational. We can sell all the gas Europe needs but Russia will always reduce the price until we cannot compete. Trump will certainly keep the pressure on NATO nations to spend more on their own defense. But European Union nations — which are also NATO members — are stuck in their own mess, welfare states that are highly resistant to more defense spending. Trump’s renewed pressure on them will force them to spend less on welfare and more on defense but their progress will be very slow. The wars in Ukraine and Israel will be even harder to deal with. Trump’s running mate, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, led senate opposition to more aid to Ukraine. Trump can’t let Russia take all of Ukraine but his inclination is, as reported elsewhere, to make a “peace” with Russia that allows it to keep the Crimea and areas elsewhere in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Zelensky will resist any territorial concessions to Russia. Russian President Putin may be willing to compromise (temporarily) but his forces — reinforced by North Korean cannon fodder — are still winning the fight. Putin has no reason to compromise. As for Israel, Trump was — and will be again — the best ally Israel ever had in the White House. Gone will be the Biden threats of cancelling U.S. financial and military aid unless Israel force-feeds the Gaza population. But Trump can, and we expect he will, threaten Iran, Hamas, and Hizballah. The Qatari government, which has harbored the Hamas terrorist leaders for years has, because of Trump, told the Hamas leaders to get out. Trump, as noted above, can help by threatening Hamas and Hizballah with U.S. military action. Such action may be unnecessary because most of the leaders of Hamas and Hizballah have been killed by Israeli forces and hundreds of their terrorists are reportedly surrendering. Hamas still holds about one hundred Israeli and three U.S. citizens as hostages. Biden did nothing to gain their release. Trump can force it. We dodged a big bullet on Election Day. It wasn’t that we celebrated Trump’s win as much as we breathed a sigh of relief that Kamala Harris wouldn’t get the chance to finish ruining our country. Trump, if he has great cabinet and sub-cabinet members, has a really good shot at making America great again. READ MORE from Jed Babbin: What Great Allies We Are Après Sinwar The post Undoing Biden: Trump’s First-Month Agenda appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.