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The following article, A 1776 Moment, was first published on Conservative Firing Line. The video below resonated with me like few things have. I’m not a flag waver or “my country right or wrong” proponent and I have never felt “proud to be an American”- not because I have any shame or regrets, but because I don’t feel I’ve done anything to earn the right to be proud. … Continue reading A 1776 Moment ...

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This column has noted, multiple times over the course of this year, that the 2024 presidential election has taken on the character of the literary trope of the Hero’s Journey. And today, the final chapter in that story will be written by the American people. If you’re unfamiliar with what the Hero’s Journey means, it’s pretty simple: The New Testament is an example of the Hero’s Journey. The Star Wars–Luke Skywalker saga is the Hero’s Journey. Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were also good examples. Paul Atreides in the Dune books and movies is another. The hero begins as something desirable and ends as something more, usually something great. Along the way, he’s presented with massive, perhaps insurmountable obstacles, and he has to change and grow to overcome them. Who he was at the beginning of the journey was not enough to succeed; he must become more. And the Hero’s Journey is also marked by villains. Often, the villains make the story more than the hero does. The evil nature of those in the hero’s way is what makes the journey most compelling, because without that, this is just some partisan story. Along the way, Donald Trump became more than he was at the beginning of this cycle. And that is why he must complete the journey and become the 47th president-elect of the United States when the results are announced tonight. (I’m assuming they’ll be announced tonight. If they are not, it is a clear sign that the evil forces with which this hero has done battle are not vanquished.) To be honest, there was a time following the disappointment of the 2022 midterm elections when a compelling argument could be made that America needed to take much of what Trump offered in his first term, preserve it, perhaps improve on it, and then move on to something newer, younger, and stylistically more appealing. That was the value proposition that Ron DeSantis, and a few others, brought to the table in the GOP primaries. For a time, DeSantis was highly competitive with Trump in early polling. His campaign had a few flaws that showed up as Trump leaned on him with aggressive rhetoric and vigorous trolling, but what killed DeSantis’ bid to embark on his own Hero’s Journey, at least in this cycle, were the villains. This election has always been about the villains. As was the 2016 election. The 2020 election should have been, but with the fog of COVID and the massive amounts of public deception obscuring the voters’ choice that year, there wasn’t the clarity we have now. The clarity began to come when the Biden administration sent the FBI to raid Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago. Then he was indicted in New York, Atlanta, Miami, and Washington. Trump was sued, essentially for rape, by a woman who couldn’t even identify what year the supposed attack happened. Then he was hauled into court for “fraud” over a dispute over real estate valuations offered as collateral for business loans major banks underwrote and issued — and those loans were paid back. In each case, it was clear the judicial system was weaponized against him by corrupt Democrats in partisan jurisdictions where Republicans can no longer get a fair trial. As an aside, I don’t know that Daniel Penny is a Republican, but I imagine he is one if he’s at all political. Penny was the ex-Marine who defended New York subway passengers from a crazed homeless drug addict threatening to kill someone, and he’s being put on trial for having done so. Penny is reputed to have killed the homeless man, but it turns out that he was very much alive when Penny finished with him but in the throes of a drug overdose. Testimony in legal proceedings last week determined that first responders refused to give the homeless man mouth-to-mouth because of a fear of getting hepatitis. This after Penny has spent countless thousands of dollars defending himself in court to date; New York prosecutors knew all along that he wasn’t prosecutable, and yet they persist. This is the jurisdiction where the majority of Trump’s legal troubles come from. When attempts to take away Trump’s fortune and freedom sagged, then came the slander. Trump has been slurred as a dictator and a Nazi. He’s been tarred as Hitler again and again by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, the entire “mainstream” legacy corporate media, and every two-bit Democrat politician from the D.C. swamp and across the blue islands of urban America. The level of rhetoric thrown his way in this election cycle is like something from the very beginnings of American democracy, when John Adams’ and Thomas Jefferson’s camps accused each other of rape and pillage with utter alacrity. Never in the media age has anything so irresponsible been unleashed on a major party political candidate. And with a very specific purpose: to gin up potential assassins. Of which two emerged: one on a rooftop in Butler, Pennsylvania in mid-July, the other on a Palm Beach golf course just before Trump arrived on the fifth green. Both would-be assassins fit the mold of losers radicalized by anti-Trump propaganda. You’d have thought the two assassination attempts would have cowed Trump’s enemies, lest they give away their obvious casting as villains. You’d be wrong. They’ve doubled down since. And to prove their commitment to the “democracy,” they accuse Trump of threatening, they staged a coup in their own party, throwing out Biden after Trump annihilated him in an early debate and installing Harris as their candidate. She’s run a fact- and truth-free campaign fraught with lies, obfuscations, and evasions, claiming to be the candidate of joy while running on anti-Trump fear, rejecting old stances in a mishmash of campaign rhetoric that convinces no one that her radical days are over, and hiding from real interviews as often as she could while disqualifying herself when she couldn’t. The Kamala Harris campaign has been an exercise in political villainy in both great and petty things — baiting and switching conventioneers and event-goers in Chicago and Houston with promises of Beyonce concerts, employing ActBlue money of dubious — and quite possibly foreign — origin in the most expensive campaign effort in American history, deluging the public with attack ads calling Trump names and employing, in “We Can’t Go Back,” a campaign slogan that is utterly sinister in its background message. “We Can’t Go Back” is a threat of street violence in the event Trump wins the 2024 election. Harris’ threat that if Trump wins, there will be no more elections is projection at best and a preemptive declaration of war more likely. The Left offered a taste of civil unrest in Trump’s first term; now, with his second coming close at hand, there is little indication of restraint in the coming days if they don’t get their way. The villains have shown themselves. But so have the heroes. And this cycle has offered us not just Trump’s journey. He isn’t doing this alone. When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his third-party campaign and threw his lot in with Trump, something a year ago none would have predicted, this campaign stopped being about just Trump. It stopped being about the basic ideological fight. It started to become our national Heroes’ Journey. Kennedy’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan released a compelling web ad outlining just how deep and wide the movement to elect Trump promises to be today: This is the best Trump ad to date. We are never going to have a team like this again. Go and vote. Leave it all on the field and win! pic.twitter.com/9O5Hx6ku3B — Michael Sebastian (@HonorAndDaring) November 3, 2024 Kennedy, who threw away his family’s Democrat legacy to cross the aisle and work to save the country. Tulsi Gabbard, who switched parties when it became obvious that the neocon chicken hawks were now lined up on Team Harris after two decades of endless wars and national disgrace at their hands. Elon Musk, the single greatest American capitalist alive today, who threw $44 billion of his own money into saving free speech by turning Twitter into X, and, having seen the utter corruption and tyranny of which the Biden–Harris Deep State was capable, has now thrown massive resources at rebalancing American elections thrown so out of whack in 2020 (and, to a lesser extent, in 2022). Vivek Ramaswamy. JD Vance. Glenn Youngkin. Riley Gaines. Kevin O’Leary. Scott Jennings. Tucker Carlson. Charlie Kirk. The list of people putting their careers, fortunes, and reputations on the line for the Trump team is endless. So much passion transcends a personal love for Trump. He’s become more than he was. He’s now a symbol for the ordinary, commonsense American, tired of the corruption and abuse at the hands of our ruling elite. His scars are our scars, and his quest is now our quest. To his credit, Trump has shouldered that burden. He’s become much more disciplined on the campaign trail. He speaks much less of himself and much more of regular America. He talks of policy more than he has. And rather than waste time trying to slug it out with the Propaganda Press, Trump has gone to the American people where we are, doing countless podcasts and independent media interviews where his message can be distributed without the warping and distortions so inherent at ABC, CBS, and the other alphabet soup networks. Trump outworked Harris, and Trump earned the victory he should achieve today. While Team Harris called the American people garbage, Trump showed his love for the country. We’ll find out if America loves him back. And if the results are free and fair and uncorrupted, we’ll see that America does. The Hero’s Journey will thus conclude as the Hero’s Journey must. And then another journey, that of reviving the America we love, can then begin. Subscribe to The American Spectator. The post The Hero’s Journey Ends Today, But How? appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

If you want to stay up to learn the winner of the presidential election, maybe skip coffee and consider a three-day meth bender. The final NBC poll shows Donald Trump at 49 percent and Kamala Harris at 49 percent. The Leger poll taken for the New York Post also shows the same result. Ditto for the survey conducted by Emerson College. The RealClearPolitics poll of polls reveals a 49 percent stalemate as well. Couple this closeness with the convoluted way in which various states now collect and count ballots — a century ago, Calvin Coolidge knew on Election Night that he won — and Election Day can very easily become, as it did in 2020, Election Week. Coming up with comforting rationalizations seems like the best a nervous nail-biter can do. On the one hand, Donald Trump underpolled his final count in 2016 and, especially, 2020, when surveys showed Biden registering 3.9 points higher than he actually did on Election Day. Polls habitually undercount Trump. This, coupled with “the Bradley effect,” the name given to the phenomenon of surveys overestimating the performance of black candidates, suggests a better night for the Republican than, say, NPR/Marist College/PBS pollsters forecast. On the other hand, in a more recent election, 2022, Republicans underperformed both expectations and polls. Possibly the outrage over the Dobbs decision and the former president’s emphasis on the perceived injustice of the 2020 election that fueled Democrats fuels them again. On the one hand, in five of the seven swing states, including Pennsylvania, Democrats sit in the governor’s office, which awards them an infrastructure of organization unmeasured by polls. On the other hand, Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo, one of the two swing-state Republican governors, helped engineer a reversal in early voting that witnessed the GOP, trailing badly in this category in 2020, surpass Democrats by 45,000 voters heading into Election Day. On the one hand, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, hampered by fundraising disadvantages and allegations he made offensive comments on a porn site, may drag rather than ride on Trump’s coattails. On the other hand, North Carolina Republicans, 6 percentage points behind Democrats in 2020 early voting, edged Democrats by a point this time around. On the one hand, late-deciders generally swing toward the challenger. That’s Trump, right? Right? On the other hand, Harris, whose face appeared on the back of a milk carton at all during the Biden administration, in some ways feels like the challenger. The New York Times found late-deciders, albeit just 8 percent of the electorate, swinging 55 percent to 44 percent for the vice president. On the one hand, Republican registration surged vis-à-vis Democrats since 2022. On the other hand, this may merely align registration with existing voting patterns and not change anything on Election Day. On the one hand, Trump felt a momentum surge in October. On the other hand, it may have arrived too soon, as polls show that momentum stop and recede toward Harris in the closing days. On the one hand, women vote in higher proportions than men. Each candidate suffers from a gender gap among the opposite sex, but given that women represent a larger portion of the population and a greater proportion of them vote, this feels like worse news for Trump. On the other hand, Donald Trump surges among Hispanics and in one poll actually beats Harris. On the one hand, Donald Trump courageously raised his fist and yelled “Fight, Fight Fight” after an assassin came within centimeters of taking his life. How can he lose after winning so dramatically in Butler, Pennsylvania? On the other hand, Democrats replaced Biden with Harris, who performed better than Biden in a debate setting, ran a more effective campaign, and infused life to a moribund party. On the one hand, one can mine the internet for data, factoids, and historical context that provide comfort by buttressing the idea of one’s desired result. On the other hand, nagging doubts last for both sides until officials count the final votes in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and beyond. Tuesday may prove a long night’s journey into day — and then into another day or two. READ MORE: Early Turnout: Harris Falters Among Black Voters Peanut the Squirrel and the Coercive State The post Election Day Offers as Many Reasons to Believe as to Doubt appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Over the weekend, the internet was ablaze with posts about a squirrel in a cowboy hat. Even big names and political players like Elon Musk and Donald Trump Jr. were posting about “P’nut.” For those unfamiliar with the story, New Yorker Mark Longo adopted an orphaned squirrel named P’nut seven years ago, along with a raccoon named Fred. The squirrel and raccoon quickly became popular on social media sites like Instagram and TikTok, garnering a decent-sized following. Longo subsequently opened an animal sanctuary and rescue operation, inspired by taking care of P’nut. Last week, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation raided Longo’s home and euthanized both P’nut and Fred. I’ll admit that maybe four years ago this story would have barely registered with me. I am repulsed by the trend of young adults treating their pets like children, while simultaneously avoiding children through contraception or, when that fails, actually killing their children on the altar of abortion. Of course, Longo actually founded an organization devoted to taking care of wounded animals, which is not quite the same.  But, four years ago, I probably would have skimmed the headline and lumped it in with the treating-animals-like-children trend, without looking any further into the story. The firestorm of memes and eulogies unleashed on social media over the weekend would have been almost unintelligible to me. As I say, that would have been the case four years ago. Now, however, I find myself one of the voices crying out: “Justice for P’nut!” (RELATED: Peanut the Squirrel and the Coercive State) P’nut and Fred did not die in vain. Their deaths were tragic and, honestly, unnecessary, but they have not been for naught. Their deaths have viscerally and publicly exposed the petty bureaucracy, invasive virtue-signaling, and moral hypocrisy of the Left. In the America of the Democratic Party, children are raped and killed by grown adults who entered the country illegally and have been given free cell phones and preloaded debit cards as a reward for their crimes. The Democratic Party insists that these rapists and murderers are just as American as you, even though your ancestors pioneered every frontier and tamed every wilderness, instead of showing up to a fully developed nation and raping children while demanding handouts. In the America of the Democratic Party, military veteran Daniel Penny is arrested and prosecuted for daring to protect his fellow Americans from a crazed homeless man threatening others with death. Masculinity is demonized, because what the hell even is a man or a woman? Doug Emhoff and Tim Walz are lauded as paragons of manhood, even though the former allegedly beat his girlfriend and the latter is one of the most clearly effeminate men to ever pursue the office of vice president. (READ MORE: Tim Walz Is the Embodiment of Oddity) In the America of the Democratic Party, voters who dare to confront and attempt to solve the most pressing issues of the day are smeared as “garbage” and “Nazis.” A man who puts his life on the line for the love of his country is reviled as “Hitler.” But men who mutilate their own genitals and dress up as the ugliest women you’ve ever seen are hailed as stunning and brave. Twenty-year-olds who burn the American flag and call for death to a nation they’ve never been to are praised as free thinkers. In the America of the Democratic Party, a grown adult who stabs a three-year-old child to death is sent to a hospital instead of the electric chair. Those who break our laws and enter the country illegally are treated to American hotel rooms instead of deportation centers. But raising an orphaned squirrel warrants a police raid and the execution of your pets. It’s true, they’re not just eating the dogs, they’re not just eating the cats, now they’re killing the squirrels. The deaths of P’nut and Fred are the perfect encapsulation of an America ruled by the petty bureaucracy, invasive virtue-signaling, and moral hypocrisy of the political Left. It’s a tragic but emotionally potent reminder for voters ahead of Tuesday’s election. Before heading into the voting booth, Americans need to be asking, “If the state will raid my home to take my squirrel, what would they do to take my Bible? My rosary? Or, God forbid, my children?” Do not let P’nut’s and Fred’s deaths be just another tragedy. Let it be the final push America needs. READ MORE from S.A. McCarthy: Kamala Harris’s Anti-Catholic Bigotry on Display Cardinal Burke Offers Guidance for Catholic Voters Trump, McDonald’s, and the Lost Art of Noblesse Oblige The post The P’nut Factor appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.