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.