Our nation’s recent election has got me thinking—in a hopeful way—about whether we might be re-learning the lessons surrounding our first Thanksgiving.

Our holiday goes back to the 1620s and the Plymouth plantation, where the first Thanksgiving came after the settlement abandoned socialism in favor of capitalism.

The original charter had a form of communal ownership, requiring equality of income. No surprise: It led to starvation. After two years, the colonists learned from their mistake, and instituted private ownership. Starvation ended, the colonists began trade with the Natives and the new abundance was celebrated with a day of Thanksgiving.

In our election, Americans rejected Kamala Harris and her woke agenda.

We’ve also made some good steps toward rejecting the broader Marxist-inspired woke agenda: CRT, DEI, ESG, CGT—critical gender theory—and I could go on.

Perhaps we, too, are learning from our mistakes.

This Thanksgiving, I’m thankful for some signs of hope for the rebirth of the American ideal, this great experiment grounded in freedom.

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The purpose of statesmanship and governance is to pacify and keep as much peace in the world as possible. With this in mind, the Biden administration’s efforts last week, encouraging more wartime action from Ukraine, are downright insane.

When an administration becomes lame duck, the rational position is to ease transition into the new administration, which would include its foreign policy worldview and actions. It’s clear to everyone that the incoming Trump administration has no interest in prolonging the war between Ukraine and Russia but, rather, creating a ceasefire based somewhere along the lines of where the parties are now. Agree or disagree, this is where everything was headed. It is thus the height of irresponsibility for the Biden administration to make the incoming administration’s job more difficult and the war between Russia and Ukraine more deadly.

Lame duck administrations have responsibilities.

Let me state what’s obvious for all who are watching closely: Increasing the war and increasing Putin’s chances of using nuclear weapons is the height of insanity and irresponsibility.

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There are so many takes on the 2024 election and so little time.

Over at Fox News I listed my top 10.

Right now, I’ll just note one: Our national security.

Americans know our national security is endangered by China-Russia-Iran-North Korea’s axis of dictators and we don’t like the prospect of being #2 or even tied for #1. “Peace through strength” is the best option for the President-elect to follow—and to do so with a sweeping set of goals.

The rapid expansion of our fleet, especially under the seas, should be a priority along with the on-going development of asymmetrical weapons and systems.

The selection of Florida Congressman—and Green Beret—Mike Waltz as National Security Advisor and Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense indicate that the Team Trump is serious.

These are good men—and they are serious men. I hope all his senior appointees at DOD commit for the entire four years.

The nation needs them.

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For the first time in four decades, Republicans are basking in the embrace of pop culture. Boxers and football players are doing the “Trump dance.” Leaning right is the new counterculture.

It’s fun for conservatives to swim in the mainstream—especially after having been marginalized by the left for so long. But Republicans will make a great mistake if they draw the wrong lessons from the 2024 elections.

Republicans didn’t win because a majority of voters signed onto their agenda. They won because the Biden/Harris administration was an utter, arrogant failure; and because Donald Trump is a unique and engaging pop culture figure who was able to capture key constituencies of working class and minority voters.

Republicans haven’t yet cemented this new coalition. They can—but they’ll need to enact policies that make these new voters’ lives noticeably better.

Let’s get to work!

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Democrats spent the last four years shrieking about the necessity of obeying the law and accepting election results to “save democracy.” And now—in Pennsylvania, Democrats had been openly flouting the law to include illegal ballots—and defeated Senate incumbent Bob Casey was supporting it.

Several counties in Pennsylvania controlled by Democrats were including misdated or undated ballots to attempt to rescue Casey’s seat. The state supreme court ruled that these ballots violate the law, which didn’t stop Democrat commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia. “People violate laws any time they want,” she declared while continuing to count the illegal ballots in Bucks County.

So: The state Supreme Court had to weigh in again, commanding them to stop.

What has ‘democracy defender’ Bob Casey said about this? Nothing.

The shenanigans need to stop. Until they do, Casey and Democrat attorney Marc Elias will keep trying to corrupt the process in a vain attempt to cling to public office. Isn’t that what Democrats spent the last four years claiming Republicans would do?

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In 18th century Russia, Field Marshal Gregory Potemkin ordered the construction of pretty facades so Empress Catherine wouldn't see the true, grim state of newly annexed Crimea. They became known as “Potemkin villages.”

Fast forward to 2024. Kamala Harris’s entire campaign was the modern-day equivalent of a Potemkin Village. All that celebrity support — Beyonce, Oprah, Meghan The Stallion and Cardi B? Bought and paid for.

Polls that showed Donald Trump with a lead over Harris were dismissed as right-leaning “garbage.” Real Clear Politics, which used the polls in its aggregation, were actually deplatformed by Wikipedia. As it turned out, the “garbage” polls were most accurate—and even underestimated Trump’s support.

The Harris campaign’s Potemkin Village looked great—until election night when the pretty façade collided with reality. Now left-wing voters are realizing they’ve been lied to and misled.

No wonder legacy media ratings are collapsing.

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Look at those Trump appointments! It brings to mind the GOP convention in 1964, when Barry Goldwater said, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice”—and an institutionalized journalist turned to his friend and said, “My gawd, he’s going to run as Goldwater!”

Well, Donald Trump has run as a disrupter, and one doesn’t disrupt by changing the spokes on the wheels, they change the wheels—or the car. Donald Trump, like Ronald Reagan before him, identified the problems of the deep state and big government well, but, while slaying other monsters, in both cases, from tyranny and terrorism to a laggard economy, they were unable to do much about the government here.

That’s a lesson Trump has learned—and he was not shy in what he campaigned on. The Democrats said the worst they could of him as well—and tried to destroy him.

And yet he won. Big. With a mandate. People heard and saw and said they want this. And Trump, with these picks, is going to govern … as Trump, just as the people wanted … a disrupter.

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There are so many takes on the 2024 election and so little time.

Over at Fox News I listed my top 10.

Right now, I’ll just note one: Our national security.

Americans know our national security is endangered by China-Russia-Iran-North Korea’s axis of dictators and we don’t like the prospect of being #2 or even tied for #1. “Peace through strength” is the best option for the President-elect to follow—and to do so with a sweeping set of goals.

The rapid expansion of our fleet, especially under the seas, should be a priority along with the on-going development of asymmetrical weapons and systems.

The selection of Florida Congressman—and Green Beret—Mike Waltz as National Security Advisor and Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense indicate that the Team Trump is serious.

These are good men—and they are serious men. I hope all his senior appointees at DOD commit for the entire four years.

The nation needs them.

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