Professor Glenn Reynolds: America’s Mood Upbeat after Trump’s Win
We’re back, baby!
Though I am normally an optimistic person, my attitude was a struggle to maintain during the last four years.
Since President/President-Elect Donald Trump won in November, I have been much more upbeat (especially in the topics I write about for Legal Insurrection).
Professor Glenn Reynolds has noticed it, too.
Under Biden, and especially with the prospect of a successor regime under Harris, America’s prospects were grim.
Now they’re bright, and all sorts of problems that were thought to be too tough to deal with — immigration, shrinking the deficit, reforming education, the bureaucracy, the military and more — are suddenly being addressed by competent people.
Well, as I say, elections are supposed to do that.
Of course, the powers that be don’t like this one bit.
Through a combination of censorship (in 2020 The Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop was called Russian disinformation; in 2024, Joe pardoned Hunter for what was on that very laptop), bullying via mobs and cancel culture, and sheer hectoring by a controlled, cheerleading media, the Democrats managed for a while to make the many people unhappy with the way things were going feel like they were a powerless minority.
We lived under a milder version of what tyrants accomplish, a condition called “preference falsification.”
If it’s not safe for people to express their true feelings, even a majority can be made to feel hopelessly outnumbered.
And it mostly worked, until the election revealed that most Americans weren’t on board with open borders, a DEI-based military, woke racial politics, a diplomacy simultaneously warmongering and weak, and rampant corruption.
Because that’s another thing elections do: They reveal the true preferences of the voters.
We’re back, baby.
As always, read the whole thing!
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