Donald Trump’s resounding victory over Kamala Harris was historically consequential: it was the first time a Republican presidential candidate carried both the electoral college and popular vote in twenty years.
More than that, however, was the lasting, even generational, impact it will have on our politics for decades to come.
If Donald Trump, who had been target number one of weaponized lawfare like nothing seen in our history, had not won this race, America as we know it would have been destroyed for good.
Now there is at least a chance for restoration — if not a new golden age.
The restoration must begin with rigorous election integrity laws. President Trump’s popular vote win affords him with a mandate that he did not have (at least officially) in his first term.
The feat is made even more impressive by the certainty that fraud and corruption still impacted the results of this race.
The idea that the President had to win over and above what should be the normal threshold to victory – hence, this year’s mantra, “too big to rig” – must be considered unacceptable moving forward.
It should be a top priority for any first world country, especially the United States, to have confidence in its election procedures.
It is inexcusable that in a democratic society, the people would even harbor the slightest doubt about the integrity of their election laws – and the legitimacy of the outcome.
Alas, the way America runs its elections has become a joke around the world.
The fact that we do not have a national standard to check for citizenship in the form of voter ID is a disgrace and embarrassment.
As many commentators, including Elon Musk, have noted on X and elsewhere, it’s striking that every state without voter ID laws voted for Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate, this cycle.
Among other things, Democrats have long opposed voter ID laws for winning elections; in a few cases, they have even advocated for permitting illegal aliens and other undocumented persons to vote in local and state elections.
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