What a Trump Win Would Mean
Sometimes it’s hard to know how history really played out.
Those who keep the record books usually have an agenda. Thus the Orwell maxim: “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”
In an election year of deplorables, WikiLeaks, “Access Hollywood” hot mics, FBI investigations, another round of Obamacare failures, and party-wide disarray, it is a wonder how future generations will be made to understand the forces that have culminated in Trump v. Hillary.
Soon the partisan dust will settle, and everyone will again have a stake in manipulating the recent past, selectively remembering the mood of the nation. Before that day comes, let’s stipulate a few, true things.
Neither of these candidates is likable. Americans’ faith in their political leaders is at a record low, while the belief that we are, as a country, “on the wrong track,” soars higher and higher.
Considering these immutable conditions of the electorate, I would submit that most votes cast on November 8 will not be party or candidate driven. They will be votes of utter rejection. Rejection of the established order. Of all that the election cycle has revealed. Rejection of the very despair driving the rejection.
The most popular choice on the ballot will not be a specific candidate, but a sentiment. More than ever before, Americans have been made to realize how both parties are willingly failing them. This understanding informs how little they have come to expect from their political leaders. Even many of those who support Hillary Clinton consider her untrustworthy or blatantly corrupt. And further research continues to reveal what a misnomer “Trump supporter” actually is: These voters aren’t diehard Trumpians. They are desperately, bitterly opposed to everything Trump pledges to decimate. They hate that which he has sworn to defeat. They have bonded over mutual enemies: the vociferous Left, a sycophantic media, a spineless GOP, and a feckless president.
A masterfully plotted political thriller could not deliver a final chapter as layered and metaphorical as this election’s. How pitch-perfectly reflective of the mood driving the votes. The president’s defining, progressive achievement collapses underneath the weight of its own inept construction in the same week that the FBI finally realizes it has been had by an eminently indictable presidential candidate. You could not orchestrate a finale so in tune with vox populi. That both the Obamacare collapse and Director Comey’s reengagement are resuscitating Trump’s poll numbers lend a perfect symmetry to the rejection storyline. He is once again being saved by the interconnected ugliness of the powerbrokers and Americans’ inability to stare at them for another second.
If Trump wins, it will not be because he was successful. It will be because the rebellion used him as the cudgel to smash open the empire gates.
And yet the media continue to treat his supporters as anomalous racists and xenophobes to be disregarded the morning of November 9. The mainstream media lack the perspective to understand the motivating factors for close to half of the electorate. The fact that Hillary cannot outpace Trump by more than a few points at a time has nothing to do — they insist — with the culture of liberal orthodoxy dominating the mainstream. No one is surprised by the WikiLeaks uncovering of the collusion between camp Clinton and top news networks.
Surely, no one is dismayed by the media’s utter refusal to report on her triangulations, all the while morally outraged at Trump’s every tweet. No, the only feasible way to explain any support the GOP ticket has in 2016 is that those Americans simply haven’t listened to reason. It is this trademark, leftist condescension that so much of the country can no longer stand to marinate in.
“Make America Great Again” means little more than make it different. Most people called upon to interpret the slogan simply rail against the established order. And yet the utter question mark that is Donald Trump is, to many, preferable than the answer everyone already knows. The Clintons will do what the Clintons will do, and the media, apparently, will support, protect and extol them.
For history to dismiss a Trump win as the work of a reasonless mob of deplorables is to deprive future generations of a terrific lesson. Whenever a ruling class confirms the people’s worst fears — that they really do scratch one another’s backs, that they really are all in it for money, that they really can live by another set of rules — the people will turn to whatever alternative they have to protect themselves.
Should Trump win on Tuesday, against all odds and despite the opposition of the entire aristocracy, the American people will have sent a reminder to the establishment of corruption it desperately needed and ought not soon forget: You work for us. (For more from the author of “What a Trump Win Would Mean” please click HERE)
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