Victor Davis Hanson
Given the radical shift to 70 percent of the electorate not voting on Election Day as the traditional ballot rejection rate dived by a magnitude, given the billions of dollars that will be pledged to stop Donald Trump, and given the use of lawfare to restrict his availability on the campaign trail, Trump will have to win the popular vote in key swing states by 4-5 percent. Only that way can he ensure that around 11:00 PM his sizable leads do not suddenly melt on the nation’s television screens, as troves of mail-in ballots begin flooding the tabulators.
Yet millions of 2020 Biden voters—Latinos and Blacks especially—are fed up with the failed Biden agendas and policies. Minorities are beginning to feel discontent with the out-of-touch Latino and Black elite and their agendas of climate change, transgenderism, defunding the police, cutting back on fossil fuels, and opposition to charter schools and vouchers, in the very way that poorer whites now look upon the bicoastal white privileged—always pushing utopian schemes, but exempt from the painful consequences of their nonsense that always fall on the less fortunate.
Suburbanites, swing voters, Independents, and so-called soccer moms want a sociably acceptable way of voting for Trump, given they know his policies worked and that Biden’s have not only failed but are dangerous to their very viability.
So what must Trump do to make it “OK” for those who like what Trump once accomplished—but do not like him—to vote for their own interests?
He must focus on his “Contract for America” and promise to hire thousands of qualified conservatives to spearhead the radical changes necessary to return to normalcy. That is, Trump must reassure his potential new voters that he is the “normal” candidate and that Biden is the weird, dangerous outlier, whose record is as unsettling as is Biden’s own weird persona.
But all that requires not only the discipline to find better, capable conservatives and to stick to an agenda that undoes the damage of the last four years. It also means Trump must envision the 2024 election to be not about himself, but about the nation’s last real chance to regain normality and to win both houses of Congress and the presidency. And then in the first 100 days, he must implement a vision that will end the woke madness, the therapeutic appeasement overseas, the climate change hysteria, the racial segregationists, the critical legal/race theorists, the open border globalists, and the “demography is destiny”/“new Democratic majority” operatives.
That means Trump has no time, no margin of error to detour into cul-de-sacs about “birdbrain” Nikki Hayley. He has no time to give live tit-for-tat blogging during the Oscars. He has no time to troll the Left by claiming that he might have told Putin to go ahead if he wished to invade delinquent paying NATO members.
Instead, Trump must envision the election as a last-chance American restoration agenda—to restore the border, deterrence, affordability, and safety, all more or less destroyed by the most leftwing administration in our history.
Trump, then, is not running for revenge, redemption, not for anything other than the last chance for America to reclaim its identity and values that once made us great. He is running for a landslide, a total repudiation of the leftwing insanity of the last four years, a national unity campaign of those that might otherwise not like him.
And that necessary 11th-hour mission requires Trump to be disciplined 24/7, and to speak and act in a fashion that reassures the new potential Trump voter that he is their very last chance.
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