The thing that Democrats, Republican NeverTrumpers, and their media cohorts hate most about Trump has nothing to do with his rhetoric, policies, morals, or personality. Rather, they despise Trump’s highlighter. They respected Obama’s pen and phone, but when Trump first wielded his brazenly bright, blondish-orange highlighter on the 2016 primary trail—shining a politically incorrect light on issues like immigration and international trade policies—it terrified them.

Trump’s highlighter was bright and yuuuge then, but now has grayed and matured into a political tool larger and more powerful, as Trump would say, “than anyone has ever seen before.” In Trump’s hand, it draws attention not only to the problems that prevent America from becoming great again, but the facts his opponents prefer to black out or redact, rather than report on or admit.

Trump’s highlighter has also exposed the lies, hypocrisy, and propaganda. It was Trump’s “fake news” slogan that first planted into the minds of voters the seeds of skepticism of the media. Now, after years of hard-earned honing of his political savvy, Trump now uses his highlighter outside of the box, truly in ways no one has ever seen before. Most recently, riding in a garbage truck to a rally forced the media to acknowledge Biden’s Trump-supporters-are-garbage dis they preferred to hide. And it was a masterstroke.

With his highlighter, Trump has drawn a huge “Welcome!” sign on the doors of the GOP “big tent,” filling it with enthusiastic new voters and energized reliable voters. Meanwhile, the remaining NeverTrumpers have exited out the rear, and those with media platforms joined the Democrat-media complex in useful idiot positions as the resident “conservative,” hysterically warning of the dangers of another Trump administration.

His opponents mock him, try to imprison him, bankrupt him, destroy him, etc., but like a honey badger that doesn’t care, Trump doesn’t either. He holds his highlighter high, as it has ignited into a sort of torch, shining through the fog of the political battleground, blazing a trail for the millions of Americans across the demographic spectrum to realize they are not forgotten, to rise up, be heard, and vote.

At this moment, election cheating is the issue Trump’s opponents and the media work to “discredit,” “debunk,” and ward off as “conspiracy theory” and “misinformation”—without actually and fairly investigating the claims. What facts do fall through leaks in their election “fortification,” they censor or blackout reporting of them. The threat of electronic voting machine manufacturer lawsuits along with reminders of sentences served to January 6 protestors further serve to silence discussion of fraud.

Scott Adams recently posted on X: “I predict massive voter fraud will be discovered and it will confirm in the minds of the public that Trump was probably right about 2020 being rigged.” He further predicted that the Supreme Court will sort it out by January, and ended by writing “Trump will take office. The Golden Age begins.”

I imagine it will have more of a fluorescent yellowish-orange hue—the color of a glorious sunrise of a morning in America on its way to greatness.

In Trump’s hand, the highlighter draws attention not only to the problems that prevent America from becoming great again, but the facts his opponents prefer to black out or redact, rather than report on or admit.