President-elect Donald Trump. Have to get used to saying that again. At least for a little over two months before his Jan. 20, 2025 inauguration.

Many people didn’t believe that Trump could pull this off, losing so bitterly four years ago to a guy who spent his entire election campaign in the basement of his Delaware house. The signs of President Joe Biden’s creeping dementia were obvious even then, as obvious as why his Democratic handlers didn’t want Biden to appear at any event that wasn’t carefully controlled and choreographed.

Trump has had many detractors. The half-wits who pass for journalists on most of the legacy media continue to repeat the noxious lies about his being a Nazi, a new Hitler, a fascist, a “dictator from day one,” a racist, a rapist, etc, etc. No presidential candidate or former president has ever been subject to such a barrage of chronic abuse from morons who all claimed Biden was sharper than a tack even as he waved to ghosts and welcomed people who weren’t there at official events.

No Republican presidential nominee has had to endure the whining and distraction of RINOs and liberals pretending to be GOP faithful the way Trump has. From the Lincoln Project to failed Rep. LIz Cheney (R-WY), Trump has not just taken the punishment, he’s heartily laughed at it.

The so-called moderates who view Trump with such overweening suspicion and outrageous disrespect actually view him as a usurper who has come and taken away their political party. But ironically, without Trump there might even be a Republican Party and there certainly wouldn’t have been a Republican president after Barack Obama left office. The Republican establishment got together after the defeat of Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) in 2012 and essentially decided that there was no way a GOP candidate could defeat the Democrats in a presidential race. The numbers just weren’t there. Yes, Republicans could still aspire to take a majority of House seats and certainly dominating the Senate wasn’t out of the question. But the presidency? The Democrats had the Electoral College sewn up and there was no way go back.

Trump has destroyed that scenario by changing the party from an Ivy League frat house of rich elites obsessed with setting the world on fire with foreign wars to a conservative expression of populism that celebrates individual initiative, small government, equality not equity, freedom of speech and assembly, free enterprise and the right to bear arms. It is a party that actually cares about the working class sharing in American prosperity – not through redistribution of wealth but by creation of wealth. It has become a party that wants to tell government at all levels to mind its own business and to stop intruding into our lives to such an incapacitating degree. Stop taking my money and “investing” it in your programs that only create debt and bureaucracy. Stop telling me how to raise my children, what religious faith you think is acceptable and what I should think is normal sexual behavior. Just get out of the way.

Trump’s victory on Wednesday morning was both an exaltation of individual freedom and a repudiation of the nanny state that has encroached upon our lives and our basic freedom. Could the nation have survived a President Kamala Harris who was poised to grant amnesty to tens of millions of illegal immigrants. Could it have survived more inflationary spending that has turned the dollar into the northern peso? Could it have survived the continuation of wars in Ukraine and Gaza that seem tailor-made to provoke a Third World War and nuclear conflagration with Russia? The answer is no.

When the results came in Tuesday night and it became apparent that Trump was going to win, I thought of President Gerald Ford’s remarks upon assuming command and control after President Richard Nixon’s resignation in the wake of the Watergate scandal. He merely said, “My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.” Of course, that assessment wasn’t entirely valid, not with Jimmy Carter waiting in the historical wings, but it was a word of optimism that seems particularly real right now. As real as Donald Trump can be and as real as Kamala Harris could never be.

If you saw her concession speech, it must have been apparent that this was probably the first time this woman has ever spoken from the heart or even as an individual. She has always been scripted, not perfectly scripted of course because her words have never risen to the level of eloquence and rarely above a dismal word salad. But she seemed to grasp a moment of sincerity and I could almost believe that she really was almost happy that Trump had beaten her because now we could get back to national prosperity, a real border and trading with other nations instead of going to war with them.

It’s not that we’re only getting Trump either. We are getting the Avengers, the dynamism of political personalities like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, Tulsi Gabbard and Elon Musk. This is a glorious moment in American history to confirm the truth of the Constitution and even the Declaration of Independence. The only danger we face is that the usual suspects of the Military- Industrial Complex will be slumming at the White House, looking for work. On Wednesday, I watched the new and improved former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appear on Fox to wave his resume and advertise his interest in returning to a new Trump administration. This CIA assassin can go to hell and find a job working for Raytheon. Now is the time to reduce America’s corpulent intel and security forces that continue to harass and target Americans. We may even find out who killed President John F. Kennedy.

But for the moment, let all Americans who love liberty, who are more concerned about America’s borders than Ukraine’s; who remember a United states where you were allowed to think and speak freely – let them rejoice that their country has another chance, another shot at freedom. Remember that any presidential election is evidence that the people have spoken. The people spoke loudly and clearly on Election Day. Let their will be done.