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https://amgreatness.com/2025/01/23/the-addicted-petty-and-hysterical-left/

Donald Trump won the 2024 election in part because the left’s hysterical style of attacking Trump no longer worked.

After a decade of this unhinged furor, it proved worthless in winning public support—and for two simple reasons.

One, after years of Russian collusion hoaxes, the laptop disinformation farce, and the warped lies about the “suckers” and “fine people on both sides”—the shrill left became predictable.

So, the bored public began tuning them out, switching channels, hitting the mute button, and pulling the plug.

Like the deleterious effects of inflation that eventually render a currency worthless, nonstop hectoring, hysterics, pontification, and distortion finally made all such criticisms of Trump mostly as valueless as 1930s German marks.

Second, the wearied public never heard reasoned counterarguments from the likes of a Rachel Maddow. Instead, on spec, she kept mouthing, “The walls are closing in” on Trump.

Joe Biden did not explain why his open border was a better idea than Trump’s closed one. He preferred mumbling about “semi-fascists!” and “ultra-MAGA!”

The Never Trumpers did not critique the Trump deficits. Instead, they hammered away that Trump was Hitler, or Mussolini, or Putin—or just a dangerous dictator or autocrat.

Angry retired generals never demonstrated why Trump was, in their view, an existential threat to democracy. Instead, they shouted nonstop in op-eds and interviews that he was a fascist, Nazi-like, no different from the guards at Auschwitz, a pathological liar, and should be summarily removed.

Worn-out voters began to understand these psychodramas were substitutes for substantive criticism or occasions for legitimate debate.

Indeed, the exhausted public finally concluded that the hysterics increased in direct proportion to the poverty of the charges.

So, what did ten years of such derangement achieve for the left?

https://www.city-journal.org/article/trump-inauguration-speech-biden

The 1619 Project is routed, at least for now.

“Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs and pioneers,” declared Donald Trump in his second Inaugural address. “The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts. . . . Our American ancestors turned a small group of colonies on the edge of a vast continent into a mighty republic of the most extraordinary citizens on earth. . . . Americans pushed thousands of miles through a rugged land of untamed wilderness. They crossed deserts, scaled mountains, braved untold dangers, won the Wild West, ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny, lifted billions from poverty, harnessed electricity, split the atom, launched mankind into the heavens and put the universe of human knowledge into the palm of the human hand.”

Anyone steeped—voluntarily or involuntarily—in the critical historiography that culminated in the New York Times’s post-George Floyd hit job on America was thinking at that point:

“Wait! You can’t say that! What about the Indians? What about instituting slavery—not just allegedly “ending” it [insert ironic air quotes]? What about the three-fifths and the fugitive slave clauses of the Constitution? What about the oppression of women, LatinX, gays, and every manner of “marginalized Other?” What about environmental rapine and imperial conquest? Surely one needs to acknowledge the many sins that the just-departing president insisted are written into America’s (or at least white Americans’) very soul?”

Nope.

Those days are over, at least in official Washington and its tributaries throughout the federal and state bureaucracies.

Trump aims to make America patriotic again. Many Americans never stopped being patriotic, but their patriotism was viewed as a mark of ignorance by the coastal elites and the academy.

In fact, it was the reflexive left-wing critics who were ignorant. They are seemingly untouched by any awareness of how hard-won was the vast catalogue of Western achievement, whose roots were laid millennia ago, before accelerating during the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, until today modern man takes for granted the freedom, affluence, comfort, and health that were unthinkable for most of human history.

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/01/23/in-two-days-trump-answered-more-reporter-questions-than-biden-did-in-four-years-and-without-a-cheat-sheet/

OK, we admit, we haven’t actually counted the number of reporters’ questions President Donald Trump has answered since being sworn in. And four years is certainly an exaggeration. In any case, someone covering the White House should keep track, because it won’t take long for Trump to beat Biden on this score.

Biden held the fewest number of press conferences of any modern president. He would answer questions only from pre-selected reporters. He had to have a cheat sheet with him at all times to give his answers, and even then the White House would often have to rush out to correct the record.

Biden’s first press conference wasn’t until March 2021 – and it was a disaster. As the BBC reported it:

Biden’s performance was more akin to a cautious walk across a not-quite-frozen lake. Every step was careful and calculated, lest an unexpected crack led to a dark, icy fate.

He relied heavily on notes and called from what appeared to be a pre-determined list of reporters – one that didn’t include Fox News or any other right-leaning outlets.

At one point, in an answer about the filibuster – an arcane Senate rule that has thwarted many a president’s ambitious agenda – Biden appeared to lose his train of thought, ending his sentence with the wave of a hand.

On Trump’s first day in the White House he answered reporters’ questions for 45 minutes while signing hundreds of executive orders. On Tuesday, he held an impromptu press conference after announcing a $500 billion investment in artificial intelligence, taking questions for half an hour.