Sweet Dreams are made of this

Especially in an America soon to be Great Again

Some days you wake up and simply feel like crawling deeper under the covers. Today was the opposite of that; it was a day when you could see clearly who was happy and who miserable because of a far away political event that basically had nothing to do with our immediate lives: Trump’s unforeseen resurrection, a landslide victory. Nobody, not a single pundit or prediction saw this coming. Especially the Europeans who never really get what goes on over here were deeply shocked and dismayed. How could such a thing have happened? If you want an easy ten point answer, I highly recommend listening to Konstantin Kisin, who once again fingers the Zeitgeist with finesse.

But back to Dreams and how they got a bad name. You see, it’s no accident that there’s always been The American Dream, and no comparable European one. Americans are eternal optimists and aren’t ashamed to admit it. But the Dream has been trashed during the last dismal years. And even with MAGA, which is an attempt to get the Dream back on its feet, didn’t quite work. The Republicans weren’t talking about Dreams much until the word began popping up in their rallies recently. Dream Big said the banners. No doubt, Trump will say something about ‘dreaming Bigly’ at some point. Don’t laugh; they are onto something. Even JD Vance, on stage with Trump when it became clear Trump was winning, said this:

We’re gonna keep fighting for you and your dreams…

Because no matter how many times you’ve been disappointed, we must keep holding on to them lest we become like the Democratic Party that showed its utter bankruptcy not just during this election but during the last four years of lying in the face of the electorate. They demonstrated that they have no other dreams aside from winning the next round. They assumed that the dumb Republicans wouldn’t notice that they were being played for fools. In doing so, they revealed the utter contempt in which they hold more than half of the electorate. This was their mistake. And even pumping billions into the party propaganda machine failed to convince the people. To everyone’s amazement, they stopped listening to the garbage that was being dumped into the cultural matrix of America. They started to distrust their leaders and the so called legacy news system. Not all, but enough to do real damage. As John MacArthur, the publisher of Harper’s, America’s oldest and most prestigious magazine and no friend of Trump said on Spectator TV today:

This is a lot like the Second Coming of Grover Cleveland though I have no strong feelings about Trump’s comeback…

This is about the failings of the Democratic Party; that’s why he won

It’s extraordinary that a guy who is a convicted felon and speaks so emotionally, like a twelve or two year old is elected…it’s really a commentary on how bad the party is and how condescending it is towards ordinary Americans…it’s appalling, just appalling…and I mean if you care about the opposition, some kind of balance of power, you should be worried because they’ve shown themselves to be so bad, so weak…

You might argue that the Democratic Party did a fine job of killing the American Dream. Except that it was never fully dead, just bleeding, on the ground, and struggling like Trump himself to rise again. Like it or not, Trump became the very embodiment of that Dream when he rose to his feet shouting fight fight and pumping his fist after a bullet grazed his ear. At that moment, he became invincible. We should never underestimate the power of dreams; they animate and direct us and keep us going through terrible times. These are, by most people’s estimation, those times. With this election, they may be on the wane. We’re sick and tired of the voices of doom, of ‘managed decline’ of the whispers that claim this might be the End of the West.

Americans have said loud and clear: no more of that. We like winning. We like strength. We like ourselves. We love our dreams and we’re going to make them real. We’re going to be fine.

I’m a cynic and don’t much care for politics. However, as dreams go, I’ll take it. It feels like the page just turned. That something has moved the wheel of fortune in a good direction.So I say with my American friends, God bless America.