CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – Usually after a long political campaign, the winning side reaches out to those who lost. The olive branch is something like, “let’s find ways to work together.”
Not this time.
Why?
Because this election was about two fundamentally different views of the country. One vision won. The other, with its hands out for government cheese, lost. Those ideas were soundly defeated in bellwether states, like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia. They were also defeated in the popular vote which Donald Trump won by about 5-million.
So what gets tossed onto the dung heap of bad political ideas?
Diversity, Equity and Equality: The idea that you get a job or get into a competitive college because of your skin color. That’s over. Joe Biden used DEI to pick Kamala Harris as his running mate. How’d that work out?
Decriminalizing the border: If you crossed our border illegally, you’re a criminal. Do not be surprised when you are caught and removed. The policies of flying illegals into the interior with their government issued I phones is moronic. Thank goodness it will end.
Green New Deal: Electric vehicles? They’re on the lot at every car dealership in the country, yet 93% of all new vehicle purchases are combustion engine vehicles. Crazy-expensive wind and solar? Consumers and industry prefer the lower energy costs of coal.
The ‘taking class’ of citizens: Sorry, you will have to repay your college loans. Sorry, you will not be getting taxpayer money for a downpayment on your home.
Trying to throw your political opponents in jail, or kicking them off the ballot: Nope, if anything this solidified support for Donald Trump. Many of the Blacks and Latinos who voted for Trump on election day know a thing or two about abuse of the criminal justice system.
Taking sides with murderers, rapists and hostage-takers in the Middle East: the moral bankruptcy of siding with Hamas over our ally Israel will come to an end. There is such a thing of black-and-white right-and-wrong. And that clarity has been restored.
The crazy ideas that won’t even be talked about for four years: Sex change operations for prisoners, biological men in women’s sports, defund the police. Done, done, and done.
I don’t need polls to tell me that Kamala Harris’ ideas were unpopular. Donald Trump didn’t either. Those ideas are dead-in-the-water for the next four years.
Chris Conley
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