Trump Surges Into The New Year

That the greatest man of our own age, Donald Trump, ascended to the presidency – despite the extreme damage rendered to the Constitution by the Left – is a tribute to the Founders' enduring handiwork.

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While the republic hangs on a thread, no greater testimony for the Founding Fathers’ enduring legacy and ingenuity may be found than in the fact that Donald Trump continues to lead by commanding margins over both his Republican and would-be Democratic opponents.   The Constitution was hardwired to sift the wheat from the chaff for exceptional statesmen.  Modeling the example of our first and maybe greatest president in George Washington, it was designed to select the best man of every age, who would be assigned the solemn and sacred duties the presidential office necessarily requires.  Though it was not always perfect, the Framers’ handiwork produced enough cases of a Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, or Trump in history, who, at a moment of national crisis, would rise from obscurity to meet the unique challenges of his age. In the nearly two and a half centuries since Washington’s presidency, the Constitutional handiwork that was the greatest achievement of the generation that produced arguably America’s greatest statesman, has, in significant respects, been radically undone by subversive internal forces that would otherwise seek to relegate to history’s dustbin what vestiges of that original design remain, forever.

The fact, however, that the greatest man of our own age, Donald John Trump, ascended to the presidency – despite the extreme and maybe lasting damage rendered to the Constitution – is a hallmark of the continuing vitality of the Founders’ handiwork. That America could still elevate its best statesman to the highest office of the land is a credit to the power of the founder’s lasting ingenuity.  This remains true even though the principles baked into that original design intended to check against tyranny – i.e., separation of powers, checks and balances, rule of law – have been mostly eroded by a radical Left.  The Left has poisoned the well of so many institutions, including significant parts of the legislative and judicial branches, that were once devised to keep absolute tyranny (and consequent need for revolutionary politics) at bay by incubating the principles and values necessary to prevent the usurpation of one branch of government over another.

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Today, however, the problem of tyranny, though ever-present, is much different in character from the Founders’ time.  Most significant is the fact that modern tyranny rarely often comes in the form of a despotic king, but rather, in a faceless, administrative apparatus that can operate at the same time as a disintegrated and yet unified entity.  This allows it to disperse culpability – and, on the flip side of that, dispense of democratic accountability – from any one actor operating under that bureaucratic canopy, which yields conformity among its governing agents while rendering the governed masses docile and listless.

Thus essentially defines the state of modern America, whose constitutional framework has mainly been rendered impotent.  Instead, radical Marxist infiltrators have, over decades, replaced the Founders’ vision with something quite foreign and diametrically at odds with the government delineated in our founding documents.  One, the rule of law no longer exists.  Unelected government agents have usurped the powers traditionally designated to the Congress.  Where human rights were once believed to come from God, the Almighty has been replaced by Big Brother, whose tyrannical hand now crushes virtually every aspect of modern political life.  Our judiciary and the judges and district attorneys responsible for protecting our God-given rights have abdicated any and every pretense of impartiality: they are rogue, fanatical ideologues whose only source of authority is the power they lord over the masses like megalomaniac despots, shredding to pieces the classical notion of natural right enshrined in the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.  To them, these documents are not sources of authority but obstructions to carrying out their perverted understanding of justice, one that weaponizes the rule of law against political opponents to make a complete mockery of its original meaning.

And yet, despite all odds, Donald Trump is enjoying a surge in support to a level not seen in his political career.  After making solid appearances in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada to round out the year, President Trump’s poll numbers are stronger than they have ever been.  He is poised to carry this momentum through the new year and into the beginning of the primary season, where he is expected to put decisive early victories on the board in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina – thus finally validating what the polls have long shown in real life.  Indeed, he is performing so well, so early, that there has even been some talk about him doing a rally in conventionally deep blue states like New York and New Jersey, states which may be in play for Republicans across the ballot as soon as 2024, even with some amount of fraud still factored into the equation.  This surge goes a long way towards explaining why the weaponization of the justice system by the Left, as most recently observed in the brazen attempt to remove the likely 47th President from the ballot in Colorado, ultimately poses a constitutional question that will have to be swiftly taken up by the conservative-leaning Supreme Court. 

Video from President Donald Trump’s December 2023 rally in deep blue Durham, New Hampshire, a little over a month out from the New Hampshire primary, the first such primary in the nation.

First, the idea that the events of January 6th, 2021, resemble the kind of insurrectionary activity that the framers of the 14th Amendment originally had in mind when crafting that article is so ridiculous as to defy all laws of reason and commonsense.  The specific meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment was highly circumscribed to the historically understood conception of “insurrection” – namely, armed rebellion and intent to overthrow the United States government, as occurred during the Civil War. 

Second, even if it were true that President Trump, per impossibile, was culpable of such conduct, the constitutional remedy for any and all “high crimes and misdemeanors” – namely, impeachment – has been completely exhausted – not once, but twice.  His exoneration by the United States Senate on the January 6th-related issue constitutes a full acquittal of the allegations. It should clear his name per the Constitution’s procedure, under Article II, Sec. 4, or risk violating double jeopardy and other fundamental due process rights.  The narrow 4-3 decision by the all-Democratic nominated Colorado Supreme Court demonstrates just how controversial, unprecedented, and frankly destructive the ruling was.  Even assuming a complete overturn by the Supreme Court, the damage rendered to the justice system has already been done.  The Left has established a dangerous precedent that political enemies may be prosecuted by judicial fiat, elections be damned, so long as the candidate in question is deemed a sufficient threat to “democracy.”  Thus, democracy might only be saved, according to the Left’s absurd reasoning, through the most anti-democratic and bald-faced power grabs ever seen in American history.  The fact that this is happening in the once-free republic known as the United States of America absolutely boggles the mind and rents the fabric of reality.  But it is nevertheless part of our day-to-day reality – those forces that would seek to put the relics of our dying constitutional order asunder for good are out with a vengeance for Trump and the MAGA movement and will rely on increasingly desperate measures, even though such measures further erode their credibility, to thwart the momentum, regardless of the costs. 

But that momentum is undying because the cause of MAGA is greater than any single man or woman.  It is the cause of freedom and the possibility that the achievements of our civilization might be perpetuated long into the future, much as they were carried to us over the generations.  Donald Trump tapped into a quiescent reservoir within the old republic, one that had been lying dormant for decades, reawakened by the same American spirit that emboldened our ancestors to defeat the British, preserve the Union, and come out victorious in two world wars.  Donald Trump has made his mark on history – the Left’s inability to stop him in his tracks goes not only to the man’s preternatural will but, more importantly, to the dynamism of the American people, who will never submit to tyranny willingly and without a fight – and ultimately whose eagerness to fight will determine the fate of the republic itself.

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Paul Ingrassia is a Law Clerk at The McBride Law Firm, PLLC. He graduated from Cornell Law School in 2022 and is on the Board of Advisors of the New York Young Republican Club. He is also a two-time Claremont Fellow. Follow him on Twitter @PaulIngrassia, Substack, Truth Social, and Rumble.