The majority of humans have one or two personal moments. Good or bad, win or lose, we get our 15 minutes of fame — and therefore we’re done. Taking a spear, leave stage right.
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But Donald Trump has lived three or four life … in just the past decade! No exaggeration: When 2014 began, Trump was filming year seven of” The Apprentice”, ordering around Gilbert Gottfried, Ian Ziering, and one of the Jonas boys. Now, I do n’t want to be dismissive of those ( ahem ) celebrity superstars ( Ziering is the star of the” Sharknado” franchise, for crying out loud ), but Trump’s career trajectory has taken him to far loftier heights than reality TV.
It’s been one terrible journey.
And for unique times since 2014, where do you even start? How about the moment he announced his long-awaited presidential pay through the beautiful escalators of Trump Tower? Or when he defeated Megyn Kelly and the other GOP prospects in the conversations? Or when he shelled Hillary Clinton in shock? Or shook Kim Jong Un’s hands on the Vietnamese borders? Or stared down an enemy’s bullet — undaunted, unbroken, and obstinate — with his palm raised to the sky? Or flipping burgers at McDonald’s, or having his mugshot taken, or driving a garbage truck, or debating the withered remains of Joe Biden, or the march at Madison Square Garden, or his podcast with Joe Rogan, or …
It’s easy to forget Donald Trump’s unique signature, which was to build a wall and demand that Mexico pay for it, because there has been so much content.
Immigration. That was Trump’s casus belli. He ran for president to secure our borders. That was the# 1 item on his to-do record.
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At the time, it was contentious. CNN did an opinion surveys, and 63 % of Americans opposed deporting illegal creatures. Eighty-one percentage said mass imprisonment was impossible! Even amongst Republicans, only 53 % thought the government should mass deport illegal aliens.
Gulp: When all you can catch is a slender majority of GOP citizens, you know you’re in difficulties.
The media awkwardly came to the conclusion that immigration might be the “wedge matter” that would help Trump win the GOP candidacy, but the reality was that it would never be resolved for Latino Hispanic Latinx Americans, just as Californians previously offered condolence for Prop 187. Securing your edges is of post prejudiced — period, end of story. Certainly, the American people would reject such a horrible, racist plan!
But 2015 was a long time ago. Beliefs shift. CBS merely conducted a post-2024 Election Day opinion surveys, and its results on emigration are absolutely surprising. There’s been a tectonic shift to the right:
Seventy-three percent of Americans — almost three out of four of us! — now say that bringing illegal immigrants to justice is either a high priority ( 45 % ) or a medium priority ( 28 % ).
Less than a third say it should n’t be prioritized at all.
Furthermore, 57 % of Americans would support President-elect Donald Trump creating a nationwide program that finds and deports ALL the immigrants who are illegally in our country!
So, today’s average American is further to the right in terms of immigration than the regular Republican was in 2015!
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And it all relationships together with the serious, multicultural growth of the MAGA partnership. In 2016, about 87 % of Trump’s voters were light. But in 2024, almost one in five were either dark, Latino, Native American, or a “person of coloring”. The most pro-Trump ethnicity, in fact, is no longer white people: A majority ( 57 % ) of whites voted for Trump, but a far greater majority — 65 % — of Native Americans did as well.
The time is today.
What was dismissed as a tube vision is tantalizingly close to fact: There’s a chance to not only fix the immigration issue, but to do so as a multiracial coalition of Americans — white, black, Latino, Native American, and more.
Armed with this partnership, there would be no Prop 187 aftereffects. You ca n’t tar and feather a multiethnic, majority coalition with the “racist” label, it’s just not credible.
What do the Democrats still have in their frenzied shouts of racism, then?
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Victory is not a guarantee, yet with Trump as president and majority in both the House and Senate. The left wo n’t relent without a fight.
But they’ve now lost the individuals.
And because of it, Trump is poised to secure not just the borders, but his reputation.
