In January, we may open a new year and a new book of American administration. In November, the Americans sent a trio of Republican-led delegations to D.C. In the meantime of Advent and Christmastide, Frank Capra’s beloved Christmas film” It’s A Wonderful Life” ( 1946 ) might have something to say about why Donald Trump is headed back to the White House.
The British “rabble” have discovered an unlikely hero in the unlikely image of Donald Trump who stands up for them in front of the “warped, disappointed” old gentlemen inside the Beltway to remind them of who it is that spends the majority of the living and dying in this region.
George Bailey, the hero of” It’s a Wonderful Life,” loses hearing in his otocognitive neck, which he saved from drowning in an icy lake during World War II. Harry, that little brother, later became a fighter aircraft and received the Congressional Medal of Honor for shooting down a Kamikaze aircraft as it was about to crash into an American carry ship. George stays at home, and as the movie’s speaker claims,” George fought the Battle of Bedford Falls,” which is the imaginary area where the now-fantastic Christmas film is set.
When his father quickly passes away, the ambitious younger man’s father must remain at home in order to get over Bailey Brothers Building and Loan, a family-owned company. Henry Potter, a businessman who tries to buy or get control of everything in the small, lovely little town, will be the father of George’s long-running feud with him.
If I were a journalist on CNN or MSNBC, I may be required to use this content as an opportunity to present Donald Trump as Henry F. Potter,” the richest and meanest man in town.” However, the similarities end when both men are powerful businessmen. In fact, Henry Potter is the kind of man that Donald Trump’s political job has most upset.
Brown deftly maneuvers himself into positions of authority and boasts an outward hatred for” the malcontents” the Bailey home adores. He attacks George’s dad as a man of “high ideals… without popular sense,” a phrase that is all too common among current Americans who” adhere to guns or religion,” according to President Barack Obama. There is a picture in the film where Potter grunts obscenely as he evaluates review proposals, chooses younger men for war, and possibly sends them to their demise.
The rich globalist elites of today are the rich globalist elites who spent decades gazing through the roofs of British homes that were constructed and lived by men they may send to fight in infinite wars.
If something, President Trump is more like George Bailey than Henry Potter. George’s desire was to “build items, style new houses, plan present cities”, but he gave that up to keep the Bailey Brothers Building and Loan dead. Potter, an picture of the single, oligarchs establishment, was portrayed by George as he confronted him and explained that” this rabble you’re talking about… they do most of the acting, paying, living, and dying in this society.”
This George Bailey-esque populist sentiment swept through the Republican Party in 2016 and again in 2024, sending Donald Trump to Pennsylvania Avenue, and a Republican majority to both chambers of Congress. The millions of Americans who spend the majority of their days working, earning, living, and passing are fed up of sending their sons to fight in pointless wars abroad. They are tired of Bedford Falls being flooded with opioids, crime, and filth coming across the southern border. They are sick of paying taxes and inflation, which have made homeownership a distant dream.
Is it too much for them to work, earn, and reside and pass away in a few respectable rooms and a bath, as George Bailey put it?
The rabble — or the “deplorables”, take your pick — have found an unlikely champion in Donald Trump. Ordinary Americans view a Manhattan billionaire as their greatest political champion in an odd reverse of roles. Trump has had the uncanny ability to keep his finger on the pulse of the American economy: rural blue-collar workers, ever since his descent down the escalator and into political life. It is remarkable that a billionaire who has his name written in gold on a Manhattan skyscraper won over the voters of the small Appalachian town where I was born.
Donald Trump is their George Bailey who fights the leftist, coastal elites who want to permanently alter their way of life, from my 91-year-old great-grandmother to my high school friends who breed show lambs.
Millions of George Baileys make up the American population and fight in the numerous Battles of Bedford Falls. The sheriff and prosecutor in my hometown are undoubtedly George Baileys of a kind because they relentlessly fight to eradicate drugs and crime from our area. In this less-than-ideal economy, the young husband who puts in 60 hours a week to help his family definitely falls into that category. Another George Bailey is the small business owner trying to stay afloat in the midst of stringent regulations.
The Republican Party has been transformed into the George Bailey-style political party thanks to the millions of regular Americans who live here.
Forge Leadership Network is a group that Bradley Haley attends as a student at Hillsdale College. He is also the founder of New Guard Press, an outlet for young intellectual conservatives.
