It’s hard to believe, because of all the winning, but six months of the second term of President Donald Trump is in the books. As soon as the election results were clear last November 5th, the doomsaying on the left kicked into high gear, and for the most part, has not wavered in forecasting cataclysm to follow.
Except a funny thing happened. The doom loop guaranteed with certainty by the soothsayers and political analysts on the left has just not materialized.
Three days before the election, Vice-President Kamala Harris predicted that if Trump were to win, and after this first six months, thank Almighty God he did, we’d be in a recession by the middle of the following year, meaning now.
When Trump began imposing the tariffs in March, Democrats in both Houses of Congress began to forecast economic doom ahead. Here’s Delaware Senator Chris Coons, the same Biden 2024 co-chair that had no idea Joe Biden’s mental faculties had fallen further and faster than the Dow.
Chuck Schumer in the Senate and Hakeem Jeffries in the House both tried to make ‘Trump slump’ go viral. Maybe if they would have been caught on a kiss cam at a Coldplay concert, they could have had that moment. Instead, we had weeks and weeks of Resistance media clips like this one featuring Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania, wishcasting a recession for which they could blame the President.
Inflation is in the mid-2’s. Unemployment is holding steady at 4.1%. Private sector jobs are increasing while federal jobs are decreasing. GDP estimates for Q2 are around 2.4%, hardly a recession. What instead has taken place are trade deals with the United Kingdom, China, Vietnam, Indonesia, and India right around the corner, all of them reducing barriers to entry for U.S. goods in their markets, while raising revenue on goods coming into the United States. That tariff revenue has already exceeded $100 billion, and is already being used to help offset the deficit. In short, the Trump recession never happened, and virtually no one, outside of the doomsayers on the left, are talking about the country entering a recession this year any longer.
David Montgomery in the Washington Post, going all the way back to October 10th, 2022, imagined a January 20th, 2025 world with Donald Trump re-inaugurated. Here’s just a sample:
To help game out the consequences of another Trump administration, I turned to 21 experts in the presidency, political science, public administration, the military, intelligence, foreign affairs, economics and civil rights. They sketched chillingly plausible chains of potential actions and reactions that could unravel the nation. “I think it would be the end of the republic,” says Princeton University professor Sean Wilentz, one of the historians President Biden consulted in August about America’s teetering democracy. “It would be a kind of overthrow from within. … It would be a coup of the way we’ve always understood America.”
Based on what these experts described, here’s a portrait of a democratic crackup in three phases.
Phase 1: Trump seizes control of the government … … And installs super loyalists. “Among the first things he would do, in the initial hours of his presidency, would be to fire [FBI Director] Christopher Wray and purge the FBI,” says Larry Diamond, senior fellow in global democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Diamond’s research has focused on the plight of democracy in other countries, but lately he’s been thinking and writing about its ailments in America. Trump “would then set about trying to politicize the FBI, the intelligence agencies and as much of the government as possible,” Diamond continues. “He has complete authority to appoint the senior ranks of the National Security Council. So you could see [retired Lt. Gen.] Michael Flynn” — who was pardoned by Trump after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI — “as the national security adviser again, or somebody else who would not represent any of the prudence and restraints and efforts to rein in Trump’s more authoritarian and impulsive instincts.”
There are hundreds of examples of people on the left predicting Trump would become a dictator overnight. Michael Beschloss, way back in July of 2024 when Trump was accepting the GOP nomination at their convention in Milwaukee, claimed his speech was long much in the way other dictators in history rambled on. The claims that Trump would morph into authoritarianism on his first day have continued non-stop on MSNBC and CNN, especially on their prime time shows. Stephen Colbert on January 17th, his last day before Trump was inaugurated, predicted this might be his last show, because Trump would have him arrested.
GROAN.
Drama Queen Stephen Colbert says Trump might have him detained before he can host another episode of his show
Delusions of grandeur, anyone? pic.twitter.com/PzwWhUkzAb
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) January 17, 2025
Sorry, Stephen, you just weren’t important enough to arrest. It worked out better to let CBS financially bleed out to the point where they couldn’t afford to hemorrhage cash anymore and pulled the plug on the entire franchise. Perhaps if you had made the conscious decision to entertain all of America instead of alienating half of them with endless screeds dressed up as monologues, you might still have a gig.
What has instead occurred over the previous six months? Donald Trump signed Congressional bills as they’re passed, issued a bunch of executive orders, and a lot of the contentious ones have worked their way through the Article III review process exactly as they should. The Supreme Court finally ruled against rogue district judges issuing one nationwide mandate after another, because that act in itself is an act of tyranny, not what the President is allegedly trying to do.
Thus far, the rights of American citizens are being upheld, and those here illegally, especially the ones committing violent offenses in addition to the original crime of immigrating here illegally, are being shown the door. It’s not fascism, it’s upholding the laws passed by Congress currently on the books.
A subset of the fascism hysteria has featured fearmongering on the left that if elected, and without a Democratic Congress to hold him in check, Trump would end interracial marriages, re-segregate African-Americans, and then come for those in same sex marriages. On the former, Ana Navarro and Whoopi Goldberg were just a few of the more loopy examples, but they didn’t invent the narrative. It was steeped on left-wing cable outlets all last year.
ABC News host Navarro claims Trump has outlawed interracial marriages:
“He also revoked an order, the equal opportunity order signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965…He’s taking us back to 1964 before it was legal to be interracial marriage.” pic.twitter.com/1GLTsELRbJ— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 23, 2025
Whoopi claims Trump is going to break up interracial marriages and redistribute the white spouses: “He’s going to deport and you put the white guy with someone else”
“The man is out there!” she declares. pic.twitter.com/luXpWjjqC9— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 28, 2024
Six months in. Have you seen an executive order from the President of the United States redistributing white spouses if they’re married to an illegal? Of course, not. As for the latter, same sex marriages, I have a good friend who’s about 15 years older than me in a same sex marriage. She gets all her news from Rachel Maddow and MSNBC, and was visibly and emotionally distraught after Trump won. I tried to console her that everything was going to be okay. She was told for months that Trump was coming for gay marriages, and she believed it. I asked her to give me one consideration – If after six months or a year Trump hasn’t come for your marriage, would you at least consider that you’ve been lied to by those voices on cable news you’re watching? She said she would. I haven’t had a chance to talk to her in the last month, but I promise I will revisit this with her soon. She may have a laundry list of other grievances about Donald Trump, and some of them may even be justified. But I fully intend to call her out on what was hysterically predicted versus what actually happened.
Former National Security Advisor and now Never Trumper John Bolton predicted in Time Magazine on Election Day that Donald Trump, if elected, would immediately withdraw the United States from NATO.
Equally consequential will be Trump’s management on the world stage. The former President has expressed a desire to dismantle decades of diplomacy, saying he wouldn’t defend a NATO country if it doesn’t spend enough on collective defense. “I said it with great meaning,” Trump told me last spring, “because I want them to pay.” Officials in Trump’s first term suspect he will aggressively transform America’s foreign policy. His former National Security Adviser, John Bolton, predicts that Trump would effectively withdraw from NATO entirely, if elected.
Six months in, NATO is stronger than ever before, thanks in large part to most of the member countries committing, with several members in the process of putting their money where their mouth is, to not only upping Defense contributions to 4% of their individual GDP’s, but increase it to 5%. And it’s not me giving Trump credit for the increased seriousness. It’s NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, and his predecessor, Jens Stoltenberg. Both have repeatedly said in public that the boost to NATO’s resources simply would never have happened were it not for the goading by Donald Trump. And as for Article 5, the commitment to go to war if a member state were attacked, Donald Trump has not pulled away like Bolton predicted. He’s doubled down and upheld the commitment of the United States to Article 5.
The Atlantic Council, Boston University, and the Washington Post all featured stories that if elected, Donald Trump would immediately cancel all aid to Ukraine, because naturally, they believe Trump is a puppet of Russia dictator, Vladimir Putin.
Here we are at the 6-month mark, and what has Donald Trump accomplished? A rare earth mineral deal that ensures a financial interest of the United States in a vibrant Ukraine of the future, increased support and resources to beef up NATO, and a red line drawn for Putin, complete with explicit reprisals and sanctions, as well as undisclosed threats of further action if Russia does not cease hostilities and come to the peace table in the next 50 days.
In that same Time article, another prediction was that Donald Trump would use the U.S. military as a national deportation force to round up and boot out 11 million people immediately. It’s true, the Department of Defense was briefly brought in to secure the border until the message to other would-be illegal crossers was understood that the Biden administration policy was over. Once the border was sealed and the flow of humanity stopped, the military left, and border wall construction and increased Border Control personnel were deployed.
Beyond that, ICE has pretty much done the raids, not the Army. And those raids aren’t the 11 million. They’re mostly of those having committed other felonies, and especially those who engage in human and narcotics trafficking. And those raids are taking place in many cases without assistance from local law enforcement, much less the Army or Marines. The only time the Marines or National Guard have been called up is in places like Los Angeles to protect federal buildings from anti-ICE riots that were incited by local and state-level Democratic politicians. The prophets of doom once again were wrong.
The previous six months of Donald Trump have not been without challenges. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, overpromising and under-delivering, may be the biggest black eye thus far. But on the whole, if you look at the President’s actions on the Iranian nuclear facilities, reorienting the trajectory for peace, or at least business arrangements through the Abraham Accords in the Middle East, it’s nothing short of remarkable what he’s accomplished. And arranging for an end to a 30-year war between Congo and Rwanda? It’s a pretty impressive foreign policy resume for such a short period of time.
Domestically, with $15 trillion of promised investment coming into the United States for infrastructure and manufacturing, along with certainty for businesses with the tax cuts made permanent in the One Big Beautiful Bill, the economy has everything in place to take off over the next year.
Democrats believe they can still win with the ‘…but Trump’ argument. It worked for them in 2020, and they think it would have worked in 2024, too, had Joe Biden not hosed them by being both too proud and too senile, a lethal combination for a politician. But they’re not adapting their message. They’re still predicting doom and gloom with Trump. They’re back to calling him a dictator-in-waiting.
The question for my friends on the left is what’s it going to take? How many times are you going to be lied to by elected Democrats and their media accomplices telling you Trump is going to kill us all before you discover that down here in actual reality, things have gone better in the last six months than anyone had a right to expect?
We haven’t all died, Trump didn’t get us into any new wars, wages are climbing higher than inflation again, Rosie O’Donnell is in Ireland, and CBS isn’t renewing Stephen Colbert’s contract. I think I’m accurate in stating that this is what I voted for well north of 90% of the time.
And when you look at the alternative we were facing in Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, well, it’s too horrible a thought to entertain. It’s better to celebrate six months of winning, and anticipate more on the horizon.
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