Donald Trump Could Be The Most Important American Of The 21st Century

Former and future President of the United States, Donald Trump, is the center of attention. But you already know that. Whether you love him, hate him, revere him or revile him, or have no strong opinion about the man, he is the axis that American politics has orbited on for the last decade.

Donald Trump isn’t just the center of attention. He has changed the Republican Party, and the political direction of the country forever. Before Trump came onto the scene, the GOP hardly mentioned immigration as a problem. They were focused on being involved around the world.

Before Donald Trump, the GOP was much more focused on free market fundamentalism, and tax cuts. For that reason, they went from 1992-2012, 20 years, without winning the states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (1988-2012 in Wisconsin’s case), despite those states having an overwhelming amount of culturally conservative voters.

Why? Because the GOP’s message of free markets above all and focus on foreign intervention did not speak to their needs the way bread and butter working class issues did.

Consequently, millions of people from Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania who maybe were against abortion, LGBT extremism, and leftist race baiting voted for Democrats, because their pocket books and livelihoods obviously mattered more.

They’d vote for a party that they thought would help them keep and increase the wages of, their job, even if that party pushed cultural issues that they disagreed with. That, coupled with extremely low numbers with racial minorities, made it extremely difficult for the Republican Party to win elections.

In came Donald Trump, who completely refocused what the Republican Party cared about. He railed against illegal immigration, using sometimes provocative language while he did so. The culturally leftist elite unsurprisingly lost their minds, and wrote him off as a demagogue.

But despite nearly ubiquitous negative coverage, Donald Trump won the Republican primary, and beat Hillary Clinton in possibly the biggest upset in presidential election history. What followed was a shift in the overton window. Not only was fighting illegal immigration, woke culture, and left wing race baiting part of the political discussion (as much as the institutions hated this fact, and tried to prevent it), it won.

Donald Trump’s first term was quite good economically. People felt good, and Mr. Trump looked to have a good chance at re election. Then came the Covid pandemic, and the accompanied forced shutdown of the economy. The left wing successfully shut down the economy against Trump’s will, and then blamed him for the resulting loss of jobs.

Coupled with that was the manufactured cultural outrage with the death of George Floyd, a criminal, who almost certainly died from the drugs in his system, not the knee on his neck.

Never mind the fact that there are less than 50 unarmed African Americans who get shot and killed by police a year in a nation of 330 million people, or that unarmed white people, like Tony Timpa, also get shot and killed by police. This was the perfect time to create a social movement to the Democratic Party’s benefit.

And they did; with riots in the streets of America during the summer of 2020, which the media elites called righteous and “mostly peaceful” protests. Remember, you couldn’t go to work or to Church because of the possibility of spreading Covid-19, but the same health “experts” who made these decrees, said that rioting in the streets and destroying property in the name of fighting non-existent racism, was ok.

These things, along with some shady changes to voting procedures and counting, led to Joe Biden’s narrow victory in 2020. After the January 6th riot at the Capitol, it looked liked Trump was going to leave politics in ignominy.

A worse than expected midterm for the GOP in 2022, including several Trump picked candidates losing, made a Trump comeback even less likely. But even with indictments from questionable trials, Donald Trump forged ahead.

He won the 2024 GOP nomination convincingly, and surged ahead after Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance. After the assassination attempt of Donald Trump on July 13, and Mr Trump’s heroic response to it, it seemed like all was lost for Democrats.

By then, Democrats had been trying to force Biden to step down as the nominee. Biden refused and resisted for months, but was eventually forced to step down when Democratic donors threatened to withhold money if he stayed in.

After Biden stepped down, Vice President Kamala Harris was coronated the nominee. What followed was one of the biggest astro turf campaigns in history, by the Democratic Party, media and institutions, and the pollsters, to try to convince the American people that Kamala Harris was a good candidate.

While in reality, Kamala Harris was such a bad candidate that she had to drop out before a vote was cast in the 2020 Democratic primaries, and was picked as VP because the identity obsessed left wing demanded a black woman be picked, the news would have you believe that Kamala was a force.

For a while, it seemed to be working, with Ms Harris rising in the (questionable) polls. But Donald Trump was always doing better in the polls than he had been doing in 2016 and 2020. In the end, with an excellent VP pick in JD Vance, Donald Trump overwhelmingly won the 2024 election, winning every swing state, to win the electoral college 312-226.

He won Texas by 14 points, Florida by 13 points, and only lost New Jersey by 5 points. He even won the popular vote, a first for a Republican since 2004. With a Republican controlled House and Senate, and a much bigger mandate than in 2016, Donald Trump has made the biggest comeback in American political history.

But more than that, he has completely shifted the was we see politics. He has made opposing illegal immigration, political correctness, radical transgender pushes, and race baiting, things the left wing had tried to convince the public was fringe, mainstream.

In the months before the 2024 election, even the Democrats were forced to pretend that they were against illegal immigration. The inevitable hysteria from the left at their loss was met with indifference, even enjoyment, even moreso than in 2016.

Trust in the left wing controlled mainstream media is on the floor. The lie that non white Americans will not support the Republican Party, or are offended by opposition to illegal immigration, has been repudiated. Counties along the Texas-Mexico border, some of which are over 90% Hispanic, voted over 50% for Donald Trump.

The Republican Party is more diverse, and competitive in more areas than ever before. Of course, the country is still pretty evenly divided, and nothing is permanent. But Donald Trump has changed our politics.

But political change isn’t even the only thing Trump has impacted. He has impacted our very culture. Things we thought we couldn’t say or challenge, because of some invisible taboo, can now be said and disagreed with. Of course, those on the left wing will claim that this is simply “racism, bigotry and sexism,” but if you actually take the time to speak about these topics, you’ll see this is not the case.

Everything about Donald Trump over the last decade (not even mentioning his life before entering politics) has been so improbable, that if a movie were made out of it, no one would believe it, had it not happened in real life. Donald Trump has changed American culture, American domestic politics, American foreign policy, and consequently, the world.

While I do not agree with some of his isolationist policies, he rightly pointed out that Europeans have been free riding off of the United States. Western Europeans should never be allowed to forget that they criticize the US and what we do on one hand, but then go into panic mode if the well of American military protection is even threatened to be turned off.

They criticize American society and social services, while only existing in their prosperity because of the American Marshall Plan, and American military protection for the end of World War 2, to this day. They are for the most part weak, decaying societies, and in absence of true patriotism, need to resort to denigrating America to feel better, an example of “Tall Poppy Syndrome.”

With that being said, Mr. Trump’s possible reluctance to help Ukraine against Russia is problematic, although it should be noted that a negotiated peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, which is likely under Trump, would probably have been the end result even with a Democrat in the White House.

But beyond that, Donald Trump has given those who do not agree with leftist elites not just a voice, but the ability to feel empowered to be heard, and fight back. He has shown that the elites are not as powerful as they’d have you believe, that YOU are in charge of your destiny, and that in America, anything is possible.