The people of the Western world already owe Donald Trump a debt of gratitude.
Only the hyperbole has changed since 2016.
It is likely that many people have aready managed to forget where we were then, with the Clinton Project strutting around in the run-up to the greatest political shock of the age. Do you remember? Hilary had the cowboys of the NATO whizzing up and down the Russian frontier from the Baltic to the Black Sea with a so-called exercise, while the fascists ensconced by the CIA and the unelected EU in Kiev dug further in to their programme of terrorism of their own citizens in Eastern Ukraine. Had La Clinton won we would have been at war in Europe within weeks.
Domestically the American middle class, having been reduced to penury in an otherwise reasonable economic period by what we now see as design, while others in society were doing well, had had enough. They looked at Trump, saw that, whatever he was, he was not the corruption otherwise offered on the ballot paper, held their noses and voted for him, to the man’s own amazement.
The globalists were thunderstruck, and have been scrabbling with ever-increasing stridency to accelerate the attack on us ever since. They show every sign of falling back into the slime from which their over-reach commenced.
Trump was not in 2016 a perfect candidate. Indeed at that time, unproven as he was, his brash self-importance was offensive to many. But offense is relative in that sense, and when set beside the personal features of Mrs Clinton the man was infinitely to be preferred.
Trump is not perfect in 2024 either, but what is more certain is his quality of heart and of courage, of patriotism and the experience that his career in the face of the great satan standing against him has given. He remains unsound on aspects of Covid and his claim to have been the driver behind the Nordstream outrage is unsettling to say the least. But he is nevertheless now endorsed by great Americans and he has brought such men into his team.
At a moment where the choice is really quite starkly light or darkness Trump is the man with the torch.
