It's like waking up from the worst dream you ever had.
Like, you ate deep-dish pepperoni and sausage pizza with everything on it – even the anchovies and pineapple – right before bed.
Nightmare City.
Hours later you wake up, and the world makes sense again.
I'm talking about last week's election results, and the incredible relief that the nightmare of the Biden/Harris administration will soon be over.
And what we saw under Donald Trump is on the way. Only better, because this time he knows where the rattlesnakes are in Washington.
For the last four years, it was hard to avoid the conclusion that Biden was rubbing our noses in the fact that he was in charge, as he presided over the craziest assortment of cabinet offficials, who were selected based on gender, race, sexual preference, and goofy far-left notions. (Including a guy my age, who dresses like Aunt Bea.) And there was nothing we could do about it.
We were going headlong down the chute of every virtue-signaling, moon-calf driven, goo-goo, free-enterprise-hating, diversity-obsessed, EV-mandating, Trump-despising, nutball notion that popped up on social media.
The Wall Street Journal wrote that boys in girls' sports was the “sleeper issue” of the election. “Who thinks boys competing with girls is fair?” people like us asked. But anyone who questioned boys competing with girls was “transphobic.”
It was exacerbated when we learned that a boy playing girls' sports might be suiting up at the locker next to our daughters. Don't like it? Well, you're a bigot.
(Wyoming solved that problem with legislation, but it took two years to pass, and the governor let it become law without his signature, dubbing such common sense “Draconian.”)
Anyone who has traveled to foreign countries knows that borders are a big deal. But not in our country, where Biden's first day in office was spent undoing over 90 of Trump's executive orders to control the southern border. They were giddy about it, and sold off millions of dollars of wall-building materials waiting to be erected, at pennies on the dollar.
Your tax dollars at work, folks, squandered for no better reason than to give the middle finger to Donald Trump and his border success.
They abandoned a huge, strategic air base in Afghanistan, and left $80 billion in military equipment to terrorists. (Today they drive our old vehicles in parades.) Our departure from Afghanistan was such a debacle that 13 Marines died (one from Wyoming), people clinging desperately to an airplane fell to their deaths, and hundreds who helped us were shamelessly abandoned. And yet, Biden's people declared it a remarkable success.
Was that one crazy dream, or what?
We were told that “Bidenomics” was working, even as the price of groceries rose 22 percent, insurance bills skyrocketed, and home ownership became further out of reach for our younger generations. And the national debt zoomed past $35 trillion.
If you questioned mandatory vaccines, the social media giants would censor you, at the government's urging.
Man, was that the craziest nightmare you've ever had?
For the first time ever, a former president's home was raided by the FBI, “lawfare” campaigns against him resulted in four indictments and 91 charges, and two lunatics tried to kill him, one shooting him in the ear.
And to top it all off, Biden, Harris and their hysterical followers called us “deplorables,” “smelly Walmart shoppers,” “Nazis,” “fascists,” “Hitler,” and “garbage.” And they called us “a threat to democracy.”
Yeah, we're the problem. Got it.
(Let's bring back the rule that the first person in a debate to call someone a Nazi or Hitler automatically loses.)
So, that was one whiz-banger of a nightmare we've been living in for the past four years. But the good news is, as of last Tuesday, it's coming to an end.
Oh, I'm sure the liberal Lilliputians will continue their efforts to bring down Trump any way they can. And I'm sure Trump will continue to say things we wish he hadn't.
But, from where I sit, Trump 2.0 looks pretty ding-dong good, given what we've been through already.
And that hit James Brown song keeps coming to mind:
“WOW, I feel GOOD.
“And I knew that I would.
“So GOOD. So GOOD...”
Dave Simpson can be reached at: DaveSimpson145@hotmail.com
