2024 elections – RESOLVE

Bye bye, DEI

By Steve Woodward

When the end is near, when the gig is up, and when the blinding light of truth pierces the darkest recesses, entrenched keepers of the status quo are reduced to tantrums and fear mongering.

Recall combative House Democrats, including unhinged Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), recently showing up at the Department of Education, demanding entry and a meeting with the acting secretary, and becoming agitated when access was flatly denied.

Why did Waters and fellow Democrats march over to the Department of Education? It seems that the Left is really quite concerned about Donald Trump’s pledge to weaken their grip on the Educational Industrial Complex.

At the core of their hysteria is the imminent demise of the ever pervasive phenomenon known as “diversity, equity and inclusion”. While American corporations have begun a rapid phase-out of DEI in their hiring and advertising — acknowledging that promoting unqualified people up the ladder and alienating customers eventually impacts the bottom line (did someone say Bud Light?) — academic institutions in some cases have doubled down on devotion to DEI infiltration.

But then along came the ascendance of Donald Trump and a tsunami of common sense executive orders during the opening hours of his second term as president. He first ordered DEI (and thinly veiled DEI programs with benign sounding names) abolished within all federal agencies, then turned his attention to federally funded institutions, including colleges and universities.

Other than its illegality under the Constitution, DEI is a vestige of affirmative action which has been nullified as a college admissions standard by a Supreme Court decision. A more accurate interpretation of the DEI acronym is: “Destroying Educational Integrity”.

Trump’s executive order laid bare why DEI must be DOA on college campuses: “Illegal DEI and DEIA policies not only violate the text and spirit of our longstanding Federal civil-rights laws, they also undermine our national unity … undermine the traditional American values of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement … (and promote a) pernicious identity-based spoils system.”

Even before the DEI death knell began to toll, defenders were complaining that “political influences” were becoming too burdensome for college faculty members to bear. A study referenced in a late 2024 article published by the academic journal Nature blamed crackdowns on DEI doctrine as the cause of declining “morale” within faculty lounges at Southern universities. Those darn conservative politicians who think federally funded schools should prioritize academic rigor are, instead, now threats to “academic freedom”.

Moore County’s local and heavily biased newspaper, The Pilot, ever the reliable mouthpiece for Leftist wrist wringing, recently published a letter submitted by a reader who laments that too many professors are being run out of southern schools or quitting academia altogether. The author fears “brain drain”. Yet, it’s unclear if an already damaged organ can be drained.

If so-called political interference is such a deterring force on southern campuses, what explains openly anti-Israel voices among faculty at Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill following the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack in Israeli soil? Less than a month after the attack killed 1,200 Israelis and others, the Duke Academics and Staff for Justice in Palestine (DASJP) was quickly formed and had launched a web site.

All of the manufactured hysteria about the assault on DEI is merely posturing. What the academic elites really worry about is Trump making good on threats to shut down federal funding spigots and the many grants that coast along on autopilot.

An author who was among the first to expose entrenched woke agendas on college campuses, Christopher Rufo, is pulling for massive reform advanced by Trump’s edicts and under the leadership of his nominee for secretary of the Department of Education, Linda McMahon (whose first act would be to terminate her own department). But Rufo acknowledges it will not be easy to derail $50 billion in federal grants that universities receive annually.

“The Trump administration must renegotiate the deal between the citizens and the universities,” Rufo writes in a February 8, 2025, post at Substack.com (and accessible on X, where he has 782,000 followers), “conditioning federal funding on three popular demands: first, that the schools contribute to solving the student-debt crisis; second, that they adhere to the standard of colorblind equality, under both federal civil rights law and the Constitution; and third, that they pursue knowledge rather than ideological activism.”

The plot became a bit thicker when the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights issued a letter on Valentine’s Day establishing a 14-day compliance deadline and issuing a clear reminder that federally funded institutions must adhere to civil rights laws.

“Under any banner (including DEI),” the letter cautions, “discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin is, has been, and will continue to be illegal.”

Has it come to this? The radical Left, always and relentlessly accusing its ideological foes of systemic racism at every turn, facing a deadline to denounce systemic racism?

What a time to be alive.

Driven to serve

By Steve Woodward

Maniacal Democrats backed by a compliant, corrupt media have made character assassination commonplace, targeting fellow Americans with defamatory smears across a decade of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Donald Trump and many in his orbit have faced baseless accusations, criminal charges and even jail time. But targeting of MAGA conservatives is not limited to the national stage.

In North Carolina, former state treasurer Dale Folwell dedicated his career as a conservative public servant to exposing reckless spending and deceptive practices in and outside of government. During eight years as treasurer, Folwell hammered at what he called the state’s healthcare cartels and their lack of transparency.

He reduced state debt by 60 percent and cut $650 million in Wall Street management fees charged to the pension plan he managed, the ninth largest in the nation. Under Folwell, that pension grew by 43 percent in eight years to $127 billion by the end of 2024.

Folwell was a highly visible official. He traveled the state continuously, a tireless steward protecting taxpayer dollars. Folwell’s choice for overnight stays was always EconoLodge.

During his final months as treasurer, Folwell was forced to defend his use of state vehicles. An investigation was launched amid claims he did not keep accurate travel logs. But earlier this week, a Wake County District Attorney found no cause to bring charges and closed the investigation. Of course, the DA issued no apology for conducting a witch hunt.

In fact, the man who never stopped looking for ways to save money – our money – was forced to reimburse the state more than $6,000 in bogus travel fees.

Democrats intended to make Folwell pay the price of a tainted reputation. They failed.

MAGA 2.0

By Steve Woodward

Corrupt media, fellow deranged Leftists (do not ever again call them Liberals, an extinct ideological species since the Age of Obama) and fake Republicans are getting off to a rough start. They were deflecting suicidal tendencies on January 6, 2025, by revisiting the “horror” and “devastation” of January 6, 2021.

In 2025, Donald Trump’s election has been certified. The margin of victory was too big to rig. Thus, Vice President Kamala Harris was obligated to stand in the chamber of the U.S. Senate and read aloud the verdict of November 5, 2024, and the symbolism was beautiful. Harris might as well have been standing in the gallows. Her political future is best symbolized by a lifeless corpse adorned in a pant suit, dangling from a rope.

Conversely, I have vivid memories of the 6 January 2021, and cherish all of them except for the bone numbing winds that gusted across the Capitol Mall that day. I was physically in Washington on 6 January 2021. (Come and get me). But patriots show up when duty calls. Always. Our nation would not exist if brave soldiers had surrendered to severe weather across the brutal years of the Revolutionary War. Yet, today, snowflake Leftists literally hide when forecasters predict … snowflakes.

Exhibit A. Here is how Josh Stein is demonstrating leadership amid the opening days of his rein as Governor of North Carolina:

“We regret to inform you that the inaugural ceremony, block party, and Executive Mansion open house originally scheduled for this Saturday and Sunday, January 11 and 12th, will be cancelled due to inclement weather and approaching winter storms across the state.

“Governor Stein and the Committee thank you for your interest in attending the events, and they were looking forward to celebrating this weekend with you all. But as with any storm, safety has to be paramount. (Emphasis added)

Democrats, as usual, have no sense of irony. They are bailing out amid a tepid forecast that might suggest wearing an overcoat even after these many months during which they’ve asked citizens of western North Carolina to be patient after incomprehensible surges of water transformed their communities into uninhabitable swamps.

Let this sink in: Newly elected Democrats Josh Stein, Rachel Hunt (Lt. Governor), and Jeff Jackson (Attorney General) are afraid to assemble in Raleigh this Saturday to join other newly elected Council of State officers (including Republicans Dave Boliek and Luke Farley) because someone might fail to navigate a small patch of ice. But they have yet to grasp, or respond to, what life is like when your home and much of the infrastructure that supports its has been decimated by a real weather event — the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in late September 2024 that will linger well into 2025 and beyond.

The ascendency of MAGA in 2025 is not only about the return of Donald Trump to the White House and his coming role as the 47th President of the United States. It is the beginning of an era of reckoning that will demand accountability among Republicans at every level of government, from the halls of power to grass roots assemblies.

Thus, as we go forth, not only will our movement inflict pain and scrutiny on Stein and his Democrat snowflakes. This also marks the beginning of a time of reckoning for our elected Republicans, and to be clear, here is the roll call that your author will ruthlessly hold to account: RINO Sen. Thom Tillis (photo nearby). Sen. Ted Budd. Rep. Richard Hudson. NC Sen. Tom McInnis. NC Rep. Neal Jackson. The North Carolina Republican Party, specifically chair Jason Simmons. The North Carolina Supreme Court. The Moore County Board of Commissioners. The Moore County Board of Education, specifically chair Robin Calcutt and vice chair Shannon Davis. The Moore County Republican Party, specifically its divisive chair and vice chair, Tom Beddow and Bill Demastus, who have alienated untold numbers of donors and volunteers across the past four years, and who soon will be unseated.

Steve Bannon said it best. No longer is it Republicans versus Democrats. It is the Global elitist Left and compliant establishment Republicans against whom we will and must wage war on behalf of MAGA populist-nationalists.

Winter is coming for those committed to transforming the United States into a Marxist empire and, also, for weak Republicans who have merely pretended to support the overdue upheaval that ensues on January 20, 2025, at one minute after 12 noon. Enjoy shivering in the icy shadows of irrelevance.

Trump ascends

By Steve Woodward

There is a Santa Claus, after all. His name is Jack Smith. Rather than jolly, he is a petulant, tormented “special counsel” who was tasked with sending Donald Trump to prison for a long time. Smith, and his enabler, Attorney General Merrick Garland, had it all figured out. Almost. They missed one detail. They never imagined Trump’s resurgence as a presidential candidate in 2024. They never thought he would win. Again.

Framing the Thanksgiving season as the start of the most wonderful time of the year is, suddenly, more than just a recitation of an old lyric. Smith has made it so by dropping, suddenly, baseless criminal cases against Trump. The highest profile was a four-count case purporting that Trump and his allies sought to “overturn” the 2020 presidential election results. An even more flimsy case also was halted — the one alleging Trump improperly retained classified documents in his Mar-a-Lago residence (though he had every right to possess them).

Smith was unapologetic even as his pirate ship sunk into the murky waters of irrelevance. “This outcome is not based on the merits or strength of the case against the defendant,” Smith insisted in a statement after the November 25, 2024, announcement. He would have us believe that Trump was doomed if not for those pesky elections results earlier this month.

This, of course, ignores more significant defeats Smith absorbed at the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court throughout the arduous process. A July 1 SCOTUS ruling was the kill shot. “The court issued its landmark opinion in Trump v. U.S., which gutted the J6 case by concluding most of the conduct cited in the indictment represented official acts protected by presidential immunity,” writes independent reporter Julie Kelly.

“Even if Trump had lost the election,” Kelly continues, “the J6 indictment would not have survived another immunity test before the Supreme Court.”

If Smith is Santa, assign head elf status to New York Judge Juan Marchan, who recently delayed indefinitely the sentencing of Trump in connection with 34 so-called felony convictions Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg manufactured last summer. Like Smith, Marchan faced the reality that the persistent “lawfare” gig is up. It’s over, folks. Trump dodged a real bullet and now has been spared this unprecedented judicial firing squad.

Our American legal system is not as fungible as those who sought to exploit it had presumed. This year we can ignore seasonal advertising campaigns to ignite our Christmas “spirit”. Instead, in this historic season, we can embrace something much more inspiring than a TV ad showcasing a Mercedes-Benz topped by a giant red bow covered by fake snow.

Look no further than the pollsters. They have pivoted from swing state prognostication on Trump vs. Harris to polls seeking to gauge the “national mood”. Even some Democrats are feeling giddy, and admitting it.

A recent CBS News/YouGov poll (November 19-22, 2024) instructs us that more than half of Americans (55%) feel happy or satisfied about Trump’s win. Even more revealing is this: Among Democrats surveyed in the same poll, 56% said they are motivated to support Trump or, at least, are not motivated either way (to support or oppose his policies). What is left unsaid is the likely conclusion that these Americans can’t imagine Trump will not deliver measurable improvements easily surpassing the Biden-Harris dumpster fire.

YouGov conducted a separate poll (November 17-19), through which we have learned that 57 percent of Americans aged 18 to 29 hold a favorable view of Trump. That is staggering optimism coming from a bracket of young people who have been educated to regret their nation’s founding and condemn its inherent racism and inequality. In fact, the further we are removed from Election Day’s verdict, the more that palpable optimism is building among the youngsters. Trump’s favorability increased by 19 points compared to YouGov’s poll posing the same question between November 9 and 12.

I encountered a young man who is part of the 18-29 demographic after he arrived in Pinehurst for Thanksgiving week. He attends an elite East Coast university where woke anti-semites have protested to demand a “free Palestine”. But none of that was on his mind when our paths crossed.

Without prompting this came out: “I’m so happy that we have a new president,” he said.

So much for college kids being swept up by a Harris-Walz wave of joy. It’s beautiful to behold. College students rejected them. Black men abandoned them. Hispanic voters will be taken for granted by Democrats no longer. Consider that in 2020 about one-third of Hispanic Catholics voted for Trump. He saw their support surge to 53% in this election, according to CNN exit polling.

A concerted effort by Ralph Reed and his Faith and Freedom Coalition to inspire Christian voters to cast ballots for Trump — a new survey released earlier this year revealed that 51% of “people of faith” planned to sit out the election (decline to vote) — delivered results, too.

From ReligiousNews.com: Exit poll data from CNN and other news outlets found that 72% of white Protestants and 61% of white Catholics said they voted for Trump. Among white voters, 81% of those identified as born-again or evangelical supported Trump, up from 76% in 2020.

While cable TV’s arrogant chattering class panics, as its ratings and relevance plunge toward an abyss, cultural commentator Bill Maher suggests acknowledging that the American people brutally rejected the narrative that MSNBC and CNN have repeated, first to protect a mentally declining Joe Biden, and ultimately to help people decipher Harris-Walz “messaging”.

“(Trump) is not who I would choose to administer the colonic, but it’s not like the bureaucracy isn’t bloated,” Maher said. “It’s not like the debt isn’t $36 trillion. It’s not like there aren’t thousands of regulations that do stop people from living lives that they could live better and don’t do anything. There is woke in the military. Whatever they’re going after … I’m not going to pre-hate anything.”

The pre-hating of Trump’s cabinet appointees already is under way. Matt Gaetz for attorney general, as it turns out, was pre-hated by Republicans who remain deeply skeptical of the MAGA movement (at their peril) even more than the media knives that were out for Gaetz. Don’t be surprised if the next act in this saga is a Gaetz boomerang that destroys these Swamp creatures, including South Dakota Sen. John Thune — the new Republican majority leader — who was fine with Merrick Garland for AG in 2021 but would not stomach Gaetz. (Thune has an ally, North Carolina RINO Sen. Thom Tillis).

Eventually, Trump will have his cabinet of disrupters and change agents, and the Leviathan will be tamed. The ascension of MAGA will not be deterred as it was during the first Trump administration. But even more glorious to behold will be the comeuppance imposed on the Jack Smiths, the Braggs, the Merchans, and the frothing D.C. judges who have maniacally jailed American citizens who entered the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, to defend what our founders and American soldiers died for.

As legal scholar Mike Davis observes, the Conspiracy Against Rights clause of the federal code can (must) be used to charge these judges with felonies for violating the Constitutional rights of Americans.

“These judges are culpable,” Davis said during a November 25, 2024, appear on Steve Bannon’s War Room program.

If there is a thread of justice left in this world, these January 6 judges soon will occupy the same cells vacated after Trump pardons the patriots who sat in them and were vilified because they refused to back down in the face of a massive fraud plot in 2020. They arrived at the U.S. Capitol with a viable request: Delay certification and audit the small number of states in which massive shifts in vote totals occurred between the evening of November 3, 2020, and the following morning after which, in the case of Pennsylvania, poll workers were sent home in large numbers.

Meanwhile, the snowflakes at The Atlantic are melting down and turning on their own, placing blame for Jack Smith’s demise on AG Garland, owed to his habit of being “obsessive about proceduralism” (following the rules) because this “attention to detail meant the system failed to do the basic work of holding (Trump) accountable (for) … serious crimes.”

But what the fierce defenders of Trump Derangement Syndrome never will understand is that the 2024 election outcome never was about these sham lawsuits and court cases. They occupy a smoldering pile of discarded ploys and narratives also littered by masks, social distancing and needles that dispensed dangerous mRNA serums.

Playwright David Mamet seizes on why voters rejected all of it and embraced Trump’s MAGA revolution. He expresses it beautifully.

“The horror of the past four years—the appeasement of terror, the slavish support of our enemies, the abandonment of the state of Israel, the assaults on free speech—seemed to me the descent into chaos which has been the end of every world power,” Mamet wrote in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed.

“Rome, Greece, Nineveh and Tyre, Babylon, Nazi Germany—all were eventually returned to dust. … The Old Testament is a record of decline of those civilizations which fall away from God; and promises that a return to his precepts will restore his grace. We know that one day America, as all things, will go one with Nineveh and Tyre. But not today.”

Not in our time. America’s comeback begins now. See ya, Kamala. Good luck, Jack Smith.

Rogan’s heroes

“It may be that this present system, with no modifications and no experiments, can survive. Perhaps the money-making machine has some kind of built-in perpetual motion, but I do not think so. To a very considerable extent, the media of mass communications in a given country reflects the political, economic and social climate in which it grows and flourishes. That is the reason our system differs from the British and the French, and also from the Russian and the Chinese. We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacent. We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. And our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.” — Edward R. Murrow, October 15, 1958, speaking to the Radio and Television News Association’s annual convention

By Steve Woodward

Distilled to its essence, CBS correspondent Edward R. Murrow’s speech delivered to broadcasting colleagues 66 years ago warned that television, then in its infancy, already had begun to betray its audiences and imperil its long-term viability. There is no one even remotely similar to Murrow remaining in the 21st century corporate media. Murrow cared about truth, substance and an informed population, all now obsolete.

Murrow also said this during his remarks in 1958 in Chicago: “I have decided to express my concern about what I believe to be happening to radio and television. … I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.”

The Democrat Party’s precipitous march to the ideological Left likely began long before Murrow’s speech, around the time Woodrow Wilson ascended to the U.S. presidency in 1912 espousing “progressivism”. It ebbed and flowed in the decades ahead, revived by Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society.

But the Democrats soon entered a period of near extinction in presidential politics, putting forth presidential aspirants named George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis. Carter was the only one who actually made it to the Oval Office as president but his gain was the Democrat’s loss. His ineptitude assured Carter will be remembered among the most failed presidents.

Then, in 1992, along came William Jefferson Clinton, the youthful but obscure governor of Arkansas. It is notable that his ascension to the presidency coincided with the first cracks in network television’s absolute information dominance. Cable TV’s CNN cemented its legitimacy during riveting coverage of Operation Desert Storm in 1991. The internet was coming into its own with 10 web sites up and running (including the Raleigh News & Observer’s Nando.net, one of the first digital platforms adopted by a newspaper). There would be nearly 3,000 functional web sites by 1995. And a former disc jockey named Rush Limbaugh was conducting an experiment that would become a genre — conservative talk radio, of which he would be king for 30 years.

Deep beneath the surface, something else was happening that would influence and corrupt mainstream media in ways Murrow could not have foreseen. Public schools and institutions of higher education pulled away the veil. Educators devolved into indoctrinators committed to diminishing American exceptionalism, severing the connective tissue of Judeo-Christian values that defined its citizens, and challenging every societal boundary by seeking to normalize transgenderism, relativism (the end of delineating between right and wrong) and climate-change hysteria. Despite progress toward diminishing racial inequality made by the civil rights movement, the mantra among educators increasingly was moving toward dismissing the U.S. as irredeemably and systemically racist to its core.

This was the precursor of a cultural shift across mass media. Newsrooms and television studios gradually became infested by graduates of these institutions, today’s editors, producers and reporters who view journalism through an activist lens. As the Democrats moved further Left, the media went with them, no longer inspired by the objective nobility of their journalistic forefathers — Murrow, Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley, John Chancellor and Charles Kuralt, et al.

The election of Barack Hussein Obama in 2008 opened the floodgates of a newly emboldened state-run media, not beholden to scrutinizing the powerful but more prone than ever to fawning over Obama’s “fundamental transformation” of America and enabling those in his orbit to increase their power.

The zenith of Obama’s iron boot control over a compliant and corrupt media came amid the 2012 election cycle during a debate between Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, aka, the Candy Crowley debate. The media had spent weeks running interference for the Obama-Hillary Clinton debacle in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012, when four Americans died amid a terror attack on the U.S. embassy. During an October debate moderated by CNN’s Crowley, Romney seized on the Obama administration’s refusal to acknowledge the coordinated assault as an act of terror. Crowley jumped to Obama’s defense on live television. “(Obama) did call it an act of terror,” she said. (In reality, Obama and Clinton shamelessly blamed the attack on a viral internet video beyond their control).

That debate, artfully choreographed by CNN, enabled Obama to move the race from a dead heat to a decisive victory (332 electoral votes to Romney’s 206) despite his tepid approval rating (46%), high unemployment (8.3%) and growing contempt toward ObamaCare. Of course to have used these realities against Obama would have been dismissed as “racist”, which is what the Left often said about Limbaugh and his millions of loyal listeners.

It is sadly ironic that Limbaugh passed away just as alternative media was beginning to take root in the aftermath of Trump’s 2016 dismantling of Hillary Clinton’s coronation. Trump became the first president to recognize the utility of social media, going after his adversaries and corrupt media outlets with his so-called “mean tweets” using Twitter (before he was blackballed by the tech elites).

But this alternate media landscape was coming rapidly to the fore as critical thinkers (Conservatives) watched Trump Derangement Syndrome transform The Atlantic magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC and, to a lesser degree, Fox News, into naked appendages of the Left. The corner was turned during pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates, and the ascension of Joe Biden to the White House by precise leveraging of COVID hysteria.

The mainstream media overlords were dismissive of Steve Bannon’s War Room, and the Joe Rogans, Dinesh D’Souzas, Charlie Kirks, Sebastian Gorkas and Dan Bonginos expanding audience across the live streaming spectrum. By the time Trump launched his bid for re-election, millions of MAGA faithful were tuning into Newsmax, the Real America’s Voice network, Rumble and, more recently, the Tucker Carlson Network, where the likes of Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sat down for lengthy, granular interviews.

Trump’s campaign recognized the influence of alternative outlets, most notably Rogan’s vast audience. A three-hour interview with Rogan attracted a seismic 45 million views on You Tube, and 25 millions across Spotify and other platforms (The Wall Street Journal, November 8, 2024). Trump also did 90 minutes of live-streamed chat with a video gamer phenom named Adin Ross (at the behest of Trump’s teen son, Barron). Across all of 2024, Trump was a guest on 20 podcasts, the Journal reports. (Kamala Harris dodged Rogan altogether).

The net effect of this dramatic shift raises a question future Republican presidential candidates must ask: Why would I consent to a network controlled, prime time television debate with a Democrat ever again? Answer: You wouldn’t. You shouldn’t. Consider this stunning data point. The Journal, citing the Associated Press VoteCast survey, notes that Trump got the support of 56% of male voters ages 18 to 29. Where do these youngsters go for news and analysis? TikTok and podcasts. Period.

The TV networks are bleeding viewers and that erosion was bad news for the Harris-Biden bid for reelection. CNN’s prime time lineup does not even reach one million households (it has fallen to 792,000), and its viewers’ median age is 69. MSNBC’s 1.3 million prime time household audience has a median age of 70. These folks have likely never have heard of Rogan, Kirk and their media peers.

The Journal’s Kimberley Strassel observes that the media’s fierce defense of the Left backfired this time because “a narrative full of fantasy enabled Democrats to live in a world disconnected from the mood and worries of the country”, which were laser focused on the economy, illegal immigration and the absurdity of men competing in women’s sports.

In the aftermath of Trump’s resounding comeback win on November 5, there is something else to celebrate (and relish). Think about it. The smug network bastards who despise 80 million-plus Americans who voted for Trump/MAGA — Jake Tapper, Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, Anderson Cooper, Margaret Brennan and David Muir, along with many others — are hurtling toward complete irrelevance. It’s over.

Morrow foresaw this moment coming.

“This instrument (television) can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire,” he said in 1958. “But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it’s nothing but wires and lights in a box.”