A REVOLUTION OF COMMON SENSE

A hagiographic celebration of “Trump 2.0.”

CNN commentator and sometime political operative Jennings allows that Donald Trump has his rough edges, but he’s quick to explain them away: “We didn’t hire a barbarian to sing soprano in the choir; we hired him to beat back the savages.” The savages, naturally, aren’t the folks who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, the ones whom Trump pardoned in the first days of his second term. No, you won’t hear about January 6 here, aside from a somewhat sheepish allowance that Trump suffered a tad, politically, before regaining his massive popularity (numbers underplayed, of course, by a villainous mainstream media). The savages in question are the putative enemies of Western civilization, the radical leftists who demand that boys be allowed to play girls’ sports and that people be treated equally. Borrowing a term from Trump himself, Jennings deems this “common sense,” though one has to wonder where lies the common sense in that pardon, among other recent moments. For Jennings, though, Trump seemingly can do no wrong: He’s saving the country by, for instance, “renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America and changing Denali back to Mount McKinley,” matters that, he suggests, Americans care deeply about. (Now, about the cost of those eggs…) He’s bought into every narrative: The president has plenary power (“the White House is the boss of every federal employee”), Trump is a master of comedy (as when, for instance, he quipped that “nobody has ever heard of” the African nation of Lesotho), and all Democrats are required to believe “that MS-13 gang members living in the US illegally must be protected at all costs” or risk being canceled. Oh, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is “affable and knowledgeable, far beyond the caricature painted of him in the mainstream press.”

A tedious exercise in bending the knee.