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Thank you, Roger, for recognizing the error of your ways in criticizing Brett Baier before his interview. Your criticism had me worried, and I thought about it several times during the interview, wondering if you were seeing the same interview I was.

Clearly you were.

Harris will still get at least 45% of the vote, proving once again the prescience of P.T. Barnum's comment about suckers being born every minute. And a large part of that 45% will march in the streets (without the pink hats this time) and shriek and tell the NYTimes this is the end of civilization as we know it and the Constitution will be shredded. That's what they'll say, and they'll be wrong.

But Trump will have his hands full. I am hopeful he will clean out the top level of the Executive Branch completely and quickly, instead of leaving people like Vindman in the NSC. I am also hopeful he will stop telling us how badly he's been treated and set about the real job of preventing war in the ME, in Ukraine, and in the western Pacific.

I am hopeful he will name a new director of the FBI with the mandate of reining that bureau in. I hope too that a new Attorney General will drop all the charges against him and that Trump will put that in the rearview mirror -- not talk about retribution. I hope that a new Secretary of Defense can clean out all the virtue signaling in the DOD and get our military back to defending our borders. I hope that a new Secretary of State can convince our allies to establish priorities other than fighting climate change for the next decade. And I sincerely hope that a new Homeland Security chief can make our borders real again, not just a revolving door for everyone everywhere who wants to take advantage of an overly generous Uncle Sam.

All of that might be too much to hope for, but in anticipation of a new Trump administration, I am going to start out with that on my "hope for" list.

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sean anderson's avatar

Obama’s grand plan to serve a third and fourth term meant he could only have an idiot for a sock puppet but this plan has backfired on him.

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