by J.B. Shurk, American Thinker:
End-of-year wrap-ups take three forms: autopsy, obituary, or eulogy. If the year is particularly bad, it is dissected like a corpse and forgotten in a morgue freezer. If it had its moments, a few biographical flourishes are relived. And, occasionally, a year is filled with enough memorable events to deserve a grand send-off.
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None of these traditional forms do 2025 justice. Why? Because this year has been something much greater than twelve calendar months. It is the beginning of real change. What kind of change will come is still uncertain, but people know that something significant is happening. Reality as we know it is shifting in a new direction.
President Trump was not supposed to return to the White House. The political Establishment and corporate news media flooded his first term with fake scandals, rigged the 2020 election with fraudulent mail-in ballots, put him and his supporters in legal jeopardy, and stirred up enough venomous leftist outrage to incite at least two attempts on his life. When Trump became president-elect once again last year, there was an almost tangible sense of frustration within the corridors of American power and an almost audible lament: How did this happen again?
Among President Trump’s many accomplishments, his greatest has surely been his ability to pull back the propaganda press’s filtered news curtain to expose as inherently corrupt both the political Uniparty (in which Republicans and Democrats conspire for mutual gain while pretending to fight in front of the American people) and the entrenched federal bureaucracy that sees itself as the actual permanent government of the United States.
When Trump arrived in Washington in 2017, both political parties and the whole federal government were aligned against him. Lawmakers worked to scuttle his efforts to protect America’s borders. Bureaucrats undermined his official policies and sabotaged his administration from within. Intelligence officials inside the CIA and FBI plotted to remove President Trump from office by framing him as a Russian spy. After the rigged 2020 election and the collective efforts of the DOJ, Congress, the courts, and the press to transform the three-hour-long Capitol trespass on January 6, 2021 — in which unarmed Americans, including veterans and retirees, mostly strolled through the halls of Congress as smiling tourists — into a “violent insurrection” with the made-up goal of “overthrowing” the U.S. government, D.C.’s vampiric Deep State thought that it had dispensed with Trump for good.
The government vampire was wrong. Not only did Trump weather multi-pronged legal storms after his departure from office in 2021, but also his supporters endured four years of government-orchestrated censorship, disparagement, harassment, malicious prosecution, and threats to their well-being.
For several years, Establishment Republicans and Democrats thought they had succeeded in destroying Donald Trump, splintering his MAGA movement, and scattering his vision for America’s future to the wind. RINO-extraordinaire Paul Ryan openly laughed about the prospect of Trump’s electoral chances in 2024 and spurned Trump’s enduring impact on the Republican Party. The political ruling class was certain that MAGA Americans could be shamed into silence and that primary voters would turn their backs on Donald Trump.
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