The Day After Tomorrow
A prediction on the presidential election.
You’ve trusted his plan for this long. Now, it is his turn to execute the vision.
I have never been one for political predictions. In fact, it seems as if every time I predict anything remotely related to an election, the complete opposite happens. Hopefully, I am not about to jinx this upcoming election then, but rather, we will wake up on the morning of Wednesday, November 6, 2024, with Donald Trump elected as the 47th president of the United States.
As a young student, I cannot offer you a rich insight into polling or early voting numbers. However, I can tell you why I believe Trump is going to win. When Trump was first elected in 2016, I was twelve years old. I remember sitting in my seventh grade classroom as my social studies teacher joyfully announced her excitement that “Mr. Trump was elected president.”
Trump was my first exposure to politics. Sure, I was born during Bush’s administration and I vaguely remember Obama's inauguration. However, none of these events meant anything to me. I was too young. My first political exposure was running down the stairs the morning after the 2016 election to the “TODAY Show” opening loudly declaring that Trump had won the election. As I grew up, this America First worldview is what shaped my political upbringing. I have known no different. It is with this in mind that I tell why Trump will win.
Tomorrow evening, the 2016 coalition that propelled Trump to victory will emerge again. I say this not with any poll or data set in mind, but with an incredible belief in the imagination and soul of the American people. In 2016, Michael Anton wrote of the “Flight 93 Election,” declaring that if the American people had any virtue left within them, they would open the doors of the White House to Trump.
The stakes are the same in this election, but they differ in that they are much greater (from criminal convictions to assassination attempts). Prior to Trump’s first election, elections did not convey the same sense of urgency as they do now. One administration gave way to another with largely the same policies staying in place. Today, there is existential urgency to Trump’s success. His success is our victory. This is a realization that the youth, a driving force behind his movement, recognize the seriousness of the problems our country faces, contra the “boomers.”
This time, we are also prepared to fight the left on their own terms. In 2016, we stormed the cockpit. We did land the plane. It was only after landing that we discovered that forces within the government itself would seek to undermine the people’s president. Any criticism of his presidency or any issues that have defined this campaign season are not relevant. This is not a “policy” election. It is a fight for what it means to be an American.
Trump’s political program is simple: realign trade, immigration, and war in the interests of the American people. This means tariffs and reindustrialization, restricting legal immigration and ending illegal immigration, and a return to realism and restraint in foreign policy. These commonsense proposals are only viewed as revolutionary to the left because they cannot fathom that the American people know what is in their own best interest. That is, the American people want to return to their nationalist political origins, to throw off their current political elite, and usher in a new regime untethered to liberal dogma. This vision is still possible.
If Trump does not win, it is hard to imagine there is a bright future for our country going forward. Trumpism begins and ends with Trump, after all; he is one of the greatest presidents in American history for his advocacy on behalf of the American people alone. It is because of this belief in the American people that everything is dependent upon Trump tomorrow. The men and women who built this country from the sweat of their brow will take back their country and their rightful inheritance — the fruits of their nation’s labor and, without trying to sound trite, the real blessings of liberty.
That is the only insight I can offer, that of a young student who believes, maybe too naively, in his fellow countryman. In January, The American Postliberal declared that Trump will be Triumphant. Tomorrow, that vision will be recognized and we, the American people, will be able to live in the peace, prosperity, and sovereignty of our home once again. While the liberal regime will still be omnipresent and fight Trump at every turn, we must take one last leap and propel our president to the Oval Office.
If we do “lose” tomorrow, it is important to not fret. Historical connotations aside, Virgil understood in the Aeneid that just because we are conquered and one regime rules us now, that does not mean their rule will be forever:
There was an ancient city, Carthage … rich in wealth, and very savage in pursuit of war. They say Juno loved this one land above all others … her weapons and her chariot, even then the goddess worked at, and cherished, the idea that it should have supremacy over the nations, if only the fates allowed. Yet she’d heard of offspring, derived from Trojan blood, that would one day overthrow the Tyrian stronghold: that from them a people would come, wide-ruling, and proud in war, to Libya’s ruin: so the Fates ordained.
This is merely an afterthought, however. Their rule ends tomorrow. Now is the time to focus, and if you have not done so already, vote. Trump will be Triumphant.