{"id":269,"date":"2024-11-10T14:55:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T14:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=269"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:51:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:51:36","slug":"peggy-noonan-no-fan-of-trump-gets-lots-right-in-her-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Peggy Noonan – no fan of Trump – gets lots right in her column"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Peggy<\/a><\/p>\n

A few paragraphs excerpted below the link. I especially like the quote from Liz Cheney at the end, who I happen to admire.<\/p>\n

A Triumph for Trump\u2019s Republicans<\/a><\/p>\n

It is worth being moved that in our huge, restive, cynical and yearning nation we peacefully, and with complete public acceptance of the outcome, made a dramatic national judgment this week. Just about every adult citizen took part and took it seriously. All together they produced something we needed: a clear outcome, one delivered without charges of large-scale chicanery or even small-scale so far as we know. There will be a peaceful transfer of power. …<\/p>\n

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What did it all mean? The people did what they wished. They revolted. They looked at the past four years of Washington and said no. They said \u201cGoodbye to all that,\u201d to the years 2020-24\u2014to the pandemic, to the pain and damage of that era, which affected every part of our lives. That is the real turning of the page I think, from a time they hated that made them view their government as bullying and not that bright. In terms of issues it was illegal immigration, inflation and a rejection of the deterioration all around them\u2014of drugstores locking up the shampoo and the beleaguered Walgreens employee late with the key to the cabinet and in a bad mood because he\u2019s afraid of thieves and crazy people and it\u2019s wearing him down. It was the woke regime, which people have come to experience as an invading force in their lives. It was Afghanistan, and other wars, and the sense Washington isn\u2019t getting foreign policy right and perhaps barely thinking about it. They just seem to be staggering through each day. The country\u2019s been waiting for years to hear from its leaders: What are <\/em>America\u2019s interests?<\/p>\n

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In September, pondering the race, I wrote<\/a>: \u201cThis will be a path election, not a person election.\u201d Once we chose a shining John F. Kennedy, who would choose the path. You chose dazzling Ronald Reagan, and he\u2019d cut a path through the forest. This year I felt people would be choosing a path, not a person. \u201cAnd I\u2019m not sure they want to go down the Blue Path any deeper than they already have.\u201d<\/p>\n

I think that\u2019s what happened. Tens of millions of people who didn\u2019t like Donald Trump voted for the path he promised.<\/p>\n

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What are <\/em>the Democrats? What\u2019s that party for? When I was a kid they were the party of the working man, the little guy. That\u2019s the Trumpian GOP now. When I was a young woman they were the antiwar party. That\u2019s the Trumpian GOP. The party of generous spending? The Trumpian party says hold my beer. What belief do the Democrats hold that distinguishes them? LGBTQ, woke, gender theory, teachers unions, higher taxes? Why not throw in cholera and chlamydia?<\/p>\n

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As for me, I don\u2019t like the SOB, I think him a bad man who\u2019ll cause and bungle crises almost from day one, but he\u2019ll be the American president, and we all deserve grace. … As someone once said, the real story of American life is where you stand and the price you\u2019ll pay to stand there.<\/p>\n

I like what Liz Cheney tweeted Wednesday: \u201cOur nation\u2019s democratic system functioned last night and we have a new President-elect. All Americans are bound, whether we like the outcome or not, to accept the results.\u201d We also have a responsibility as members of \u201cthe greatest nation on earth\u201d to \u201csupport and defend our Constitution, preserve the rule of law, and ensure that our institutions hold over these coming four years.\u201d She singled out the courts, the press, \u201cand those serving in our federal, state and local governments\u201d to be \u201cthe guardrails of democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just so. God bless America. Onward into the mess and clamor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few paragraphs excerpted below the link. I especially like the quote from Liz Cheney at the end, who I happen to admire. A Triumph for Trump\u2019s Republicans It is worth being moved that in our huge, restive, cynical and yearning nation we peacefully, and with complete public acceptance of the outcome, made a dramatic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7061,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/7061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}