The other day, a former student wrote me regarding post-Election Day events.
“I just feel like a tide has shifted and that it feels more like the Reagan ’80s than at any point in my life,” he marveled.
I agree.
It’s not just that Donald Trump is the once and future president, while Kamala Harris has already shuffled off to the Mike Dukakis Home for Embarrassingly Failed Democratic Candidates, where she can share box wine and catty remarks with Hillary Clinton.
It’s that the entire energy of the nation, and maybe the world, has changed overnight.
From the Daniel Penny exoneration, to the reopening of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris before all the leaders of the West — including Donald Trump, but notably excluding Joe Biden — to the triumphant flights of Starship and a sudden shift in relations with previously difficult neighbor countries like Mexico and Canada, these last few weeks have felt like one big shout of “We’re back, baby!”
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