The pampered class is whining hysterically about Trump calling Ilhan Omar and her 80,000 Somalis in Minnesota “garbage.” Remember when Joe Biden called Trump and his supporters “garbage?” Well, that was different, of course, because … reasons. Hitler. Fascist. Russia collusion. January 6. Argh!
Given the extraordinary accomplishments of Trump in the first 10 months of his second term, I find it remarkable that the anti-Trump hysteria has not ended. If anything, the volume has been notched up to 11. But here’s a prediction for the time capsule. In the fullness of time, which I reckon will be sometime in J.D. Vance’s first term, Trump will—gradually at first—come to be seen as what he in fact is: one of the greatest presidents in America’s quarter millennium, a great man of history, in fact, right up there with number 1, number 16, Ronald Reagan, and (I grudgingly admit) FDR.
I wrote something about this elsewhere around the time Trump was sworn in for the second time this past January, and I thought I would dust off that column for you now.
The fact is that Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) would have been impressed by Donald Trump. The author of On Heroes and Hero-Worship (1841) thought that history organized itself around great men the way that iron filings form patterns in a magnetic field.
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