Back during the 1984 US Presidential Election the Ronald Reagan campaign, that eventually led to the second Reagan Administration, put out an advertisement extolling the economic and other achievements of the first Reagan Administration. The ad reminded voters of the dire economic and social problems that had beset the Democrat administration of Jimmy Carter and contrasted it with the vastly improved economic situation that many American experienced following Mr Reagan’s first term in office.

Having heard from various news sources that Mr Donald Trump has almost certainly been elected as President of the United States, the phrase ‘it’s morning again in America’ suddenly popped into my mind. This is because it is a new and hopefully better morning for my American friends now that Mr Trump has returned to the office of President. .

For the last few years, since the 2020 Presidential Election I’ve sat on my rainswept north eastern European island and looked on in horror at what was happening in the United States. I saw American politics taken over by the very worst of what I would call the middle class and upper class left and their obsessions with globalism, extreme Greenism, gender identity, open borders, open hostility to those with whom the left disagrees, racial divisiveness and attacks on freedom of speech and freedom in general. I don’t think that the government that will soon be relinquishing power at the Inauguration Day in January 2025 has been that good for ordinary Americans and won’t be all that missed. The Democrats ruled since 2020 like monarchs of all they surveyed and although they were elected by the people, they turned out not to care much for the American people at all. Their economic policies failed dismally and Americans are in an awful place right now with regards to inflation. It’s not Weimar levels of course but it has seriously hurt ordinary Americans.

Like Monarchs the Democrats imposed their ideas and their obsessions from on high with no sense of any awareness or concern about whether these policies were right or wrong or how these policies impacted on ordinary Americans. For example the Democrats were obsessed about such things as men being allowed to declare themselves to be women and therefore gain access to in women’s changing rooms, sports or other sex specific services, but they didn’t give a toss about the women who were impacted by this policy.

Americans faced a very stark choice at this election. That choice was to stick with the Democrats and their imperious, ‘you’ll eat the gruel and like it’, attitude to the American people or give their vote to a much maligned man whose previous administration at least had a track record of sensible foreign policy, economic competence and understanding that women do not have penises.

This was,as someone else said recently prior to US election day, clearly an election between two very well defined political sides, it was, the commenter said, a contest ‘between the They/Thems and You’. In other words a vote for the Democrats was a vote for the obsessions of a tiny lot of elitists whereas a vote for the Republicans was a vote to address the very great concerns of ordinary American citizens.

It is indeed morning again in America and a much brighter one in my opinion than it might have been.