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In an op-ed posted to Fox News on Saturday, former Mumford & Sons guitarist Winston Marshall put Trump's historic win into perspective -- including with a bit of humor.
The White House, the Senate, the House, the popular vote, a state legislative and mayoral majority, all on top of the Supreme Court majority... George Clooney retiring from politics and late-night TV hosts like Jimmy Kimmel literally crying on television. It's all too good to be true. //
And already, America has a spring back in her step. Ebullience fills the air. Hope rushes its veins. The land of freedom has embraced those qualities that made it great -- aspiration, entrepreneurship, responsibility. The nation’s eyes are fixed upwards once again. Up to Mars. Up to God. What a pleasure it was to witness history being made, and to see our transatlantic cousins back on their feet. //
Alas, this morning I have walked into a parallel universe. Beneath the heavy clouds of Heathrow, I touched down back in Blighty. You see, my country, Britain, today is what America would be if Kamala had won.
Violent criminals released from prison and replaced by Tweeters and Facebook meme creators. Rioters, let alone if they are a protected minority but given the heavy hand if they are indigenous working classes. Crippling taxes against campaign promises.
Full steam into Net Zero [climate] oblivion while protesting farmers roar tractors down Whitehall. And the hapless relinquishing of the Chagos Islands suggests Starmer’s heart is set on making British self-flagellation as public as possible.
All these decisions make sense if one understands the self-hating anti-human globalist ideology behind them.
Braverman's letter was three things. It was a vocal defense of her policies and the course she had taken; it was a direct attack on the failed leadership of Sunak; and it set her up as a potential replacement for Sunak as the leader of the Conservative Party. In her scathing letter, she accused him of failed leadership at all levels. She said his leadership was lacking in stemming the tide of illegal immigrants to Britain because he was afraid of offending "polite opinion." //
"Worse than this, your magical thinking - believing that you can will your way through this without upsetting polite opinion - has meant you have failed to prepare any sort of credible Plan B." //
The letter was deserved and a clear signal to Sunak that should the Conservatives retain power after the next election, he will not be the Prime Minister, but he may very well have just fired who will be.