We should be thankful that the future is in Trump’s hands — and not Harris’ By Douglas Murray
This Thanksgiving we got a reminder of what might-have-been. And what we have been unburdened by.
We should be truly grateful.
For this was the week in which Kamala Harris broke her post-election silence. And I think anyone who saw it can agree: the vice president is not doing well.
In an almost 10-minute-long word salad, the former presidential candidate told her supporters such things as: “You have the same power that you did before November 5, and you have the same purpose that you did. And you have the same ability to engage and inspire, so don’t ever let anybody or any circumstance take your power from you.”
The only thing that made Harris’ message different from a late-night conversation with a very drunk friend was that at no point did Harris actually say “I love you guys” and then burst out weeping.
But it was a reminder of how close this country came to a decline that other countries are experiencing.
Back in my native Britain this past summer the public elected a Labour government that, like Kamala, doesn’t seem to have any idea of what it is doing. Or what it could do.
They are currently working out how to kill off the citizenry with euthanasia. But as for plans to grow the economy, secure the borders or improve living standards? Nope. Not an idea in sight.
Choosing well
By contrast, President-elect Donald Trump has already surrounded himself with a remarkable group of people who are at the forefront of the issues of our time.
Some of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ideas may be a bit cranky. But nobody could say he isn’t onto something with his wish to make it easier for Americans to eat healthily.
He isn’t wrong when he highlights the billions spent by the fast food and sugary drinks industries to make Americans less healthy than they should be.
If RFK Jr. can be directed in these directions, there is a lot of good he could do.
It is the same with appointment after appointment. In 2020 the man nominated to head the National Institutes of Health — Jay Bhattacharya — was smeared and belittled by much of the media as well as members of the church of Anthony Fauci.
They dismissed the Stanford professor as a “fringe epidemiologist.” In fact Bhattacharya was more correct on lockdowns, mask mandates and more than any of the people who pretended that they were “mainstream.”
And if there was another pandemic, I would want Bhattacharya to be in charge over almost anyone else.
Then, of course, there is the Elon effect. Thanks to the prominence of the “first buddy” in the Trump team, other tech geniuses are also suddenly flocking to Mar-a-Lago. Mark Zuckerberg joined Trump for dinner this week.
Which is an interesting change in relations from the time that the onetime Democrat megadonor was at public loggerheads with the president. A spokesperson for Meta said in a statement this week: “It’s an important time for the future of American innovation.”
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