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   Just as fate brought Donald Trump improbably back to the presidency, there   
   is cosmic irony in the last-minute change of venue for his swearing-in   
   today.   
      
   The polar vortex that brought snow and arctic temperatures to Washington   
   meant the official moment of Trump’s comeback triumph had to be moved into   
   the Capitol Rotunda, the very scene of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot that   
   Democrats and the media catastrophized to try to destroy him and his   
   America First populist nationalist movement.   
      
   Who would have thought back then that Trump would be taking the oath of   
   office in the same sacred place that Democrat Machiavelli Nancy Pelosi   
   used and abused for her devious political games?   
      
   She and Joe Biden lied that cops were killed that day, that Trump   
   supporters spread excrement on the walls, that the riot was an   
   insurrection and a terrorist attack worse even than 9/11.   
      
   More than 1,500 Trump supporters caught up in the riot have been arrested   
   and hundreds have been sentenced to years in jail for offenses that would   
   have seen most New York thugs let off with a slap on the wrist. Former   
   Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in jail even   
   though he wasn’t in the capital during the riot.   
      
   Symbolic   
   But democracy won. The will of the people has brought Trump back to the   
   symbolic beating heart of our democracy to be sworn in for a second time.   
      
   The ceremony will be an exorcism of the malevolence that drove the   
   attempts to destroy him with lawfare, censorship and assassins.   
      
   The arctic chill provides a cathartic cleansing before the economic   
   sunshine promised in the “golden era” of Trump.   
      
   “We won!” was Trump’s opening line as he took to the stage Sunday night at   
   Washington’s Capital One Arena packed to the rafters with rapturous MAGA   
   fans, some of whom had waited for seven hours in the cold and rain to get   
   in.   
      
   “What a good feeling. We like winning, don’t we? . . . And we’re not going   
   to stop winning . . . We’re going to win like never before,” he said.   
   “Tomorrow at noon, the curtain closes on four long years of American   
   decline and we begin a brand new day of American strength and prosperity,   
   dignity and pride.”   
      
   Trump added, “For the past nine years, you and I fought side by side   
   against the most sinister and corrupt forces on earth. And in our   
   magnificent victory on November 5th, you showed them once and for all that   
   this nation does not belong to them. This nation belongs to you.”   
      
   He promised to work with “historic speed to fix every crisis,” signing 200   
   executive actions day one to close the border, unleash energy prosperity,   
   eliminate DEI, withdraw from the Paris climate accord, dismantle the   
   “bloated” bureaucratic state and reverse Biden’s destructive executive   
   orders.   
      
   “By sunset tomorrow the invasion of our borders will have come to the halt   
   and the illegal border trespassers one way or another will be on their way   
   back home,” he said.   
      
   He also promised within days to release the records on the assassinations   
   of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin   
   Luther King, Jr. There was added symbolism in that his inauguration fell   
   on MLK Day, and his election win was driven in part by a historic break of   
   black men away from the Democratic Party.   
      
   He also vowed to roll back “the destructive and divisive Diversity and   
   Inclusion [and] return the country to the merit system . . . which is what   
   made us great in the first place.”   
      
   ‘Very happy’   
   Finally, in an emphatic reversal of the Insurrection Hoax, the blood libel   
   against Trump supporters, he will pardon the J6 defendants who have been   
   treated so poorly.   
      
   “You will be very happy with my decision on the Jan. 6th hostages,” he   
   said. “Very happy. I think you’ll be very, very happy.”   
      
   There are a lot of very, very happy people in Washington this week as the   
   Bidens slink out the door holding bitter grudges against those in the   
   party he feel betrayed him.   
      
   (The tit-for-tat with Pelosi has wound up with Pelosi’s daughter Alexandra   
   slamming former First Lady Jill Biden as “Lady McBiden” and advising her   
   to “put on my big girl pants, play the long game and think about my   
   husband’s legacy,” according to Politico. “There aren’t that many people   
   left in America who have something nice to say about Joe Biden.”)   
      
   MAGA has taken over the nation’s capital.   
      
    Hardy Trump patriots braving the bone-chilling wind can be seen   
   everywhere carrying American flags, proudly wearing MAGA hats, or driving   
   pickup trucks festooned with Trump decals and slogans like “Cleaning up   
   four years of crap.”   
      
   What a difference eight years makes. In 2017, Donald Trump came to a very   
   different Washington, DC to be inaugurated as the 45th president, only to   
   be ostracized and sabotaged, impeached and reviled.   
      
   Looking forward   
   But today, after four years of Biden, Trumpism is cool. NFL players do the   
   Trump dance on the sidelines, Snoop Dogg is playing at the inauguration,   
   TikTok is back, and more than two-thirds of young Americans aged 18 to 29   
   year feel “optimistic about the next four years with Donald Trump as   
   president,” according to a new CBS poll.   
      
   Trump has won the grudging respect of even his most ardent critics, with   
   New York Times columnist David Brooks calling him “the most consequential   
   American politician since Ronald Reagan,” and comedian Dave Chappelle   
   wishing him well on SNL.   
      
   You can almost hear the collective sigh of relief at the prospect of   
   competence being restored to government.   
      
   America has yet again chosen a builder to rebuild the country and possibly   
   reunite its people.   
      
   But for all his talk of unity, Trump is not the pushover he was last time.   
      
   A gifted communicator in the visual mode of this era, he sent a message in   
   the official presidential photograph that will hang in every federal   
   building across the country. It is almost identical to his mug shot: his   
   face strong, resolute, and with an air of menace.   
      
   This time the people’s will will be done.   
      
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