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Good analysis Sarah, and you are right to counsel 'cautious optimism'. The in-fighting and finger pointing currently evident in the rabid Democrat machine, still smarting from the Harris debacle, will soon subside and their focus on destroying the MAGA agenda will rapidly spool up again, with heightened aggression, due to their frustration and anger.

Those of us with still functioning brains all celebrate Trumps' victory but also realise it could quite easily prove pyrrhic considering the huge challenges he faces just to make it to inauguration, let alone what lies in store for him beyond! No matter who is in the White House, unless and until the corrupt and seditious Neo-Marxist Cabal currently dominating the Democrat Party is crushed, the vapid milquetoast RINO elements of the GOP ousted and ‘Uniparty’ politics is completely dismantled, the Nation will continue to flounder. Can Trump succeed, constrained by existing Federal processes and dysfunctional congressional structure, buttressed by the bloated, corrupt bureaucracy it has built around itself? I fear the malignancy may be too far advanced! In 1787 Ben Franklin clearly addressed the likely challenges to the stability and longevity of the newly minted Constitutional Republic with his “…if you can keep it” remarks. To function effectively the US Congress must be populated with honourable, patriotic and principled individuals empaneled via a closely monitored voter registration system with tightly controlled legal citizen in-person-only polling and a moderately well-educated, factually informed, generally clear headed, somewhat civically engaged and at least slightly culturally and socially stable citizenry. In the 21st Century USA such a voting system doesn’t exist and such an electorate is rapidly shrinking as we oldsters check out

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