By: Mark Antonio Wright – nationalreview.com – November 6, 2024

Neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will be the same.

The 2024 election will be discussed from a million angles. In the days and weeks ahead, the knives will come out in the ranks of the losers. Post-mortems will be written, and the arguments will be fought out over what could have been different or which strategies should have been tried. The data will be analyzed and over-analyzed.

All that will be necessary and very interesting because the very foundations of the two major-party coalitions have been shaken and the tectonic plates of American politics have shifted. However, we shouldn’t forget the singular fact of the 2024 election: Donald Trump has just completed the most remarkable political comeback in American history.

His achievement is more impressive than Richard Nixon’s in 1968. It’s more important than Grover Cleveland’s in 1892. I don’t think there’s any question now that Donald Trump is the most consequential American political figure of the 21st century so far.

He arrived on the partisan political scene not more than 15 years ago. But in that short time, Trump has decisively closed the Obama era in American politics, which began with what many on the left thought was a permanent realignment in 2008. With his reelection in 2024, Trump has defeated Barack Obama’s successor’s successor and his ideological heir, Kamala Harris. I think it’s fair to say that Trump has also, in a second try, defeated Joe Biden by forcing him out of the race last summer. Trump has now — twice! — climbed the Blue Wall and dismantled the Obama coalition in the crucible of a general election.

Neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will be the same going forward — even if, no, there is nothing permanent about any of the so-called “permanent” realignments in our politics.

My hope, of course, is that some good comes out of this most recent coalitional realignment. Sometimes a good shake-up is necessary. I’ve been open about my skepticism of the direction of the Republican Party under Trump, but I do think there is a chance that this reelection could open a path towards political dynamism and renewal, possibly or even probably in ways that no one could predict right now.

Donald Trump, after his reelection, certainly deserves a shot at trying, along with the goodwill of his countrymen.

But all that’s for the future. For now, it’s worth marveling at Donald Trump’s simply stunning political achievement.

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