We Are Winning Even If It Does Not Always Seem That Way

We’re in the midst of a massive leftist counterattack that desperately seeks to distract us not just from the fact that one of their own, the trans/furry-tapping pervert, murdered Charlie Kirk, but from the fact that America is indisputably getting better. They’re scared. They’re really scared because they didn’t know this was going to happen, and they didn’t expect this to happen, and even now, they don’t fully understand the implications of either Trump’s success or of what their freakish ally did when he lit the fuse by pulling the trigger. The Charlie Kirk memorial was incomprehensible to them, with its patriotism, Christianity, and flagrant cisgenderism, but even their reptile brains sensed a threat. What we’re seeing now is a huge attempt to retake the initiative, with everything from casting Jimmy Kimmel as a free speech icon (when he isn’t cheering other people being suppressed) to Tom Holman supposedly getting bribed (I wonder why the Biden DOJ, which was known for being super-cool to conservatives, never charged him) to whatever narrative they just fired up in the last 15 minutes, they’re throwing everything they’ve got at the wall.

And they can’t even see that it’s not sticking.

Let’s examine where we are, because if you look at social media, you’re going to be under the impression that there’s this overwhelming backlash against Donald Trump and our movement. There isn’t. Check out the polling. The reliable polling ranges from Trump being slightly underwater to Trump being slightly ahead. As for the midterms, which are not for 14 months, the consensus seems to be that the Democrats are slightly ahead. But the “slightly” is the important part – usually, midterm elections are a wipeout for incumbents. Historically, if you believe the polling – and you should sooner believe tales of sexual conquest told by Brian Stelter, who is a potato – the current scenario isn’t that bad. But even if it were, it wouldn’t matter. Again, we have over a year to the midterms. A lot can happen in a year, and will.

A lot has happened already, and that track record of success over the last nine months is shaping the future in ways that are almost certain to be positive. Some of the results are manifesting already. Inflation is way down, though the regime media is eagerly trying to convince us that the absence of deflation, where prices themselves shrink rather than the rate of increase shrinking, is significant. But if you take time away from listening to Democrats screaming that “Trump is a fascist, no, now we really mean it, and before we were just kind of saying it, but now it’s totally true” and check out your 401(k), you’re going to be pleasantly surprised. The market is setting new records. Now, let’s not pretend that a good stock market means the economy is perfect, but it’s a big deal for the boomers who’ve got a lot of stocks and who always vote, and if they’re doing really well, that’s good news for Donald Trump. Right now, they’re doing fantastically. Hell, maybe I’ll go buy a walk-in humidor.

Look, there’s a lot going on that the regime media is totally missing. The most important stuff has to do with young people, something the left missed from the Charlie Kirk memorial as they were focused on trying to link it to Nuremburg. Trump is listening to young peoples’ cries for help, while the Boomer geriatrics over at the Democrat Party are paying attention only to the Boomer geriatrics who show up to scream like idiots at congressional town halls. They didn’t see the young people coming in 2024, nor will they see them coming this time. And they are coming, because a lot of Trump policies are aimed directly at them.

First, there’s peace. We’re not at war with anybody. Well, we’re blowing the crap out of occasional drug dealer dinghies, but pretty much everybody thinks that’s kind of funny and cool. The thing is, there’s no real war, and that’s pretty important to the guys who the jerks in Washington expect to go out and fight these dumb conflicts.

Next, Trump is doing things that are going to address some of the big problems faced by young people. Charlie Kirk was listening to young people and their concerns. He wasn’t just talking about Jesus, though there’s a major religious revival going on that only Salena Zito seems to have noticed. Instead, the regime media is out there interviewing each other over the greatest atrocity in human history, which is Jimmy Kimmel not appearing on a late-night talk show for a week, and missing this massive story. 

But besides faith, Charlie Kirk was talking about how young people feel hopeless and how the American dream seems to be getting away from them. The last text exchange I had with him was trying to coordinate getting him on a radio show I was guest-hosting to talk about the state of young Americans (Always the class act, the last thing he texted to me was “Thank you” for inviting him). I encourage you to go and find his many podcast appearances where he talks about young people. It’s kind of mind-blowing, especially for a lawyer who was born the last week of the Baby Boom. I grew up optimistic and managed to do a bunch of cool things; they see a bleak future where the game is rigged against them at every turn. The good news is that Donald Trump is taking steps to address their problems. If he succeeds, he locks that generation in for the Republicans, not just in 2026 but forever.

He’s getting rid of DEI, which has been a huge barrier to hiring for many millions of young people, primarily males. Did you see how he just put a $100,000 price tag on any H-1B visa going forward? That’s because so many of the young men and women we told to go study STEM could not get jobs because the big corporations instead used shady brokers to import Indians and others to toil for pennies as quasi-slave laborers. By opening up the job market, Trump is betting on America’s future. By catering to the boomers, the Democrats are betting on America’s past.

And don’t forget housing. One of the big things Charlie Kirk was pushing lately was something that doesn’t sound traditionally conservative to guys like me who literally started in this under the great Ronald Reagan. He was saying that one of the most important things Republicans can do is ban hedge funds and big corporations from buying up single-family homes. Hallelujah. It’s about time we sided with our own people instead of rich people who hate us. It’s a new Republican Party where we’re not on the side of BlackRock; let the Democrats carry their bespoke sparkling water. What did those bastards ever do for us except turn on us the second Obama and the wokesters demanded it? Freeing up real estate for young families is a huge power move that we should embrace. Let’s push that in 2026 and see who wins the midterms.

Here are the facts. The Democrats are still in chaos. They can’t back off their psychotic policy prescriptions, like trans perversions, importing illegal aliens, and hugging criminals. Those are electoral poison. We must use those to beat down their positives. But we must build up our positives by continuing an agenda that combines peace and prosperity, with a special focus on young people and helping them get their own grip on the American dream. That’s why I’m optimistic about 2026. Donald Trump and his folks see the future is the young, not the crusty/commie, and hopefully Trump can convince, cajole, or compel the remaining Republican Fredocons to bring it in for the big win a year from November.

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2025/10/02/we-are-winning-even-if-it-does-not-always-seem-that-way-n2664208