13 Things We Should Be Thankful for This Postelection Thanksgiving
Peter Parisi /
As families gather around their dining room tables this Thanksgiving, it’s regrettable that some seats won’t be taken because Trump Derangement Syndrome won’t permit its victims to break bread and count their blessings with relatives and friends who don’t share their irrational hatred of once and future President Donald Trump.
The hilarious account Libs of TikTok is replete with videos of TDS sufferers continuing to hyperventilate about Trump’s imminent return to the White House and their unwillingness to give it a rest, even for two or three hours to share a traditional Thanksgiving holiday repast.
They’ve essentially disowned family members and friends who committed the unforgivable sin of voting for Orange Man Bad.
Perhaps those being shunned should be thankful those mentally addled relatives will spare them the grief.
With or without them, however, there’s much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.
The following, in no particular order, are some things we should all give thanks for—and not just on Thanksgiving, but every day from now on and particularly beginning next Jan. 20:
- There will be no Cabinet post for Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferer extraordinaire ex-Rep. Liz Cheney, who burned her Republican bridges by campaigning for and with Kamala Harris. Cheney will not be secretary of defense—or anything else—in a Harris administration, because there won’t be one. The American people dodged that electoral bullet because, thank God, Trump dodged a real one.
- Make-believe “Admiral” Richard Levine (who asks to be known as Rachel) won’t be reenlisting as assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services. Anyone on the Left who has been criticizing any of Trump’s Cabinet nominees doesn’t have a (turkey) leg to stand on if they aren’t repulsed every time they see Levine. Meanwhile, Transportation Secretary “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg soon will be bicycling back to South Bend, Indiana.
- Tom Homan in January will replace Harris as the nation’s (real) border czar. In just the two weeks since being named to the post, Homan has already been to the border as many times (once) as Harris was in her first 3-1/2 years in office. (The outgoing vice president’s second visit to the border, on Sept. 27, which was nothing more than a campaign photo op, doesn’t count.)
- That means the end of open borders as we’ve known them the past nearly four years, and with it a much-needed restoration of U.S. national sovereignty, where the American people—and not the Mexican cartels—get to decide who comes into our country.
- Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., won’t get to redefine masculinity. He also won’t get to cast tiebreaking votes as president of the Senate. Vice President-elect JD Vance will have that duty, but hopefully won’t need to do so, if the incoming Republican Senate majority can hold together. (cc: Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska)
- Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., in the upcoming 119th Congress will be demoted to minority leader after Democrats lost four Senate seats and with them the majority.
- The Democrats’ far-left legislative agenda is now on ice for at least the next four years, since even if they somehow were able to recapture control of both the House and Senate in the midterms in 2026, Trump would surely veto any extremist legislation they passed.
- Title IX will be restored to its original intent of fostering girls and women’s athletics and will be stripped of the Biden-Harris administration’s unseemly obsession with transgenderism, which the 1972 law’s sponsors never envisioned and would never support.
- DEI deservedly will be kicked to the curb across the federal government in the second Trump term. When Pete Hegseth takes over as secretary of defense, DEI will be dishonorably discharged from the Pentagon and the military, and there will be no more official Pride Month celebrations on military bases, much less drag queen events at their recreation centers.
- A gaggle of left-wing celebrities promised to leave the country if Trump won. It remains to be seen how many of them will actually make good on the promise (you can’t call something that positive a “threat”), but if they do, can we make them surrender their passports at the airport so they can never get back in?
- The long-overdue end of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s often-contrarian tenure as Senate Republican leader, during which he would all too often sell conservatives down the river at crucial moments, especially on bloated spending bills. Hopefully, the octogenarian Kentucky lawmaker’s replacement, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, won’t be just another go-along-to-get-along type.
- In what bodes well for consumers, Trump’s “drill, Baby, drill” policies should bring gas prices down to where they were before President Joe Biden and Harris took office on Jan. 20, 2021, with their anti-fossil fuel zealotry. That will have the salutary downstream effect of tamping down inflation, since energy is a key component of the price of almost everything else in the economy, including the manufacturing and transportation of food.
- And lastly, speaking of Thanksgiving dinners, we truly can be thankful we won’t be force-fed four years of Harris’ indigestible word salads.