Monday’s inaugural events delivered a number of emotions for many citizens, and for those independents or anyone right-of-center who pushed for Donald Trump’s reemergence in D.C., it was a day of positive reactions. Excitement, relief, anticipation, elation, inspiration, and any or all others were experienced.
The crowds and attendees exuded the kind of cathartic happiness that was claimed to exist in the Harris-Walz “Campaign of Joy,” something more than a few pundits declared as unrealistic when portraying conservatives as spiteful and angry antagonists. That projection was made evident when seeing the reactions from the left and press on Monday, as they were the bitter scolds during much of the pageantry. What is compelling to see is the shift in the culture late last year that led to how we arrived at this moment.
For much of the Biden term,…
