The election is over and Donald Trump will be in the White House, the Republicans will have control of the Senate and are projected to have 221 seats of the 218 needed to control the House of Representatives. So, what’s next?
I have already admitted surprise at the speed at which the race was called Tuesday night. Something else also surprised me; the lack of rioting and other violence when the call came. The only potential riot was in Portland, but between the police presence and a lack of participants, that never really amounted to anything more than a street party.
That isn’t to say there won’t be any violence. I almost expect there to be rioting or some other anti-social disruptive behavior from the left come certification and Inauguration days. We’ll see I suppose.
Between now and the inauguration Trump will spin up a transition team, make his choices for the political appointees and the like. As of now, there aren’t many indications of who is going to fill what cabinet positions. That said, you should expect RFK Jr, Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard and other high profile campaign surrogates to end up in the cabinet.
Trump really needs to move on his agenda during the first 100 days. After that, the ‘resistance’ will be pushing back hard. The lawfare will restart and the bureaucratic inertia will kick in. I hope that he will go all Roman Legate and decimate the federal bureaucracy and salt the earth so it can’t grow back.
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the fact that his life is in even more danger than it has been all campaign. The non-stop rhetoric from the Dems has created a situation where unhinged, mentally ill libs think it’s their duty to try to kill Donald Trump. I just hope that the USSS is up to the task.