Did We Write America's Obituary Too Soon?

Or are we mistaking her death throes for a rally?

Steven K. Bannon has been touting Trump’s “full-spectrum ascendancy,” and MAGA’s “irresistible domination.” And with good reason, or so it seems.

Now, I’m not about to call Bannon a Pollyanna because the fact is that the past two weeks show the American giant is showing signs of life. Ronna Romney McDaniel resigned and Mitch McConnell announced the end of his term as Republican Senate Leader. Congress has still spared the American taxpayer billions in additional pension bailouts for Ukrainian bureaucrats. The United States Supreme Court slapped down Colorado’s high court in a nine-to-nothing bloodbath that has CNN and MSNBC hosts buying SSRIs from street dealers. No one can blame Bannon—and others—for cancelling the caterers for America’s wake.

Add to those long-running themes the instant gratification of watching Donald Trump’s delegate count rise faster than the price of beef. You’ll see that no one can be criticized for taking a little victory lap. Viewed from the perspective of today’s headlines, one might logically conclude the Biden chapter of American history is closing a year ahead of schedule and on traditional American terms.

I’ll go further. Barring assassination or accident, President Trump will return to the White House on January 20, 2025, in an inauguration spectacle to rival Andrew Jackson’s. So hide the silverware. When Trump triumphantly raises his hand to take the same oath as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Ronald Reagan, you and I will lay claim to witnessing the most improbable political comeback in American history—the greatest comeback since Cincinnatus, as Steve Bannon likes to point out.

But what will Trump inherit?