I’m Glad I Was Wrong

I got 2016 wrong.  I thought the GOP had made a mistake with Trump.  I refused to vote for Clinton or Trump because of their character and what I presumed would be the left-leaning policies of both.

I got it wrong.  And I’m glad I did. Trump will go down as the most pro-life President in American history.  I still have issues with him related to his character and impulses, but being wrong about him in 2016 led me to reconsider the issue in 2020.  He kept promises I didn’t expect him to keep.  He let the conservative movement lead him in judicial picks and many sound policies.

That doesn’t mean I want him for 2024.  I think it’d be bad to elect a guy who could only serve four years when literally any other Republican could serve eight years.  But being as wrong as I was did mean I had to reassess 2016 and what I got wrong.  I was willing to do that.  I was willing to learn those things I missed and realize how much of a political realignment the country was and currently is going through.

The problem is not so much that I was wrong in 2016, but that the left/media was too.  And instead of reassessing and reevaluating what they thought they knew, they embraced the “Russia stole it” narrative and they’ve never been able to get past that. It has shaped their views, policies, and commentary.  And it is why they are missing what is coming in 2022 and beyond. Take a moment and watch this as I walk you through what I learned and what so many others refused to learn: