There’s a lot to process in last week’s election results; we’ll begin this week and perhaps continue the analysis in coming weeks. And no this isn’t being scribbled hastily as I wait in line for a standby flight to Down Under. Hashem has spoken after all has made His choice of the marionette whose strings he’ll be tugging over the next several years and all will be well. But even viewed through the visually impaired eyes of This World there’s much reason for good cheer as we’ll discuss.
First to tally some winners and losers. Many in the first group couldn’t actually vote because they don’t live here. I speak of people like Castro and Chavez who endorsed our president before the election; the Communist Chinese rulers who as per a “senior and well-connected source” in their ranks who spoke with the BBC were “relieved” by his reelection because “[w]e know that … when the chips are down we can push Obama around.… in a country that [we] feel is visibly weakening”; Putin who’ll now get to experience just how flexible his American counterpart can be on missile defense and many others.
The losers are obvious. That would be the American people and in the longer view the Republic and the American project on which it is founded. Within that group there are of course greater and lesser losers. The first sub-group includes faith communities which will need to brace for a potential attempt to complete the unprecedented assault on religious liberty that got underway in the first Obama term.
Yet the overall picture is far from gloomy. The US House of Representatives remains solidly in the hands of the loyal opposition and this after vigorously attacking Obama’s entire policy agenda ever since 2010 and daring to not just touch but take hold of the ostensible political poison pill of entitlement program reform. Barack Obama by contrast has prevailed after a campaign that ran largely on attempts to personally tear down a good man not on his non-existent record of achievement or even promises of future achievement.
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