Posted on Thursday, August 14, 2025
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by Horatius
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Perhaps President Donald Trump’s greatest power is his ability to emerge victorious against all odds.
The establishment treated him like a laughingstock in 2016, yet he marched past Hillary Clinton, the globalists’ anointed one, to win one of the most improbable victories in the history of the American presidency.
In 2020, despite the headwinds of COVID-19, potential mass mail-in ballot fraud, and the raging urban fires of the Summer of Love, he went on to win more votes than any Republican had ever won before, only having the White House wrested away from him when Joe Biden somehow collected well over 11 million more ballots than his former boss Barack Obama, the most popular Democrat president since FDR.
Then, after being written off following January 6, Trump surged back in 2024, dodging an assassin’s bullet, defeating two Democrat presidential wannabees in a single election, and leading the largest Republican coalition in history to victory.
All of that is already more than most politicians could ever dream of accomplishing in one lifetime. But 200 days into his second term, it appears Trump and his allies are far from done. He and a coalition of GOP leaders at the state level are systematically eliminating the structural barriers that previously gave Democrats an unfair electoral advantage. If he’s successful, President Trump will have created the conditions to greatly enhance Republican chances of retaining power in D.C. – cementing a legacy that will stand long after he leaves office.
Three major recent developments indicate that this could be a generational inflection point in American politics.
First, President Trump has taken square aim at the influence of illegal aliens on our electoral system, ordering the Commerce Department to redo the census and only count individuals who are legally allowed to be in the United States. This has far-reaching electoral implications, as illegal aliens currently count toward a state’s allotment of U.S. House seats.
Estimates put the number of illegal aliens in the United States as high as 18.6 million – concentrated heavily in Democrat strongholds like California and New York. According to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Democrats may hold as many as 30 House seats purely thanks to counting illegal aliens in the census.
President Trump attempted to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census during his first term, but the Supreme Court blocked the move. Moving to revise the census only five years later indicates the administration is bullish on its chances of success, undoubtedly having learned from the setback last time.
When coupled with the Trump administration’s deportation campaign, revising the census will help end the perverse incentive whereby Democrats promote mass illegal immigration as a way to increase their political power.
Second, Republicans recently won a major battle to restore the integrity of the ballot box. Days ago, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in favor of voter ID laws for mail-in ballots. Though the lawsuit only applied to Texas, it opens the doors for others to follow the Lone Star State’s lead.
Of course, Republicans should be fighting to end every avenue for election fraud, including by ending mail-in ballots (which are distinct from verified absentee ballots for people like service members overseas), passing voter ID nationwide, eliminating insecure ballot drop boxes, banning ballot harvesting, and improving chain of custody for in-person ballots. Still, the fact that conservatives are instituting election integrity measures and winning in the courts five years after the 2020 debacle proves that the election integrity movement has staying power. Every new victory that helps to ensure only legal ballots are cast and counted will reinforce the Republican majority.
Third, Republicans at the state level are now working to redraw congressional district lines to counteract absurdly gerrymandered lines in Democrat states like California, New York, and Illinois. While Democrats cry that this effort amounts to “weaponization” of the redistricting process, Republicans are only leveling the playing field after decades of Democrat abuse.
Even beyond these structural changes that stand to benefit Republicans, there’s the simple fact that President Trump won historic shares of minority and young voters last year, the exact demographics that “analysts” tried for years to convince us would create an “emerging Democrat majority.” The percentage of Hispanic voters Trump won surged from 36 percent in 2020 to 48 percent in 2024, while his share of the black vote nearly doubled from eight percent in 2020 to 15 percent in 2024. Likewise, Trump’s share of the youth vote jumped 10 points from 36 percent in 2020 to 46 percent in 2024.
Lest anyone think this is a fluke, the Democrat Party’s favorability rating recently dropped to its lowest level in 30 years.
Perhaps just as importantly, there is a growing cultural consensus that Republicans are the “cool kids” once again. As liberals melt down over Sydney Sweeney talking about her “good jeans” in a fashion ad, conservatives are finally turning the tide against left-wing cancel culture crybullies. Anti-woke figures like Joe Rogan dominate the new media airwaves, while the Trump administration is cracking down on DEI in universities and in the workplace. The right is culturally ascendant while left has been reduced to staging impotent protests and screaming at lakes.
These developments are changing the electoral landscape. President Trump and his America First movement are increasing the number of Republican voters while ending the vote dilution brought on by electoral fraud and mass illegal immigration.
Ultimately, President Trump is executing a strategy that will keep the MAGA flame burning bright for generations to come.
Horatius is the pen name of a writer who served in the first Trump White House and on Capitol Hill.
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