Maybe yes, Maybe no.

There’s an old Chinese fable about a poor farmer who had lost his horse.  After learning about the lost horse all the farmer’s neighbors came around and said, “Well, that’s too bad.”  The farmer replied, “Maybe yes, maybe no.”  Shortly after, the horse returned bringing another horse with him, and all the neighbors came around and said, “well that’s good fortune,” to which the farmer replied, “Maybe yes, maybe no.”   The next day, the farmer’s son was trying to tame the new horse and fell, breaking his leg, and all the neighbors came around and said, “well that’s too bad,” and again the farmer replied, “Maybe yes, maybe no.”  Shortly after, the emperor declared war on a neighboring nation and ordered all able-bodied men to come fight—many died or were badly maimed, but the farmer’s son was unable to fight and spared due to his injury.  And all the neighbors came around and said, “well that’s good fortune,” to which the farmer once again replied, “Maybe yes, maybe no.”

In an article titled, Thank God Trump Lost in 2020 that appeared in The American Thinker, last month, Andrea Widburg wrote, “I am one of those who believe that the 2020 election was riddled with fraud. This is true whether it was garden-variety, old-fashioned cheating, with the dead rising from their graves to vote; state-sanctioned cheating in the form of ballot harvesting, drop boxes, or Democrat secretaries of state using COVID as an excuse to violate their own laws to mandate mail-in ballots, which are particularly vulnerable to fraud; or higher-tech approaches to ballot manipulation.  I don’t believe Trump would have lost had not been for that fraud. However, looking forward, I now believe that this loss was the best thing that could have happened to America,” which is a conclusion I happen to agree with because like the Chinese farmer who lost his horse, we are poised to once again experience good fortune in the form of responsible governance.

What follows in today’s post is abridged, ascribed and paraphrased from Ms. Widburg’s article, with a few thoughts of my own 😊.   Meanwhile, most clear-thinking individuals agree that a second Trump term beginning in 2021 would have been a repeat of the first, but with even more deep state opposition, more disloyal “insiders,” more media lies, more lawfare, and more congressional sabotage.

Donald Trump would have been a truest of lame ducks on day one, crippled by the aforementioned and limping through his second term, which of course would have meant a democrat victory in 2024.  But a funny thing happened on their way to the winner’s circle, the democrats and Joe Biden mistook their “victory” for a mandate and thought they had the wind at their backs.  At the same time, Barack Obama understood this was his last chance to have that third term he dreamed of, one unencumbered by his actually having to be president. And whatever thinking was behind the Biden puppetry, Obama and the Democrats had big plans.

As we now know, these big plans included the “one world” statism of opening the border, dramatically expanding the state to encompass every aspect of American life (the classic definition of Marxism) and exploding the cost of the federal government.  But the democrats didn’t stop there – the democrats were also making great strides in introducing “cultural Marxism.”

And like true Marxists, they invoked the philosophy of Lavrentiy Beria, former head of Joseph Stalin’s secret police who said,“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”  The democrats abolished the American tradition of equality, and supplanted it with DEI, which means “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”  Meanwhile, DEI became the name of the game in the government, the military, and in the Department of Education as “transgenderism” flourished and was all the rage where males and females could magically switch sexes or drift into a sexual no-man’s land of “non-binary-ism.”

And if this weren’t bad enough, the entire world went to hell in a handbasket under Biden’s weak or as some may say, nonexistent leadership, e.g., Afghanistan, Ukraine, Iran’s war against Israel (October 7^th.)   And like the Chinese farmer’s “perhaps,” I don’t believe Donald Trump would have become our 47^th president had it not been for the four agonizing years of Biden’s ineptitude, corruption, and hardcore leftism.  Americans had to pull back the curtain to see the face of American Marxism for themselves with its self-loathing, LBGTQ+, sexism, anti semitism, anti-Christianity, and sheer incompetence.

Trump has a tailwind and I’m hopeful congress will confirm all his appointees and that DOGE will start bringing an end government waste – we’ll see.  But I do believe the border will be closed although all the illegal aliens won’t be deported because the virtue signalers will make too much of a ruckus about separating families. to which as I’ve opined in the past, can be likened to a skilled surgeon having to remove healthy tissue surrounding a malignant tumor in order to save a patient’s life.

So, what comes to mind today is Winston Churchill’s famous quote after the British army turned back Rommel’s forces at El Alamein, and winning “the Battle of Egypt,” to wit: “Now, this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end.  But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” 

Quote of the day: “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men.  And weak men create hard times.” – G. Michael Hopf