In the most exciting, improbable, and unbelievable political comeback in American history, President Donald J. Trump has been returned to the White House by the American people. Despite relentless unfounded smears by the media, manufactured indictments, corrupt convictions, absurd impeachments, and even assassination attempts, Americans rejected all the propaganda, lies, and hoaxes. Trump’s triumphant return has imbued most Americans and even the world with renewed optimism that justice can still prevail, and liberty is not yet lost.

Republicans are thrilled celebrating their partisan victory despite the establishment’s misgivings, and Democrats are dejected bemoaning Trump’s ideological conquest. Both are wrong to a degree. Trump did not win because he is a Republican or a conservative ideologue. He has remade being a Republican from the rich man’s party to the working man’s movement; and he simply embraces “common sense” solutions which happen to be generally conservative. Americans are not interested in greed or vanquishing others, but they also don’t want to wallow in all the over emotional nonsense trying to appease every silly special interest group. They just want peace and prosperity, and that is all Trump is really offering.

Trump’s “America First” agenda is not a slight against anyone else, but rather the simple declaration that the USA will get its house in order first. A weak feckless America cannot help itself, much less the world, so restoring competency, fairness, order, and strength only makes the federal government serve its citizens and makes it useful to the world again.

Trump is off to a rip-roaring start. His four years in the wilderness prepared him to be much more effective than had he had a consecutive second term. Trump’s second inauguration was a great relief to most Americans, but the battle for America has only just begun. Scared and shocked by his return, the greedy globalists are regrouping, the power-hungry self-serving bureaucrats are scurrying for cover, and left-leaning big business and tech executives are changing their stripes, but still none should be trusted.

Some may have genuine conversions, but most are still dedicated to their totalitarian tendencies. While they may embrace leftist dogma, it’s not really an ideological dispute. Federal bureaucrats and the ruling elite are just plain arrogant. They are certain they know better than average Americans.

They reject Biblical morality as unenlightened in favor of relativism that fosters cultural chaos, societal breakdown, and because it endorses their idolatrous indulgences. They believe regular folks will abuse liberty and waste resources. In other words, they are sure they must feed and house us and keep us from harming each other or ourselves because we cannot fend for ourselves. Democrats, leftists, or whoever are convinced Americans need a master, and they must be the masters to ensure a green planet and impose all 37 genders.

Democrats and the fake media have learned nothing from the election. They are still recycling every nasty rumor about Trump and lunging at anything they can take out of context, like saying Elon Musk, a demonstrably strong supporter of Israel, made a NAZI salute. Obviously false if one watches the entire video clip, but the shameless fake media are wedded to their deceptive narrative to malign anything Trump or really anything truly American. These people will stop at nothing to undermine Trump and keep America last.

Americans have prevailed against tremendous odds to reelect Trump, but they must stay the course with him as he drains the putrid Potomac swamp. Regular people tire of politics and retreat from the issues of governing after an election, but that would risk a hard-won victory. They are understandably weary of the incessant bickering, but these wannabe tyrants are playing for keeps. They have spied on Americans and persecuted parents for questioning radical LGBTQ+ or Critical Race Theory policies, so they are not constrained by the Constitution or decency – they are zealots.

The enemies of freedom are devoted and entrenched; this will be a long struggle. Remember, government and media lied about the origins of COVID, treatments, and vaccines. They don’t care about us, because they want to control us. They fabricated the fable that Trump is a Russian puppet, and some are still sticking to that debunked hoax. Perhaps the most revealing example is the 51 Intelligence officials that signed a letter right before the 2020 election that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. They suffered no consequences for using their government positions to disseminate disinformation to sway an election. They abused their authority and resources, so hopefully Trump will finally rescind their clearances.

The dark forces in Washington are on the run, but they are betting we will get distracted or tire. After the public moves on, they will quietly resume their nefarious tactics to consolidate power in the federal bureaucracy and undermine Trump. The American people must keep up the pace and pressure like this past campaign and see through the purging of the federal government and restoring power to the people.

Only a supremely courageous and visionary leader like President Trump can save America from the globalist and leftist forces that have infiltrated the federal government. We must stick with him until the job is done because who knows if or when America will see such a champion again. God spared Trump’s life to become President again, but more importantly, God gave us another chance to abide by his righteousness and restore our Constitutional Republic.

“The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways” (Deuteronomy 28:7).

Pete Riehm is a Navy Veteran, conservative activist, and columnist in south Alabama. Email him at peteriehm@bellsouth.net or read all his columns at http://www.renewamerica.com/.