Kevin Haggerty – Corporate media allowed for an admission about the caliber of President Donald Trump after viewing him “in an entirely new light.”

“He is a force of history.”

For many in the pundit class, former Vice President Kamala Harris’ November loss was as much a defeat of their own efforts to waylay the GOP leader on his path to return to the White House. Now, amid the pomp of the inauguration and the commanding opening salvo of Trump’s first hours back in the Oval Office, Politico global editor-in-chief John Harris wrote Tuesday, “Time to Admit It: Trump Is a Great President. He’s Still Trying To Be a Good One.”

The column began contrasting views of the inaugural address from supporters and opponents, at once here “to lead an American revival” and “wholly uncharitable to the people… who he defeated so convincingly.”

“In one light, it was all quite familiar,” wrote Harris, “But the second occasion of Trump taking the oath of office also put him in an entirely new light. For the first time, he is holding power under circumstances in which reasonable people cannot deny a basic fact: He is the greatest American figure of his era.”

“He is not a fluke, who got elected initially in 2016 almost entirely because of the infirmities of his opponent. He is not someone the American public somehow misunderstands — as though Democrats and the news media have not spent 10 years forcefully highlighting the risks of his record and character,” argued the editor-in-chief.

“He is a force of history.”

Contending the point was not about subjective views of the president, but rather the manner in which Trump managed to become the leader of the Republican Party, live rent-free in the heads of corporate media figures, and ultimately rebound from the outcome of the 2020 election to return to the White House, Harris turned his attention to what acceptance of the president’s greatness meant for the left.

“For Democrats — and most excruciatingly [former President Joe] Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris — the inaugural ceremony and all it symbolizes were a meal made of ingredients scraped off the kennel floor. Once they gargle and spit, however, the opposition party may find something liberating about the moment,” he suggested. “That is because they can no longer place confidence in a strategy that once looked plausible but now has been exposed as illusion. They cannot push Trump to the margins, by treating him as a momentary anomaly or simply denouncing him as lawless and illegitimate.”

Harris argued that “similarly large arguments” would be required to “defeat” the “large historical argument” that Trump represented, lived out in his inaugural address and the hours after resuming power where he made America First a focal point by taking steps to secure the border, halt the march of woke agendas, put an end to censorship and resume the nation’s energy independence.

The editor-in-chief also brought up lawfare and the “Uncommon psychological toughness” displayed by the president amid the attacks.

Of course, despite Trump stating that he hoped his legacy would be that of a uniter, objective opinions of the GOP leader still held a place of prominence as the column claimed, “He’s ready to use his second term, and second chance, to divide the nation over immigration, over foreign policy, over school curriculums that allegedly teach ‘our children to be ashamed of themselves, in many cases to hate our country,’ and a long roster of other subjects.”

SF Source American Wire Jan 2025