I Call it karma. Call it payback. Call it the revenge of the forgotten men and women. Or better yet, call it what it is: Winning. So much winning, it’s honestly starting to get a little embarrassing, though not for us.
After years of being called every name in the book, after being told that tariffs would wreck the economy, that NATO would collapse, that peace in the Middle East was a pipe dream, and that Donald Trump would never govern seriously, the scoreboard just exploded. This past week wasn’t just one of the greatest in recent presidential history. It was one of the greatest in American history. And it wasn’t brought to you by the Ivy League think tanks or the D.C. permanent class. It came straight out of the MAGA playbook.
Let’s recap the carnage.
Ceasefire in Iran—yes, that Iran. The same regime that’s been the centerpiece of Beltway anxiety since 1979. Gone is the nuclear saber-rattling. In its place? Silence. Peace. Maybe even an opening. Turns out when you hit the ayatollahs hard enough, they pause to think. Who knew?
Then there’s the revival of the Abraham Accords, now roping in even Syria and Lebanon—two of the last holdouts in the Middle East. We’re not talking about nice words and platitudes. We’re talking about actual movement toward peace—real, tangible normalization. For the first time in our lifetime, maybe ever, the Middle East might not be on fire. And it’s not because someone held hands in Geneva—it’s because American strength finally means something again.
Oh, and while the foreign policy elite was busy choking on their Chardonnay, Trump defanged Iran’s nuclear program, a feat previous presidents only dared to drone on about all without starting a war. Imagine that.
Meanwhile, in Africa, a region Washington remembers every few years when Bono sends a letter, a 30-year war in the Congo has been brought to a close. Six million lives lost over decades—and now, a pivot from bullets to business. Commerce over conflict. And in the process, we secured mineral rights that just so happen to boost our economy and loosen China’s grip on rare earths. Double win.
- The economy? Booming.
- Stock market? Record highs.
- Inflation? Controlled.
Tariffs? No longer the dirty word of 2018. In fact, some economists (the same ones who mocked Trump back then) are eating crow on CNBC and admitting: the tariff policy worked. Maybe—just maybe—he saw something they didn’t.
NATO? Unified. Spending has skyrocketed to 5% of GDP for member nations. That’s not charity, folks. That’s buy-in. It’s the biggest defense investment surge in decades and it didn’t come from begging—it came from backbone.
Then came the Supreme Court hat trick:
- Parents reclaimed sovereignty over what their kids are exposed to in classrooms.
- Activist judges got benched, reined in from overruling elected leaders with every personal whim.
- And finally, the bombshell: a constitutional correction decades overdue. No more birthright citizenship for the children of non-citizens. An American right, restored to Americans.
Even the FCC got in on the action, laying down rules to protect conservative voices from ad industry blacklisting. You know it’s a good week when the bureaucrats start fighting for free speech instead of throttling it.
And while he’s not wearing a red hat, RFK Jr. is scoring wins too, with food producers stripping out the toxic ingredients he’s been warning about for years. Vaccine policy? Getting the adult treatment after decades of pharma babysitting.
But perhaps the biggest shift of all? The reemergence of American military might. After the humiliations of Afghanistan under Biden, we’re finally seeing a military that projects force, not apologies. And trust me, Putin, Xi, and every two-bit dictator just felt that ripple. We’ve entered the FAFO phase of U.S. foreign policy.
Here’s the kicker: the Democratic Party has nothing to say. No ideas. No leadership. No pulse. Just grumbling from their coastal clubs while the world changes without their permission. Winners focus on winning. Losers focus on winners
The resistance? Resisted nothing.
The retribution? It’s not revenge rallies or viral tweets. It’s success. It’s progress. It’s America First turning into America Winning.
And yes, the winning is out of control.
God help us if we win much more. Actually…God is already helping us, isn’t he?
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Rapini was the 2022 Connecticut GOP candidate for Secretary of the State