In 1815, Napoleon escaped exile on Elba and landed in France to reclaim his empire. Marching through France and drawing thousands to his side, support swelled, and King Louis XVIII fled in fear. Within weeks, he entered Paris as emperor once more, setting the stage for his final stand at Waterloo. As President Trump wins this election, we welcome back our emperor to America and we enter our golden age.
The best is yet to come for this country. After losing the 2020 election, America declined at a disgusting rate. Crime and illegal immigration soared, the economy perished and nationalism was at an all-time low. Being in exile by a broken justice system, no one knew the future of the Republican Party nor the country. But now Trump has returned. Our Napoleon has returned.
Just like 1800s France, the people have grown upset with the leadership of the monarch. The people realized they want a leader who embodies the spirit of the country. The same applies for America today. Trump embodies the spirit of the American dream. He’s a leader of the American dream. Like him or not, Trump knows how to win, and people love a winner.
Maybe it was working at McDonald’s or the dump truck, but these events were special for this campaign. I think it's best described in an Andy Warhol quote: “The President has so much good publicity potential that hasn’t been exploited. He should just sit down one day and make a list of all the things that people are embarrassed to do that they shouldn’t be embarrassed to do, and then do them all on television.”
Trump was able to make real Americans be seen and heard through this campaign with these stunts. Americans decided to reject an astroturfed Kamala Harris campaign and go with the man who embodied the American spirit.
Our emperor in America, the man who defeated the Clinton and Bush dynasties in the 2016 election, is finally back in control. The era of the Trump GOP is finally in full swing. The 2016 Trump administration was not at its full potential, an administration filled with disloyal advisors like Mark Miley. Trump was sabotaged from the inside through bureaucrats who decided to serve their own interests over the mandate of the president and American people. This time around, Trump has learned his lesson. Congress is more ideologically set to push Trump policies. With a Republican House, Senate and Supreme Court, the stars have aligned.
So what will a Trump presidency look like? The first priority needs to be ending the Russia and Ukraine war which Biden has failed to do. Second is fixing the border and starting mass deportations. Third, fix the economy and start putting America first. Americans want Americans first, to be the top priority of our government that we elect. Protecting and ensuring life for our people needs to be ensured. Freedom needs to be maximized.
The new generation of the Republican Party is in full effect. This is not your dad’s party of Reagan or your grandpa’s of Nixon. These new Republicans are here with a vengeance. Trump is bringing a team with him. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Elon Musk and Tusli Gabbard are all new faces that no one a year ago would expect to be on Trump's side. Young Republicans like Mike Johnson, Rick Scott and Byron Donalds are ready to have power in Congress to make real change and implement real conservatism.
The Republicans are now the party of free speech, anti-establishment and putting America first. We need a return to the Barry Goldwater form of conservatism. With debt at an all-time high, this upcoming Congress needs to focus on reducing deficit spending and reducing foreign aid. Senator John Kennedy said it best, “I don’t know why we give money to countries that hate us, they should be able to hate us for free.” Reducing foreign aid to non-allied countries and restructuring our budget will ultimately benefit the American people.
Trump needs to bring America back to the national superpower we were, where alliances were taboo and we played offense on the international scale. But it already has worked for him, so far the UK Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his defense secretary David Lammy said previous statements about Trump and sending Labour staffers to campaign for the Harris campaign in the U.S.
The majority of Europe, besides Hungary, is dreading a Trump administration, not because they disagree with him, but rather because it means America won't set its plate anymore. The EU and NATO have to prepare to be adults again. The era of America paying for Europe's security is over.
America's emperor is back. Our Napoleon is back in the White House. But this time, we will win at Waterloo. The bourgeois class of Democrats has been defeated. America’s emperor is Donald Trump, and just like Napoleon’s France, the world fears us again.
Lucas Sprung is a UF political science and international relations junior.
