In the 1940 novel You Can’t Go Home Again, author Thomas Wolfe illustrates the futility of attempting to relive or return to past experiences or situations because people and places inevitably change over time.
This is the situation America finds itself in at present after a New York jury convicted former President Donald Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, making Trump the first former American president to be convicted of felony crimes.
Whether Trump receives prison time, probation, or ultimately wins an appeal, there is no coming back from this unprecedented moment in American history.
We can’t go home again.
However, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Coming to terms with the truth can be liberating. By acknowledging reality, the right can finally move forward and begin to fight back.
“Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime,” bragged Lavrentiy Beria, the most ruthless and longest-serving secret police chief under Joseph Stalin.
In a similar, Soviet-inspired fashion, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg contorted the law to get his man.
The Trump conviction comes after years of suffering through never-ending protests (beginning on Trump’s inauguration day in 2016), the Mueller investigation and Russia-collusion hoax, George Floyd riots, two impeachments, a faux “insurrection,” an administrative deep state that attempted to stymie Trump’s agenda at every turn, and the “election fortification” of 2020 — leftist political lawfare has reached its apex.
No Longer a Constitutional Republic
One such reality the right must recognize is that it is no
