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God gives secular blessings. The right just got some. 

Contra the buffoons at NPR, Thanksgiving is not a secular holiday. Nevertheless, God’s blessings do touch the worldly here and now. This season, it is only right to reflect on what we had hoped for in the months preceding the election and what the outcome achieved. With the forces of leftism soundly (if impermanently) beaten, we have many reasons to be thankful. Here are 40 of them:

1. A coalition of married, working-class, religious, suburban, exurban, and rural voters stood up for the America they remember, which isn’t quite lost. 

2. Black and brown citizens flocked to Trump, thereby putting to bed the idiotic smear that MAGA is a “white” movement. 

3. Americans rejected a near-decade of lawfare, fake dossiers, soft coups, and conspiracy theories. 

4. The #Resistance is in tatters. 

5. Democrats have been punished for ignoring their voters, deep-sixing their duly chosen nominee, and installing in his place a world-historically stupid diversity hire.

6. Kamala Harris has been revealed once and for all as unfit to be a Walmart greeter, never mind a state attorney general, senator, vice president, or major party nominee. 

7. The American people watched Joe Biden’s debate performance and held in scorn the deep-staters and media lackeys who lied about the condition of his brain.

8. Against all conventional wisdom, Trump evidently won the popular vote, thus cementing conservative populism as a lasting political force. 

9. Tim Walz will now take his Mao-loving, baby-killing, trans-pandering ass back to Minnesota, prancing and simpering all the way. 

10. Men have rejected “men.”

11. We have seen the election of Trump’s worthy successor, as articulate and fearless a defender of rights as the American political system has produced this century. 

12. The Never Vancers are pounding sand. 

13. Wokeness and DEI were on the ballot and have been exposed as the nation-destroying catastrophes they are. 

14. Meritocracy is coming back, as is colorblindness as a national ethic. 

15. Those who can define “woman” are ending the political careers of those who can’t. 

16. Trans-mania has taken its rightful place among the biggest electoral liabilities of the millennium, joining “Defund the Police” in the annals of pure voter-alienating poison.

17. We get to watch Harris produce unwatchable Netflix specials or run Cal Berkeley into the ground. 

18. We may never hear that woman laugh again.

19. MAGA hats are showing up on college kids, retirees, veterans, business owners, and legal immigrants. 

20. Migrant caravans are turning around.

21. Our incoming chief executive believes in the nation-state as a protector of human flourishing.

22. We get to hear the “borders are racist” crowd sob. 

23. Ol’ Joe shook hands with “Hitler” and grinned. 

24. In fact, he seemed awfully chipper when Harris lost. 

25. Cabinet appointments are going to men and women who reject the dead consensus, both for policy’s sake and because the uniparty doesn’t own this country.

26. Career bureaucrats are considering heading for the exits. 

27. America may now cease to pay for Hamas’ rockets and the reconstruction of “Palestine.” 

28. The U.S.’s Ukraine policy will shift from “help them lose slowly forever” to “negotiate a reasonable settlement.”

29. We got to watch Jimmy Kimmel, Sunny Hostin, and Van Jones rend their garments on live television. 

30. We have witnessed the political comeback of the most pro-life president in modern history. 

31. We’re reading mournful David French columns, not celebratory ones. 

32. Democrats are “election deniers” once again, beclowning themselves in close districts and alienating swing voters in the bargain. 

33. The corporate media look like the biased, thoughtless, Trump-deranged villains they are. 

34. CNN has committed to a purge. 

35. So might MSNBC.

36. Persecuted Christians, pro-lifers, and parents will hopefully get a reprieve from an out-of-control FBI. 

37. Conservatism is rising from its crouch and showing Democrats that the state’s destruction of innocents will not go unanswered. 

38. President Trump will withdraw from the Paris Agreement, kill Biden’s ridiculous electric-vehicle subsidies, and drill, baby, drill. 

39. Title IX might protect actual women again. 

40. July 4, 2026, will come with fireworks, not apologies.

In sum, we have learned our country is not yet dead, that the American nation can still be reclaimed, and that our children can have some share in it. The horizon is brighter today than it was yesterday. Let us give thanks. 

Graham Hillard is editor at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal and a contributing writer at the Washington Examiner magazine.