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Greenfield: American Uprising
2000 Most Challenging and Obscure Words ^ | Sunday, November 13, 2016 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 11/13/2016 12:22:54 PM PST by Louis Foxwell

Sunday, November 13, 2016

American Uprising

Posted by Daniel Greenfield

(This article first appeared at Front Page Magazine during the night of the election. It deserves to be repeated, regularly.)

This wasn’t an election. It was a revolution.

It’s midnight in America. The day before fifty million Americans got up and stood in front of the great iron wheel that had been grinding them down. They stood there even though the media told them it was useless. They took their stand even while all the chattering classes laughed and taunted them.

They were fathers who couldn’t feed their families anymore. They were mothers who couldn’t afford health care. They were workers whose jobs had been sold off to foreign countries. They were sons who didn’t see a future for themselves. They were daughters afraid of being murdered by the “unaccompanied minors” flooding into their towns. They took a deep breath and they stood.

They held up their hands and the great iron wheel stopped.

The Great Blue Wall crumbled. The impossible states fell one by one. Ohio. Wisconsin. Pennsylvania. Iowa. The white working class that had been overlooked and trampled on for so long got to its feet. It rose up against its oppressors and the rest of the nation, from coast to coast, rose up with it.

They fought back against their jobs being shipped overseas while their towns filled with migrants that got everything while they got nothing. They fought back against a system in which they could go to jail for a trifle while the elites could violate the law and still stroll through a presidential election. They fought back against being told that they had to watch what they say. They fought back against being held in contempt because they wanted to work for a living and take care of their families.

They fought and they won.

This wasn’t a vote. It was an uprising. Like the ordinary men chipping away at the Berlin Wall, they tore down an unnatural thing that had towered over them. And as they watched it fall, they marveled at how weak and fragile it had always been. And how much stronger they were than they had ever known.

Who were these people? They were leftovers and flyover country. They didn’t have bachelor degrees and had never set foot in a Starbucks. They were the white working class. They didn’t talk right or think right. They had the wrong ideas, the wrong clothes and the ridiculous idea that they still mattered.

They were wrong about everything. Illegal immigration? Everyone knew it was here to stay. Black Lives Matter? The new civil rights movement. Manufacturing? As dead as the dodo. Banning Muslims? What kind of bigot even thinks that way? Love wins. Marriage loses. The future belongs to the urban metrosexual and his dot com, not the guy who used to have a good job before it went to China or Mexico.

They couldn’t change anything. A thousand politicians and pundits had talked of getting them to adapt to the inevitable future. Instead they got in their pickup trucks and drove out to vote.

And they changed everything.

Barack Hussein Obama boasted that he had changed America. A billion regulations, a million immigrants, a hundred thousand lies and it was no longer your America. It was his.

He was JFK and FDR rolled into one. He told us that his version of history was right and inevitable.

And they voted and left him in the dust. They walked past him and they didn’t listen. He had come to campaign to where they still cling to their guns and their bibles. He came to plead for his legacy.

And America said, “No.”

Fifty millions Americans repudiated him. They repudiated the Obamas and the Clintons. They ignored the celebrities. They paid no attention to the media. They voted because they believed in the impossible. And their dedication made the impossible happen.

Americans were told that walls couldn’t be built and factories couldn’t be opened. That treaties couldn’t be unsigned and wars couldn’t be won. It was impossible to ban Muslim terrorists from coming to America or to deport the illegal aliens turning towns and cities into gangland territories.

It was all impossible. And fifty million Americans did the impossible. They turned the world upside down.

It’s midnight in America. CNN is weeping. MSNBC is wailing. ABC calls it a tantrum. NBC damns it. It wasn’t supposed to happen. The same machine that crushed the American people for two straight terms, the mass of government, corporations and non-profits that ran the country, was set to win.

Instead the people stood in front of the machine. They blocked it with their bodies. They went to vote even though the polls told them it was useless. They mailed in their absentee ballots even while Hillary Clinton was planning her fireworks victory celebration. They looked at the empty factories and barren farms. They drove through the early cold. They waited in line. They came home to their children to tell them that they had done their best for their future. They bet on America. And they won.

They won improbably. And they won amazingly.

They were tired of ObamaCare. They were tired of unemployment. They were tired of being lied to. They were tired of watching their sons come back in coffins to protect some Muslim country. They were tired of being called racists and homophobes. They were tired of seeing their America disappear.

And they stood up and fought back. This was their last hope. Their last chance to be heard.

Watch this video. See ten ways John Oliver destroyed Donald Trump. Here’s three ways Samantha Bee broke the internet by taunting Trump supporters. These three minutes of Stephen Colbert talking about how stupid Trump is owns the internet. Watch Madonna curse out Trump supporters. Watch Katy Perry. Watch Miley Cyrus. Watch Robert Downey Jr. Watch Beyonce campaign with Hillary. Watch. Click.

Watch fifty million Americans take back their country.

The media had the election wrong all along. This wasn’t about personalities. It was about the impersonal. It was about fifty million people whose names no one except a server will ever know fighting back. It was about the homeless woman guarding Trump’s star. It was about the lost Democrats searching for someone to represent them in Ohio and Pennsylvania. It was about the union men who nodded along when the organizers told them how to vote, but who refused to sell out their futures.

No one will ever interview all those men and women. We will never see all their faces. But they are us and we are them. They came to the aid of a nation in peril. They did what real Americans have always done. They did the impossible.

America is a nation of impossibilities. We exist because our forefathers did not take no for an answer. Not from kings or tyrants. Not from the elites who told them that it couldn’t be done.

The day when we stop being able to pull of the impossible is the day that America will cease to exist.

Today is not that day. Today fifty million Americans did the impossible.

Midnight has passed. A new day has come. And everything is about to change.


TOPICS: Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: americanuprising; greenfield; sultanknish; trumpvictory

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1 posted on 11/13/2016 12:22:54 PM PST by Louis Foxwell
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To: Louis Foxwell; daisy mae for the usa; AdvisorB; wizardoz; free-in-nyc; Vendome; Georgia Girl 2; ...
I may post this weekly until Trump is sworn in as president to insure every FReeper has the chance to read it.

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.

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2 posted on 11/13/2016 12:25:44 PM PST by Louis Foxwell ( Trump is the collective voice of 100 million F U Â’s.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Brilliant.

L


3 posted on 11/13/2016 12:28:43 PM PST by Lurker (America burned the witch.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

That was extraordinarily well-written. Mark Steyn would be proud.

Well done, Daniel!


4 posted on 11/13/2016 12:31:57 PM PST by Don W ( When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Exactly! Great article.


5 posted on 11/13/2016 12:39:07 PM PST by Melian (America, bless God. God, bless America.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Good read, but I think he neglected the most important thing we saved: THE RULE OF LAW.


6 posted on 11/13/2016 12:40:57 PM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Excellent! Thank you!


7 posted on 11/13/2016 12:46:01 PM PST by Monkey Face (Never trust a steering wheel. They turn on you.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

ping please-thanks


8 posted on 11/13/2016 12:53:17 PM PST by dsf (I'm not a newby, in another life at FR, I was grammymoon)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Terrific column.


9 posted on 11/13/2016 12:58:44 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Louis Foxwell

It should be remembered after the American Revolution that Tory/Loyalists who survive the war either assimilated to the “rebels’” politics, or they faced confiscation of property and loss of political rights. An estimated 1/3 of them emigrated to Canada or to the West Indies.


10 posted on 11/13/2016 12:59:04 PM PST by myerson
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To: 867V309

Yes, and Catholics and Evangelicals decided that they didn’t want to change their consciences.


11 posted on 11/13/2016 1:03:31 PM PST by georgia peach (georgia peach)
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To: sauropod

Bkmk


12 posted on 11/13/2016 1:10:52 PM PST by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man. I've lost my patience!)
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To: Louis Foxwell
A day may come when the courage of men fails,
When we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship;
But it is not this day!

An hour of woe and shattered shields,
When the age of men comes crashing down;
But it is not this day!

Today, we fight!
By all that you hold dear, on this good Earth,
I bid you: Stand, Men of the West!

13 posted on 11/13/2016 1:10:53 PM PST by BlueLancer ("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." Winston Churchill)
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To: Louis Foxwell

“They didn’t have bachelor degrees and had never set foot in a Starbucks.

All of my regular acquaintances have bachelor’s degrees (at minimum), all have set foot in a Starbucks (one owns a coffee shop), and all supported Trump.


14 posted on 11/13/2016 1:52:27 PM PST by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Magic Fingers

I have one and am far too educated to pay far too much for coffee, to people who hate me.


15 posted on 11/13/2016 2:44:11 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: Louis Foxwell
It’s midnight in America. CNN is weeping. MSNBC is wailing. ABC calls it a tantrum. NBC damns it. It wasn’t supposed to happen. The same machine that crushed the American people for two straight terms, the mass of government, corporations and non-profits that ran the country, was set to win.

Instead the people stood in front of the machine. They blocked it with their bodies. They went to vote even though the polls told them it was useless. They mailed in their absentee ballots even while Hillary Clinton was planning her fireworks victory celebration. They looked at the empty factories and barren farms. They drove through the early cold. They waited in line. They came home to their children to tell them that they had done their best for their future. They bet on America. And they won.

Post it every week... morning, noon and night. It's THAT good.

16 posted on 11/13/2016 9:33:24 PM PST by GOPJ ( Trump took 39%+ Hispanics in FL, large numbers of Cubans, and more than 30% Hispanics nationally-LS)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Beautifully written piece that completely evokes the spririt and direction of this new American movement.

Sending to all my friends and relatives.


17 posted on 11/14/2016 6:27:53 AM PST by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Mr. Greenfield has outdone himself yet again!


18 posted on 11/14/2016 9:41:18 AM PST by eddiespaghetti ((with the meatball eyes))
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To: Louis Foxwell

Beautifully expressed. Thank you.


19 posted on 11/15/2016 3:24:29 AM PST by Actually_in_Tokyo (ahead of the game)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Please add me to this list. Thank you.


20 posted on 11/17/2016 8:34:22 AM PST by BeadQueen
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