When Trump burst on the political scene, his smashmouth style was, shall we say, off-putting. Dan Bongino, also from Queens, told us this was just the normal style of speech in that area. And many of us voted for the Donald, knowing that the alternative was simply intolerable. We weren’t sure what he would do, but his opponent was guaranteed to do bad things.

For four years, in the face of relentless false attacks, Donald Trump got things done. Lots of things. But he didn’t drain the swamp. He fired FBI Director James Comey, installing in his place Chris Wray, who has been dramatically worse. There can be no whitewashing his investigations of concerned parents as “domestic terrorists.” He nominated Bill Barr to be Attorney General. Barr famously said he had seen “no evidence” of vote fraud in the 2020 election, but screamed at Colonel Tony Shaffer that Shaffer should stop investigating Pennsylvania vote fraud.

The list of failed appointees is long and distinguished, and Trump only seemed to discover the “Schedule F” option too late to implement it. He went along with “I AM the Science” Tony Fauci even when Dr. Scott Atlas told him Fauci was undercutting him. By all indications, Trump seems to believe in the bluster and bombast method of governing. He got some things right. Strategic ambiguity worked to keep Putin from crossing the Dnipro River. China wasn’t rattling so many sabers at Taiwan. But all the while, election fraud machinery had been running overtime, and the staff who actually implement policy blissfully ignored the President.