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Sometimes a win is just a win.
And sometimes it’s a game-changer of historic proportions.
Donald Trump has done far more than secure a delayed second term.
The broad scope of his win and the coalition he formed reshaped the political landscape and flatlined the legacies of a generation of presidential families.
The Clintons, the Bushes, the Cheneys, the Obamas and the Biden-Harris team have been eclipsed by his dramatic triumph.
Their tenures seem like minor footnotes now that Trump has forged a sweeping realignment under the MAGA banner.
He remade the stiff and stuffy GOP into the home of strivers and the working and middle classes.
The diversity of race and ethnicity, religion, class, age and geography is unprecedented in contemporary America.
Trump’s appeal is reflected in the fact that he won all seven battleground states to secure the Electoral College as well as the popular vote.
He gained support in nearly every county in the nation and among nearly all demographic groups.
Major implications
An immediate benefit of winning with a mandate is that Trump’s plan to seal the border and deport massive numbers of criminal aliens has enormous support and faces only pockets of dead-ender resistance.
His victory also carries major cultural implications.
The nation has soundly rejected the rewriting of American history and the DEI racial spoils system, leading scores of corporations and universities to start a retreat.
Rejected, too, are the left’s fetish over indoctrinating children on transgender issues and the assault on parents’ rights.
Even the battle over abortion at the federal level may have crested, with polls showing it was not the dominant issue Dems hoped it would be in the first presidential election since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
The second terms of so many presidents have been flops that there is belief in a second term curse, but Trump has an opportunity to achieve something very unusual: a second term markedly better than his first.
Indeed, I believe he is in a much stronger position and far better prepared now than he would have been had he won re-election in 2020.
COVID was still raging then and Democrats and the media had kept him on the defensive with the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
Then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi ran the House like a torture chamber and refused to negotiate with the president to deny him any bipartisan achievements.
All that misery seemed long ago and far away during The Post’s visit with Trump at Mar-a-Lago last week.
The transition is moving at a rapid clip, with two, three and sometimes four nominations and appointments announced each day.
With Biden stumbling off stage, world leaders act as if Trump’s already president.
He’s been juggling phone calls with scores of them and meeting with a parade of business leaders.
Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg was there last week, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is on this week’s schedule and Elon Musk is often there.
In the bustling atmosphere last Thursday, members of the new administration, including Cabinet picks, were rushing to and from meetings inside the gilded rooms and on the sun-draped patio.
Among them were Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi, Homeland Security nominee Kristi Noem, governor of South Dakota, and Florida Rep. Mike Waltz, Trump’s choice for national security adviser.
Hit the ground running
Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance were upbeat and talkative during a luncheon and are obviously enjoying working together.
When I asked Vance how he manages to keep his cool during interviews with the ultra-biased anchors who dominate the Sunday network news shows, he laughed and said restraint wasn’t always easy.
Although they asked that details remain confidential, the administration will hit the ground running, with aides mapping out plans for each day.
Trump has a list of actions he intends to take quickly to fulfill promises regarding personnel, the border, national security and other issues.
Hopefully, Gov. Hochul’s rapacious congestion tax will be on his hit list.
Watching the high-energy scene unfold, I recalled an interview I had with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in the winter of 2022.
It was slightly more than a year after he left office, and he clearly intended to make a third run for the White House.
He was gracious and talkative, but I came away convinced his chances of a comeback were small.
His achievements were real, but his tenure was exhausting and Dems had seized on the awful events of Jan. 6 to make sure he never got back to the Oval Office.
Neither of us knew the worst was yet to come because the four criminal indictments and vicious civil suits against him had not happened.
And yet, here we were in the same dazzling mansion and this time he was getting ready to reclaim the Oval Office.
As I wrote during the early morning of Nov. 6, his triumph over Kamala Harris qualifies as the “King of All Comebacks.”
He couldn’t have done it if Biden and Harris had been even moderately competent.
But their four years were a complete disaster, at home and abroad.
They inherited a strong economy, a secure border and respect in the international arena.
And they squandered it.
All of it.
They compounded their mistakes by using law enforcement to try to lock Trump up and keep him off the ballot.
It only made him more determined and served as a rallying cry for supporters.
No candidate has ever worked harder than Trump did to win.
Nor has any been subject to the outrageous slurs of being called Hitler, a threat to democracy and targeted multiple times for assassination.
Far different round 2
The line from Nietzsche that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger certainly applies.
When he returns to Washington next month, Trump will be a far different president than he was in January of 2017.
Then he was a novice, having never held public office, and had few important friends and many, many enemies.
Because he had run against a Republican Party fashioned by the Bushes, John McCain, Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney, he had no government in waiting.
Consequently, some of his early choices, such as oil executive Rex Tillerson for secretary of state, were especially bad fits.
Others that quickly fell out of favor included Attorney General Jeff Sessions and assorted top aides.
Yet despite the turnover and a nonstop Democratic and media barrage that led to the two-year Russia, Russia, Russia hoax and a partisan impeachment, Trump secured important victories.
The economy was strong, taxes and inflation were low and wages at the middle and bottom of the workforce grew faster than those at the top.
Although too much of the media is still determined to disrupt him and the deep state remains a threat, I believe the best of Donald Trump is yet to come.
He is an indomitable force who rose from the ground in Pennsylvania, his face smeared with his own blood, and urged his supporters to fight, fight, fight.
He did, they did, and thankfully, he soon will be president again.