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After what seems an eternity since the start of the Trump presidential campaign was formally launched on June 16, 2015, yesterday a joint session of Congress formally certified his Electoral College victory. 

According to FoxNews.com, “over the last-minute objections of several Democratic lawmakers who tried to contest the outcome, Vice President Biden declared, “It is over.”

Trump was certified as attaining 304 electoral votes to his opponents 227, a sizable margin, particularly important whereas Republicans now also control both Congressional houses as well as the White House.  

What was also quite interesting about the confirmation of the voting public’s dissatisfaction with the administration’s performance in office, was that Democrat leadership continues to pursue its rejected pursuits, practices and rhetoric. 

As an example, yesterday John Kerry took a swipe at another U.S. ally, as reported by FoxNews.com. This time finger-pointing at “the United Kingdom for the Obama administration’s struggle to enforce the “red line” in Syria – a week after he slammed Israel's government over settlements.” 

According to Kerry, the U.S. was prepared to announce the use of force in Syria, when “lo and behold ... before the Friday decision, Prime Minister David Cameron went to Parliament ... and he sought a vote of approval for him to join in the action that we were going to engage in. And guess what? The Parliament voted no. They shot him down."  

Kerry went on that the U.K. decision caused Obama to go to Congress before engaging in airstrikes. However, in the interim, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov reached out to Obama, and they cooperated on a deal to get rid of Assad’s chemical weapons.  

“The president never said, ‘I won’t drop a bomb.’ What happened was people interpreted it,” Kerry said, acknowledging that "perception" hurt.  

As a result, in less than a week the secretary of state upset both the British and Israeli governments whereas his Israeli speech “sparked fury from the Israeli government, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling the speech “skewed” and warning: “Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.” 

Those events follow closely after another addressed here on Thursday when this writer opined that Chuck Schumer was stubbornly painting the remains of his a party into a tightening corner, as follows: 

“Therefore, what comes through loud and clear today is that irrefutable mounting evidence shows that the Democrat party is its own greatest enemy. And what’s worse for them is that they almost assuredly know it. Yet they continue to pursue illogical, unmanageable, unpopular goals and ideals attractive only to a shrinking number of stalwart constituents.”

And now, it seems that Newt Gingrich either picked up on that theme, or reached the same conclusion on his own. 

Yesterday Gingrich wrote @FoxNews.com about how “the Obama presidency was about transforming America into a government-dominated, bureaucratically-controlled state committed to radical values. ObamaCare would help achieve that goal. Economic recovery favoring the middle class, small businesses, and small towns would prop up precisely the people Obama had contempt for. 

“Obama's leftwing, radical policies and failure to perform on the economy, foreign policy, and healthcare, combined with Hillary Clinton's weaknesses as a candidate and Donald Trump's extraordinary leadership capabilities, led to a defeat no Democrat expected.” 

Providing a recap of the election results, Gingrich then illustrated how Democrats knew they had lost the Presidency, the House and the Senate and that “Americans had elected more than 4,100 Republican state legislators, the most in American history.” 

Noting that “Liberals in general and Democrats in particular are still in shock,” Gingrich addressed Schumer specifically, writing “Schumer should be “Senator Middle Class”, offering positive solutions to the American people. Unfortunately, he is trapped by the activist wing of his party into becoming “Senator No.” This is a very dangerous path for him to take. 

“A negative, anti-Trump opposition party will get weaker and weaker. 

“To most Americans, obstructionist ideological partisans are exactly what is wrong with Washington.” 

Gingrich concludes by noting that “the current Schumer stance creates a great opportunity for Republicans to be a positive, problem solving party – one capable of improving the lives of all Americans, and that: “Senator No” will lose to “President Yes.” 

All of which goes to underline the magnitude of the change that Trump’s election has brought to the fore. Because throughout the responses, reactions and steps taken by Democrats regarding their many mistakes, misconceptions and misjudgments, all thoughts have been purely political.     

However, that’s quite obviously not what voters want, which the greater mass of election results have proven regarding the more “take care of business” attitude of most Republicans. 

And the proof that Democrats can likely win again if they readjust, learn and grow about how the world really works can be seen in Gingrich’s election analysis above. Whereas, as a once completely political animal himself, even he seemingly has learned a lot from his close association with POTUS-elect Trump. 

That’s it for today folks. 

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