If Democrats had their way, Donald Trump wouldn’t be anywhere near the presidency again. So wrote MSNBC’s Hayes Brown on the eve of the 2024 election’s final day. But Trump is near the presidency — perhaps by decisive margins — and Democrats are apoplectic.

The “biggest contributor to the unease that millions of Americans have felt as Election Day approaches,” Brown wrote, is “that there is any tension about the outcome at all. The 2024 election should not be anywhere near as close as it appears, not with Trump’s name on the ballot for the third straight election.”

Brown is right that the election shouldn’t be close, but he’s wrong about why.

The best thing for the country would not be a big or small victory for Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and their phony “unity” schtick. It wouldn’t even be a razor-thin Trump-Vance win. The best outcome for the health of our nation — and democracy — would be a landslide victory for Donald Trump.

Just Deserts

First, and most importantly, America needs a decisive victory to communicate to Democrat leaders, media propagandists, bureaucratic tyrants, violent rioters, Big Tech censors, race hustlers, and rogue three-letter agencies that their underhanded and often illegal actions will not be rewarded with electoral victory.

No, Democrats don’t deserve to win after waging unprecedented lawfare against their political opponents, from the former president to peaceful pro-life protesters. They don’t deserve to win after turning federal agencies into a Democrat get-out-the-vote hydra. Or after lying about the integrity of the 2020 election and persecuting honest Americans who questioned the procedures and results. Or after inciting racial violence that razed pockets of flyover America and then lying that the rioting and looting was “mostly peaceful.”

Democrats don’t deserve to win after airing blatant and thoroughly debunked propaganda on network television 24/7/365. Or after colluding with Big Tech oligarchs to throttle true opinions they don’t like as “misinformation.” Or after raiding Donald Trump’s home over an alleged documents crime less severe than his rival Joe Biden’s.

Democrats shouldn’t be able to win after lying about the physical fitness of their commander-in-chief and staging an undemocratic coup when it became clear he couldn’t beat Trump. They shouldn’t be able to win after lying about violent crime statistics and employment numbers.

Democrats shouldn’t get to smear their opponents as racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, Nazi, fascist garbage deplorables but pretend to be standard-bearers of “unity” and “decency” and be rewarded with a “W.”

Amid all these factors, there’s also the ongoing unspoken threat that Democrat activists hang over the heads of the rest of the country. It’s simultaneously infantile and violent: If we don’t get our way, we’ll make your life miserable. Once again, as voting comes to a close, business establishments in America’s urban centers have boarded up their windows, and we all know it isn’t in anticipation of a Harris-Walz win. It’s to minimize the tantrum damage if the Trump-deranged leftist toddlers don’t get their way.

This time around, though, the imagery isn’t just of an unruly child screaming on the floor of a grocery store after being denied a piece of candy. It’s of a kid who taunts and antagonizes his older siblings until they’ve had enough and counterstrike.

It’s that simple, really: Only a Trump blowout will communicate the degree to which Americans are done with Democrats’ dirty tricks.

Fast Results

Second, for faith in our democratic process, it’s detrimental for Americans not to know the election results on election night. A decisive Trump victory, however, could give us a quick and confidence-boosting conclusion.

The “new normal” of days-long ballot counting isn’t normal at all. Just eight years ago, in a New York Times documentary about the contested 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore, Jeffrey Toobin, best known for pleasuring himself on a work Zoom call, said, “The one thing no one expected in a presidential campaign is that we wouldn’t know who won on Election Day.” Now The New York Times is preparing voters not to know the results right away, saying, for instance, that “Pennsylvania is likely to take longer than election night.”

Anti-Trump secretaries of state are saying the same. In addition to Pennsylvania’s Al Schmidt, two other swing-state election chiefs — Georgia’s Brad Raffensperger and Michigan’s Jocelyn Benson — have gone on the air to make excuses for why they may not have votes tallied on election night. As my colleague Brianna Lyman wrote, this is despite election-night results being “the norm in America for decades” and still being “the norm in many much larger states.”

Delays in vote tallies sow massive distrust in our democratic process. Just four years ago, in the dead of night while most voters and journalists were asleep, something shady happened in Michigan and Wisconsin. As my colleague John Daniel Davidson wrote at the time, in both swing states, Trump led on election night. And in both states, overnight dumps of mail-in ballots went 100 percent for Biden and precisely zero percent for Trump. Those who pointed out this seemingly statistical impossibility on Twitter were censored.

Of course, a landslide Harris victory could produce a quick result too, but there’s one more factor she absolutely can’t deliver best for the American people.

A Better America

Finally, Trump’s policies will obviously be better for Americans than Harris’, and we all know it. Despite Democrats attempting to brand Harris as the “change” candidate, we’re living under her “leadership” right now, and it’s a nightmare. From a failing economy to the border crisis to deadly foreign policy and a war on the First Amendment, the Biden-Harris administration has made Americans less free, less safe, and less secure in the future. The only thing she has to offer voters is on-demand elective abortion and that she’s “not Donald Trump.”

On the contrary, we all remember life under Trump, and despite the media squawking nonstop, it was a relatively peaceful and prosperous four years. No new wars, a more secure border, a booming economy, affordable homes, flourishing families, and pride in our great country — this was Trump’s America. And Democrats deserve to be reminded of it, not just by a marginal loss but by enormous defeat.

A Trump victory this week would spare suffering Americans from living in Biden-Harris hell. But the best thing for the country — for justice, democracy, and everyday living — would be not just a win but an absolute blowout.