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A van laden with gas cylinders has exploded outside the headquarters of an Australian Christian lobby group, but police on Thursday said the blast was neither politically nor religiously motivated.

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It was supposed to have ended on November 8, 2016, when millions of Americans voted. When America woke up on November 9, 2016, they were greeted with the news that Donald J. Trump would be the next president of the United States. While millions breathed a sigh of relief that the election ordeal was finally over, thousands of others geared up for the next battle — the Electoral College. Two months earlier, I was asked by the chairman of Florida’s Republican party to perform what I thought would be an honorable yet perfunctory task — casting my vote as one of Florida’s 29 electors to formally elect the person whom the people would vote for on Election Day. Five months before I became a Florida elector, I was chosen to be a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. After the last primary had ended, it was clear that Donald Trump would be the Republican party’s nominee for president. But that didn’t stop the anti-Trump forces from marshalling an e-mail- and letter-writing campaign that inundated all of us delegates with missives from all over the country urging us not to vote for Trump. I felt like Glen Campbell’s Rhinestone Cowboy, “Getting cards and letters from people I don’t even know.” By party rule, I was bound to Donald Trump for three ballots, but that inconvenient detail seemed lost on those hell-bent on denying Trump the nomination. Their battle cry was to save the Republican party from destroying itself by nominating Trump because he was sure to lose in November, and along with him, hundreds of down-ballot Republican candidates, sealing the doom of the Republican party for a generation. My wife was unnerved, my kids ran for cover, and my friends questioned my sanity when I stood strong for Trump. When Trump emerged from the convention as the party’s nominee (though not without a fight), we knew the general election would be a knockdown, drag-out affair, and we were energized to gear up again. But we never envisioned that there would be yet another struggle even after the people would speak on Election Day. As November 8 drew to a close and November 9 dawned, I watched Trump give his acceptance speech, saw that Republicans would keep the House and Senate, finished my third cigar and went to bed. I had no inkling that yet another battle loomed, this time over the Electoral College. It didn’t take long for the pro-Clinton forces to regroup, in spite of Trump’s decisive Electoral College victory. I again became Campbell’s Rhinestone Cowboy, but this time on steroids. Thousands of letters and postcards (my spam filter stopped most of the e-mails) arrived daily. Though I couldn’t be persuaded to change my pledge, the barrage of missives was exhausting. I never knew there were so many Americans who were experts on the Federalist Papers and how I must vote my conscience to stop Donald Trump. The same people that condemned the Electoral College because it meant Clinton had lost despite winning the plurality of the vote now extolled the virtues of the Electoral College because it allowed me not to vote for Trump. People wrote to urge me to vote in accordance with the “will of the people” instead. News flash: That is exactly what I did when I cast my vote for the next president of the United States, Donald Trump. Trump beat Clinton in Florida by more votes than Obama beat Romney in 2012. So by casting my vote for Donald Trump as president, I was voting to follow the will of the people, according to the system laid out in our Constitution. My pledge was to vote for the winner, no matter who he or she turned out to be, and I considered it a sacred duty to my country. #related#On December 19, I arrived at the capitol building in Tallahassee to cast my Electoral College vote and was greeted by hundreds of protesters. While I certainly respected their right to peaceably assemble, I knew that for myself and the 28 others who would gather with me that day, there was no chance any of us would do anything other than affirm who the people had voted to elect on November 8. Perhaps now that we have cast our ballots, the country can at last accept that Trump has won and give him a chance to make good on his promises. — Peter M. Feaman is the Republican National Committeeman from Florida.

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We are one month from inauguration day, and it looks like the Donald Trump revolution is already almost over. In its place is a globalist establishment led by a rogue tweeter. Doubt me? Let’s review the great causes that motivated his base. Since winning the White House, Trump has not “burned it down.” Instead, he’s “built it up.” Trump’s anti-establishment candidacy has put the establishment in charge. Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell remain at the helms of the House and Senate. McConnell — the ultimate insider — may now be the most powerful Senate majority leader in decades, thanks to Harry Reid’s weakening of the filibuster. Trump’s core wanted to destroy both men. Instead, they rule their chambers and look primed to pass their own agendas through Congress. Beyond Capitol Hill, Trump has stocked his staff and his cabinet with establishment fixtures and billionaires. His chief of staff is Reince Priebus, the former head of the RNC. His cabinet nominees include long-serving generals, the longest-serving governor in the history of Texas, the CEO of ExxonMobil, and a former Goldman Sachs partner. Sure, he has a sprinkling of insurgents in the ranks, but his early supporters — insiders in outsiders’ clothing, such as Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani, and Chris Christie — are notable mainly for their absence. Not one has yet earned a significant place by his side. They hitched a ride on the Trump Train and were ushered off before the last stop. If Trump didn’t “burn it down,” he sure didn’t “drain the swamp.” In fact, just today Gingrich, interviewed by NPR, said, “I’m told he now just disclaims that. He now says it was cute, but he doesn’t want to use it anymore.” Well, how could he? Government by Goldman Sachs and ExxonMobil is government by the swamp, of the swamp, and for the swamp. This isn’t a revolution, it’s a thoroughly conventional changing of the guard. The list goes on. “Lock her up?” Nope. Trump already announced that he wouldn’t pursue charges against Hillary Clinton, and two weeks ago at one of his “thank you” rallies in Michigan, he interrupted the crowd’s chant with, “That plays great before the election — now we don’t care, right?” I guarantee the people who put “Hillary for prison” signs in their yard cared. But Trump never did. It’s almost as if Trump said what he needed to say to win election, without regard for the truth or the consequences. Imagine that! It’s almost as if Trump said what he needed to say to win election, without regard for the truth or the consequences. Imagine that! Indeed, he even seemed to impute his own motives to his crowd. At a rally last week he said, “You people were vicious, violent, screaming, ‘Where’s the wall? We want the wall!’ Screaming, ‘Prison! Prison! Lock her up!’ I mean you are going crazy. I mean, you were nasty and mean and vicious and you wanted to win, right?” But now, in Trump’s words, “You’re mellow and you’re cool and you’re not nearly as vicious or violent, right? Because we won, right?” For Trump, it was all tactics. And he appears to think it was just tactics for his supporters as well. Perhaps nothing sums up Trump’s insincerity more than his secretary-of-state pick. To the extent that there was any cornerstone to Trump’s thoughts on foreign policy, it was his visceral disgust at George W. Bush and Bush-era interventionism. That was “globalist.” That was “nation-building.” He even went so far as to echo far-left talking points and claim that Bush lied his way into the Iraq War. But in nominating the CEO of one of the world’s largest multinational corporations, Trump has nominated the very definition of a globalist. And just as Rex Tillerson has come under fire for his close ties to Vladimir Putin, the people who’ve rallied most strongly to his side are members of the Bush foreign-policy team — foremost among them Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld — and Bush himself, who in a private phone call last week lobbied Bob Corker on Tillerson’s behalf. Where are the sneering anti-globalists now? For those not on the Trump Train, these moves are mostly reassuring. Some of his cabinet picks, such as General James Mattis at the Pentagon, are inspired. Others are simply solid. Most seem poised to implement the better parts of the GOP agenda and to dismantle the worst of Obama’s excesses. Trump’s foreign policy, however, is still the wild card, and he has done nothing at all to show Americans that he has a proper understanding of the metastasizing Russian threat to America’s vital strategic interests. #related#Trump’s movement was always about Trump. And those who marched to the polls believing that he’d “fight” for them should now know that the only fights he picks are those it’s in his self-interest to pick. Yes, he still might try to build the wall, because it would be too embarrassing to renege on that campaign promise. Yes, this first Supreme Court nominee will likely be solid for the same reason. But you can also count on him to blur the lines between his business and his administration, because money is in his self-interest. And he’ll likely keep tweeting like a Breitbart blogger, because that has served his political interests beautifully, at least so far. It’s as if the people stormed the Bastille and set up the guillotines, only to find their leader feasting with King Louis. It turns out he was a member of the ancien régime all along. — David French is a staff writer for National Review, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, and an attorney.

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