The past year was a pivotal one, in which we witnessed what appeared to be the imminent demise of the country we know shift course at the last minute. Americans largely agree the county was taken to the brink of disaster in 2024 but are hopeful about the year ahead.
Last year we had a sitting president who was largely incapable of continuing to run the country, a political class and media that were hiding that fact, we were on the brink of a possible world war, and political divides were as stark as ever.
The political establishment, in their desperate desire to keep President Donald Trump from a second term, anointed outgoing President Biden’s radical Vice President – a woman who was largely rejected by her own party four years ago – to lead the Democratic Party.
It appeared as if the political establishment, through their shrieks about “protecting democracy”, would stop at nothing to fundamentally transform our country into something unrecognizable in nearly every possible way.
And yet, facing a radical Harris-Walz presidency that would have fundamentally changed our country for the worse, we the people took the reins and turned the country just in time in a direction that strives to preserve freedom.
There is broad sentiment that not only are Americans largely supportive of the way President Donald Trump is handling his transition into office, but many people believe we narrowly escaped disaster as a country in 2024.
According to an end-of-year survey conducted by YouGov, Americans say 2024 was a terrible year for the country. By a resounding 33 points – 49 percent to 16 percent – Americans say 2024 was a terrible or bad year for the country, and just 16 percent say it was a good or great year.
Nearly 40 percent of the country says 2024 was one of the worst years in American history according to the survey. Sixty percent of Republicans, 33 percent of independents, and nearly a fifth of Democrats (19 percent) agree 2024 was one of the worst years in our nation’s history.
However, Americans are hopeful for the future – the public says 48 percent to 17 percent they believe the year ahead will be a good or great year for the country rather than a bad or terrible one.
Young people – who moved radically toward President Trump and the Republican Party in 2024 – are particularly optimistic about their lives over the next year. Americans under 30 say by 49 points – 56 percent to seven percent, that their lives will be better in 2025.
Americans are hopeful not only for the year ahead, but largely believe the country will improve over the next ten years, after a long grueling descent. By ten points – 36 percent to 26 percent – Americans say the next ten years will be better than the last ten years were.
The past year will go down in history as the year the people reversed course to save a nation teetering on the brink of collapse. We are far, far from where we need to be. It took decades of the doomed globalist experiment to reach the rock bottom of 2024, and it will take years to purge bloated bureaucracy, figure out solutions to the millions of illegals the Biden Administration brought in, and restore peace as a country.
Conservatives have won only a battle in the cultural war, and yet that battle proved to be significant. The next ten years require even stronger dedication to restoring sanity as a country. The good news is, the non-political class are now interested in a way out from the claws of globalism and cultural decay, and they are listening to alternatives.
Manzanita Miller is the senior political analyst at Americans for Limited Government Foundation.
Reproduced with permission. Daily Torch – Keeping the light of liberty shining