Ladies, gentlemen, pedes of all ages: I want you all to understand something.

When I joined /r/The_Donald way back in 2016, when we had nary 30k subs, when Reddit actually treated us just like any other subreddit, Donald Trump was an underdog. He was laughed at. The media said there was no way, that it was already decided. He was, despite his confidence and bravado, considered an underdog, a one in a million, one in a billion shot.

It was reported, widely, by every major outlet, that he would never win the Republican nomination. Even if he did, by some miracle, pull that off? He would never stand a chance against the presumptive nominee for the Democrats in the form of Hillary Clinton, the "most qualified Presidential candidate in history," as the media once painted her.

Yet, we continued unabated. We shared real news and information. We reported on and talked about what others deleted and shutdown. We questioned what everyone decided was already settled. We meme'd. We shitposted until the bricks blotted out the sun. Then, yes, we shitposted in the shade of our big, beautiful wall, too. We held steadfast to the belief that Donald Trump would be elected the President of the United States, and we had fun doing it.

Now, in 2020, we're back in the same situation we once were. The President is written off, considered defeated, yet the ink isn't yet dry. And what do I see? A resurgence here, a return to the energy of The_Donald of the day, of 2016, when all the odds were stacked against us. That we are living through a microcosm of all those months, where we are the only ones who believe it when Donald Trump says he can win. Where we are the underdogs once again.

Where we're our best.

When the world, and everyone in it, say that you've already lost, and there's nothing left to fight for, what they've done is created an opponent with nothing left to lose.

I can't see the future, I don't know how everything will go down, but there is something I can say as I feel the energy around here now:

This will be our finest hour.