Kayleigh McEnany - The New American Revolution: The Making of a Populist Movement

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For the American peoplethis is your story.

And for Megan Carpenter and Rachel Joy Scott two women whose lives will always inspire mine.

By Sean Hannity

How did you see itthis movement of the people that elected Donald Trump as president? Its a question Im asked often, and the answer might lie in my past. I was a paperboy at eight, a dishwasher at twelve, a cook at thirteen, a busboy at fourteen, a waiter at fifteen, and a bartender at seventeen. Then I started painting houses, hanging wallpaper, laying tile, and framing roofs. Thats how I spent two decades of my life, and despite a long career as a prime-time host at Fox News and a syndicated radio host, I never lost touch with my blue-collar roots. Its who I am at my core.

While CNN was already heralding the passing of the torch from Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton the night before the election, I offered a reality check on the eve of Trumps victory, saying this: Now the liberal-loving Clinton mediathe mainstream mediayou know, the ones colluding with the campaign? Theyve declared this election over before your votes have even been cast or counted. Now they say its impossible for Donald Trump to win. I disagree. I dont think they could be further from the truth.

If the Destroy Trump Media had left the ivory tower echo chamber of Manhattan and DC and listened to the American people, maybe they would have seen it too. During Election 2016, I was on the road with these candidatestalking to the people, observing the crowds. You could feel this movement continually building behind President Trump. As the media lavished praise on the Obama presidency, I made a conscious decision to acknowledge the struggles of the people, not the so-called successes of a failed president. Every day I told my viewers about the 95 million Americans out of work, the 50 million in poverty, the 13 million on food stamps, and the fifty-one-year low in homeowners. These were the forgotten men and women whom President Trump spoke of. They are the story of Election 2016.

The plight of the people is something you rarely heard on CNN, and if you did, it was probably coming from my former intern and frequent guest on my Fox News show, Kayleigh McEnany. Kayleigh and her CNN coworker Jeffrey Lord were the two lone conservatives on CNN panels chock-full of liberal Democrats. Outnumbered 8-to-1 or, if she was lucky, 7-to-2, Kayleigh never backed down in fighting for the conservative movement supporting Donald Trump. My first Fox show, Hannity & Colmes , was her training ground as a young college student, which prepared her to fight for our president in the Destroy Trump Media. Now, my program Hannity is her welcome home after leaving CNN to become RNC spokesperson.

In The New American Revolution , Kayleigh puts a face on the struggles of the American people. These Americansplagued by terrorism, criminal wrongdoing, economic hardship, and so much moretogether formed the unstoppable movement of the people. Kayleigh traveled the country and profiled the lives of these Americans in moving detaila mother in Lakeway, Texas, who lost her only child and husband to terrorism; a wife in McBee, South Carolina, whose husband died on an Obama-era VA waitlist; and a mother in Mineral Springs, Arkansas, whose son was killed in a tragic encounter with an illegal immigrant. You wont find these stories in the mainstream media, but you will find them here in the pages ahead. Why did Donald Trump win the presidency? Well, its because of Americans like these, left behind by the federal government but resolutely determined to take their country back.

Theres a painting that says it better than words ever could. Its a painting that I purchased called The Forgotten Man by Jon McNaughton. In it, a man in jeans, a flannel shirt, and a zip-down sweatshirt sits on a bench with his head cast down and his hands on his knees in apparent frustration. Behind him stands President Barack Obama with his foot on the Constitution, surrounded by the presidents who came before him. The White House glows in the far-off distance. Supposed to be Americas house, it is now inaccessible to the exasperated citizen planted on a secluded bench. The paintings message is simple: Why are we not taking care of this guy who doesnt have a job, whos in poverty, whos out of work? In The New American Revolution , Kayleigh tells his story, the story of the forgotten man and woman who Donald Trump promised would be forgotten no longer.

February 23, 2016. It was the night of the Nevada Republican caucuses and my first time appearing on one of those infamous CNN election night panels as the lone conservative Trump supporter stacked against seven anti-Trump panelists. You know the ones Im talking about. Anderson Cooper in front of a glistening red, white, and blue set between two glass tables with four news personalities on either side of him. Well, I was one of those panelists, sitting just to the left of Anderson. I was that blond girl passionately advocating for then candidate Donald Trump, proudly wearing my gold cross and often seen sparring with the likes of Van Jones through the primaries, the debates, the conventions, and ultimately election nighta night no one will ever forget.

I think Donald Trump is, at this point, the inevitable nominee, I said to my colleagues that night of the Nevada caucuses, several months before Trump would go on to clinch the Republican nomination. Hes restored hope in the American people. My liberal co-panelists at CNN were less than enthused by my optimistic Trump projections, butmuch to their dismaythey would realize on November 8, 2016, that Donald Trump was indeed on an unstoppable path to the White House. As it turned out, conservative icons such as Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, and Mark Levin had a far better read on the American people than the Hollywood and media elite.

During my path through the heights of academiaHarvard, Georgetown, and OxfordI had supplemented my curriculum with the work of conservative thought leaders like these. They often provided common sense that was woefully lacking on my liberal campuses, and their well-formed opinions equipped me to battle for President Trump in the bowels of the mainstream media.

As a young girl, I grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh in my dads trucka nostalgic memory that I was honored to share with Rush in person at the 2017 Media Research Center Gala. And as a teenage college student, I served as an intern for Fox Newss Hannity & Colmes , where I learned from Sean Hannity, a valiant, bold, thoughtful conservative leader and one of the few television hosts with the foresight to see Donald Trumps victory on the horizon. Seans occasional notes of encouragement throughout the 2016 election would rejuvenate my embattled spirit as I fought back against false and misleading stories aimed at taking down Donald Trump. His show, Hannity , now serves as a haven of truth for conservatives everywhere.

My internship with Hannity & Colmes eventually turned into a job at Fox News as a producer with The Mike Huckabee Show . Governor Mike Huckabee, a man of unparalleled integrity and Christian faith, opened my young eyes to the many exasperating aspects of Washington that Donald Trump would go on to describe as the swampthe petty political games, the broken promises, the corruption, and betrayal. I took notice of Governor Huckabees earnest demeanor and love for everyday Americansattributes found rarely in the political class.