That title comes from an old saying of a Texas Longhorns football coach. And it is more relevant than ever. Donald Trump should savor this staggering and unexpected victory, which stymied the pundits and stumped the “best and brightest.” In his own weird way, he earned it. His native talents, gut instincts, horse sense and brutal candor made for a wholesome contrast to the cool, inhuman calculations of Clinton, Unlimited.

For all his attachment to wealth, it seems that Donald Trump actually listened to the sweaty guys — like my dad, a doorman that shared Trump’s views and his deep Queens accent — who worked for him in his buildings. But Clinton’s carefully staged sessions with poor or working people rolled over her like water off a plastic decoy duck.

Trump knew that the core groups that formed America have been pushed too far, too fast — and well beyond the demands of historic justice — into a desperate corner. Now when he takes office Trump needs to remember those people and zealously fight for their legitimate interests.

The Key Question of the Election

As I wrote months ago, when in my pointy, Niles Crane-shaped head Trump still seemed a hopeless longshot, the key question of this election came down to this: Are we killing the goose that laid the golden egg? Is the historic base of this nation — tolerant, hard-working Anglo-American Protestants, and those in other groups willing to gratefully sign on to their political culture — essential to its function? Or are those people dispensable? Is the Constitution the artifact of a precious tradition which requires careful handling? Or is American freedom, as some globalist conservatives started claiming on Sept. 12, 2001, the proper heritage of every human being on earth at any given moment — which we ought to be granting them without counting the costs?

I hope that Donald Trump remembers his core constituencies, the groups that rallied to him first against the odds and stuck with him to the end.

Should we invade the world and invite the world, and liquidate by economic pressure and political repression the “backward” elements that resist the transfer of their heritage to strangers? That’s clearly what Hillary thought — along with some leading Republicans. You can tick them off by noting how quickly they dropped out of the presidential race.

I hope that Donald Trump remembers his core constituencies, the groups that rallied to him first against the odds and stuck with him to the end. Those two key groups are blue collar Americans and evangelical Christians. They did so despite how unlikely he seemed at first to be their candidate of choice: a flashy billionaire, and twice-divorced foul-mouthed playboy.

Both groups are accustomed to seeing those who claimed to be their champions turn around and sell them out when elites come along and outbid them. These two groups’ deep disillusion helps explain why they took what seemed to our self-appointed elites the extreme measure of supporting Donald Trump. With Democrats flooding the country with low-skill immigrants and Republicans lockstep approving Obama’s court appointments, they figured, “What do I have to lose?”

There is a Great Deal to Lose

But there is a great deal to lose. Thanks to the brilliantly prudent political arrangements made by those Anglo-American Protestants who founded this wondrous country, we have a society that can within reason welcome and treat with fairness people of every tribe and background — so long as they’re willing to play by its rules. This is true not because our Founders thought they had found Rock Candy Mountain, or invented a system so perfect it couldn’t be broken. No, it’s because they knew that man is broken, that each of us is born conquered by sin, and can only claw back some scraps of the glory God meant for us with the aid of His generous grace. That means that no one person or group can be trusted with too much power — no matter how loudly “pure” their intentions seem to be.

It is that political system, designed to frustrate a would-be autocrat, that Donald Trump now must master. He will have to negotiate with people who denounced him. He will need to hear the arguments of sensible economists, and barter for support from a party establishment that loathes him. And he will need to do so without betraying the interests of those groups that worked hard to elect him. It’s a tall order indeed, one that would daunt a leader who hadn’t spent the last few decades surrounded by yes-men.

While reining in immigration from its current, unprecedented and totally unsustainable levels, he will need to make clear to Latinos and tolerant Muslim-Americans that he and his voters are driven by love, not hate. Love for a country that has been astoundingly generous to strangers, but has begun to run up against limits. Love for citizens who have been forgotten by their own supposed advocates, and written off as relics. Love for a culture that can in principle be open to all, but not to all of them at once.

And in loving that real America, which really exists within human limits in a fallen, fragile world, he is showing practical love to every one of its citizens, regardless of their backgrounds. We are all in this together. While some of us are mistaken, and some are insufferable snobs, not one of us is deplorable.