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[Order David Horowitz’s new book, America Betrayed, HERE.]
Remember in October of 2008, when Barack Obama boasted, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America” into an even bigger and more intrusive big government nanny state? That prediction was on its way to being confirmed by Obama’s two terms and his policies both at home and abroad, from the expansion of illiberal identity politics, racial divisiveness, and tax-and-spend economics here; to an appeasing, self-loathing, serially cringing apologies overseas. His handpicked successor, Hillary Clinton, was poised to take over the project and lead it to its completion.
Then the unthinkable happened––Donald Trump. At first, he was a novelty act, too crass and déclassé for the bipartisan political guild to believe he could displace the five more conventional Republicans in the primaries. He lacked the credentials typical of postwar presidents––election to state or federal office, a degree from a tony law school, and experience as a lawyer.
In addition to being tainted by commerce, his business ventures were infra dig for the political establishment––beauty pageants, professional wrestling, real estate development, and a successful reality television show The Apprentice, with its insensitive catch-phrase “You’re fired!” For cognitive elites who fancy themselves culturally literate, his book, The Art of the Deal, reeked of hucksterism and profit-grubbing. Worst of all, his take-no-prisoners, blunt, often brutal, hyperbolic speaking style was more suited for a biker bar than the hallowed halls of government, and their decorous, elevated discourse redolent of a country club soirée.
But Donald Trump’s biggest sin was winning the presidency, which discombobulated the pundits, experts, consultants, and political guildsmen. His scorn for their haughty “norms” and fossilized received wisdom was unforgivable, and his patriotic populism was an ominous sign of incipient fascism, since every well-bred globalist technocrat knew that nationalism is the gateway drug to racism, xenophobia, and ultimately Hitlerian tyranny.
That his first term was successful on every level, with economic growth at home, and peace abroad, didn’t matter to the bipartisan Trumpophobes. He just wasn’t one of them, and made his disdain for their missish rules and gate-keeping “norms” crudely obvious. For the political establishment, he had to go “by any means necessary.”
The purging began before he took office with the Russia hoax abetted by the FBI and pimped by the regime media. What followed was more corruption of government agencies like the DOJ, and state prosecutors and judges who conducted transparently political fixed trials for invented “crimes” ––such show trials being one example of the “transformations” Obama promised.
The 2020 election, riddled with anomalies and hinky practices that cried out for an investigation, was quickly declared, by fiat, completely free of fraud, and any questioning of that conclusion was libeled as an attack on “our democracy,” as well as “election denial,” even though Hillary Clinton has been doing the same thing incessantly ever since 2016. That ginned up political “crime” was twinned with the January 6 demonstration, dubbed an “insurrection” that also tried to destroy “our democracy.” Hundreds of mostly middle-aged day-trippers were arrested, and many have been locked up going on four years, most for misdemeanors.
Next, Biden’s first term featured manifest failures on foreign and domestic policies. He has shamelessly appeased the mullahs in Iran, recklessly withdrew from Afghanistan at the cost of 13 servicemen’s lives, and compromised Israel’s very existence by hamstringing its attempt to stop decades of jihadist murder of their citizens. And on the domestic policy front, he has strangled the economy with intrusive regulations and drunken-sailor spending requiring an avalanche of fiat money, increasing the debt and turbocharging inflation. Equally destructive, he ended Trump’s policies that kept our border secure, and subsequently allowed entry to 10 million mostly unvetted illegal aliens, and distributed them all over the country.
Before the first debate with Trump, the latter had only a slim lead in the polls, despite Biden’s terrible policy record, constitutionally dubious show trials of his predecessor, and substantial evidence of pay-to-play corruption. The regime media covered it all up, rationalizing, or ignoring. And don’t forget the media’s shameless three-card-monte coverage of Biden’s obvious cognitive and physical impairments.
The debate blew up that fiction and the Dems’ plan to demonize Trump as a “convicted felon” who would become a dictator, shred the Constitution, bring back Jim Crow segregation, and execute the preposterous talking-heads of The View and the proudly un-American House Squad.
Biden’s disastrous performance during the debate featured all the symptoms of cognitive decline, now juxtaposed with a vigorous, fluent, and restrained Donald Trump. The optics were too awful for the Dems’ usual lies and spin, and polls were still declining, threatening the down-ballot candidates for the Senate and House.
Then, if all that weren’t frightening enough, an assassin armed with a rifle, and graciously allowed by incompetent security officers to make a rooftop sniper’s perch a mere 130 yards from Trump’s podium, got off five rounds. The kill shot missed when Trump slightly turned head, taking the round to his ear. A government sniper finally took the assassin out.
More damaging for the Dems, Trump once again did the unexpected. Surrounded by his brave secret-service detail, they were moving him to the van when Trump, blood streaming down his face, stood up, his upraised fist clenched, and defiantly chanted “fight!” while pumping his fist, with an American flag for a backdrop. As the Wall Street Journal put it, the iconic photo of that moment “transformed him from a nominee to a leader of almost mythical status.”
But for the Dems, once again the comparison with the brave, defiant Trump with the pale, addled, empty-eyed, gibberish-mumbling Joe Biden shrank him into insignificance. The intra-party coup against the incumbent started gathering momentum.
The third blow came with the wildly successful Republican convention, a joyous display of unity, confidence, and sheer entertainment. Trump’s rivals from the primary––Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, and Vivek Ramaswamy––spoke and enthusiastically endorsed Donald Trump; Ultimate Fighting Championship boss Dana White introduced Trump; wrestler Hulk Hogan performed; Lee Greenwood, Kid Rock, Jason Aldean, and Tenor Christopher Macchio––another Trump surprise–– sang; and Franklin Graham gave the benediction.
The line-up reflected and celebrated Trump’s working class and normal American supporters whom the Democrats, along with their media press agents and noisy leftwing caucus, for years have denigrated and slurred as fascists, religious nuts, homophobes, xenophobes, racists, sexists, flat-earthers, and anti-science dullards who refuse to “follow the science.”
But the RNC audience, the Dems’ “deplorables,” “bitter clingers to guns and religion,” and “smelly Wal-Mart shoppers” were jazzed with joy and enthusiasm, happy warriors obviously eager for the coming election battle. The whole extravaganza contrasted starkly with the panicky, sourpuss Democrats plotting feverishly to disenfranchise their own voters and elected delegates by booting Biden from the ticket. So much for their ostentatious display of fear for “our democracy.”
Trump is the architect of this transformation of the Republican Party into winners, who have good odds for taking back the presidency and Congress, rolling back Obama’s progressive “transformation,” and returning our country to its heritage of citizen rule, unalienable rights, and the freedom that made this country great.
Note: I had submitted this column prior to the news that Biden is ending his run for reelection and supporting Kamala Harris’ candidacy. Regardless, Trump’s accomplishment in reinvigorating the party and boosting its unity and enthusiasm remains a huge advantage for Republicans.
Noel Skwiot says
This is a prefect summarization of what we’ve all experienced over the past eight years. Thanks for putting this piece together.
THX 1138 says
Nothing has changed.
Did Ronald Reagan and the “Reagan Revolution” change the trajectory of America or the West? No, it did not. After Reagan America kept drifting towards dictatorship, America is now closer to dictatorship than when Reagan was in office.
Donald Trump will buy time but without the proper philosophy and political ideology America will keep on drifting toward dictatorship.
The truth is the vast majority of Americans today, conservatives and liberals alike, want a contradiction, want to have their cake and eat it too, they want socialism, and they want capitalism. They want to be free to pursue their personal happiness and have a government safety net. They want to be free to pursue their personal happiness and have the government rob their neighbors to help them do it. They want to be free to earn and keep their wealth and they want the government to redistribute wealth. They can’t have both.
“From her start, America was torn by the clash of her political system with the altruist morality. Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society. Today, the conflict has reached its ultimate climax; the choice is clear-cut: either a new morality of rational self-interest, with its consequences of freedom, justice, progress and man’s happiness on earth—or the primordial morality of altruism, with its consequences of slavery, brute force, stagnant terror and sacrificial furnaces….
We are not a capitalist system any longer: we are a mixed economy, i.e., a mixture of capitalism and statism, of freedom and controls. A mixed economy is a country in the process of disintegration, a civil war of pressure-groups looting and devouring one another.” – Ayn Rand
Intrepid says
Fortunately for America, Americans don’t want what you preach, which is the totalitarian dictatorship of Ayn Rand and her irrelevant acolytes.
Aristotle Cam says
Donald Trump is the epitome of Capitalism. He has wealth through hard work and has taught his children
by his example-both standards of Capitalism. At 78, he should be sitting back and enjoying the fruits of his
labor. Yet-here he is fighting for us, through 7 years of extreme and perpetual harassment. If this isn’t
altruism I don’t know what is!
THX 1138-Please take another look!
Rob A says
Are you not aware that you’re tacitly implying that you prefer the orderliness of totalitarianism? If the vagaries and messiness of capitalism and a free society is not to your liking then I strongly suggest that you immigrate to Cuba or North Korea. or perhaps China.
The government of those countries are probably more to your liking. They dictate, you obey.
THX 1138 says
Ronald Reagan and his “Reagan Revolution” came and went. President Reagan has been dead and buried for twenty years now and America has kept drifting toward dictatorship.
Donald Trump will come and go and when he’s been dead and buried for twenty years America will be even closer to dictatorship or actually have become a dictatorship by then.
The only thing that can change the course of American history now, towards freedom, liberty, and capitalism, is to teach Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism at the universities and the high schools. It’s the only thing that can do it.
“The present state of the world is not the proof of philosophy’s impotence, but the proof of philosophy’s power. It is philosophy that has brought men to this state—it is only philosophy that can lead them out….
A majority without an [philosophical] ideology is a helpless mob, to be taken over by anyone . . . . Political freedom requires much more than the people’s wish. It requires an enormously complex knowledge of political theory and of how to implement it in practice.” – Ayn Rand
Intrepid says
You are a bundle of joy and optimism as usual.
Except for one thing. Conservatism is not dead and buried. It encompasses the Reagan Revolution and will encompass MAGA into the future.
Unfortunately for you your dead and buried religion will never be taught in Universities and public schools, because 1) Public schools are union schools and 2) universities are Leftist propaganda factories.
And since Objectivism has been basically dead and buried for the last 50 years I don’t think there is much chance of anyone adopting it anytime soon.
You are not getting that list of teaching opportunities because you are basically too lazy to do anything other than copy/paste your moronic childish drivel demanding that we pick up your slack. Because you are a lazy slug your dreams will be dead and buried with you.
Sucks to be you….too stupid to realize when a minor philosophy from the ’50s never really caught on.
THX 1138 says
Jesus Christ has been dead and buried for 2,000 years and he ain’t coming back to save America.
Atikva says
How do you know it?
Judith2 says
Of course you haven’t read the book
Intrepid says
Your problem is you only believe in what you can feel and see in front of you. Which makes you a small minded fool. It must gall you that can’t let yourself believe anything else.
Christians believe Christ will return. It’s as simple as that. You can’t see the spiritual in anything because you incapable of it. And you can’t change Christian belief. You expect Christ to be flesh and blood. Which is almost as limiting as your belief in Objectivism.
He won’t be flesh and blood. Christ exists on a different temporal plain. He will appear in whatever form he chooses. It is so far beyond your puny understanding of everything you think you know. And you basically know nothing.
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy”. — Hamlet.
Intrepid says
Not Christ’s job to save America, doofus. It is his job to save men’s souls.
What a depressing life you lead.
Kent says
Dear THX1138:
What makes you think Christ is buried ?
You have no credibility when you make assertions without facts,
Kent
Rob A says
He’s clearly a proponent of communism. What else do you expect him to say? In his notion of reality, the government is God.
Kynarion Hellenis says
Jesus has aseity. He is one substance with God the Father, the Author and sustainer of all life. That being so, no one can take His life. Jesus can lay His life down and He can take it up again because he has aseity. See Exodus 3:14, John 10:18 and many others.
Jesus predicted His resurrection, so the Jews had a guard placed at the tomb to make sure the body was not stolen. Scripture records the first lie that Jesus’ body was stolen. Look at Matthew 28: 11 – 15. The Jewish leaders paid a large sum of money to the guards of His tomb to say the disciples stole the body while they slept.
There is no evidence that Jesus remained dead. If Jesus is God, then having aseity would certainly be a definitive test.
This will help you understand aseity:
https://www.gotquestions.org/aseity-of-God.html
Thomas E. Warwick says
It’s all moot, people. The Republican leadership at all levels will work long and hard to find a way to piss away their advantage. The leadership will stick knives in Trump’s back at any opportunity. He’s probably safer with the assassins than with the Republican leadership. Never, never donate money to the NRC, they will find a way to sneak it out the back door and give it to Democrats while, at the same time, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Down Easter says
That is why giving MAGA a young leader after Trump is so important. The Hillbilly may be more important than Trump himself.
Maha says
I hope he isn’t a Trojan Horse. He brings with him Peter Thiel. How significant that is remains to be seen, but CIA connections should send shivers down anyone’s spine at this point. On the bright side, Thiel brings money and a cadre of the tech-wealthy to the MAGA party.
Lionel Mandrake says
“with economic growth at home, ”
Alas, our focus in $ over all elss is why Ameeica is self destructing.
With title of piece I was expecting evidence of his change of heart on all things “money” and renounce his idolotry of the stuff we worship in America over God – on both sides of aisle. That his big tent at RNC now includes Deep State (eg Halley) I fear we are in Deep Shi$.
Lionel Mandrake says
Corr.ected:
“with economic growth at home, ”
Alas, our focus in $ over all else is why America is self destructing.
With title of piece I was expecting evidence of his change of heart on all things “money” and renounce his idolotry of the stuff we worship in America over God – on both sides of aisle. That his big tent at RNC now includes Deep State (eg Halley, Dimon/Fink) I fear we are in Deep Shi$.
Chris Shugart says
You forgot the most venial sin: Trump was not a politician.
I remember his 2016 announcement speech when he threw his hat into the ring. The first thing I noticed was he was talking directly to his audience. He didn’t have any of that mental machinery that politicians have when they speak in public, as they mentally scrutinize every word before it leaves their mouths, always in fear that they may utter the wrong word. Trump had none of that. You could practically see the words going direct from his brain to his lips—there was no filter. I remember thinking “This is different. This is unique. I think he could win.”
I’d rather have an honest asshole than a dishonest glad-hander any day of the week.
Ron Kelmell says
Never under estimate the ability of a professional politician to ‘get votes’. Grave registry, ballot harvesting, nursing homes, the sources are endless. I saw a guy running absentee ballots on the office copy machine.
Without a return to the Judaeo Christian ethic and the strength growing from real trust in the risen Lord……America is over.
Jake says
I believe what THX1138 said has merit. How do patriots dismantle a bureaucracy that has been embedded in DC for many years? We can trace their efforts all the way back to Wilson and before. The great experimenter FDR is another example of that history. There are many more I will not mention. The fact that America has lost it’s moral foundation is apparent to anyone who is ready to look. I support Trump and populism but he is one man who will have to deal with these cabal criminals who run the government. Can he change the vector of the country? Yes, he has much support but how much support is required to clean out the criminal elements in the government. I believe he will be successful but only for a short time. My Bible says that the world will continue to disintegrate under the leadership of the prince of the air until God has had enough. For those of us who are thinking we need to hope for the best and prepare for the worst. As for Ayn Rand, Her writings are libertarian and nothing more-if you read some you will see that.