Originally published at Reckonin.com

It is not easy to find out what is going on in Washington these days. That is partly due to Donald Trump’s style – many initiatives and gambits, loudly and provocatively presented. Some of these, like the tariff business, are obviously maneuvering for position; others are serious.

This is wonderful and Trump is doing great service to our supposed government of the people. He is talking directly to the people and raising real issues. While for the last half century the Uniparty presidents and congresspersons have avoided all real issues as they increased federal power and pronounced platitudes about doing good that were believed only by those who were already slaves of the Establishment.

Another and larger reason for the difficulties in understanding is the total dishonesty of the now completely corrupted mainstream press and television. Media have always been biased. It used to be that you allowed for the bias and managed to get the genuine substance of what was happening. That is now impossible for the millions of dolts who still follow the mainstream media. No President has ever been subjected to the daily barrage of negative lies that Trump is experiencing.

In theory, reporters objectively report what a President proposes and has to say. They may add objective report of what critics and opponents have to say in response, and the editorial page may express opinion as to what is going on. That is proper public deliberation for a supposedly free country.

But the current media never report plainly what Trump does and says. The reader first hears of the proposals in a negative context. A few examples of recent online headlines: “Trump Appears to Change Tune”; “Trump Scrambles for Positive Spin”; “Buyer’s Remorse Strikes Trump Voters”; “Judge Declares Trump Action Unconstitutional.”

College Journalism courses are now called Media Arts or some such thing. It is now established that college Journalism majors rank even below Education majors in I.Q. They all aspire to be news anchors on television. I know where of I speak. In my long ago misspent youth I was a newspaper reporter for two years.

In those days reporters were curious, tough, and skeptical. Some had not even been to college. They did not accept the usual pablum from mayors, police chiefs, bureaucrats, judges, self-promoting political wannabes, and business tycoons. To the extent that the owners allowed, they tried to tell it like it was.

More recently I have had to opportunity to see how much the news “profession” has deteriorated. For a period the press was interested in me as (unbelievably) a “Southern nationalist.” I encountered a number of reporters. I never met one from a “respectable” news outlet who knew anything, was capable of independent thought, and able to report anything except in terms of current clichés.

Many friends on my side are expressing disappointment with Trump. He is not exactly the type of leader I admire. But he seems to have at least made a start on the immense, difficult, and necessary task of cleaning up immigration and firing federal bureaucrats. Who else who is high in public life has ever even considered doing such things?

Is it possible that even Trump’s greatest flaw, support of Israeli imperialist genocide, may offer some promise. He may have wrapped Netanyahu so tightly that he can exercise some control over him in the only way it can be done. May we hope?

The views expressed at AbbevilleInstitute.org are not necessarily the views of the Abbeville Institute.


Clyde Wilson

Clyde Wilson is a distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Carolina where he was the editor of the multivolume The Papers of John C. Calhoun. He is the M.E. Bradford Distinguished Chair at the Abbeville Institute. He is the author or editor of over thirty books and published over 600 articles, essays and reviews and is co-publisher of www.shotwellpublishing.com, a source  for unreconstructed Southern books.

21 Comments

  • Paul Yarbrough says:

    “ I never met one from a ‘respectable’ news outlet who knew anything, was capable of independent thought, and able to report anything except in terms of current clichés.”

    The current crop of journalists is for the most part, no more than most Hollywood stars, who do no more for a living than to play in a world of make believe.

  • Dr. Mark A. Holowchak says:

    Yow! The slide into monocracy is heartening????? His tariffs are disastrous and were illegally implemented through the ruse that they are part of Emergency Act to bypass Congressional approval. Numerous other examples of tyrannical behavior. The chaos is the result not of deliberate calculations, but by dementia and mercurialness.

    • Earl Starbuck says:

      With respect, Dr. Holowchak, America has functioned effectively as a monocracy for decades. I don’t see how Trump’s actions differ in that regard from Barack Obama’s “pen and a phone.” Can the republic be saved at this point? Or, more to the point, does a majority of the people even want it to be saved? More and more Americans seem perfectly fine with executive government, applauding governors and presidents who issue “executive orders” to bypass the legislative process. I remember lamenting to a family member a decade ago: “The U.S. government has kept the form of a republic while losing the spirit. We now live under a monarchy supported by a judicial and bureaucratic oligarchy.”

      • Paul Yarbrough says:

        “ ‘We now live under a monarchy supported by a judicial and bureaucratic oligarchy.’”

        Hard to argue with that. JMO

      • Rex P says:

        We live under a government in repair…for the original Constitution has been in revision since 1865. Not States’ Rights but everyone’s rights being taken away through laws and orders totally unaware to a public. The Judicial branch was never founded to have mandate power over states i.e. drinking age, abortion, education, marriages etc… these guys are appointed by the president. No election for these nine, yet they can be bought. President Trump is giving back that to the people and the states. The public can’t handle the truth in real time, so it’s being done through these comical political exploit. His references to the Republic and 1778 Constitution are clearly to awaken a sleeping giant. He’s not tyrannical, but a war time president with a legislative branch that continues to be riddled in corruption. Trump was asked to run in 2016 to launch the war against Washington that had been choking its citizens since 1865. Kennedy tried…but this time we will get our Republic back for the people, the way it was intended. It has been in our faces… pay attention to the clues that are evident. Biden wasn’t the president, he was a distraction. He boarded Air Force One through the cargo hatch… cropped scenes so you know the plane wasn’t there. He stood behind an unauthorized presidential seal…it didn’t look like Trump’s. Also, let punctuation tell it to you. When you see his presidential terms written it’s not 45 & 47 it’s 45-47 the dash is everything. SEC Conference Champs 86 -89 means 86 87 88 89 This isn’t a mistake. My point is much more is going on and the public is unaware left to analyze the media fabrications. This is a military operation and nothing on the outside is at it seems. The South is going to shine and Dixie’s brightest days are ahead as the truth about our nation also comes to the surface. Those that defected their Southern heritage and adopted the false narratives will find themselves in a room with no chair. Betrayal is hard to forgive. In conclusion, my current position allows me access to information, but disclose little; there is not point debating these issues. However, I wouldn’t waste my time, if it weren’t true. Remember to question everything when it doesn’t make sense and you will eventually find a nugget of truth. Let the liberation begin.

    • Gordon says:

      Inertia has the U.S. tacking inexorably to the Left, as it has been since Obama… or the Clintons… or the George Bush’s…. or Johnson…. or FDR…. or Wilson… or Lincoln….. or Hamilton…. but definitely Obama. Nothing was going to halt the inertia without blowing things up. Nothing was going to turn it around without exposing the depths of Leftist control throughout government, related agency, institution and the education industry.

      Trump isn’t John Taylor of Caroline but he sure has blown things up, at least exposing the rot and giving the people the opportunity to clean it out and repair it. Trump is entertaining as hell too, the funniest President of the United States in my lifetime.

  • Barbara says:

    If I’m allowed a comment may I say, Trump is helping technocrats set up a technate or technocracy. How can anyone today have any confidence whatsoever in the federal government? They practically drew a picture with Biden in the White House telling us, showing us that the president does not run the White House or the government.

    The media has been controlled by Jews since it was invented. Television has become a boob tube controlled by Jews. Otherwise it is the greatest invention in the history of the world, the perfect medium for the majority of Americans to get the facts we need to know in order that we may govern ourselves. They couldn’t have pulled off 9/11 if they didn’t control tv. They couldn’t have genocided millions around the world with covid and vaccines if they didn’t control tv. They couldn’t have killed Kennedy. They couldn’t control who gets to be a candidate. We don’t even get to choose candidates and if we try they use tv to destroy them.

    The entire federal government exists to promote the interests of Jews. We are even forced to pay a Kosher tax. Musk has gotten all of our personal private data and he is a blooming technocrat just like his grand dad who lived in Canada. Trump is promoting a digital currency. With that they can control whether or not you can even buy food and you won’t if you oppose what they’re doing. They can track everybody on the planet with Elon’s satellites. They kill people with 5G towers and smart meters. They have an agenda of reducing the world population. They’ve destroyed families, committed horrible things to our children to ruin a generation. They have tech that they can cause tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes and are geoengineering the planet.

    Fauci is not in prison. No hospital that deliberately knowingly killed covid victims has been investigated or punished. Bill Kristol is walking around a free man even though we know who caused 9-11 so they could get their new Pearl Harbor and lie us into Iraq. How many Iraqis died in their own country so Israel could be a hegemon? How many white American soldiers died? How many vets do not get the help they need while we send billions everyday to Israel?

    https://www.technocracy.news/
    https://geoengineeringwatch.org/

    With all due respect, you have no idea what is going on. They stole an election and the people who ran the Biden White House did not give up that power and go away. They put Trump in the White House because so many people put their hope in him and he can get away with stuff anybody else could not. The answer is in your article. It’s the media. The same people who run it run Trump. The Jews. That’s why most people have no idea what is going on and that is all planned. If it happens it was planned. You should allow open discussion here.

    • Rex P says:

      You make a heavy argument… and you know, you are correct with about 90%. This is war and one that the people would get in the way if they knew everything. So, a lot of the media is distractions and false flags to keep people focusing on manufactured events. We have made great strides and in the home stretch but now the public has to be caught up. As people were taken down, a 2.0 was put in place to facilitate the narrative. This is all I can say, but rest assured … Fauci has been put on a long “time out”. While it appears Trump supports… i.e. Israel etc..just take a break to get some popcorn.. the denouement is fast approaching in this novel.

    • Matt C. says:

      “They (the Jews) couldn’t have pulled off…if they didn’t control tv…They couldn’t have killed Kennedy.”

      Conspiracies are real, but I’m not certain about there having been a conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy; though I did lean very heavily in that direction. However, Bonar Menniger’s book “Mortal Error,” and “JFK The Smoking Gun,” by Colin McLaren has persuaded me to what probably really did happen that day. The difference was between the full metal jacket bullet, and the frangible round (not used by Oswald).

  • Paul Yarbrough says:

    “If I’m allowed a comment may I say, Trump is helping technocrats set up a technate or technocracy. How can anyone today have any confidence whatsoever in the federal government? They practically drew a picture with Biden in the White House telling us, showing us that the president does not run the White House or the government.”

    Interesting thoughts. Some I probably agree, some I need to think a bit more about.

    But I will agree on the presidency. The occupant probably is less in authority than most people think (I believe). I recall how disappointed I was at what Ronald Reagan appeared to be after his election and what the results were. After a few years at his having served two terms, I thought “Wow, was that a big fat nothing.” I further thought that if he had campaigned more like Goldwater, and with Goldwater’s intent, he (Reagan) would have been slaughtered in 1980 the way Goldwater was in 1964.

    I have been of the opinion for many, many years that the defeat of the South in 1865 was a monstrous effort (successful) at creating a single state for control by the few. AND that has happened. Jews or no Jews, until people (the majority) understand the difference between The National Anthem and The Star Spangled Banner, they will worship the president and praise his HOLY name. And he and his handlers and the congress will continue to bend the people over like a Fauci proctologist and stick their civil rights laws, edicts and equity crap into the darkest corner in that behind!
    That isn’t flippant. I stand for The Star Spangled Banner; I stand for Dixie. The National Anthem? The “people” can take it and stick it where the sun never shines! JMO
    Deo Vindice

    • Barbara says:

      The only problem is, it’s not that simple. This is not the 1950s. Please watch this video for just a glimpse of the technology they have because they control our military which is always developing new weapons.

      https://gregreese.substack.com/p/ai-kill-and-control-system-by-palantir?publication_id=706779&post_id=165139185&r=1icwgz&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

      They have been working on technology to control people’s minds since the 50s. Every time I see some kid who shoots up a school I believe that is an innocent person who is under the control of this tech, a Manchurian candidate.

      These people are purely evil. There is no doubt they are literally devil worshipers. If it were possible to have an Article V Convention to dissolve this government we must do it. The only danger is that they would take it over and make matters worse. The states should control our own military as the founding fathers intended. Those who control our military can do anything they want to do. What people don’t realize is that we’re all Palestinians. Human life means nothing to these nuts.

      The USA is causing the war in Ukraine because it has rare earth minerals needed by AI and big tech. Elon’s factory in Memphis will take enough energy to light up a city. They’re building these computer centers everywhere. I live in East Tennessee and there has never been a hurricane that comes to the southern part of the state much less the northern part. We would only get rain from a hurricane off the east coast from the Carolinas. The hurricane that devastated North Carolina was driven by technology and it devastated an area which has rare earth minerals. The flood level is now on the mountain and people can’t live in flood areas.

      The Maui fire in 2023 was generated by DEW, Directed Energy Weapons which are also being used in Gaza.

      They’re creating AI to solve loneliness and a young high schooler recently committed suicide because his AI friend told him to. Relying on AI to write your term papers is decreasing the already lower IQs of future generations when we desperately need these people. An incident of AI rewriting its code has already happened. All of this technology has been given to China, a communist country where our economy was liquidated because the bankers have destroyed their currency and given up on the USA. Check out Hua’s substack for unbelievable things that China is doing which are scary threats to us. https://huabinoliver.substack.com/ No doubt that was American tech that the enemy within has given to China.

      The borders of every white country have been opened. Our family DNA is all north western Europe – after how many thousand years. Two members of my immediate family have married Asians and have mixed children. The next generation there will be more. England is no longer English and Ireland is no longer Irish.

      Ordinarily I would just unsubscribe from Abbeyville Institute and forget the whole thing but this site is too important to me. I have learned so much of southern history and I have stacks of books that I got from reading this site. They have destroyed our monuments and they are destroying our civilization. If people don’t know what is going on they cannot fight to stop the technocrats and one world order government people who are wealthy and powerful. One valuable site that opposes what is being done belongs to Catherine Austin Fitts who worked in a Presidential administration. She takes on the bankers. https://solari.com/

      • Truth says:

        yikes, loosen the tin foil hat, barbs!!!

        • Barbara says:

          Which of my comments would you like to refute?

          • “these people” have mind control but they still can’t make ONE major news outlet actually cite THEIR figures in teh preset war rather than those of their enemies, and they still can’t get the UNGA to condemn them less than the UNGA condemns Iran, China, Burma, etc? Please do explain to us all this glaring inconsistency, lol.

      • Matt C. says:

        “There is no doubt they are literally devil worshipers.”

        If they are devil worshipers, the devils might be laughing at them or ignoring their worship. The devils are working in religion, corrupting Gods word, and keeping people ignorant about what’s going on in the Bible.

        2 Corinthians 11:14-15 “Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light…his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness…”

        The biggest denomination in the world is, “Ignorant Brethren.”

        Galatians 3:1 “O foolish…who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth…?”

        That’s what the devils are involved in, “Yea, hath God said?”

  • Barbara says:

    I would suggest that Clyde Wilson and everyone else watch this video because this is what I’m trying to tell you about.

    https://dhughes.substack.com/p/the-agenda-their-vision-your-future?publication_id=594370&post_id=165256156&r=9851v&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

  • Valerie Protopapas says:

    But we must be intelligent. One of the things I HATE about fellow conservatives is their demand for perfection. If someone who has proven themselves to hold our values makes a mistake, it’s all over. Reagan was attacked by CONSERVATIVES because he didn’t drain the swamp. He COULDN’T drain the swamp. I don’t know who could. They almost killed him (Hinckley Jr.’s family was friends with the Bush family ~ tin foil hat stuff, right?) and the only help he got in Congress was from the Dixiecrats like Phil Graham! His own party hated him. It’s pretty much the same with Trump. I’ve seen more complaints from conservatives than support in many cases. They don’t really know what’s going on, but if it doesn’t fit the “agenda,” well, the Right condemns it.

    First, for God’s sake, given the alternative, let’s at least HOPE for the best! Second, consider who hates Trump! That alone should call for at least modest support even if we don’t agree with everything. (Frankly, my dear, anyone who agrees with me all the time is VERY suspicious!) Third, remember Almighty God has used the worst of men (remember Babylon?), so let’s assume whatever Trump is trying to do, perhaps God is either directing him or supporting him.

    Also consider how much else is going on. Volcanoes, earthquakes, etc. etc. etc. ~ sounds a lot like Revelation, no? All I want to do is fight those who want to destroy decent human beings, who hate Christianity and want to destroy it and this country. Yes, we in America have lots of problems, but tell me where else we can go with ANY hope of something better happening.

    • Finally, a voice of reason!. Too long have the Commies/”liberals” successfully employed divide-and-conquer. Indeed, the same people who hate pres. Trump are the wokesters melting down Confederate history. And those very illegal immigrants that LA wokesters are rioting to keep here are the same who keep murdering nursing students and young girls in the South.

    • Paul Yarbrough says:

      “…but tell me where else we can go with ANY hope of something better happening.”

      If Yankees would go where I have suggested they go, we would certainly have “something better happening.” JMO

  • P.S. To the gentleman who says “we are all Palestinians”, does this mean that “you” are all devoted to conquering the earth and killing every human being on it – starting with your fellow Americans – who refuses to convert to Islam at sword-point? Because that is what “Palestinians” live to do, in their own words:

    “Our goal is to spread the religion of Allah ….. We constitute an offensive army….We did not set out from Medina to fight the Persian and Byzantine [empires] because they occupied and plundered our land. Rather, we did this in order to conquer their lands…… In the days of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, the Islamic Caliphate, the Abode of Islam spanned six million square kilometers….. In the days of the Abbasid state, it spanned 33 million square kilometers. Then, under the Ottoman Caliphate, it spanned 10 million square kilometers. The Second caliphate, which will rise soon – in our own days, inshallah – will reach 510 million square kilometers, which covers the entire globe.”– “moderate” PA sponsored Dr. Muhammad Afeef Shadid on August 17, 2022

    “When we speak about the Army of Jerusalem and the Battle of the Promise of the Hereafter…. we believe in what our Prophect Muhammad said: ‘Allah drew the ends of the world near one another for my sake, and I have seen its eastern and western ends. The dominion of my nation would reach those ends that have been drawn near me.’….The entire 510 million square kilometers of Planet Earth will come under [a system] where there is …no treacherous Christianity” – Hamas official Mahmoud Al-Zahar, on December 12, 2022

    What do Liberals (including quite a few US Jews who trend liberal, like basically ALL minorities) know about the Confederacy? Only the poison spewed by her enemies.

    And what do you know about Jews, as a people? A people that include conservatives like, for example Natan Sharansky, author of “In defense of Identity” and “in defense of Democracy” which I challenge you to read because you would find that he agrees with you to a shocking extent? Nothing, except the poison spewed by their enemies.

    And as a last note, the “Palestinians” are not a bunch of oppressed “goyim” trying to save themselves from the Jews. They are (in their own words) the invaders, and the tip of the spear that seeks nothing less than a global caliphate in which every “infidel” state, including all the USA and every Statem north and South of the Mason-Dixon line has been Islamized or destroyed.
    In Lebanon: “the Palestinians… massacred some fifty people in the one night. Father Labaky heard screaming… An entire family had been killed, the Can’an family, four children all dead, and the mother, the father, and the grandfather. The mother was still hugging one of the children. And she was pregnant. The eyes of the children were gone and their limbs were cut off. … on 9 January the Palestinians cut off food and water supplies and refused to allow the Red Cross to take out the wounded. Infants and children died of dehydration. … 23 January… [in Damur] The attack took place from the mountain behind. It was an apocalypse. They were coming, thousands and thousands, shouting ‘Allahu Akbar! God is great! Let us attack them for the Arabs, let us offer a holocaust to Mohammad ‘ And they were slaughtering everyone in their path, men, women and children… Whole families were killed in their homes. Many women were gang-raped, and few of them left alive afterwards… the invaders themselves took photographs.”

    See “Because they Hate” by Brigitte Gabriel, Christian survivor of Palestinian terrorism.

    “when we seek the help of our Arab brothers, …., it is in order to continue to wage Jihad….. Alah be praised, we all have Arab roots, and every Palestinian, in Gaza and throughout Palestine, can prove his Arab roots – whether from Saudi Arabia, from Yemen…..Personally, half my family is Egyptian. We are all like that…..half of the Palestinians are Egyptians and the other half are Saudis….We are Egyptians. We are Arabs.”- Hamas Minister of the Interior and of National Security Fathi Hammad, aired by Al-Hekma TV on March 23, 2012.

    I’d encourage you to do your own research instead of just parroting venom straight from the mouth of Marx’s ideological spawn. Right now, China is spewing the exact kind of hate against Israel that you are unwittingly transmitting, hate that Marx invented, Marx, that author of the diabolical plan to instigate a race-war via the fradultent EP. Right now you;re falling for a different kind of race war, and it’s tearing American Conservativism in half.

  • As to the so-called “genocide”, it is as fictitious as the Obamesque fiction that “Islam is a religion of peace” when the genocide of my Greek relatives in Smyrna, alongside the Armenians and Assyrians, the Christians of Lebanon, the Jews in Haifa for aiding the Christian Armenians, the reign of terror in Cordoba, 9-11, and so on, expose the lie.

    You’re falling for Islamic Taqyiyya,

    “Let Muslims not take infidels for friends and allies instead of believers. Whoever does this shall have no relationship left with God” Quran 3:28

    “We Muslims renounce you infidels. Enmity and hate shall forever reign between us – till you worship Allah alone” Quran 60.4

    “In the Muslim community, jihad is a religious duty because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and the obligation to convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force… Islam is under obligation to gain power over other nations” – Ibn Kaldun, one of the Muslim world’s greatest philosophers

    “The duty of the jihad exists as long as the universal domination of Islam has not been attained. Peace with non-Muslim nations is, therefore, a provisional state of affairs only; the chance of circumstances alone can justify it temporarily.” -Encyclopedia of Islam, heading: Jihad

    “Muslims …. take great caution in war, while publicly lamenting and mourning in order to dupe the infidels.” – Ibn Hajar (d. 1448)
    (See https://www.meforum.org/middle-east-quarterly/taqiyya-islam-rules-of-war)
    Part of this deception is Gaza casualty figures (produced by Hamas terrorists who seek the destruction of Western Civilization)that are simply spun out of whole cloth

    https://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/HJS-Questionable-Counting-%E2%80%93-Hamas-Report-web.pdf

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