A while back I wrote that I would really believe in Donald Trump when I saw the Arlington reconciliation monument go back up. Almost hard to believe, but it looks like it’s happening.
It seems also that immigration is being seriously addressed, and I am happy about that too! Although I fear it is far too late to repair the damage caused by Third World alteration of the American population.
Make no mistake, Americans should be eternally grateful for Trump’s appearance on the scene. Remember, he was the ONLY national figure to bring serious issues into discussion. The entire Republican Party, executive and legislative, a club of smug, shallow, self-serving office-holders, never had sufficient courage and patriotism to address the issues that Trump raised. In fact, the Republicans are deeply implicit in abetting our decline.
Alas, Trump is showing some signs that are dubious and sometimes obviously bad. He has attacked his own people, been incomprehensible on the Ukraine question, and failed to explain clearly why he is doing what he is doing. I admit not in the least understanding this tariff business, but if it helps the American working class, then I am for it.
Those who expected him to quit military bullying, cut spending, and expose ruling class corruption have been disappointed and are feeling betrayed.
Trump’s callous stand on the Gaza genocide is deeply deplorable. But it is a simple fact that no President or Congress can oppose Zionism without paying costs that almost no one is willing to pay. If there is any justice in human affairs, Americans will be paying a heavy price in the future as accessories to a crime.
We are, I think, seeing proof that being President of the U.S. has grown into a job that no one can do. The federal monster is so large and powerful that control is impossible unless a President and Congress are united and determined and willing to act against the media and the judiciary. And able and determined people are employed to enter the bureaucracy with fire and sword.
Trump has made a start, at least, on the last mentioned. I think he is trying to do more than is possible and has lost his way. His personality is not an asset in this situation. Almost everyone I know is now or always has been doubtful of Donald Trump. But we must exist in the real world and take what we can get.
Originally published at Reckonin.com.
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“Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.”
— H.L. Mencken
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
‘The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve.”
– H.L. Mencken, Minority Report: H.L. Mencken’s Notebooks [1956]
“…the Gaza genocide is deeply deplorable. But it is a simple fact that no President or Congress can oppose Zionism…”
All I’ll say on that, is that one give Alan Joseph Bauer a read on the situation there.
“We are, I think, seeing proof that being President of the U.S. has grown into a job that no one can do. The federal monster is so large and powerful that control is impossible…”
I agree.