We are witnessing a historic counterrevolution after Trump’s victory, far different from his first election in 2016.
The orthodox and the supposed scripted future are now suspect. And they are likely to be dethroned—from the trivial to the existential.
Critics claim Trump has no mandate to stage such a counterrevolution. They argue that he did not win 51 percent of the popular vote or achieve a Reaganesque landslide in the Electoral College.
Yet all the initiatives he advanced and won on polled landslide public approval.
Despite being the target of Democrat lawfare for years, a defiant Trump promised to end an open border, massive illegal immigration, rising crime, and soaring prices. He pledged to slash government and its administrative state, terminate racial and gender identity politics, and restore deterrence abroad.
The people overwhelmingly wanted those messages but were waiting for an unorthodox messenger who would actually deliver them.
The Trump messenger reassured weary citizens that they were not crazy.
Instead, they had good cause to be sick of being talked down to by a media, academic, bureaucratic, and political elite that never earned nor deserved such self-appointed status.
The FBI, the CIA, and the DOJ, not the massive crowds at rallies, were the ones truly out of control.
President Joe Biden was really suffering from dementia, not those who said he was.
Criminals with weapons are as deleterious to society as law-abiding citizens deprived of them.
It is not a thought crime to believe there are two sexes—not three or four or more. No one should be forced to buy an electric vehicle, disconnect their natural gas stove, or submit to racial or gender indoctrination sessions.
Americans should speak their minds and write what they wish without worry of being censored, blacklisted, ostracized, doxxed, or shadow-banned—or jailed.
Campuses are not oases of tolerance, disinterested inquiry, and free expression.
They instead increasingly became overpriced indoctrination centers that shred the Constitution and graduate indebted students who know less—but are far more biased—than when they enrolled.
Trump and his MAGA appointees promise to slash over a trillion dollars from the annual federal budget, disbanding entire agencies.
Is the objection that an ever-expanding government—$37 trillion in debt, running nearly $2 trillion in annual deficits—should keep growing?
Trump pledges to reform the Pentagon—ending DEI Pentagon commissars and revolving-door corporate generalship.
He vows to hold the 4-star class responsible for the catastrophe in Afghanistan and to reenlist soldiers who were driven out due to draconian vaccination mandates or woke intolerance. Trump envisions changing the entire system of military procurement.
Does the status quo object on the grounds that our military leadership has been winning our wars abroad?
Is the Pentagon currently awash in eager recruits?
Has it stockpiled a huge surplus of shells, bombs, and rockets?
Trump promises historic deportations of the 12 million who destroyed the southern border and surged in without health or criminal audits.
Trump vows to rescue swamped social services and stop crimes by illegal alien felons.
Is that really worse than the Biden administration’s original massive importation of millions of illegal aliens, empowered by drug-importing and sex-trafficking cartels?
Who are the culpable? Those flagrantly mocking and breaking the law, or those vowing to enforce it?
Trump says he will deter enemies without bogging America down in “endless wars”—and did just that in his first four years as president.
Is the current alternative preferable to convincing enemies that there are few consequences to their aggression, sandbagging allies like Israel, or feeding the war in Ukraine without any plan of either winning or ending it?
The Trump revolution is also cultural and social. Shared class interests have replaced race, ethnicity, and gender chauvinism.
Athletes of all races are no longer taking a knee in protest of America’s supposed systemic racism during the national anthem. Sometimes they celebrate their scoring by doing honorific Trump YMCA/golf-swing dances on national television.
Enlistments to help craft the Trump counterrevolution are not always predicated on degrees, conventional resumes, or past lengthy government service. Race and gender do not determine qualifications alone. Nor does class.
Common sense, successful lives outside of government, and a desire to end the current nonsense count instead as better prerequisites.
For Trump, party identification, titles, and traditional prestige matter less as he is surrounded by an ideologically diverse cadre including Elon Musk, Robert Kennedy, Jr., Dana White, Tulsi Gabbard, and Joe Rogan.
The country no longer must apologize incessantly for its past or present but can move on—content that it need not be perfect to be better than all the alternatives.
The age of flashing pronouns, renaming iconic landmarks, statue toppling, trashing the dead, vandalizing with impunity the campus library, or spouting anti-Semitic venom is passing.
So, another name for the Trump counterrevolution is a simple return to sanity.
Another ringer of the bell - humdinger - spot on one by VDH - just like the other one he wrote awhile ago that we all liked oh so much and felt was sweller than swell.
Though it does make me recollect that about three years ago or so he was saying?
How Trump was going to end his days a quixotic, ephemeral figure riding off into the sunset - essentially one of those flash in the pan wonders you hear tell - near and far, shouted about from the rooftops about but then - not so much heard about again.
Apparently and thankfully - history in Trump’s case - as VDH was suggesting it would inevitably play out - didn’t repeat itself.
That said, it is nye on near to impossible - so why try? - to argument with any point he just made.
Now, our real work must begin, and we must make the most of this once in a lifetime - generation plus? - opportunity and not be stupid like we were before and view the enemy as anything more than a target rich stronghold that must be destroyed, burnt down to the ground - with no lies left standing.
The sickness that is one and the same and goes by the names - Democrat Party / Marxism / Fascism / Communism / socialism - is incompatible with concepts it hates and will never respect nor peacefully cohabitate; things like - individual freedom and autonomy - self-actualization - meritocracy, spirituality and belief in God - the right to believe or not believe as the case and person’s choice may be - vive la différence!
And - just as no one in their right mind would think that a “little bit of pedophilia” couldn’t hurt, that serial killing wasn’t inconsistent with life, or stage 4 cancer are “good things” that should be permitted to continue?
So must the immoral, bereft of rhyme and reason and sanity - perversion that collectively is called “The Left” be expunged and laid low and buried deep in a grave never allowed to rise again.
It won’t be easy - of course, nothing worth having and fighting for is; but at least now that the facade, the chimera they have tried to project of “Resistance is futile” has been broken - at long last and even?
Even - as I said in a previous meandering would come to pass - even that viler than vile, black-hearted, Machiavellian berserker gone wild - who once, opined about “fundamentally changing America” - with gleeful delight, reckless abandon and wantonness disregard for anything decent and moral?
Even his seemingly unbreakable grip has been broken and now his phony aura of being “the chosen one” the LEFT had awaited for so long, so they could remove their Picture of Dorian Gray masks they had worn for over 100 years and feel safe - revealing the true monsters, horrors always had they been?
Even Obama’s scolding, mouthing, pontificating pronouncements about “how the brothers aren’t” (doing what they ought to be doing - according to him)
are now being seen for the empty words, lies they were always and finally, thank God, falling on deaf ears.
“How sweet it is.”
With the Senate being poised for Republicans to have a 4 seat majority, getting Trump’s nominations through should be easy sailing-----even those whose Senate approval is cast in doubt by the media. Anyone paying attention should give the media’s concerns all the attention they deserve----none.
Republicans in the House picked up another seat, bringing the total to 219. Akin to herding cats, House Speaker Johnson, will have a bit more trouble keeping the Republican Caucus in line. This may prove more difficult with budgeting and appropriations.
With lobbyists in Big Food and Pharma lining up against some of RFK Jr’s proposals, it will be interesting to see how many Congressmen stay bought. The same holds true for those beholden to Big MIC with proposals regarding an upcoming pentagon upheaval.
Trump has shown himself in the past of being too forgiving of those that have wronged him, so how closely he will stand with his pledge to oust the DEI-loving admirals and generals from the Pentagon remains to be seen. Ditto, removing security clearances from the Deep State Quislings. But I hold out hope he will follow through.
All in all, we are set up for an exciting four years. The Musk & Ramaswami show is just getting started, but if they even get to cut out half of their targets, it will be a good start.
A lot of arrests, indictments and prosecutions are forthcoming. Like bad cops who know the law, took oaths to uphold the law and then used the law for personal gain the Intel agencies personal are no different. The agencies have to be reduced in terms of scope, size and funding and they, and not the people, need to be disarmed. And the bureaus need to be placed far away from Washington DC so they cannot collude so easily. They have become, for all practical purposes, mendacious and vicious standing armies which was exactly why the Founders of the American Constitution never wanted something akin to a domestic army to be under the auspices of the Executive Branch on American soil to do its bidding. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely and I must add something we have all just witnessed. It corrupts without limits despite the fact that law exists to restrain it… the law has been ignored, bypassed and altered.
“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime”. I am certain that DA Bragg has violated much law besides interfering with an election. He too needs to be indicted and prosecuted along with much of the remnants of what agencies remain after a necessary Hague like prosecutorial tsunami washes away the pollution. America is, after all, a land based on the Rule of Law. No retribution is needed. Just the law and only the law needs to be applied for a country starving to believe that American legal principles still can work the way they were intended… equally for everyone.
I can forgive Trump for a lot of what he may get wrong but what I cannot forgive him for is letting obscene Hyde like violators of the law being allowed to survive to emerge like a Sphinx and again do what we all could not believe was actually happening for the past four years. Remember we were next. Thank God Trump took the heat. It’s not over till they end the way Qasem Soleimani did. Had they won we would all be in reeducation camps and gulags.
It’s all a question of resolve, isn’t it Task? Trump’s nature is to forgive. So, I imagine he will be waging his own internal battle and I think the outcome is in doubt. I place a certain amount of hope in his pirate ship of sailors doing battle in his stead before his forgiving nature takes hold.