Commentary
“Well, they finally got Donald Trump. But he sure scared the bejesus out of them. It took a massive five-year campaign of hysteria, of fear and hate, orchestrated by all wings of the Ruling Elite, from the respectable right to the activist left. – Tho Bishop, Mises Institute blog
In the days ahead I will be commenting on the opening days of the “new Obama era,” marked by executive orders designed, not for the betterment of the American people, but as vengeful acts to poke a finger in the eye of President Trump. There’s so much to say and so little space.
As Trump last boarded Marine One, Bishop claims he did so with most of his voters believing he’s the rightful president of the United States, referring to the Newsweek poll that showed 80 percent of Republicans do not trust the results of the 2020 election.
“If we estimate that 75 percent of all of Trump’s 2020 voters hold this view,” wrote Bishop, “that leaves us with over 50 million Americans who believe they now live under an illegitimate federal government.
“Should skepticism of the 2020 election, fueled by a new administration’s actions, finally convince the fifty million plus Trump supporters that the barbarians in the Beltway do not represent them and to react accordingly, then Trump’s presidency will be the disruption that America’s elites truly feared,” notes Bishop.
That reality terrifies Washington’s political class more than anything he could have done while occupying the White House.
“What the State fears above all, of course, is any fundamental threat to its own power and its own existence,” notes Murray Rothbard in Anatomy of the State.
Trump’s Parting Words
“It’s been a great honor. The honor of a lifetime. The greatest people in the world, the greatest home in the world. We had an amazing four years. We’ve accomplished a lot. It’s been something very special.
“I will always fight for you. I will always be watching. I will be listening. We love you. We will be back in some form.” –President Trump, January 20, 2021
“Dance With The One That Brung Ya”
As I thought about sharing with you my thoughts on where we Trump supporters go from here, I was reminded of the above expression by former University of Texas football coach Darrell Royal, who once used the phrase in explaining that you go with the players and the plays that result in a win.
Remember how President Trump used to say, “We’re going to win so much that you’re going to get sick and tired of winning?” With the memories of losers like Romney, McCain, and the mere thought of Jeb Bush, we enjoyed every moment of them.
“We needed a hard-nosed, wheeler-dealer businessman, someone willing to get his hands dirty. Just the fact that Donald Trump was despised by the Country Club Republicans was great.” – Toni Morrison, Victory Girls
Clearly, Donald Trump is the leader of the Republican Party, regardless of what some pundits are saying. “Establishment Republicans do not know how to win,” noted Karl Rove recently, “They do not know how to hold and consolidate power. They don’t know how to use power effectively. They are talkers, not doers.”
“To put it frankly, Trump dared to meaningfully go where nearly every Republican politician in my lifetime has feared to tread.” –Rachel Bovard, Conservative Partnership Institute.
In case you’re wondering why former majority leader Sen. Mitch McConnell has gone wobbly lately over the prospects of another Trump impeachment trial, Fox’s Brit Hume seems to think McConnell sees the impeachment would get Trump out of the picture for the midterms and 2024. If so, big mistake, Mitch, your comments regrading the president provoking the assault on the Capitol not withstanding.
At least Sen. Rand Paul honestly commented that if the Republicans vote for a Trump impeachment trial “they will destroy the Republican Party.”
“(Come 2021, Trump) will bestow his blessing on those who demonstrate a willingness to fight the power, and he will belittle the weak and spineless. I could not be happier having him out there injecting some Vitamin T into the flabby posterior of the GOP.” – Kurt Schlichter, Townhall
Other Views in the Media
“In the 1930s, Winston Churchill was much-abused and belittled for voicing his unpopular convictions, as is Trump,” cited Brad Bird, a Canadian writer. Can Canada produce a leader as stout-hearted and courageous? I doubt it, because some of us are too polite, apologetic and tainted by wokeness and political correctness to see and fight for the truth.”
Then there are those who are willing to make him a memory, with no appreciation for what he has accomplished. “He was a means to an end, and we do not need to stick with him when he can no longer serve our ends,” commented Nathanael Blake, a contributor to The Federalist. “If the GOP is going to become a viable populist party, it needs someone more competent and moral than Trump to lead it. The auditions to replace him begin now.”
Who might be interested in those auditions? Or should I say, who thinks they have a ghost of chance to succeed?
“Unless the party fully rejects Trump, it will quickly become irrelevant,” predicts establishment strategist Rick Tyler. “The type of candidates a Trump centric Republican Party will nominate will be easily beaten in most general elections, relegating themselves to being a perpetual minority and regional party.” The establishment wants the Trump movement to fail.
“Donald Trump will be an ex-president like no other because he is a political force like no other, at least since Theodore Roosevelt. Trump will not just be an ex-president. He will be the leader of a powerful movement, one that is very much alive and still very much in control of the Republican Party.” – Daniel McCarthy, The Spectator
Donald Trump didn’t have to run for president. He did so because he loves America and he saw how the Obama-Biden administration was turning the Republic into an arm of a global alliance. He convinced us that making America great again was achievable and America First became his agenda as he chalked- up a four-year record of achievements unmatched in political history.
Your Assignment, Should You Accept It
Stay engaged with the Trump movement. We 75 million supporters are not to be trifled with. Pay attention to Biden’s “new Obama era” moves.
Resist, and recognize that the left views you as a member of a cult, and is now branding you as “toxic,” and in need of “deprogramming” and “reeducation.”
“Members of the Biden team “are now moving in laser-like fashion to try to uncover as much as they can about what looks very similar to insurgency movements that we’ve seen overseas, where they germinate in difference parts of a country, gain strength, and it brings together an unholy alliance, frequently, of religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians.” – John Brennan, former CIA director on MSNBC
Brennan sees Trump supporters to be “a very, very serious and insidious threat to our democracy and our republic.”
While ignoring the Black Lives Matter movement and Antifa, it’s you and me that the Biden administration views as potential domestic terrorists.
Writing in The Epoch Times about his experience in Washington on January 6, 2021, Jeff Minick told of the people he met who were cheerful with an upbeat love for their country and our cause. “We must keep a positive attitude. If we give way to despair, we lose. It’s as simple as that.”
May God continue to bless the United States of America
