Donald
Trump, we are assured by the first two big pages of Google when you search for
"Trump news," is the meanest, nastiest, most racist (etc., etc.) son
of a bachelor to come down the pike in many a long year. Our angelic media
cultists are shocked, shocked by... (etc., ad nauseam). The GOPe has battled
heroically to protect us from this beast, but the idiot voters out in the
boonies (etc., etc., you remember the rest). So here we are, stuck with a
nominal Republican who actually fights. Forty million ticked-off voters are
backing him, and they don't care about niceties. Being nice got this country into
the ungodly mess we have today. The other word for "nice" is
"gimme da money, sucker!"
I
didn't like it when Trump insulted Carly Fiorina in the debates, and I hope
that backstage he has apologized to her. But it's pretty clear why he performed
his spectacular war dance in the debates. It's not Jeb Bush who was the big
target. It's the embedded Washington power cult, both nominal parties, the
Permanent Government now grown fat and lazy with trillions of dollars
regardless of performance, the corrupt city machines in Chicago and New York,
which are now state and regional political machines, the Senioriate in Congress
--- people with enough seniority to laugh at passing presidents -- the radical
Lefties Obama has planted as delayed-action bombs in the bureaucracy to explode
in future "leaks" and "exclusives" for their pals at the
New York Times, the Soros money-power cult that finances and directs the
Democratic radical base, tens of thousands of lobbyists who have welcomed the
Muslim Brotherhood and similar sweethearts to their moneyed ranks, and the
NYT-WaPo Organs of Propaganda who put old Soviet apparatchiks to shame.
Question: Are the real power brokers in DC
sufficiently scared yet to listen to fed-up voters?
Probably not. Right now if the Don dropped
his famous line "You're Fired!" nothing would
happen. Nothing.
The
Donald drove our old, beloved National Review into spectacular hysterics, where
it is still stuck, trying to figure out how to climb down from its tall tree
without looking ridiculous. Still, a hoo-hah may turn out to be useful, since
any comfy power cult can use a good purgative every few years. It's been too
long since Bill Buckley graced its pages. Those terrified old moths flying out
after the Donald's O-kaze (Japanese great wind) are already settling down on
more peaceful pools in the swamp.
The big, big question is whether anything
can shake our deeply dysfunctional establishment, which actually welcomed the
Nazi-era Muslim Broederbund with open arms, including Muslim Sister Huma and
her hubbie the exhibitionist. The Ikhwan feeds Muslim terrorism, and has ever
since 1929. Its high point was the assassination of Anwar Sadat, the greatest
Arab peacemaker of the 20th century. Now the Brotherhood has its tentacles deep
into the Clintons (witness Sister Huma and Hillary), as well as in Turkey,
which has just announced that Überfuehrer Erdogan is taking dictatorial power
in the only Muslim nation that managed to keep a modern, tolerant state alive for
fifty years. Just to demonstrate the new power of neo-Ottomanism, Erdogan
ordered his US-equipped air force to shoot down an annoying Sukhoi-24 (from
behind, violating agreed-on flight rules), and killed the surviving pilot who
ejected and was parachuting down. Putin was trying to embarrass Erdogan by
exposing criminal collusion between Turkey and the demonic followers of ISIS,
an obvious collusion that has been ignored by Barack Hussein Obama and NATO. So
Erdogan shot down the Russian jet that was getting too close to his own
ISIS-oil smuggling operation. Now the Russians have backed off Erdogan, who is
stilling getting billions of dollars of Iraqi oil stolen by the Islamic State,
when it isn't massacring Christian children for their parents’ religion.
None
of this, none, should be happening. The greatest moral and
strategic failure of the West since the Cold War has been to collude in the
rise of Jihad. Not just tolerate. Not just retreat, but actively collude in a
criminal movement by any definition of international humanitarian law. In the
aftermath of World War II and the Nuremberg Trials, the West uniformly agreed
that genocide was about as evil as evil gets. Terrorism was clearly understood
as deliberate murder and mayhem directed at innocent non-combatants purely for
political gain. Armies wore uniforms and insignia that clearly identified them
as combatants, and therefore more likely to be targeted than innocent
bystanders. Von Clausewitz had nothing but contempt for the irregular Cossacks
who hid in the general population in the wake of national armies, to rape, loot
and kill non-combatants. War is the worst thing people do to each other except
for ISIS-type outright sadistic killing of the most innocent for the sake Allah
and his bloodthirsty priesthood.
Post-WWII
rules of combat emerged against the fresh history of the Rape of Nanking and
the Holocaust. With the crumbling of the Soviet Empire it looked as if domestic
mass-murder might also be almost universally condemned. Millions of people
expressed noble intentions. Now we can see that the Rad-Left/Jihad alliance was
already being planted in the 1960s and 1970s, according to Admiral James Lyons
and others. The United Nations lost every last shred of decency when the
genocidal Sudan was elevated to the Human Rights Commission of the General
Assembly, and Kofi Annan literally stood by and did nothing during the Rwanda
genocide.
Nobody
knows these days how to define "terrorism," but before the rise of
the Left/Jihad Axis of Evil, the meaning of terrorism was clear enough.
Terrorism is murder, plain and simple, deliberate murder against civilians,
regardless of age, gender and all the rest. Every civilized nation has
incorporated post-WWII definitions of criminal murder of civilians in its codes
of military justice. The Dutch Army has punished its own soldiers who stood by
during the Srebrenica massacres and did nothing. The United States, Britain,
Israel, and a few other countries enforce rules of decency in combat.
But
the United Nations has surrendered completely to the dark side, singling out
Israel and favoring Jihad. According to the "authoritative" ulema of
Saudi Arabia, the ruling priesthood, ISIS is doing nothing un-Islamic. The
Ayatollahs of Iran advocate nuclear genocide every single day, and we just
found out that the White House used a thirtyish English Lit major to lie
to a compliant media about the contemptible US-Iran deal. But he is just a
scapegoat. American collusion with genocide-promoting Ayatollahs comes from the
top, and dontcha forget it.
Of
course Anti-American hatred is rife at the Jihad-controlled UN and the
massively corrupt EU, all busily revising the truth to make the 7th century war
theology look normal.
These
are the defining events of the Obama era. They are not incidental side effects.
They are completely intentional, and the once-proud city of Washington, DC, is
now completely degraded, morally and even in matters of national survival.
George Washington was an intensely, even an obsessively moral man, a man who
kept a diary to track his own faults, where he fell short of his own ideals. It
was not an unusual habit in the founding generation of the United States.
Everybody knew about political, sexual, and moral corruption, because they
could see it in plain sight in France, England, Ireland and the rest. The
Founders knew all about the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. They
understood history and they understood politics, because they understood human
nature. But in spite of their intimate knowledge of the worst things that
people can do, they had higher hopes for the New World.
Donald
Trump is fighting to become the new broom in the fetid swamps of DC. His voters
don't care much about nice manners, maybe because they know or suspect the
Augean stables that need cleaning. They are right on the facts and right on the
moral issues. They are placing their hopes in Trump, who is a mere human being,
no more and no less.
It will take more than one person to
make things better. Trump has been quietly telling the truth about taboo
subjects like Jihad and the puritanical strictures of PC. The newsies are
predictably fainting in horror, or pretending to. But morally they are fluff,
blowing with the winds of fashion, from day to day. Total lightweights, every
single one. The web-based media are both freer and more morally serious.
Trump is a serious guy, I believe,
since he has been talking about the same policies in the same words since 1988.
He has been consistently close to the mainstream of conservative thought, on
almost all the things that matter. The media obsessed with trying to destroy
him, and he has survived so far. (Without help from National
Review and The Weekly Standard).
The liberal attacks will never stop. If they
ever do, it will mean that Trump is finished. This is a fight, and it will
remain contentious as long as the Left controls the corporate media. Get used
to it. Flags and parades come long after the war is over, if ever.
But Trump has the right enemies.
It will take a lot of people, working
together to rescue the country and the culture, to make a difference.
Abraham Lincoln's generals kept losing
battles to Robert E. Lee's more agile forces in the first part of the Civil
War. Finally, in despair, Lincoln asked "Where can I find a general who
fill fight?" The answer was Ulysses S. Grant, who was not a perfect human
being.
American voters have been asking the same
question.
Now we have a general who will fight.
He's not just a pretty face. In fact, he's
not even a pretty face.
But he's got a good sense of humor, and so
far he's beaten a lot of the competition.
At some point, if he succeeds, he will need a
lot of support from people who share the same basic values. Many voters are
skeptical, which is the right thing to be.
But this is the best chance we've had in many
years. If Trump is good enough -- not perfect, just good enough -- he will need
a lot of help.
It's up to you.
