Until Trump goes after Russia, he will not
find a formula that will pacify his enemies.
I wrote these words just a couple of days
ago. I have been thinking much about this. I have decided I was
wrong. Way wrong.
Trump = Russia; Russia = Trump. Trump
and Putin are members of a two-person mutual admiration society. Who
talked to a Russian before January 20? Flynn?
Out. Sessions? On the way. Kushner? He will be required to
divorce Trump’s daughter…I guess.
The neocons want war; they want to ensure
the trillion dollars or more per year keep flowing. They need to keep
Russia as the enemy. Everyone is piling on – republicans and democrats.
Has Trump committed to shrinking the
military? Not at all. Reduce military spending? Nope.
Stop fighting wars? No way – Iran, China, North Korea, and ISIS all loom
large on his radar; enough work to keep a thousand generals and a few dozen
major merchants-of-death busy for a long time.
So what is the worry? Who needs Russia
as an enemy? So Trump doesn’t go after Russia – he wants to go
after somebody – a lot of somebodies. This is worth at
least a trillion dollars per year.
What those who oppose Trump have found is
the diversion – the angle they need to remove Trump from power or ensure he is
unable to accomplish anything of his platform. Peace with Russia isn’t
the issue, it is the diversion. Russia isn’t the ends, it is the means.
A diversion that runs a deadly risk (which suggests the price they are willing
to pay), but a diversion nonetheless.
Make America Great Again. Trump stands against – and seems rather serious
about dismantling (how much he achieves is a different subject) – several pillars
of the western-culture-economy-classical-liberal-destroying globalist
agenda.
From the White House website:
For too long, we’ve been held back by
burdensome regulations on our energy industry. President Trump is committed to
eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan
and the Waters of the U.S. rule.
Rolling back environmental
regulation. Blecch.
Defeating ISIS and other radical Islamic
terror groups will be our highest priority.
Given that ISIS is a US creation, you can
imagine the pushback on this one.
…the President has proposed a moratorium on
new federal regulations and is ordering the heads of federal agencies and
departments to identify job-killing regulations that should be repealed.
Job killing regulations keep bureaucrats
and big business in…business.
Our job is not to make life more
comfortable for the rioter, the looter, or the violent disrupter.
This one upsets every social justice
warrior – more so, it upsets the arm-chair social justice warrior puppet
masters.
Supporting law enforcement means supporting
our citizens’ ability to protect themselves. We will uphold Americans’ Second
Amendment rights at every level of our judicial system.
Does this require a comment?
President Trump is committed to building a
border wall to stop illegal immigration…
A physical wall will not work toward the
stated ends, but it is what the wall represents that upsets the leftist elite
so.
Supporting law enforcement also means
deporting illegal aliens with violent criminal records who have remained within
our borders.
See the comment immediately above.
For too long, Americans have been forced to
accept trade deals that put the interests of insiders and the Washington elite
over the hard-working men and women of this country.
Insiders and the Washington elite hate
being called out like this.
This strategy starts by withdrawing from
the Trans-Pacific Partnership…. President Trump is committed to renegotiating
NAFTA. If our partners refuse a renegotiation that gives American workers a
fair deal, then the President will give notice of the United States’ intent to
withdraw from NAFTA.
Mind-numbing, big business, crony-capital
trade deals work for the insiders; they are also building blocks for one-world
government institutions.
There is more that is questioned, not on
the White House website (that I could find easily, at least). Quickly,
off of the top of my head, Trump calls out:
- Man-made global warming
- The safety of childhood vaccines
- The media is the enemy; the media
is dishonest
- Obamacare (although maybe not some
other version of the same)
- Washington prospers while the
people lose
To sum it all up: America First
Virtually every initiative of the
globalist, elite agenda is being questioned. The deplorables are awake.
Conclusion
Russia is a diversion; it is useful as a
means to an end. It isn’t the end. The end is the salvation of the
many pillars of the progressive agenda; the end is the final destruction of
western, classical liberal, civilization.
I will suggest that eight years ago Ron
Paul let the genie out of the bottle. This year Trump found the genie and
was very effective in putting him to work – a revolt against one-hundred years
and more of progressivism.
It doesn’t matter that Trump gets much of
this done – he won’t, because the machine is too big. It doesn’t even
matter if Trump wants to get all of this done, although he seems sincere
in much of it. What matters is that he says it, thus giving millions of
people a voice; he says it, so it becomes OK to talk about in public.
It matters because the longer that Trump
keeps the conversation alive, the more the momentum will build. It will
come not just from those who voted for or otherwise supported Trump; it will
come from other people of goodwill who slowly come to see the lengths that the
establishment is going to in order to crush the people.
And if the people don’t get what they want
this time, they will only grow more forceful and belligerent next time.