With all that socio-economic and bureaucratic power at their fingertips, it is perhaps no surprise that Democrats had long ago argued away the need to be polite to their increasingly powerless Republican opponents. Whether you were a corporate CEO, a university president, a tech baron, or head of a major American law firms, endorsing Trump meant more than social suicide; much lesser offences have reliably resulted in being aggressively targeted by NGO-led pressure campaigns NGO-led pressure campaigns and having protesters show up at your home, as well direct targeting by a federal bureaucracy that has increasingly abandoned the pose of social neutrality in favour of enforcing Party diktats on gender, race and nearly every other subject under the sun. Republicans, with the exception of a narrow group of fellow Beltway elitists, were racist, sexist, transphobic white supremacists and insurrectionists.
One of the chief targets of the Democratic Party’s society-wide enforcement machine has been Trump himself. Since Trump left office in 2020, he has been relentlessly targeted by a series of cases that have been aggressively prosecuted by both local and federal prosecutors despite a glaring paucity of evidence to support the idea that his actions were, in fact, crimes. Actually, the legal basis for these cases was dismissed as such by authorities as various as former Democratic New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo and Democrat-appointed judges on the US Supreme Court. The recent federal case against Trump, alleging that he had committed a crime by retaining classified government documents, which resulted in a full-scale raid by armed FBI agents on his home in Florida, was thrown out yesterday by the presiding judge, Aileen Cannon, on the grounds that the appointment and funding of a special prosecutor in the case was itself “unlawful”. But the legality of the cases against Trump was never the point — which was to use the proceedings to prevent Trump from campaigning for months, while suggesting to voters that he was a criminal.
In turn, the legal onslaught against Trump and his supporters, which began even before he took office in January 2017, was only one part of a larger, incredibly well-funded, whole-of-society campaign that the Democrats launched against a man they have ceaselessly depicted not merely as the blustering, attention-seeking buffoon that he clearly sometimes is, but as a dark Hitlerian threat to democracy. In the wake of the attempted assassination, it is the other two major components of the elite anti-Trump campaign that appear most threatening to the American future.
In a pervasive information warfare campaign, Trump is depicted not as a political naif or a crude vulgarian, or as a deeply chaotic personality who can’t manage his way out of a paper bag, but as a sinister dictator-in-waiting, who must be stopped from attaining or exercising power at any price.
To support this dark view, Trump was placed at the centre of a whirl of conspiracy theories which were duly reported as front-page news on a daily basis for nearly a decade. Yet to date, there is no evidence that Vladimir Putin conspired with Trump to deny Hillary Clinton her rightful victory in 2016; Clinton lost because she was a terrible candidate who blew a perfectly winnable election. No, Trump was not a paid Russian agent who communicated with Putin through a secret server in the basement of the Alpha Bank branch in Kiev. No, Trump didn’t have a secret deal with Russian businessmen to build hotels in Azerbaijan, which allowed Putin to control him. No, Trump was not taking money from Putin through intermediaries representing the Chabad Lubavitch stream of Judaism in Russia.
Every conspiracy theory was wilder than the last, and was treated like the scoop of the century for a day or a week before disappearing without a trace. Nor was there any form of correction or consequences for the reporters and editors involved. Instead, they rewarded themselves with Pulitzer prizes. The result has been the wholesale and tragic destruction of the entire credibility of the mainstream American press.
Unsurprisingly, the decline in Americans being able to trust what they read, and the rise in apocalyptic political rhetoric, was matched by a corresponding rise in political violence. Trump himself was hardly innocent of involvement with political violence, even if he never exactly called the white supremacist rioters at Charlottesville “good people” — a charge that has been extensively debunked. Still, clashes between the Proud Boys (a Canadian-led Right-wing group) and other so-called patriot groups and Left-wing Antifa protesters were common in the first two years of Trump’s Presidency, lending credence to the idea that both parties were cultivating bully-boy militias. Yet, as Trump’s interest in the violent Right lessened after the first year or so of his Presidency, the Left’s reliance on violence as a political tool only increased.
Trump’s election was greeted by large-scale riots in every major American city, some of which went on for weeks. In June 2017, Steve Scalise, the Republican majority leader in the House, was nearly killed in a mass shooting by a Bernie Sanders supporter in what the Virginia State Attorney General concluded was “an act of terrorism… fuelled by rage against Republican legislators”. A year later, in June 2018, recently appointed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was targeted by a California man named Nicholas Roske, who arrived at Kavanaugh’s house with a rifle before giving himself up to police, and was then indicted for attempting to assassinate Kavanaugh. Roske told investigators that he was upset over the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade as well as the potential for Kavanaugh to help loosen gun laws in the country.
The steady drum-beat of calls to public disorder from the Left during Trump’s Presidency reached its apogee in the run-up to the 2020 election, where rioters acting under various banners, from Black Lives Matter to Antifa, trashed the shopping districts of over 20 major American cities. In cities such as Portland, nightly battles between the police and Molotov-cocktail-wielding demonstrators went on for months, becoming a form of nightly street theatre in which young masked attackers threw bombs at police and federal buildings while teams of Democratic Party-aligned NGO lawyers stood ready to get offenders out of jail. As the damage mounted, and local panic increased, violent protesters in Democrat-led municipalities, most of whom turned out to be from upper middle-class Democratic families, seldom faced any consequences for their actions, with celebrities and others offering to bail them out.
“The party’s message was that Donald Trump, not the rioters, was responsible for the scary scenes shown nightly on television.”
With the attempted assassination of Trump, the political and social stakes have once again been raised, in a system that seems ill-equipped to meet such a significant challenge. Any attempt at return to a procedural normalcy that was already badly weakened before Trump took office seems entirely beyond the capacity of America’s callow and insulated elites, which have lost themselves for nearly a decade in the fantasy cosplay of anti-Trump.
What we will witness over the next four months will be an election campaign pitting the hero figure of a bloodied but unbowed Trump, a man despised by nearly half the country, against the anti-democratic manoeuvrings of the country’s institutional elite, as exemplified by whichever hand-picked candidate Democratic Party insiders choose to field against him. The resulting campaign will be a game without limits, in which the level of violence seems likely to escalate — which will further diminish the interest or ability on either side to acknowledge a victory by the other. Americans are about to find out what it feels like to live in a country at war with itself — no matter who wins the presidency in November.
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SubscribeThis is the best article I’ve read on the current state of American politics, especially the left-wing war against Trump. Kudos to the author. I wish he was wrong. I wish I could accuse him of hyperbole. But he’s absolutely on the money.
I’ve been a big fan of Samuels since reading The Runner and Atomic John. I agree, this captures my 92 complaints that I am not able to articulate.
Exactly so.
Very happy this is the top comment. All these upvotes go a good way towards restoring my faith in the public appetite for impartial analysis of politics.
5* article
This sounds like a fanatical conspiracy theory conjured up by an unhinged ideologue – but damn I agree with almost all of it. I gotta go to bed and soothe myself with something.
It was just as one sided as last week’s article about the radical right, but this guy doesn’t sound like a Sunday morning preacher giving a sermon to the already faithful. This author actually seems to understand persuasion and knows how to use facts, examples, and logic to persuade an audience that doesn’t already agree with him.
Ah, using facts, examples and logic to persuade an audience that doesn’t already agree with him. Here’s a translation into modern progressive English.
He uses the tools of white oppression and intellectual colonialism to gaslight political opponents.
Symbolism over content, photos determining election outcomes. t*t for tat politics. The medium is the message. I, for one, long for policy over theatre, including violent theatre.
Too much of modern politics is clickbait and sound bites. No way to solve the problems of the modern world. Plenty of outlets out there for serious discussion; unfortunately not when it comes to formal politics.
I love everything about this article except the last line. No, we won’t be at war with “ourselves”. As we saw during the BLM riots of 2020, and the anti-jew actions this year, the Left will be at war with their own. These degenerates have no traction in middle-America, and we frankly only care so much about who is involved in what carnage in Portland or Chicago. It is fun to watch from a distance, however, in a slightly disturbing way.
Agree. The Pride/Free Palestine brawls in June were hilarious. The DNC convention is sure to inspire more asinine behavior by the people Biden has been so assiduously sucking up to.
The Democrats are finally paying the price for three decades of identity politics. The various identity groups they’ve created are now fighting each other. Jews vs. Muslims, Gays vs. Trans, and various other minorities against each other. They’re reaping what they’ve sowed and I have no sympathy for them. Their feckless leaders brewed up this nasty broth. Let them stew in it.
Brew a bitter drink, drink a bitter brew, my friends ….
Well, ‘at war with itself’ as the author defines it is basically America’s default state. It has been since before the Constitution, which is why the America’s Constitution and government are so much more complex than basically all of Europe and most other places. They represent a series of compromises between wildly different groups of people with different ways of life and economic interests, all of whom feared being dominated or persecuted by the others in some way because that’s what humans do. America has been at war with itself in one way or another for a majority of its history, and given the size and diversity of the nation, that’s not likely to change. One of the few times it wasn’t was from about 1970-2008. I’d bet a large sum of money the author was born sometime during that period or just before.
I agree with this as well. A few of the hard leftists will be at war with themselves, but I think we also over-estimate how many of these hard leftists are young folks who won’t go any further than throwing barbs from behind their phone screens, or simply cowards, and when push comes to shove they will go back to their holes and brood amongst one another. I firmly believe that most of the country, even the average democrat, are more reasonable people in general and will go on about their business regardless of who gets elected.
I always cringe every time I see an article (not this one) bring up “Civil War” because it seems to me like one of those things that can only possibly come into existence if we keep seeing it mentioned all the time. We need to stop being scared of the fringe (the loudest people, usually).
It’s also worth noting that I very much believe in the masses to ultimately do the right thing, which some would call naive, but you gotta believe in something.
Anyway, great article, thank you.
The Dems are terrifyingly close to making 2024 the last real election in American history. Given their control of the voting infrastructure in nearly every big city and college town and by arranging for widespread voting by illegals, the Dems could easily win control in November of the White House and both houses of Congress . As Samuels points out, the Dems’ highly centralized leftists/elitists/globalists have commandeered the vast majority of the intellectual firepower in the U.S and these people have already mapped out their own Project 2025. They will pack SCOTUS with 5-10 more Sotomayors; they will give statehood to DC and PR (and/or others) to
add at least 4 more Senators; they will end the filibuster to prevent a Senate minority from blocking controversial new laws; they will federalize elections to eliminate photo IDs and signature verification; they will do even more to spur undocumented immigrants to enter the US and, along with all the other perks, give them the right to vote. Their talented academicians and lawyers will no doubt conjure up many other schemes to assure we remain for the indefinite future a one-party state like China, and they can in short order celebrate their triumph over an abject Republican Party that failed to focus on the threat and lacked the resources to resist.
Pro-Trump agit-prop. Not worth reading all of it. But the conclusion was true:
It is what you wanted. It is what you have worked for. Enjoy.
People like Shaun King refer to ‘Genocide Joe’.
The Left claim that Trump’s climate policies will destroy the planet.
You can see where the likelihood of violence could come from.
It’s always better to stick your head in the sand when faced with fact.
The US 2016-24 most resembles the Weimar Republic. And if the street fighting transforms into full-on civil war then finally a dictator will emerged from a burnt-out country (in both senses). If 2020 is repeated, then Trump should use martial law to end the violence and destruction.
Yeah, and grow a toothbrush moustache too. That, and get some snappy black uniforms for all those in his administration.
“The US 2016-24 most resembles the Weimar Republic”
What a totally baseless comparison!! Between 1918 and 1933 Germany was facing an existential crisis following a humiliating defeat and punitive sanctions after the Treaty of Versailles. Last time I looked America hasn’t been losing any wars except the ones it foolishly started interfering in Muslim dictatorships.
The USA is being undermined from within by a cultural Marxism that pervades media, politics and academia, grotesquely asserting that the reason that the USA is the strongest and most prosperous nation in the world is not because of it’s divinely-inspired Constitution, the love of which still draws freedom seekers from all over the world – but because it built a slave state on the back of racist imperialism.
The Left are demanding a return to the Tribalism that the US Constitution specifically rejects, since the US Constitution is unique in asserting that our rights are given by God as human beings irrespective of race, gender or ethnicity, so we are indeed “all of one blood”.
The Right are not looking for a dictator. The Left project their own intention that way. The Right want a return to Constitutional norms, a culture of respect, and lawful pursuit of life, liberty and wellbeing which is anchored in who we are as human beings created to live generationally, not selfishly.
Great article. Yesterday, I picked up a book from my late husband’s bookcase and did some bibliomancy (opening to a page at random) to see if I would be interested in reading further. The book was “interpreting Plato – The Dialogues as Drama” by J.A. Arieti, 1991. This is what popped out on p. 161: “In arguments reminiscent of Gorgias and the Republic, Socrates says that since it is impossible for a bad man to hurt a good one, the court can’t hurt him. He has been given to Athens as a gift of the god, a gadfly to wake up a lazy horse. If, says Socrates, the horse kills the fly, the horse will suffer.” This, on the heels of a stunning failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life, and the high pitched enthusiasm of day 1 of the Republican Convention.
Bravo. An absolute tour de force.
Although it’s doubtful he actually said it, Napoleon famously asked “I know he is a good General, but is he lucky?”
We can all argue about whether Trump was a good President, but there is no denying his luck.
A turn of his head, at the precise right moment, saved his life and saved the US from descending into a likely civil war. A matter of millimetres was the difference between two wholly distinct futures – we should all be grateful.
But the former President has also been lucky in his opponents. Hillary Clinton contrived to lose in 2016. Already an undeniably unlikeable candidate, she set about insulting half the country, safe in the knowledge that her election was a foregone conclusion.
Biden, having ousted Trump in 2020, could have left his rival in a towering sulk at Mar-a-lago, and that would likely have been the end of his political journey. But out of sheer spite Biden chose to hound him. By demonising him, impeaching him, trying to bankrupt him and – through Banana-Republic-style lawfare – imprison him, Biden built Trump up to folk hero status.
Trump’s resilience in the face of these attempts to destroy him has been remarkable. His bearing under fire was even more so, and it would take a peculiarly dishonest person to deny his courage, or fail to be impressed by it.
I’ve always felt Donald Trump, the man, was temperamentally unsuited to be President. Too volatile. Too easy to provoke and incapable of projecting the air of calm reassurance and competence we want to see in our leaders.
Short of another assassination, or some unforeseeable event, Trump is going to be President again – at a time when the West faces threats on multiple fronts. I’ve no idea how Trump will face up to those threats, but we can only hope some of his luck rubs off on us all.
You are right in saying that the Democrats gifted Trump one Presidency (by running the truly awful Hillary Clinton as their candidate), and may be about to gift him another. If Biden could have been prevailed upon to run in 2016, he would most likely now be coming to the end of his second term rather than his first. In that circumstances, his loss of capacity would be far less of an issue.
Biden didn’t get the nod in 2016 because Obama refused to endorse him. Almost unheard of for a two-term President not to endorse his former VP to take over from him.
Obama knew Biden well, he famously noted, “don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up”.
Even before his obvious mental decline, Biden was an accident waiting to happen – as Trump’s luck would have it.
Yeah, except that it was Hillary that lost to Trump, not Biden. Anybody who thinks Biden would have been a worse candidate than Hillary in 2016 clearly lives in a dream world.
Given Obama’s foreign policy legacy that’s saying something.
Although I am mildly in Napoleon’s camp re: luck, I would argue that Trump’s career is marked most profoundly by a terribly unlucky turn of events. I am not in the camp that thinks COVID was deliberate – only inevitable. In its absence, the Democrats would have been forced to actually campaign with whomever they picked (all pretty weak) and would have been prevented from a host of election irregularities that could only be foisted on America as a result of the pandemic. Otherwise, Trump would be finishing his second term now.
It is more a case of his extreme perseverance and formidable strength overcoming bad luck that puts him on the cusp of a second term and it is America’s good luck that he was here at the right time and almost literally dodged a bullet.
I accept your point, but it could equally apply to the leader of any country (or State) who had the misfortune to be in power during COVID.
Trump built Trump, Biden built Biden. Even in his youth Biden was an opportunistic follower. Luck is fickle, competence persists.
Sure, but how many genuinely competent world leaders are there?
“Yet, the Democratic Party is a well-functioning, massively-funded, centrally-directed machine, capable — as it did in 2020 — of rewriting election laws to its advantage and banking millions of absentee ballots in advance of the election. ”
I found both these claims somewhat implausible so I read the links. In the case of the first claim, the linked article doesn’t merely fail to support the notion that the Democratic Party can or did rewrite election laws to its advantage, it claims the opposite, namely that a concerted effort prior to the 2020 election by activists and corporations in response to a perceived threat that Donald Trump would rig the election, imposed procedural discipline to ensure that the vote would be fair, free, and not subject to interference.
Now, we can obviously be sceptical towards the idea that the Democratic Party would unilaterally enforce the high principle of free and fair elections without being tempted to rig the election in its own favour. While I don’t accept the Trump-friendly narrative about stolen elections, I do say that it is quite ludicrous to claim that the Democratic Party was both the referee and the winner in the 2020 election and that both these things could be true without the Democratic Party itself also resorting to election-rigging in its own favour. I simply doubt that the Dems succeeded in refereeing the election in the manner claimed in the first place.
But either way the point is that the link doesn’t support the claim here that the Democratic Party was rewriting election laws to its own advantage. The link makes entirely different claims, which are themselves implausible, true, but simply can’t be used to support the claim in this article.
Thank you for this.
I’m pretty sure the gerrymandering was rife. Have a couple google searches and tell me what you find. Ok I had a bit of a read. Yup, there is meat on that bone. However people will need to read it for themselves.
Huh? The Democratic Party used the cover of COVID as an excuse to create a much less secure voting process in most states. Forty years ago, in all states, voting in person on election day was the expectation – military personnel, homebound elderly, college students, and the like could jump through some complicated hoops to obtain an absentee ballot, but absentee ballots were a tiny fragment of overall ballots.
But the following decades have seen a host of efforts to widen the electorate – from ‘Motor Voter’ laws (which automatically register you to vote when you get a driver’s license) to ‘early’ voting (supposedly to reduce congestion and shorten lines) – but crucially this was still in-person voting.
Now, under cover of COVID, Democratic states introduced mail-in balloting, which reduces safeguards for ballot harvesting, voter duress, etc. While claiming to be motivated by a desire to broaden the franchise as widely as possible, Democrats have instead created easier paths to voter intimidation and fraud.
In the end we have two competing visions (as seemingly in all things in America today) – whether democracy depends upon the vote of every eligible voter (no matter how uninterested in the election he may be), or whether it needs just the votes of voters who have some interest in the election, and hence are motivated enough to do something like going to the polls to vote.
In other words, “reducing barriers to vote” means the same thing as “getting the votes of people with less and less interest in the election.” Should uninterested voters’ opinions matter in a democracy as much as interested voters? That question raises a host of issues in political theory about why we have democracies at all.
Even if I agreed with what you say here, the link I’m discussing doesn’t. The article claims it does, but upon reading it, it’s the opposite. That’s all I’m saying here.
Good article, sums up just how mendacious and evil the left are.
I’m reminded of how the Roman Republic fell, due to the ever increasing degeneracy of the elites.
Reminds me of Galadriel quote about taking the ring. I can’t wait for alot of the current crop of politicians to diminish and hike it across the sea.
I’ve argued before that Americans tend to get carried away with enthusiasms. Think of Prohibition, McCarthyism (making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence, sound familiar?), Vietnam, the War on Drugs, the War on Terror.
The Democrats have been perhaps too enthusiastic and careless in their opposition to Donald Trump and the ‘deplorables’… but like most enthusiasms it only takes one p***k to burst the balloon.
Are you saying that when the mighty edifice of the elites falls, it will bring the peons down with it?
Mccarthy was right: the enemy was within, but they had also infiltrated the state infrastructure, so convictions were impossible.
So discovers Diana West, in her book, American Betrayal, backed up by records in Moscow vaults. It is about “America’s lost history, a chronicle that pits Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight David Eisenhower, and other American icons who shielded overlapping Communist conspiracies against the investigators, politicians, defectors, and others (including Senator Joseph McCarthy) who tried to tell the American people the truth.”
For all the plaintive tone on either side of the divide in America, what substantive or consitutional argument can anyCitizen of the Republic employ against poltical violence when it is enshrined, lauded and maginfied, in the preamble to their ‘Declaration of Independence’?
The United States of America was born in an act of sacralised political violence. It is the very essence of her being.
For all the fine talk of rights, liberty and equality, it is really the gun, the volunteer and the Minute Man which are truly emblematic and central to the American undertaking.
All this was apparently obvious to the un-intoxicated in the 1770’s (as it was in England in the 1650’s or to Shakespeare in his History Plays) and has only become more so since.
I’m sorry it should be so but there you are.
“Treason doth never prosper”
My local pub is older than the Great Republic. Perhaps we shall live to see which of the two calls last orders first.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Where on earth do you see political violence “enshrined, lauded and magnified” in this sentence?
The passage you refer to goes on to say –
“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it… when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
This is the revolution in arms. “The shot heard round the world”, in the poet’s words, was no metaphorical flourish but a loaded rifle discharged at legitimate authority. It is a description of sacralised political violence, not as a regrettable necessity but as a sacred duty.
Ever since then America has been caught in a cycle of violence. There is no constitutional, nor even a spiritual. bar to political violence in the American tradition – be it only in the ‘right’ cause.
Then one concludes that all peoples live in a state of war, as there is no group, nation or civilization ever born without bloodshed. Call it what you will.
Spot on diagnosis of the corruption of our “progressive” elite.
Perhaps UH took my advice and found an obviously right wing slanted piece to balance against last week’s left wing slanted piece. I’ll point out the difference is that this author uses actual facts, examples, and logic to make his case rather than just stating his ideological views as a priori good and assessing every fact and action with an eye towards moral judgement. This was, at the least, not a sermon the likes of which I can hear anytime at any of the old school fire and brimstone churches in the Bible Belt.
This author seems intimidated by the vast organizational power of the Democratic party apparatus and the globalized elite that drives it. Things like that though only matter until they don’t, and history is a process. Even if the Democrats do win this election in November, it won’t fix globalism or make their utopian ideology any less stupid and unworkable than it is. The Democrats have reached the point that winning doesn’t even help them, it just kicks the can a little further down the road. The floodwaters of the people’s anger are rising. You can build the flood wall as high as you want, but at some point the water has to stop rising, otherwise it just portends a bigger disaster in the future. The neoliberal elites need to fix the problems, but they can’t. They have no idea how, mainly because they won’t sacrifice their own goals and ideals, even temporarily. They won’t ruin their dreams of one global order under the Almighty Dollar. They can’t fix the problems in individual nations because any solution involves starting to limit and cut some of those cords that connect the world together and bind nations to a global economy that nobody is in charge of. Neither can they actually take over the world by convincing people to submit to a global government and abandon their national, racial, religious, and cultural preferences. They’re certainly trying, obviously, and they’re failing, just as obviously.
Simply put, there is no strategic path to victory for the globalized elites. There is nothing they can do through their own actions exclusively that will lead to long term victory. The global order is already falling apart and it can only be held together with duct tape and super glue for so long. They can’t win, but they can do delay their loss and hope that during this interval some deus ex machina of new technology arrives to change the equation and save them from themselves. In the meantime, the slow, gradual decline continues. The people lose more faith in their leaders and the media. They turn more easily to crime and violence. They trust the national authority less and informal authority more. The vicious downward spiral is already in full swing, and probably sooner rather than later, there will come a point where people stop caring much at all, and getting any effort or compliance out of the people becomes difficult. Overall economic productivity will start to decline enough to offset the consistent gains realized through the use of technology. There will be even less of an economic pie but the elites will still keep most of it, and the anger, the discontent, the apathy, continue to build. Keep it up long enough America could even collapse under the weight of its own ambitions much like the Soviets did. Their defeat is inevitable. Only the manner of that defeat remains in question. It’s coming, and even with all their institutional power, all their media influence, all their financial control, all their power over production and technology, they cannot stop it. All the King’s horses and all the King’s men, won’t be able to put Humpty Dumpty together again.
A very good piece,
If Vance is the future, we’re in trouble.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91157500/companies-jd-vance-invested-in-as-a-vc
Can you be more specific regarding your concerns? The JDV portfolio seems reasonable. A bit tech heavy for my liking but YMMV when it comes to investing. You’re probably going to disagree but I find Vance to be a deeply nuanced and interesting person.
Some might argue he is perhaps a bit of a punt but I believe he will be a welcome breath of fresh air…
Trump cannot go out in public until he has personally vetted everyone in the secret Service chain responsible for his safety. He will be constantly at risk until the election. We were 1 inch away from can only be unimaginable.
A most welcome and interesting article. Actually, every word could be cut/pasted to describe the current situation in France and probably the whole of Western Europe…
What does this analysis say about America’s “lawyers, consultants, researchers, media bosses, and others with degrees from a small number of elite universities” (Samuels could have added financial advisors, bankers, CEOs, administrators, upper-tier managers, senators, professors, etc.)? This is a class war, waged on the masses by aspiring aristocratic snobs, unrestrained by old-style aristocrats’ sense of responsibility for the people in their care. They preach universal love and brotherhood while despising everybody who’s on the outside looking in. If you don’t have, at the very minimum, a mortgage-free, six-bedroom house and at least a couple million dollars in blue-chip stocks, you’re nobody in their eyes–a total failure whose life isn’t worth thinking about, never mind living.
And of course you and your fellow nobodies have to be censored, managed, and, ideally, exploited–for the sake of social order, of course. Stay in your lane or you’re an insurrectionist.
A ruling class seriously deficient in patricians.
The Dems are terrifyingly close to making 2024 the last real election in American history. Given their control of the voting infrastructure in nearly every big city and college town and by arranging for widespread voting by illegals, the Dems could easily win control in November of the White House and both houses of Congress . As Samuels points out, the Dems’ highly centralized leftists/elitists/globalists have commandeered the vast majority of the intellectual firepower in the U.S and these people have already mapped out their own Project 2025. They will pack SCOTUS with 5-10 more Sotomayors; they will give statehood to DC and PR (and/or others) to
add at least 4 more Senators; they will end the filibuster to prevent a Senate minority from blocking controversial new laws; they will federalize elections to eliminate photo IDs and signature verification; they will do even more to spur undocumented immigrants to enter the US and, along with all the other perks, give them the right to vote. Their talented academicians and lawyers will no doubt conjure up many other schemes to assure we remain for the indefinite future a one-party state like China, and they can in short order celebrate their triumph over an abject Republican Party that failed to focus on the threat and lacked the resources to resist.
Its basically what Stonewall is doing over here with its diversity champions scheme.
Excellent!
“Banking millions of absentee ballots…” Is the author seeking to imply that these votes were fraudulent? The Pew Research page he links to says nothing of the sort.
If Trump’s present momentum continue, he polls well. Then in November the Dems win by their usual ballot harvesting /dumping ballots / bag of tricks.
Concerned that their will be an uprising.
I fear for Republican voters because no doubt there will be a federal response to any uprising primed and waiting in the wings.
If Trump wins, job number one is to executive action the electoral system to include ID cards and proper safeguards against the fiasco of 2020.
The only way the US doesn’t go up in flames is if Trump survives and wins big.
All other options do not looks so good from here.
I sincerely hope this is OTT and things will settle down to some level of normalcy before the Nov 5 election! But if this is a true reflection of what is to come then God help America and God help us all.. I wonder if enough sensible Americans will finally opt far the middle way? A third party runner like JILL STEIN or CORNELL WEST? It seems that 40 million would be such voters will not do so because they are convinced the other 39.99 million won’t! Sad.. looks hopeless, but hey we live in hope!
But would middle way rectify anything?
Hmm . . . Clinton, Blair & a Third Way?
This is literally one of the best articles I’ve read on the state of US politics/the parties etc etc. Bravo- and thanks
There’s so much to disagree with here, but I’ll start with what I think is a basic misreading of the battlefield. The Democratic party is incapable of organizing much beyond election fundraising. There’s a reason “Democrats in disarray” has been a consistent editorial cliche for the past 50 years. Consistent message discipline? Actually organizing a conspiracy? Not so much! Why? It’s a coalition party and getting the various factions to agree on anything is like herding cats. Will Rogers said it best in the 1930s: “I am not a member of an organized political party – I am a Democrat.”
I think the author could stand to better address the correct center of mass of opposition to a 2nd Presidential term. Trump probably doesn’t care either way, but he picked the judges that took away abortion rights. It’s not a conspiracy. It’s simple. Women hate giving up a right to bodily autonomy. They demonstrate this during every special election since 2023. And that’s why the majority of Americans will vote this year for a cadaver with a D stamped to its head. Trump knows this in his bones; why else be so quiet about his “achievement”?
Republicans over-reached. Wax poetic about Trump. Claim the Democrats are fixing the election if it feels soothing. But when Trump and Republicans lose races this Fall, it’ll always be due to the simplest cause. Repealing abortion rights motivates voters who don’t care about Democratic politics but do care about their own bodily freedom.
Whatever powers are not expressly given to the federal government in the Constitution are retained by the States, or by the people. What the Supreme Court did was rightly return the issue of abortion for the States to decide on, as is their right. Roe was bad case law, and this was stated by liberals who liked its conclusion, but whose sloppy “legal structure” offended their lawyerly sensibilities.
Arguing that overturning Roe v. Wade was legally or logically defensible is besides the point to the argument I was trying to make. As a political issue, taking away a right to abortion (or at least making the right impractical to practice by limiting it to the first 15 weeks after conception) is a vote loser in the US. It’s significant that voters turned out in off year elections to consistently support the candidates or voter initiatives that stood against the rollback of abortion access. Even in Red states. Applying anti-abortion fetal personhood rules to in-vitro fertilization in Georgia was a PR disaster for Republicans.
State level attempts to restrict abortion rights will undermine Trump at the national level during the 2024 election. Of course, I’ve already argued that Democrats are characteristically disorganized, so there’s no guarantee they can pull off this focus. (Although, if Biden bows out, I suspect his replacement – without a Presidential record of accomplishments to run on – will use abortion rights as a ready-to-use cudgel in an abbreviated 3 to 4 month campaign blitz.)
People care deeply about sex and control over their bodies. It’s rare to have a dry legal issue feel so powerfully personal and immediate in its effect.
I hate abortion by choice. Period. Choice means who lives and who dies. This is how many women define their priorities. Don’t get it. So. When does the emerging miracle of life get a stake in its own future? Nice to know that the wonder of each of us is merely a result of someone’s body autonomy. No wonder life is so cheaply used and abused.
For my very pained and reluctant acceptance of the need to deal with our unfortunate disregard for our own, let alone other’s hopes, I give the child bearer precedence for half the time of forbearance; beyond that, the new person gets first dibs on life. Around 18 weeks.
Good point: if Trump loses it would only be on his signature accomplishment, the demise of federal recognition of the right to abortion — the most bread & butter issue.
But mobilizing against him on this his weakest spot might propel a Harris-Buttigieg ticket, based on their signature race & gender strategy: the first Black President, first Asian President, first female President, first gay Vice-President.
Good article. I must say I am confused. Always considered Trump a fake populist who did the will of the billionaires while talking a good game ( see operation warp speed ). But now I have to reevaluate. Why was security so lax ? Why was he shot with thevsecret service clealy seeing the shooter and allowing speech to go ahead ? It makes very little sense to me
The author gets the description of the rich Democratic supporters right, but for all the guns and macho acting out,en mass the bulk of the American population will swallow anything,he is wrong.
I remain an American, I just don’t know what that means anymore. It’s heartbreaking.
N B that there is no discussion of Trump’s actual policies as proposed for the future, or as president previously, in this essay. The focus is on the chokehold that the Democrat party and its managerial elite/Deepstate continue to have, and by inference, how they will continue to cheat (ballot harvest,use metropolitan voting infrastructure, and “fortify” as they euphemize, etc) to maintain that. Trump’s rather simple, appealing, and primary focus on fair trade arrangements for the USA, border control so that we can remain an actual nation, and avoidance of foreign wars is what drives much of the enthusiasm for Trump. I’m not sure you’re correct that not a single Fortune500 company has endorsed Trump prior to July 13, but let’s assume that is correct. Name one of these companies that did not thrive from 2016-2020. All those companies(fully infiltrated by the Democrat machine) will be mercilessly attacked and cancelled by the same Democrat party managerial elite if they did endorse him. Why would Trump need their endorsement , and what does that notion add to this analysis? Of course they dont endorse him. A huge segment of the American people realize that virtually everything important to them is more unstable, or worse now , than it was before the current incredibly incompetent crop of unelected bureaucrats began their puppeteering of a demented executive in 2021. A much smaller segment of the populace( the self described joke “elite” )is committed to a civil war. We will obviously actually see if that “regime” succeeds in yet again stealing a national election.
I agree with the commenters. This is scaree.
My only hope is that most of the CEOs, lawyers, corporate bureaucrats are just going along to get along.
Maybe all it takes is a couple of guys with cojones like Thiel and Musk to back Trump and the whole thing collapses.
And maybe Pelosi and Obama are tactically smart but strategically dumb.
Snowden, Manning, Teixeira haven’t been the only opportunists & information isn’t the only valuable thing to steal.
The unknown unknown with inestimable, but highly likely & potentially catastrophic impact on the US election is white-collar crime involving military-grade technology in both, physical & cyber-space.
And, it may not be for logical reasons – logical for a person who pays bills.
Cyber-crimes are so risk/cost-free, so easy to commit, they are done for their own sake: void of value or function, with devastating impact on victims, as my story shows (1).
Committing bizarre crimes is a long-standing Victoria Police witness/victim silencing tradition in Australia. Their acts are logical in this context.
In physical space the MARCUCCI ride LOUD & often expensive, huge motorbikes with unregistered/swapped license plates in Melbourne’s leafy suburbs flashing Victoria Police uniforms, aiding drug trafficking, CFMEU crimes, etc. They brag on social media about their government security clearances, openly self-identify benefiting from drug-crimes, attack crime witnesses with vulgar brutality unprovoked, “out of the blue”, under their full names. They exhibit toddler-like innocence: in Australia crime pays – fabulously.
The results of men & women having learnt over decades the freedom to commit any crime they want without any risk of prosecution is nightmare stuff.
I have written before about Australia’s fake crime statistics(1), Australia’s lack of functional law-enforcement, the acceptance of police criminality in Australia like the weather: might = right. Our geographic position coupled with our fake facade of peaceful prosperity afforded us insider status in global military alliances, including AUKUS, the Five Eyes, the Quad, etc.
Australia’s corrupt government/military insiders like the MARCUCCI have been showing off their risk/cost-free, on-demand access to e.g. DARPA technology(2) delivering physical harm to anyone, in our own homes, through locked doors without any risk of prosecution. Repeatedly. Some nights I am subjected to 3-4 different types of assaults, some repeating multiple times – on my own, behind locked doors. I am a public servant crime witness.
The MARCUCCI being firmly above the law can & no doubt do trade tech with opponents of the West in Iran, DPRK, Russia, etc. also. Why wouldn’t they?
My last forced war-crime experience, the last assault I was forced to endure was less than 12 hours ago in the home I have owned since 2001 in Clare O’Neil’s electorate. I am writing this at 3:09pm on 22 July 2024. I never even dated the stalker ex-coworker, never chose to have anything to do with a MARCUCCI.
By the end of 2018 I exhausted all legal avenues to stop devastating MARCUCCI crimes, or at least have them on any kind of record beyond my desperate public interest disclosures. Crimes against me showing government/military-grade technology use were committed with professional consistency & efficiency by 2009, when my stalker nightmare started.
I became a MARCUCCI crime target as a public servant witness to MEEHAN crimes punishable by 10 years in jail as a Business Analyst at the Victorian Electoral Commission in 2009. Australia has laws – we have no law-enforcement.
Connection between the MEEHAN & MARCUCCI crime dynasties is possibly via Victoria Police, where Mario MARCUCCI & M.A.A. MEEHAN served concurrently, likely for many years, continued their close bond for decades, even living in close proximity in Bentleigh East with many children & associates amongst them learning how to commit crimes that will never be prosecuted.
#ididnotstaysilent
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(1) See my LinkedIn articles: https :// www . linkedin.com/in/katalin-kish-38750b154/recent-activity/articles/
(2) Transcranial direct current stimulus = a precisely targeted electric shock to a person’s brain through walls, from a distance.
https :// www . darpa.mil/program/next-generation-nonsurgical-neurotechnology
This is only one of the types of remotely delivered physical assaults I have been subjected to, since in 2019 I declared self-representation against Victoria Police, when they forced me to fight at court as an accused criminal in an admitted silencing attempt.
Victims of these assaults could not prove what they have suffered, let alone proving who assaulted them = the crime is prosecution-proof. It is impossible to tell how damaging these assaults are in the long-run for victims.
Given the MARCUCCIs’ demonstrated sadistic perversion, if a grown-up does not break even after remotely delivered electric shocks, their loved ones are fair game too, e.g. babies. A crime witness father of a baby refused to testify at court recently, so a biker criminal walked free from court. Mick GATTO brags about being able to stop anyone doing anything for good reasons. There is a silver lining to having lost everyone to crimes during the first decade of the stalker ex-coworker’s crimes against me: I don’t have loved ones left, who could be hurt to force me to stop fighting Australia’s absurd crime reality.
If you watch the 60 Minutes episode on CFMEU crimes (1), at this point (2) in the video former Assistant Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police Mark NEY acknowledges that police will do nothing about obvious, proven bikie crimes bankrupting the state of Victoria uncovered by investigative journalists – they would only deal with “straight up & down extortions/assaults“. “The police don’t have the time“. No one picks up the “issue” of even organised crime infiltration of the construction industry bankrupting the state of Victoria evidenced by reputable investigative journalists. Admitted on TV!
It’s no wonder crime victims like me have no hope. This is why I share my story.
I tried every channel, every avenue anyone I knew could think of, in Australia & beyond, by the end of 2018 to get crimes against me at least on some official record. I am not a willing crime victim. Michael KEENAN, the Minister for Justice in 2015 confirmed how serious crimes I witnessed, crimes committed me against me are.
Over the years it became obvious, mainstream media won’t touch stories like mine. While the truth is a valid defence against defamation, it is only the victim of crimes committed by e.g. Victoria Police/Australian Signals Directorate or ADF insiders/associates, who can swear in front of a judge to be telling the truth. Especially about crimes involving technology the public doesn’t even know about, let alone the law dealing with the technology used in crimes against civilians.
I had to learn: no act is a crime in Australia, unless a police officer acknowledges it as a crime & all evidence is hearsay/worthless rubbish, unless a police officer accepts BOTH, the act as a crime & the evidence as evidence. While police officers have no accountability/duty of care, are subject to a culture of criminality within the police, and have a vested interest in keeping their own workloads & crime statistics down.
Crime victims like me must be small fish/too risky to touch for investigative journalists. Especially since in Australia crime victims are assumed to have done “something” to deserve what they are subjected to. I was palmed off to charities time & time again, until I stopped trying to report crimes to any authority. I was treated as if trying to report crimes was something obscene, people stared at me like crimes are things victims ought to carry with obedient resignation & silent dignity – out of sight at all times! Crimes are the victims’ shame!
A private detective told me in 2015(?), I have zero hope of stopping the stalker’s crimes – that was before I knew about the MARCUCCI crime dynasty, before I knew that crimes against me are committed by police officers & their accomplices, dozens of thugs roaming around on motorbikes with unregistered/swapped licence plates, who know, they have nothing to fear, likely via thousands of crimes committed already, over many decades.
First crime against me today (13 Aug 2024) in my home, on my own, behind locked doors, at around 5:45am. I stopped taking the trouble of writing down exact times/details. There is no point.
I don’t know how many crime families/dynasties like the MARCUCCI exist in Australia. Their complete comfort as criminals suggests what they do is quite common.
PS: when Mick GATTO claims he can stop anyone doing anything – evidently without any risk of prosecution – he might be referring to contactless extortion. I have documented some of my forced exposure to this via my LinkedIn account (3).
False security is far worse than no security at all. People need to know what to expect.
#ididnotstaysilent
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(1) https :// www .youtube.com/watch?v=EuoWv-VKvy0
(2) https :// www .youtube.com/watch?v=EuoWv-VKvy0&t=1730s
(3) https :// www .linkedin.com/pulse/contactless-extortion-australia-katalin-kish-upqyc/
Great article but could have been written about any Western European country. The same markers are there; entire social sectors captured by the left, academia, the law, the civil service, MSM, NGOs and every special interest group going.
The question facing us all now is whether or not those not on the bankroll can out vote those who are. Wether those of us who just want to live our shambolic, liberated lives can resist the tidy, panicked, conformist control freaks who seek to dominate us all.