Like Moses leading his people out of Egypt,
Donald Trump single-handedly guided a progressively repressed America to the brink of a new promised land. In 2015 Trump was maligned by the Republican establishment and left for dead by Hillary Clinton and the Washington DC Deep State.
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But miraculously, Trump opened the Red Sea of the Republican primary and general election, won the presidency, and brought together a new coalition of blue-collar and traditional Americans. Over the next four years, he was brutally and dishonestly attacked. His progressive/ deep state enemies tried to take down his presidency {think Russiagate}, but by putting America first, Trump was able to change the nation and the world.
His foreign policy projected strength but, at the same time, made the rest of the world pay their fair share. He constrained China’s ambition, North Korea’s paranoia, and Iran’s terrorism, and his Middle East peace accords were masterful. He removed foolish business regulations, demanded fair free trade {think new NAFTA}, and the stock market soared. The military was rebuilt, and the borders were sealed. And America was safer. Trump kept inflation in check and called out the deep state, ensuring American retirement savings were safe and Americans would not be illegally abused by a corrupt DOJ/FBI.
In early 2020, like a biblical plague, the Coronavirus came.
Instead of recommending protecting the at-risk population and keeping the country/schools open, panic overtook our leaders, and the nation was shut down. Trump quickly realized the disastrous consequences of this action and gave the ok to reopen, but the power to make it happen was at the level of State government. Governors {mostly progressive} declared an emergency, suspended constitutional rights, and forced shutdowns of all nonessential work. The main CDC spokesman was Dr. Fauci, who, by refusing to acknowledge the entire effect of the pandemic and ignoring the harm created by his draconian recommendations, violated his Hippocratic oath of “Do no harm.” Thousands of small businesses were forced to close and never reopened. Untold numbers of not-at-risk children were deprived of socialization and education. Suicide and drug use rates soared. And an entire generation of children is 2-3 years behind in learning, and most will never catch up.
Some States refused to buckle to the intense politically motivated progressive intimidation. Florida, Texas, and Georgia come to mind. Their businesses stayed open, and their children stayed in school. And the virus mortality rate was no different.
The progressives and the media blamed President Trump for every virus death.
The election was on, and candidate Joe Biden was sequestered in his Delaware home, hiding his clear cognitive dysfunction and ineptitude and, most importantly, deceiving the country by pretending to be moderate “Scranton Joe.” The corrupt FBI, now exposed as trying to bury the Hunter Biden laptop, warned tech titans of impending Russian disinformation, and when the Hunter Biden laptop surfaced, all reference to it was suppressed. President Donald Trump was removed from all social media and, in effect, banned from the public square. Fifty former intelligence officers penned a letter opining the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. Despite knowing the letter was felonious, AG Barr and FBI Director Wray refused to set the record straight. Likewise, Pfizer held up the announcement of the world-saving Covid 19 vaccine until after the election.
The fix was in, and when the votes were counted, Joe Biden was elected president. The election was dirty-trick legal but clearly was not fair. Polls show if the public knew the truth about Hunter Biden’s laptop, 6% would have changed their vote, shifting the election to Trump.
If Donald Trump had exited office in silence,
he would be the overwhelming favorite to be the next president of the United States, but he didn’t; and in what can only be described as an irrational rage, he refused to acknowledge that it was progressive unethical dirty-tricks, not widespread voter fraud, that had taken him down.
On January 6th, 2021, Americans who sensed how unfair the 2020 election was, marched on Washington, DC. Trump knew there might be trouble and authorized the National Guard to be called out, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi, hoping for chaos, refused to give it an okay. There was a riot and a breach of the capital building. President Trump was blamed, and very powerful forces fabricated a now-debunked bogus death of a policeman, armed insurrection narrative.
Trump survived the ridiculous impeachment attempt but never let go of the unfair 2020 election. Over the next 18 months, the country radically changed. The fossil fuel industry was systematically destroyed. The price of home heating oil doubled, gas topped out at five dollars a gallon, and electrical rates skyrocketed. This, combined with massive spending, sparked the worst inflation in over 40 years. Crime runs rampant in major progressive cities; the southern border is nonexistent, with 5 million illegals having crossed along with American youth killing fentanyl and child sex traffickers. The world is on fire with Russia invading Ukraine and China eyeing Taiwan.
During the buildup to the 2022 midterm elections, President Trump demanded total fealty on his election-denying claims. Anyone who did not kiss the ring was fed to Trump’s base, and few survived.
Then the 2022 midterms happened, and it became clear that American independent voters, who decide elections, voted against their children’s future and America’s best interest to take down almost all of Trump’s handpicked election-denying nominees. And that independent voters are never again going to allow the post-Jan 6th, 2021, Donald Trump to have power.
Just like the great prophet Moses, who led his people for 40 years in the desert, and who God did not allow to enter the promised land; the political forces of the universe are not going to allow the post-Jan 6th 2021, Donald Trump, to lead the coalition he created, into the promised land of America’s renewal.
There are some caveats.
On November 15th, 2022, a very different Donald Trump announced his candidacy to be the next President of the USA. The election-denying bitterness was replaced by a sharply focused, forward-looking vision of how to return America to greatness. Viewers of the speech cannot help but wonder how big the Republican Senate majority would be if this version of Trump had emerged from the unfair, dirty-trick 2020 Presidential election. But few believe Donald Trump has the discipline to reign in his mercurial personality and maintain his newfound political balance. Even if he could maintain his newfound focus, Trump-hating Republicans and similarly-minded independent voters will be almost impossible to win back.
Many in the Republican party and in the nation appear ready to move on from Donald Trump. Not because of his record {there is none better}, but simply because of his aggressiveness and post-2020 election behavior.
If Trump attacks, emerging MAGA leaders will be best served by not engaging
and instead, give Trump credit for what he has done for our nation and the Republican party. All the while reminding the voters it is time to build on Trump’s legacy and move on to a new-generation MAGA candidate. If Donald Trump does, without substance, ratchet up his rhetoric, he will diminish; eventually devolving into irrelevance.
But if any of the rising MAGA leaders show fealty to the old elite Republican establishment,
kowtowing to Ivy League Wall Street elites {Karl Rove types} and turning their backs on noncollege-educated blue-collar American workers, the new MAGA coalition will turn away and turn back to the one person who led them into a land where promises made, were promises kept.
It is time to make America Great Again! 2024 will come faster than you think!! Never give up!!!
