The Trump Tragedy

Donald Trump evidently cares about his fame. But no matter what the course of future history will be, Donald Trump will not be remembered as a “good” President. His abandonment of those of us who hoped he was the last chance for reform of the U.S. ruling regime guarantees that. Nor will he be remembered as a good man. His subservience to the Israeli agenda has destroyed the image of courage and independent thinking that many of us admired him for.


He has not cut spending. Every Republican president in the last half century has promised spending cuts and has lied, and Trump is the same. None of us understood what the “Big Beautiful Bill” was about and it seemed a surrender to the Establishment.


He has not refrained from foreign regime change adventures as he pledged to do.

He seems at times to be swinging blindly. Why concentrate on Venezuela and Greenland when the Ukrainian and Gaza disasters continue unalleviated? Provocation of Iran is a foolhardy enterprise.


No U.S. President or Congress can defy Israel but Trump is in a position where he might have exerted a bit of restraint.


Why the resistance to Epstein full exposure? Nobody thinks Trump is guilty of child molesting. Is he resisting exposure of other people to whom he is closely connected?


Yet we have to admit that he has done some good things. It is said that over 300,000 people have left the federal bureaucracy (although many of them have doubtless retired with fat pensions). How deep his reforms of the unconstitutional Deep State regime have gone and whether they will last remains to be seen.


He has brought some spirit of populism into the inert leadership of the Republican party. Is it enough or will they revert to their comfortable blank agenda?


His fooling around with tariffs, it is said, has brought $30 billion into the Treasury, raising a faint hope of control of the deficit. But it has not been sufficiently explained to the people. Is there hope that American industrial power is being renewed? Where is the evidence? I fear that the rising generations are little interested in acquiring skills and working hard. They have been raised in an economy in which financial manipulation, not production, is the path to wealth.


And the illegal immigrant issue has been addressed. We can be certain that no other possible President of either party would ever have addressed or even discussed this issue. That makes Trump a historic reformer, even as a failure, if nothing else.


As far as we can tell, the border has been made more secure and a lot of bad characters have been deported---possibly not nearly enough given the millions of illegals. The process has been poorly handled and Leninist revolutionaries have managed to bring it into question. Most Americans are in favour of removing illegals, but it has not been properly explained to them. “Virtuous” Republicans are running away from a policy that seems unrespectable and a threat to Midwestern niceness. The hope for removals may well be dead for the future.


Trump may have revealed that the administrative regime cannot be defeated and is our only possible future. And that it has made the Presidency too much for any one person.