Trump Agonistes

With the recent court decision in New York, the U.S. has entered a new era on its downward path to destruction.

Trump’s sentencing on absurd technical “crimes” that harmed nobody is scheduled just before the meeting of the Republican presidential nominating convention. Nobody with “two grains of sense to rub together” (as Grandmother used to say) thinks that is unplanned.

The Republican elite may very well use Trump’s “felonies” as an excuse to repudiate their most popular candidate and their voters and give the country a “respectable” ticket - one of them. We are hearing of Nikki Haley as a Vice-President - a ridiculous opportunist who has never done one constructive thing but who is a darling of the Republican wing of the Dark State.

Assuming Trump is allowed to run, it is possible that with multiple candidates the decision will be thrown into the House of Representatives. This will give the Republican elite another opportunity to collaborate with the Left and block Trump. That is what they always do. It m atters not to them that they trash their most popular candidate. He is not one of their posed “respectable,” moderates.

Meanwhile, the Republican leaders in the Senate and House declare giving money to the corrupt Ukrainian government is America’s greatest challenge at the moment. It is hard to tell whether they are that stupid, blinded inside the D.C. bubble, or whether they are merely lying to keep their “respectability.”

People are always complaining that the Dark State gets away with everything it wants. Why? The answer is simple. There is no opposition. The Republicans are not a political party but merely an electoral machine for those who benefit from it. They are certainlynot an Opposition party. Any one of a hundred top Democrats could be prosecuted for crimes greater than Trump’s. But the Republican leadership has no interest in doing right. Their concern is to keep their moderate and respectable stance. Perhaps they are now badly miscalculating the situation.

The most positive thing that can come out of the pending debacle will be the collapse and destruction of the Republican party in its present form - perhaps allowing the emergence of a genuine Opposition party.

I have never been enthusiastic about Trump, but have given him the benefit of the doubt as the only game in town. His moral transgressions are more publicised but probably behind him and less than most politicians and rich men. A wise man once told me that you can evaluate a politician by looking at his children. Trump scores high on that measure, compared with Biden or any other national figure I can think of.

He is a genuine American type, not one I admire, but at least he is the real thing, and unlike any other national figure, capable of good, old-fashioned straight talk. Every attempt to stop him results in an increase in his support and donations. I have to admit that my level of enthusiasm has been declining lately.

​I am disappointed in some of his possible appointees that are mentioned, but that may just be empty speculation. I am even more disappointed in his callous support of Israeli genocide. I would like to think that he has learned something since his last term and stolen re-election and will actually be able to make some progress in draining the Swamp. But that is just a hope, not a certainty.