What Can We Do With Trump?

In 2016 my brave and insightful friend Ilana Mercer published a book The Trump Revolution. She praised the appearance of a leader independent of the entrenched Establishment and its phony ideas and policies. Trump, she wrote, presented the possibility of real reform, though not the certainty. Cautious hope has proved to be warranted because many of the hopes of his supporters have disappointingly failed of implementation. His statesmanlike inaugural address is far from becoming his reality in office.


Trump seems to have attacked the immense problem of illegal immigration. Without this enforcement of law the America future is doomed. It remains to be seen whether present efforts will be enough. And why Trump’s strange exemption of subcontinental ID people and Chinese students from immigration restriction, something certainly not of benefit to the American people?


Democratic leaders and Woke populations are determined that the immigration law not be enforced. They are creating violent obstruction of law enforcement that is sure to lead to sensational events that will create sympathy for the protestors. The media, as in the BLM burning of cities and battles with police, is reporting “peaceful protests.”


Minnesota, when it had a 2% black population, was in the forefront of “Civil Rights” enforcement in the South and had no problem sending paratroopers to the South - even to enforce not legitimate laws but dubious court orders. Now the vile attorney general of Minnesota is talking about the 10th Amendment, something that was discarded long ago. Would be ridiculous if not so stupid and dishonest. Forceful federal intervention in States has been a long, well-established practice.


Trump seems to have taken considerable measures to defund and delegitimanise entrenched institutions of the Deep State. We have no clear idea of how far this has reached. I suspect there are still tens or hundreds of thousands of Woke federal officials and contractors enjoying lush salaries and continuing to subvert sane government.


I wrote some time back that the greatest obstacle to Trumpian reforms is the Republican Party, the leadership of which is committed to the Deep State. Democrat Congresspersons often actually believe what they say, false and wicked as it is. Republican Congresspersons, with few exceptions, are intellectually and ethically shallow poster boys, interested in maintaining their comfortable status quo.


They are ignorant of history and of the world and their positions are slogans invented by party advertising men. How much the Republican party has changed in a Trumpian direction remains uncertain and doubtful. Trump’s attacks on the best of his earliest supporters like Massie and Greene is extremely discouraging to the base.


The most important Trump promise was to end the disastrous interference in foreign regimes that has been a permanent policy of the Deep State, of no relevance to the welfare of the American people. Here we have our greatest disappointment.

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In general, his cowboy diplomacy is not a good thing. He has violated his promise in extreme ways, difficult to understand. The Ukrainian war should have been ended long ago, as promised. Surely the Greenland matter could have been peacefully arranged.


I understand why the Israelis want the U.S. to go to war against Russia, Iran, and Venezuela. But why Greenland? It is suggested that Trump’s Greenland adventure will destroy NATO. In that case we can enjoy it. He has made some gestures to warn the Europeans about their decadence but it is not likely to do any good.


Trump has recreated the U.S. imperial policies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when we sent troops to take over and administer China, Haiti, Nicaragua, Cuba and other countries. And mostly for the benefit of U.S. corporations. Here’s something we did not expect. His subservience to Israel and promotion of the blatantly phony “peace” for Gaza has deteriorated the moral reputation of the U.S. severely and lastingly.



What shall we do with Trump? Who knows? At least he still invokes the hatred of all the right people. All we can do is wait and nourish a hope that grows weaker by the day. And hope to be spared those “interesting times” that good people are always wary of.