“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones.” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Never has that quote been more apropos than when considering the MAGA movement and the rise of Donald Trump. Thankfully, we are now in an era when the largest coalition of American voters have awakened to the reality that, to quote the former president: “Economic Security is National Security.”
As we live through the consequences of a Biden administration hell bent on eroding the middle class of the United States, there are numerous pundits contemplating 2024 Republican presidential candidates other than Donald Trump; consider this group the lukewarm defenders Machiavelli noted.
At the same time the leftist coalition, writ large, are apoplectic about the base of the Republican Party now belonging to Donald Trump. This group consists of those affluent Wall Street agents and politicians set on retaining the profits derived from decades of institutional objectives.
Institutional Democrats hate him and institutional Republicans are lukewarm, at best, in defending him.
Both wings of the DC UniParty want a different direction.
In this outline, I rise to explain why Donald Trump is the only option for the America First MAGA coalition; and I make my case not on supposition, but on empirical reference points that most should understand.
If you accept that at its essential core elements the phrase “economic security is national security” is true; meaning the lives of the American citizen, person, worker, individual or family are best when their economic position is secure; then any potential leader for our nation must be able to initiate policies that directly touch the economics of a person’s life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. As a result, economic security and economic policy must be the fulcrum of their platform.
Now, look around and ask yourself this question: “What separated Donald J. Trump from the remaining field of 17 GOP candidates in 2016?” An honest topline answer would be immigration (border control), and his views on American economic policy. In essence, what set Donald Trump apart from all other candidates was his view on the U.S. economy, and that was the driving factor behind ‘Make America Great Again’, MAGA.
Now, look around. Look at every other potential candidate for political office. Is there another person in the field of your political view who comes from the starting point that economic security is national security?
Put aside all other issues and shiny things that may change from moment to moment as the political winds swirl and settle, and ask yourself that question. Who can deliver MAGA, if not the central person who lives, eats, sleeps and thinks about U.S. economic security from every angle at every second of every hour of every day. That’s Donald J. Trump.
Trump knows the extremely consequential sequence of BIG things that lead to a structurally strong American economic foundation. We don’t have to guess at whether Trump can deliver on that policy sequence, we have reference points.
♦ Donald Trump knew that independent U.S. energy policy was a condition for a strong U.S. economy. He also knew there would be negative consequences to allies and partners if the U.S. energy policy was independent. Trump knew that OPEC nations in general would be negatively impacted, and he knew that Saudi Arabia specifically would be weakened geopolitically. That is why the very first foreign trip by Donald Trump was to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States that make up the majority of OPEC.
Look at what President Trump did on that trip. First, he assured Saudi Arabia that the United States would stand with the Gulf Cooperation Council and Mid-East nations as it pertained to their security. Trump knew making the largest energy consuming nation independent from foreign oil would be adverse to the economic stability of the Mid-East, and as an outcome, could open a door to destabilization from extremist or ideological groups therein.
Take away top-line economic revenue from Saudi et al, and the leaders of those oil economies have a more difficult time remaining stable and controlling unrest and extremism. Generations of Arab citizens know nothing other than the trickle down benefits of oil exports. President Trump knew this, and he approached our need for energy independence by first assuring the Arab states of his commitment to their stability and safety.
President Trump delivered to those states a list of approved arms and defense agreements during that trip. In essence, what he was doing was putting the promise of security into actual delivery of tools to retain that security. Actions speak louder than words. President Trump also promised to work diligently on peace in the region; a real substantive and genuine peace that would provide security in the big picture.
Over the course of the next few years, Trump delivered on that set of promises with the Abraham accords. Yes, economic security as national security applies to our allies as well as ourselves. Again, actions speak louder than words.
With the U.S. energy independence program in place, President Trump then moved in sequence to the next big thing.
♦ Donald Trump moved to face the challenge of China. A major shift in U.S. policy that is likely considered the biggest geopolitical shift in the last 75 years. Trump strategically began with Trade Authority 302 national security Steel and Aluminum tariffs at 25% and 10% not only toward China but targeted globally.
The entire multinational system was stunned at the bold step with tariffs. But remember, before Trump went to Saudi Arabia, he held a meeting with Chairman Xi Jinping in Mar-a-Lago. The global trade world was shocked by the tariff announcement, but I’ll bet you a doughnut Chairman Xi was not.
That February 2017 meeting, only one month after his inauguration, was President Trump graciously informing Chairman Xi, in the polite manner that respectful business people do, that a new era in the U.S-China relationship was about to begin. New trade agreements, new terms and conditions were to be expected in the future. The tariff announcement hit Wall Street hard, but not Beijing – who knew it was likely.
U.S. financial pundits proclaimed the sky was surely falling. These tariffs would cause prices to skyrocket, the global order of all things around trade was under attack by Trump. They waxed and shouted about supply chains being complicated and intertwined amid the modern manufacturing era that was too complex for President Trump to understand with such a heavy handed tariff hammer. Remember all of that? Remember how cars were going to cost thousands more, and beer kegs would forever be lost because the orange man had just triggered steel and aluminum tariffs?
Did any of that happen? No. Of course it didn’t. Actually, the opposite was true and no one could even fathom it. Communist China first responded by subsidizing all of their industries targeted by the tariffs with free energy and raw materials, etc. China triggered an immediate reaction to lower their own prices to offset tariffs. Beijing did not want the heavy industries and factories to start back up again in the U.S, so they reacted with measures to negate the tariff impact.
China’s economy started to feel the pressure and panda was not happy. Eventually, as the tariffs expanded beyond Steel and Aluminum to other specific segments and categories, China devalued their currency to lower costs even further for U.S. importers. The net result was something no one could have imagined. With lower prices, and increased dollar strength, we began importing all Chinese products at cheaper rates than before the tariffs were triggered. Yes, we began importing deflation. No one saw that coming…. but Trump did.
While all that initial U.S-China trade shock was taking place, Donald Trump took his next foreign trip to… wait for it…. Southeast Asia.
Just like in the example of the trip to Saudi Arabia, economically-minded Trump told partners and leaders in the export producing countries of Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Vietnam, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and ASEAN nations to prepare for additional business and new trade agreements with the U.S., as factories inside China might start to decouple. Look at how they responded, they did exactly what Trump said would be in their best interests.
To seriously gather the focus of this SE Asia group, President Trump started direct talks with North Korea and Chairman Kim Jong-un for peace and regional stability. It’s easy to forget just how stunning this was at the time, but generations of people in Asia were jaw-agape at the U.S. President confronting China, engaging with North Korea, and opening his arms to new trade deals with ASEAN partners.
On the world stage of geopolitics and global trade, any one of these moves would be a monumental legacy initiative all by itself. But together, simultaneously, you can see how the entire continent physically stopped midstride and stood staring at this, this man, this American President, who was just about to step across the Demilitarized Zone in North Korea and shake hands with Chairman Kim…. and, wait for it…. they are smiling.
√ Energy security triggered and friends in Mid-East supported.
√ Mid-East peace initiatives triggered.
√ A return of heavy industry and manufacturing security triggered.
√ A confrontation of Chinese economic influence triggered.
√ Stability between South Korea and North Korea, triggered.
√ New trade deals and economic partnerships with Japan and South Korea, triggered.
And then, as if that was not enough… just as multinational investment groups started realizing they needed to change their outlooks and drop the decades long view of the U.S. as a “service driven economy”… just as they realized they needed to start investing domestically inside the United States for their own growth and financial security… as if all that wasn’t enough… President Trump kicks off an entirely new trade deal and renegotiated standard for all North American trade via NAFTA.
We don’t have to guess at whether Donald Trump can put together a program to ensure Economic Security is National Security. We don’t have to guess at whether Donald Trump can deliver on economic policy. We don’t have guess if Trump’s policy platform, proposals and initiatives would be successful. We have the experience of it. We have the results of it. We have felt the success of it.
We also don’t need to guess at who is the best candidate to lead Making America Great Again, we already know who that is.
There is no other 2024 Presidential Candidate who I am aware of who could possibly achieve what Donald John Trump has achieved, or who could even fathom contemplating how to achieve a quarter of what President Trump achieved.
Do not tell me Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is a better option. DeSantis is an unknown commodity, a blank slate, when it comes to big picture economic outlooks. DeSantis doesn’t have an economic agenda inside his administration from which to contemplate or analyze his economic views.
Governor Ron DeSantis has a lot of really good skills and policies on the domestic front unique to his position in Florida; however, it is not a slight toward him to point out he has never expressed any larger economic proposal that would give any confidence in a national economic policy.
Look at the sum total of it, and there’s so much more that could be outlined to what Donald Trump achieved and could yet still achieve achieve, it’s not even a close question.
And that my friends is exactly why Donald Trump is under relentless attack from both wings of the UniParty in DC. Additionally, it is clear the Wall Street republicans are trying to position Ron DeSantis as an alternative to another Trump term. Look carefully at the current advocates for DeSantis, Nikki Haley and/or Kristi Noem, and you will note every one of those early voices are attached to favorable Wall Street politics and multinational corporate advocacy.
Look at what Donald J. Trump was able to achieve while he was under constant political attack. Just imagine what Trump 2.0 would deliver.
They, the leftist Democrats and Wall Street Republicans, are yet again absolutely petrified of that.
Just to be sure I understand how the ideas align: PDJT wins the 2024 election; 3 mos into his term he passes away from, say, a heart attack. At that point, pack your bags, it’s all over. There is no one who can pick up the ball and move the agenda forward; no one who can learn, just like PDJT during his first term, on the job; no one else who could achieve what has yet to be achieved (whatever that is code speak for). In short, the whole drama depends upon an individual and not the ideas he represents?
If he runs, I will vote for PDJT. A more balanced analysis would nevertheless be appreciated.
Possibly, there are some who know people who have briefed this and other Presidents. Perhaps, like most humans, he is a unique amalgam of strengths and weaknesses.
The more fundamental question: is there anyone who can lead this country at this point? Anyone who can bridge the rifts?
Are you afraid of the mean tweets? The Marxists are un winnable. Always. Everyone else? It’s the economy, stupid. Of course it would help if we had a news media not owned by Marxists and fascists.
You don’t have to convince me. The last two sentences sums up why perfectly. The hardest part about having the election stolen from him is knowing what Trump 2.0 would have done for us. There’s no doubt in my mind about that. It’s the most gut wrenching thought that I try to repress because it’s so depressing. Where I find hope though, is knowing he is not a quitter and will undoubtedly vehemently fight back to win again.
If President Trump gets back in office, this time he’d better FIRE EVERYONE on day one. That’s what we elected him to do.
another serious problem running these two in the same race:
what happens when they decide to go to guns and debate professional and policy differences?
that would be catastrophic to have them both go at each other.
THAT would likely SPOIL alot of voters who follow both, compared to if that never happens.
In the big picture MAXIMUM SUPPORT for both. But not at the same race. We cannot allow two very important figures in the war against corrupt state governments to erode away at the big goals here.
long march soldiers. take the long view.
Too many Monday morning quarterbacks here. No one here knows what he knew. No one here was faced with making the decisions he had to make. I still believe in him and if asked to fight and die, I am ready.
Once again SD nobody could break down in simple terms that an average Person like me can understand what is at stake. Thank you and everyone here at CTH.
May God bless you all and have a Merry Christmas.
100% Sundance!
One more thing, as much as i would like to like and trust DeSantis
I can’t get past all the 24/7 propping up and fawning over that is behind
DeSantis rise. almost like a Cruz 2.0
Does Ron sleep at the podium cuz he seems to be there daily.
I can’t help but think every thing seems staged and orchestrated to me.
Is Ron DeSantis really the brains behind it all? or is he just the delivery boy of some other brain trust?
For me, so many questions so few answers and a ton of distrust when the entire RINO side of the swamp
is cheering DeSantis on while still trying to ” Get Trump “.
For this gal, Trump is MAGA, And there is no MAGA with out the original Brain behind it.
Politicians in general and certainly this administration, can’t compete with President Trump and his financial team on the economy. Hell, he had the world’s economies doing what he wanted. The real President Trump and his team were the ultimate experts, and they had the countries of the world paying attention, to the America First policies. By comparison, the fake administration’s financial amateurs, are destroying the economy, either because of incompetence, or by design. Regardless, these imbeciles, are an embarrassment.
The central banks are running the show not Trump not Biden.
Excellent review of what we are missing today.
Love PDJT. SD is right that this blessing of a man is unparalleled in strategic use of tariffs, keeping us out of foreign entaglements, etc.
I would love to see him back, but honestly, if I could choose, I’d rather have a real wrecking ball do a total freedom/liberty reset. Fire every DOJ/FIB/C_A scumbag, dissolve the FED, gut the unelected DS swamp in its entirety.
He’s a CEO, and doesn’t have the strategy to get it done – he simply relies on bad appointments to “hopefully” get something done.
PDJT demonstrated that he’s too nice – not willing to take the gloves off and do what must be done to set back 50 yrs of commie infiltration for the next hundred years. Not only does he continue to endorse establishment scum even when there are Am1st candidates running (who appreciate and admire him), he continues to pat himself on the back for a vax that’s anything but a vax. Unacceptable BS.
Stephen K Bannon for President. His economic policy would mirror Trumps. But he’d go a hell of a lot further in other critical areas. I strongly suspect SKB is the author of PDJT’s infamous “Our Movement” speech – it describes his strongly held convictions more than PDJT’s, in my view.
Caveat: Even Bannon gives tacit support (air time) to bad candidates, when there are Am1st candidates running (e.g. Vernon Jones got a whole lot of air time – but hasn’t been on warroom since Kandiss Taylor [Am1st] finally got an appearance, as far as I know).
I seriously regret the 2 minutes I wasted reading that.
It would help if you knew at least something about the 45th and Greatest President, Donald J. Trump.
No one else has the where with all to clean out the embedded trash within the ranks of every branch and every twig – fiber of every branch which is what must be done in order for any ethical leader in the future to have a fighting chance at running an ethical administration.
His second Presidency will be another first. If he serves one term then he can hand it over to who ever he wants….
Can’t disagree except that Trump is mortal. One more term is not going to get us out of this mess, especially given the virtual certainty that the internal resistance from the Deep State will continue if not intensify. So, yeah, Trump in 2024, if he wants it, but the movement needs plausible successors. (Plural.) It would be the worst disaster, I could imagine in the GOPe were able to recapture the party.
And a top to bottom house cleaning. For the ones who don’t…. see the light….bring back rendition. If we don’t eliminate these demons nothing will change.
At some point the sword must be drawn. Trump just isn’t that guy.
Is that meant to be a response or just a lukewarm voice from a shill ?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
And who is? If you read sd’s article and that’s your response, you need to up your reading for comprehension game.
Swords come in different shapes and forms!! Blood is NOT a necessity, but the sword can be:
1. THE ECONOMY,
2.CONTROL OF IMMIGRATION,
3.REBUILDING OF AMERICAN EDUCATION ON ALL LEVELS!!
And Trump IS that guy!!
They must step in and in the first month clean out the swamp. That’s the do nothing swamp rats who sabotage everything. The little no bodies that we can never identify because they are nobodies. If you can’t fire them, move them. Lock, stock and barrel move them to states that have been decimated by blue policies. Make them live where they can enjoy the consequences of their ideology. Then root out the RINO traitors, we pretty much know who they are now. They’ve been emboldened by the stolen election. That’s a start.
“They must”? Who is this nebulous “they” and why speak of tHeM?
Instead, consider finding and then starting each day by saying the famous Serenity Prayer so YOU can focus on the ONLY person within your control; YOU.
“We the People” means YOU.
https://theprecinctstrategy.com.
Leave the sidelining nit pickers. Join the doers, like President Trump; doers Teddy Roosevelt immortalized in his powerful “Man in the Arena” speech.
You were born for this moment. Embrace your adventure rather than missing out.
Fortunately, YOU wont be judged by what “they” did or did not do. 😘
Summing up your points, osi, with a question, a serious one. Why did Trump not only tolerate but encourage the factors that brought about his 2020 election defeat? And the worst of them all was his own number 2 man, Mike Pence. This smooth talking political serpent was the final knife in the back. At least the communist Dems know that the VP must be an incompetent boob, else they pose a threat to the chief.
God bless and protect President Trump.
“the election is a fraud”
“Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman (R) will serve as the senior election lead at CISA, the key agency tasked with securing critical infrastructure, including elections, against cyber threats.”
-GOP official who challenged Trump election claims to get top DHS position
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/department-of-homeland-security/578471-gop-official-who-challenged-trump
“Others… may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts.”
–Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural Address, 1801
So when does his Rope A Dope defense stop and the knock out punches get thrown, Sundance? Asking for 100 million friends.
All patriots will support him if he wins the nod. What other choice do they have?
Still grieving for the collateral damage of his decisions. Gene therapy – really? Patriots in prison without pardon when Antifa and BLM run wild in the streets without recourse as the nation’s history gets rewritten? The truth of Assange/Snowden still unrevealed? Pence? Uniparty SC and fed justices? Alphabets running amok? Borders reopened to cartels and invaders (not legislated – just EO’d), and on and on.
We are in a World War with a Cabal of humanity despising Globalist Psychopaths.
Did anyone seriously expect that President Trump could wage and win this WW without incurring REAL sacrifices, suffering, casualties and martyrs?
Those still blaming President Trump rather than the Globalist Psychopaths for the the costs of the Psychopaths war inspire scorn, pity and prayers.
I have my own pet theory as to why we often elect terrible governments. Everyone has their own pet programs or their own pet peeves. A candidate gives them that one thing, or doesn’t give it, and the vote is determined immediately. On reading through the comments most tell us what Trump didn’t do or what he should have done. Forget about the big picture, or even a pragmatic view of the possible. Forget about diplomacy or the art of the deal. There is no allowance for the unknowns, and of course we cannot be expected to be aware of any clandestine activity Unfortunately this time there is no margin for error, and if corrective measures are not taken we will no longer have a government of the people, by the people and for the people. This article makes a persuasive argument for Trump (It’s the economy, stupid) but in addition measures have been taken to subvert our democracy, and election integrity demands a corrective to 2020. As President Trump said in a speech on December 3, 2020: “If we don’t root out the fraud, the tremendous and horrible fraud that’s taken place in our 2020 election, we don’t have a country anymore.”
You are absolutely right Perle!! We (each and everyone of us in their places) must root out the Deep Staters, root them out relentlessly and without pardon or exception. This might sound “undemocratic” and for a moment in our history it might be, but it is absolutely necessary to cut the cancer out with all metastases before we all can survive. Otherwise we will not have the country anymore.
Awesome analysis Sundance. Thank you.
My prayer is that President Trump comes into another term like a wrecking ball. Unlike the first go around. I think he was too kind and truly believed the uniparty jerks wanted to work towards a better America.
BEFORE President Trump can successfully complete the “wrecking ball” phase of Project MAGA, voters must FIRST elect enough DC representatives who won’t Impeach and Remove him the minute he starts demolishing and restructuring.
Just in case you have any doubt about who should run for President in 2024, check out this video from our President Trump in rare form, dancing to HOld on I’m Coming.
This is one of his greatest hits. Enjoy!
The best thing Donald Trump can do is launch and defend an open, well run social media platform. Give others a voice so they can rise to prominence. Perhaps making billions in process.
I think you get to bring a knife to a gunfight once. For all the talk of the art of war, today, the enemy holds the field.
Devolution by Patel Patriot and Slag’s “The Wartime Presidency” https://slagfa.substack.com/p/the-wartime-presidency both support SD’s thesis.
President Trump is the only one who is ready to go as soon as he takes office. He has already been through the learning process. The rest are all cheap imitations.
Osi, I’ll go you one better and ask the more pertinent question that SD ignores: what’s 2024?
Do we really think the Fourth Branch and the rest of the Criminal Cartel will allow Trump (or anyone else posing a real threat to their interests) to run much less win? What kind of childish naivete supposes that the Criminals who engineered the most blatant and obscene electoral theft in history would hesitate for a second to repeat it (or worse) again?
I am continually amazed that patriots who full well know the scope and evil of 2020 election theft can happily chirp away about 2022 and 2024 as if everything will be fine, as if the Criminals will just shrug and say,”OK, well, of course we will stand by this time and let you vote in a bunch of people who will threaten our hold on power (as well as throwing us in jail).” Not happening people. Get a grip.
And consider, too, just who will be running in 2022 and 2024. Leaving Trump aside for the moment, do we really think that any Congress, even 535 Republicans, will do anything to uproot and destroy the Criminal Cartel? These politicians are already compromised w very few exceptions. They talk a great game but DO nothing.
Bottom line. The Criminal Cartel is so deeply entrenched and so powerful in DC that there simply isn’t a political solution. Elections really don’t matter at the federal level. Until the Criminals are dislodged and destroyed we are under their evil rule. The only way out is military force. We can engage in economic war w boycotts, strikes, and stoppages, but ultimately the bad guys aren’t going anywhere until they are forced out by the military. Civil war. That is our future, not 2022 and 2024.
A little intelligence report from Michigan. The scuttlebutt here is that the Uniparty is picking Whitmer as Dementia Joe’s replacement candidate in 2024. She’s considered more reliable Uniparty pick than Harris, and would have been DJ’s VP if she was black.
She has to win reelection in 2022, and that’s where we Patriots come in. We must clean up the election process in MI, or we’ll all be slaves forever.
Her opponent can easily beat her, but she’s a Uniparty fav because she willingly murdered the elderly by sending sick elderly back into nursing homes, a couple hundred died right near my house at one place, and totals in the thousands.
She’s made her Uniparty bones, and her nazi mandates make Uniparty hearts flutter. She must be defeated, and we’ve got 11 months to do it.
It will give us a leg up.
In my short time here, I don’t think I have ever seen a post from Sundance that has caused so much division for lack of a better word. Sundance laid out a great argument for PDJT to run again in 2024. Their seems to be a lot of people missing the point. WE THE PEOPLE have work to do. We need to fight back, not necessarily with violence, and stop the STEAL of our country.
Sundance has attempted, and provided, a reasoned and concise rallying cry. I believe that Trump can “save the nation” if re-elected after denouncing the Scamdemic, and the mRNA poison. As the truth about the evil Fauci government team and the drug companies is becoming apparant to even the common street variety “Liberal”, Trump simply cannot continue to defend his initial response to the LIES of the CDC and WHO, or the LIES of the drug companies regarding their poison.
If Trump exposes and condems those in positions of trust who lied and misled him, and rejects the push for the jabs and mandates–FORCEFULLY and with all honesty–he will not only keep the limp-dick half-hearted wishy-washy “conservatives” who complain about him here on CTH and elsewhere, he will gain the support of another 50 million voters who failed to see the necessity of his policies first time around. if 80 million plus 50 million or 130 million voters overwhelm the establishment’s voting methods they won’t be able to steal it this time.
But, He must throw the jab lie under the bus. He must call for the arrest and prosecution of All those who perpetuate the Lies about the jabs which are setting up the most horrific mass murder in History.
Only then will he win a second term.
Brilliant analysis, Sundance!
I dont think that Trump was nearly as successful as this article makes it seem. Bad Supreme Court Picks besides Gorsuch, horrible appointments to attorney general, and backstabbing staff. I just think desantis could be someone that can at least cut through the bull in a way that trump cant. For whatever reason, half the country hates the guy so much they will vote for anyone else, including people that are harmful to their own interest. If trump is the republican nominee, I will of course vote for him , but I think we can do better.
I don’t trust DeSantis at all. He’s too authoritarian on domestic economics and freedom of speech, and has strong neocon tendencies on foreign policy.
Haley is a dumpster fire.
Noem is great on domestic economics, but is also corrupt.
Trump himself made a lot of rookie mistakes while in office and does not seem to be owning up to them.
I’d go with Rand Paul for 2024.