“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.
President Donald J. Trump, 2024. There is no other choice!!!! President Trump is the best chance this country has to turn around what this Resident Biden is doing. Get involved in your local communities, we all have to get involved.
President Donald J. Trump, 2020. There is no other choice.
History coldly tells us that, if you allow your vote to be taken away even once, it is gone forever. Just ask the Venezuelans how this works. They sit on top of more oil than Saudi Arabia, yet their citizens live in squalor because their rulers cannot “lose.”
If you do not overturn the steal, everything is lost.
Agree. Since stealing the election worked so well for biden, rumor has it that hillary is now considering running for 2024 using the biden/obama plan.
I still think they are going to rid themselves of Kamala – by hook or by crook!
Then somehow install Hillary; then she will become President when they kick
slow Joe by the way side.
I think this because Hillary is coming out of the woodwork again.
I just don’t see the country accepting that, no matter how much the elitist scum in LA and NYC want her.
nothing should surprise us
biden?
I have repeatedly emailed and called Governor DeSantis’ Office and asked him to have a taskforce examine the programs installed on ES&S/Dom!n!on Vote Fraud Machines throughout our great State, as they are paid for by taxpayers.
True.
Pssst……the Republicans didn’t get the memo.
True, we all must fight to take this back from 2020, Every Day!! Keep fighting Patriots! We must overturn the steal and take our proper place back!!
But first, the integrity of our election system MUST be restored. Unless it is, there is no President Trump 2024. The enemy will make sure of that.
Yep.
I think the American people should kick the bums out and give Trump back what is rightfully his.
Message on OT.
And one more for you!!😊👍
Right on Betsy
If Trump cannot change money in politics, he will have achieved nothing of long-term value.
Word salad served like a true chef.
The UniParty/institutional Republicans may not like Trump but must be looking carefully at Trump’s supporters. MAGA is a real political movement with a strong ideology and a committed remarkably loyal base. MAGA ain’t votin’ for UniParty/RINOs.
The base you describe, has BEEN there, my whole life.
From Barrys boys in ’64, to Perot, Ron Paul, Pat Buchanan, to Reagan, to the Tea Party and finally MAGA, it has ALWAYS been there, growing at times to threaten the “Rockefeller Republicans”, and each time, thru manipulation and other nefarious means, they have managed to beat us down, and retain the reins.
THEY arevthe “heart” of the problem, and PDJT must, at some point “break” with them, I don’t see any other way.
Things like “allowing” Ronna to continue to Chair RNC, giving endorsements to Rinos, cause “they’re better than the Dem”, gotta change.
At some point things must change and change fast. Trump may not be the agent for such change.
The nebbishes of the Democrat Party, like Biden and Kamala and Buttigieg, will be swept aside in short order by 2024. Hillary was supposedly a fait accompli for 2008.
A harsh and radical black person, probably a woman, will be the Democrat candidate for President by 2024. Most every big city mayor is now auditioning for this role. Trump and Republicans will be incessantly denounced as racists. If you think you’ve seen this, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
First to comment!!! Bingo. I love that picture of President Trump and Governor DeSantis. Two Mega-Alpha MAGA leaders. One can only pray they are the team for 2024.
(edit: Wife asked me a question and I missed the first…)
They can’t be the team as they both live in Florida.
Trump for Senate, Desantis for President.
…..no, no bertdilbert, respectfully. Did U really digest SD’s msg. Or, do U not agree with his assestment? DeSantis is in the future, after PDJT’s third term.
Nope. Trump for President. That’s where he belongs and there is no substitute for MAGA. I’ve said all along that the GOP is FUBAR’ed and that Trump should have started his own party. The people would follow.
Come on man, all trump has to do is move.
President Trump surely has more than one home!
Why not? There are no rules.*
* See BarrySoetoro (AKA Barrack Obama)
Exactly 💯
Now that New York City has thrown the City wide ballot 🗳 doors open to everyone, maybe we can get regular voting tourists trips to the Big Apple 🍎 to “help” reset their many future elections.
It’s legal now. They authorized it and I suppose a selected group of Red States voting Tourists can be a great help.
I’d expect Donald can carry the country with his running mate from Florida. I’m curious what states would need a different running mate.
Did you miss the news that Trump is planning to move to New Jersey? See e.g. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-planning-move-florida-new-jersey-several-months-2021-04-27/
You may want to check the date of that article and when it says Trump planned to move to Jersey and later back to Mar-a-Lago…
Still, I agree that moving out of Florida could overcome the Constitutional ban on a president and vice president being from the same state, assuming Trump and DeSantis wanted to team up.
Yes. Plus if DeSantis were to become VP, he would then become a neutered nobody.
Leave Desantis in FL to keep it a free state and as an example of federalism. I vote Peter Navarro for VP and hatchet man.
Or even better, Ric Grennell
VP’s seldom move up, especially by subsequent election. Governors often are elected to the White House. Keep Desantis in Florida until the appropriate time. He has lots more federalism to accomplish.
vp could be MTG a maga and a woman as compared to heels up harris my orayers go with him and mike lindal
Would go with Lauren Boebert, pistol-packin’ congresswoman from Colorado as VP.
I would enthusiastically support MTG for VP running with PDJT.
If the Republicans regain control of the House in 2022, they will prove an enormous disappointment, as they were for the Trump Presidency in 2017. Paul Ryan was not the unique villain, Ryan was the water carrier for a hugely corrupt system. Sorry, but Liz Cheney is not an outlier. The establishment has circled the wagons around her.
Donald Trump can successfully run against the Congress in 2024. Truman ran against a do-nothing Congress in 1948. The people will rally around this message. The Uniparty will have to, at least, pay lip service to actually doing something.
Our most frustrating challenge is getting the elderly Trump to wake up and smell the coffee. The Congressmen, of both parties, are not patriots. They will not move towards the best interests of the country – that is tragically laughable. Trump’s best option might be as the sand in the gears of the corporatist Uniparty. Will this man Donald Trump, who stills lives emotionally in the glorious America of Eisenhower, take to such a role?
Cantor, Ryan, and McCarthy are all cut from the same RINO cloth and all have the majority backing of their fellow Republicans. Ditto McConnell in the Senate.
Going in, the GOP was actively colluding with the left to remove Trump. Trump underestimated just how treacherous they would be. Worse, Trump was naïve in letting so many RINOs into the White House staff and in his cabinet appointments.
Nothing has changed as far as the GOP is concerned.
So to avoid a repeat, Trump himself must change or he will go through the whole thing again.
Trump must show he is willing to disavow and punish RINOs. He must wage war on the GOP. Failing that, he is doomed to repeat his first term.
Based on his demonstrated actions as Governor, I believe DeSantis understands all of the above. At least, so far he has not shown a propensity to be surrounded by RINO staff members and be subjected to the same leaks/sabotage that plagued Trump.
I am willing to vote Trump but simply on the basis of his continued support of RINOs, I would be willing to switch to DeSantis.
The great Rush Limbaugh met with Trump early in 2017. Rush was shocked to hear Trump say he thought the Democrats would work with him, for the good of America. Even the RINO Reince Priebus, who was present, thought that was very wrong.
Who picked the worthless Pence for Vice-President? I lament that if only Ben Carson had been chosen for Vice-President, world history would have turned.
You raise a very good question; Trump was a bit naïve when he assumed office the first time. Did he learn anything? And if he did, who will he govern in light of that experience / knowledge?
I agree with your “take” on PDJT’s shortcomings, his first time around.
Recall he is the FIRST POTUS EVER, to win the Presidency, having NEVER held elective office, NEVER having run for ANYTHING, before.
(and don’t talk about Grant or Eisenhower, and General just back from winning a war, who can’t get elected,…sheesh!)
THAT, in and of itself, is a remarkeable accomplishment. But, it also meant he didn’t HAVE a dedicated team, or the support of a party, in staffing his admin, and WAS somewhat naive, as to the true nature of the swamp.
How many of us saw the Bushes, the way we view them, now?
How many of us saw the Republican party the way we see it NOW, before the escalator ride?
Trump, the man is an incredibly fast lerner, for him its part of his basic skill set.
Along with the above, he got “blind sided” with the Covid hoax, and I really don’t see how, realistically he could have handled that any differently.
It was a brilliant, evil plan that “worked”, he SAW the election steal coming, TALKED about it, and did everything he could to ramp up his #’s as high as possible, to ‘break the algorythm’, I can’t fault him there, either.
Dutch:
Poor old Donald Trump has entered into a crazy world where most do not tread.
Surely the insane mindset is intended to drive out most trespassers?
In response to the challenges of populist and MAGA supporters, the crazies have upped the crazy?
In the long term, fascism hovers over us, like a cloud. Dissent and deviance will become a crime. And the sky is blue.
Anarchists, like Antifa or BLM, are clearly yearning for fascist forces to appear and bring them home.
Communism, the glorious dream, is dead. So? Where do leftists go from here? Burn down the local Wal-Mart, and paradise will result? Count me in!
The American ideal, the eternal American ideal, or fascism. We are truly down to that.
If McConnell/Meadows is still in leadership you are 100% right on.
McCarthy, FIFY.
You are so out of touch with what 45 is doing to change the entire complexion of the House with all his endorsements (150-2 at this point) that your comment is laughable and doesn’t warrant wasting time further addressing. You are ignorant of what is even going on. Granted, it’s being the scenes, yet it isn’t for those with eyes to see and ears to hear. Get with the program or be left in the dust.
I pray you’re right, Maine. 2024 will only truly matter if the House rolls over in 2022. Not just to more RINOs, but some glorious patriots. But the establishment and the billionaire class are against us.
I wanted to thank Sundance for that deeply profound Machiavelli quote. The Hegelians, like Obama, harbor the silly fantasy that the world changes, human nature changes. The wisest, like Niccolo, understand otherwise.
Always remember President Trump’s OP – never let your enemy what you are doing or plan on doing. In other words, do not mistake his “niceness” to weasels for weakness or lack of knowledge of their treachery.
Examples?
Raptors, it time to come up for supper…
MaineCoon,
I have no problem with you edumacating those you feel are less informed than you, if you so choose.
Your “attitude” of condescension and disdain, however is IMHO, uncalled for.
We are all Treepers, and are all on a “learning curve”, there is no need to put any treeper on the recieving end, of such a responce.
Respectfully, how would you like it, if someone responded to you “in kind”?
Thank you, Dutch.
I take such emotional responses as evidence I am over the target.
Sorry. Disagreed. We’ve had ample education in comments and otherwise that I no longer think it’s a matter of being less informed. It’s by all counts appears to be a matter of pretending not to know what is known. I don’t fall into that category of false pretense. That’s the category for Ds & RINOs and enablers.
That is a point of view that is supported by the “Henny Penny-ites”. In order to validate that point of view, one would need to look at the options.
If you look closer, you will find that the Republicans regaining control of the House in 2022 is the best. Your comparison is with 2017. A better comparison is with 1994.
The House Speaker is elected (picked) by the members of the majority Party. Ryan was chosen by his colleagues. Ryan did not fall from the sky, he reflects the mindset of his Party members. Democrats had no voice, no vote in picking Ryan. His radical views were the views of his Republican caucus.
What that has to do with the viewpoint of Newt Gingrich 23 years before (!) only you know.
A two year stint as Speaker could cure a lot of ills. He could pass the Speakers gavel to whomever as soon as the country demands that the Senate removes the current administration under articles of impeachment. Speaker is third in line and having served less than half a term, can run in 2024.
Trump still has my support and vote. He is not perfect, but he is a real fighter.
I don’t want 4 more years of Donald Trump…I want 12 more years of Trumpism! Mr. Trump in 2024 and his brilliant protege in 2028 & 2032…simple as that…as always, Sundance leads the way!
Yes. Said this for 1+ yrs already. No offense, but it’s only a nitwit who can’t add 4 + 4 + 4 = 12…but seem to be a lot of RINOs infiltrating CTH or they are so simpleminded they can’t see beyond the end of their nose.
MaineCoon, do you understand what the word protege means? Who’s the nitwick? And how long is your nose?
I seriously think we should repeal the term limits for POTUS.
Supposed to be 3 “seperate but equal branches”; Executive, Legislative and Judicial.
And yet, ONLY the Executive has term limits, and realistically it is not going to happen, that we will get term limits for Congress or Judiciary.
Its one of MANY ways they weakened the President, even as they strengthened the Congress, and the buerocratic deep state, doing everything they could to make the President a figure head, while THEY actually wield the power.
“After all, he’s only here for 4-8 years, whereas WE (in Congress and Deep State) are swimming our whole lives in the swamp.
We’ll just keep him in the dark, buried in b.s., surrounded by “advisors” wink, wink, that WE choose,…and, if he proves too unmanageable, we have an “insurance policy”; we can always Watergate him!”
Agreed Lou…I like DeSantis as President and our Lion as Consigliere…
Excellent post!
My theory is the left wi g of the UniParty will do the destruction and the right wing of the UniParty will do the “build back better.” Good-cop-bad-cop agenda pursuit. It is these “lukewarm defenders” we have to be wary of. In modern times Machiavelli might have termed them the same as we do: useful idiots.
As good as DeSantis seems to be, he’s not PDT. Also what isn’t evident yet is how DeSantis deals with the firmly embedded rinos in congress. It’s one thing to run a state, another entirely to run a country. PDT has absolutely proven his street credibility, DeSantis not so much.
I like DeSantis, but I haven’t seen evidence that he can combat the globalists. A partnership between Trump and Desantis through ’28 will elevate my FL governor to utter dominance. Yes, 12 years of MAGA is possible, but only if we get off our asses, and get into every aspect of local GOP politics.
The only way to achieve a Renaissance in this country was by the uniparty and those aligned with it to massively overplay it’s hand. The massive negligence portrayed globally in order to stop populism here has led to it’s death roll. Trump has toro’d the bull. To all critics of his failures and responses, the responses were calculated. His next term will be the true tell. Hopefully, 2022 can mitigate the damage before he can get there.
Bring back the Smith-Mundt Act to it’s fullest and charge the seditious traitors and their globalist masters fully for their targeted propaganda as it was unleashed by 0bama .
Apply the Publisher designation to all the controlled and “published” social media networks and charge them fully for their sedition and treason using their own words, actions, and quoted statements against them.
Oh yeah, clean the corruption fully and completely from the governments or there is no chance besides a complete fallowing of the politicians and agencies to lay the foundation to replace with an untarnished original.
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.” – Thomas Sowell
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”–Abraham Lincoln
Remember Rachel Madcow’s defense for the lawsuit filed against her was that she was NOT NEWS, but WAS ENTERTAINMENT!!!
Hold them to their own standards and know she herself proclaimed she was a fake liar lying openly.
Agreed. But how will he/we beat the cheat?
Remember in Virginia they had 300,000 mail in ballots ready to go, this time the judicial branch threw us a bone.
And he will emerge in an even stronger position the second time. The democrats stealing the election ironically will only strengthen his second term, and gives him additional time to clean up the republican party. Also he is creating an alternative to Big Media (democrats propaganda arm)
Bingo.
“Look at what Donald J Trump was able to achieve while he as under constant political attack. Just imagine what Trump 2.0 would deliver.”
I can’t wait!
Even with loyal staff, Trump would face enormous resistance from the entrenched bureaucracy in DC–and they would have ample support from the Enemedia and Big Tech.
Trump 2.0–if God should grace us with such–should be a calmer, quieter, but WAY more ruthless president than he was his first term. He should do less on social media (let his loyal staff do that) and he should concentrate on mercilessly decimating the Deep State, crippling the ChiComs, and reforming the Republican Party to represent We the People–not the Uniparty and the Chamber of Commerce.
Your experience and Wisdom show!
Pence! Pence! Pence! Penc! Pen! Peeeeeee!
PENCE IS DONE. You can stick a fork up his a***.
Well, after tar and feathering him, making him ride the rail for max humiliation, THEN hanging him with a short rope until he asphixiates,..then decapitate him, drive a wooden stake thru his heart,..and before burying him with his head between his feet in an unmarked grave, with a functioning toilet for a headstone, if you want to stick a fork up his ass,..be my guest, I sure won’t stop you.
Thank you for writing and posting that. I was getting the same feeling that there was a campaign out there to try to foist another candidate for 2024. I had the same reaction and wondered if it was the Uni-party. It seems clear to me that Trump was and is a once in a decade phenomenon. Why consider anyone else other than Trump isn’t in your interest. If he isn’t in your interest, then you are not in my interest.
Once in a lifetime.
Your last sentence is gold!
The Uniparty has been working on this, all along.
They tried every way they could, to block him from getting the nomination, and from winning in 2016, including a variation on “the Goldwater gambit”, AND setting him up for “the watergate option”, and they are desperate to keep him out of the Oval office.
The fantasy of the elite that they somehow represent the will of the majority is not to be ignored.
When Ferdinand Marcos was the dictator of the Philippines he intended to visit a region where he was not popular.
A key subordinate was sent in to clear the path. Dissenters were rounded up and jailed. Philippine flags were distributed, by the thousands. Government workers were bussed in, by the thousands, to cheer along the parade routes.
After the apparently successful visit, the subordinate was called into the presence of Marcos. Expecting praise, he was fired. The reason? Imelda Marcos, his wife, had seen a frowning face within the crowd.
Amen
All the Uni-Party had was “Trump is mean” and the fake Russian investigation.
Most (all) of the Uni-Party, punditry, and smart people’s predictions were proven incorrect.
Wow – the irony of all of the “lukewarm defenders” on this site coming out to comment.
“There are numerous pundits contemplating 2024 Republican presidential candidates other than Donald Trump; consider this group the lukewarm defenders Machiavelli noted.”
It’s like they didn’t even read the post.
Or get it.
Exactly. DUMBIES!
All of them are RINOs or Ds infiltrating. Been going on for the last year. Now it’ll be full force. Just remember…whiners aren’t warriors. They are RINOs or worse.
We all know there is going to be a big push for Desantis. To that I say this; we know the commies play the long game. And the Machiavellian game. For all we know Desantis is part of that plan.
I KNOW what President Trump can do with the economy/country. Desantis might get pigeon held by the Uniparty to appoint the likes of Haley and Bush to his team. NO thanks.
Plus Trump will have the political clout and will of the people to go scorched earth on the swamp. If he gets back in it will be a Herculean effort he overcomes to get there. Which can only come because “We the People” make it happen. That means people from all walks of life, in a number so large, will make it known in once voice/vote, that we will not be silenced. AND that Donald J Trump has our unwavering support to do as he sees fit.
You still believe everything you read on the internet?
No, but why sit down with a left-wing site “Axios”? Also did an interview with Jim Acosta of all people. Mark Levin was talking about that one on his radio show the other day.
Sundance, another great paper. I remember well when Clinton was running for President the first time, he and his folks kept repeating that national security is economic security. I remember using that in some of the point papers I did at that time for the folks I worked for back then. President Trump is a business man and a damn good one, and he knows how to get things done and the steps needed to get’em done. The rest of those thinking of running for President in 2024 are politicians already in the pockets of Wall Street. We know that. They haven’t a chance with our MAGA crowd. Go Trump. Let’s go Brandon.
Thank You Sundance! I get a PhD level education here.
Yes, they are petrified of another term and frightened people sometimes take dangerous risks. Hillary set the standard for them. He must not be allowed to hold another term because it would be the end of all she and so many others have fought for over so many years which they call democracy in front of cameras. I don’t think this is going to end with a triumphant return of Trump to the oval office but, I do hope I am mistaken. We are almost three years away from that election and the one next year should be enlightening.
Nice, very nice. It is easy to become discouraged by the constant back-stabbing of the republican party “thinkers”. Whatever Mitch McConnell wants is NOT good for the country.
Yes Sir!
Thinking and talking like a RHINO loser.
Pragmatic and realist come to mind, not childish namecalling.
Because he is. Whiners aren’t warriors. They’re RINOs.
Everything in this article is true, and these achievements are important to many voters. Unfortunately many voters only take a cursory interest in real issues and are more often swayed by superficialities like looks, personalities and how a candidate is perceived by those they admire(Hollywood.) Trump has to overcome the massive negative impressions of his persona and the 24 hour/day negativity framing him by the relentless Main Stream Media. Logic doesn’t win elections-perceptions do.
To be is to be perceived. I perceive President Trump to be the very best president we have had. His LOVE of Country and care for us has opened our eyes to what a true patriot is. He certainly didn’t need to do it, but he did. He listened to our anguish and frustration, and he made our lives better. What’s not to love?!!
Sundance does a wonderful job of explaining the rationale behind another Trump term. Aside from the economic benefits that would accrue to PJT being elected, the man deserves another term simply because at least two years of his first term were stolen through media and FBI / DOJ conspiracy, and his second term was stolen through election skullduggery.
However, the issue is not so much whether Trump deserves (he does and We the People definitely do) another term, but HOW to get him elected. I’m not being pessimistic when I say there is NO WAY the Ruling Class will allow Trump back in the White House.
The Ruling Class went to extraordinary lengths to steal a presidential election–which indicates their level of desperation. Does anyone doubt the level of desperation if Trump runs again? We know what they did last time; does anyone think they won’t pull all the stops out this time–including using brute force (the FBI, the DOJ or even the military) to stop Trump?
We’ve long since left the guardrails of Constitutional order. What remains now is a charade, a mockery of what used to guide us. We are ruled by oligarchs who will not hesitate to murder hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands to stay in power. Look what they did to the 500 or more who protested the stolen election. They murdered at least two women and abused and violated the rights of hundreds more. They used a virus scare to lockdown our economy and left a scar from the isolation, economic devastation and needless deaths that will last generations. These people are demonic and they have no conscience. THEY WILL DO ANYTHING TO STAY IN POWER.
I hope Trump runs again as I will definitely vote for him, send money to his campaign and do whatever I can to help him get elected. But I’m clear-eyed as to what the Ruling Class will do to stop him.
WHATEVER IT TAKES.
👌👍 Agreed
Let’s give it a go for President Trump while aware of the obstacles you’ve listed.
They’re already bringing the pain.
Time now for offensive campaign for the recovery of what may be regained of our Constitutional Republic now, because we’re already on the defensive.
Maximus:
Trump was impeached, therefore he cannot be the Republican Party Presidential candidate in 2024.
That will absolutely be the Republican establishment position unless MAGA candidates dominate in 2022.
It cannot be close. Many backstabbers will switch sides unless MAGA wins, big time.
The Milton Friedman position, that it’s all about getting the wrong people to do the right thing, is eternal.
We good guys don’t have the money, therefore it’s all about having votes, is likewise eternal.
Raptors, Trump was impeached by a kangaroo Congress for a ludicrous charge, but NOT convicted by the Senate.
However, should the Republicans attempt to thwart or impede Trump’s run for the nomination, it will (mercifully) destroy the party and possibly lead to a REAL insurrection!!
Exactly 💯
At which point a “Republican” wing uniparty bird 🦤 can go extinct to be replaced by a MAGA Constitutional party.
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Well, those guys are in a state of panic. Hillary makes a video; Charles Blow ramps up CW2 talk; and now “PowerPoint proof” that Trump orchestrated Jan 6 peaceful protest.
All that flack means someone is over the target.
We will back Trump and do whatever it takes to put him in office and let the chips fall where they may we will respond in kind to any threat.
We direly need to get rid of the Congressional Leadership in both chambers. RINOs all.
Our country needs another term with President Trump to do the Herculean lifting with VP DeSantis gaining knowledge under President Trump. Then Desantis for 8 years— who should have a much easier journey as the Communist will have been beat back, exposed, and removed.
Yes, accomplishments beyond any other president, but what will we do to make sure the 8 million dead voters get this message so that Trump prevails? Can we somehow hack the media connection to the dead?
Even if a solid America first candidate other than trump runs, the media will portray them as if they are Trump, so why not just run Trump? On the deep state sticking their noses in, again any AF candidate will suffer the same dirty tricks, lies, and outright illegal actions, so why not run a much wiser Trump?
Be prepared for the media to support the one candidate they think they can manipulate and who they think they can destroy.
We The People, America First, will not support any candidate that the lame stream media even remotely supports.
I have gotten involved in a local conservative group that includes others who have recently become more active, and they are quietly steering local party politics away from the swampers.
Nationalist,verses glo bull ist.
I like DeSantis a lot, but I would prefer he stay as the Governor of Florida as long as possible. I believe saving America has to start with the states. As great as President Trump was, almost all of the good he did has been undone by the unelected Biden regime, and we have found that the only sanctuary is to be found in individual states where some freedoms have been preserved.
As people flee blue states, there needs to be solid red states for them to flee to. Florida was dangerously close to electing Gilliam!
President Trump needs to go back and finish what he started–this time, hopefully, with the support of the House and Senate now that so many RINOs have been exposed. I don’t care who he selects for VP, so long as it’s not one of Mitch or Ronna’s picks.
We need,..a LOT.
WE need PDJT, back in the WH.
WE need a LOT MORE MTG’s and Boerners in Congress, driving out the Rinos, enough for A1’s to take control as Maj leader and Speaker.
And, we need LOTS of Sate Gov.s, SoS’s, A.G’s, County Election boards, etc to be MAGA.
SEEMS impossible.
As did the Republican party going from nothing to an elected POTUS in four years.
As did our whooping King Georges arse.
As did our victory in WW2.
When Roosevelt made his speech, saying we would produce 50,000 airplanes a year, it seemed impossible; only had 5,000 airplanes in the whole country!
And, Roosevelt low balled it; by the end of WW2, we were producing 100,000/ year.
Yeah, impossible.
Who’s Boerner?
I’m sure you don’t mean John Boehner.
Boehner was worse than AOC.
“They, the Democrats and Republicans, are absolutely petrified of that.”
I so hope so. They sure haven’t given a damn about their constituents for a long time now.
I agree 1000% . And he did it all absolutely on his own initiative.
Disagree completely. President Trump is a lion not a lamb. He’s already been through the fire. He has survived the storm. As far as I’m concerned he is a god send and the one we will need to recover from what bidumb has done to US. Being governor is one thing, being president takes far more skill and experience. I like Desantis and his policies, but on the world’s stage it is President Trump who has achieved amazing things FOR US!!. No need to start over with anyone else.
I want DeSantis to stay the Governor, WHO would replace him? I like Trump as a Rep and maybe the speaker, it would explode democrats’ heads.
I like Marjorie Taylor Green as a VP though!
In order to win we have to counter the obese unattractive black women who work CIVICALLY in most precincts stealing the vote and when questioned cry racism,the Stacey Abrams , then we need to do our Civic duty…and fight against mail in voting fraud, … And 🙏 pray.
As usual, Sundance’s latest Magnum Opus is right on target and I couldn’t agree more- there is only one real candidate that can get the job done and that is our President Donald J. Trump.
That being said- there are some who are touting Ron DeSantis instead and I would be very leery of those who are pushing him instead of PT for two reasons:
Number one- DeSantis is the ONLY true MAGA government with the guts, the brains and the integrity to stand up to the Demo Marxists that are destroying our country. He is a the best there is and we cannot afford to lose him. In this war, and for the extreme Federalist movement, Ron DeSantis is a key player as Governor. His time is not now. He is young enough to be president after our President Trump cleans house.
Number Two- President Trump has shown what he can do in a war time situation. He was under constant and severe attack from the time he announced his candidacy up to this very day. Just imagine what he will be able to achieve this time around.
All of that being said- I have to agree with the other commentators regarding the stolen election. If we do not fix this and either overturn November 2020 and/or absolutely insure ELECTION INTEGRITY, then none of this matters and we are screwed forever. It does seem that there are a number of good people working on this – let’s hope they figure it out.
Here’s a nice essay on “The Trump Comeback”.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/11/the_trump_comeback.html
👌👍 Thanks Seneca the Elder.
Your perspective, recommendations and encouragement is appreciated especially since you live in such a “blue” State.
Excelllent. President Trump is , imo, by far the most viable candidate.
One way would be to locate every warehouse the dominion voting machines are being stored & burn em down.
Whatever state uses them, there’s a driver, a warehouse worker, laborer that knows where they are stored.
They are vulnerable. And when replacements come into port, the longshormen are there, marking the can.
The Dominion voting machines apparently are the least of the problems.
The cheating that was done in 2020 was done “on the ground” using the mail in ballots, harvesting, phony voters, etc. and the fact that the states have not cleaned up their voter rolls.
Great video from our President Trump’s latest show/rally/event.
ENJOY! It will definitely make you feel better to watch this great man.
45 doesn’t have too many obstacles to overcome??? You list media, libs, rhinos,NWO. And, who is exempt from those obstacles? Whiners aren’t warriors. They are RINOs.
I hope I get the honor of voting for this great man for a 3rd time! For now, I want Desantis in the VP slot to learn at the side of PDJT for 4 years and then carry on on for 8 more. I still say we need to nationalize the 2022 and 2024 elections so that we get all the right people in place to prevent the GOPe from stunting the agenda implementation again. We need a list of 435 MAGA approved House Candidates and how ever many Senate seats are open each year. No better place to have that list published than right here at CTH. Candidates that are MAGA/CTH approved… just like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval…
At least JUST as important, the list should include A1 Candidates for Gov., SoS, A.G., etc.
And, since we KNOW GOPe/RNC are going to run phonies and splitters, perhaps start with exactly WHAT criterion to use, to distinguish a MAGA candidate, from a wannabe Maga lite, who wants our votes, but doesn’t want to walk the walk?
EMBRACES Trump, rather than just ‘accepting’ his endorsement.
Calls out, clearly and unambiguously, the election fraud of 2020, rather than saying “past is past, and we need to look forward”.
Insists on NO mandates?
What other “test questions” do we see Rinos “balking at” that MAGA Candidates charge right into?
Democrats and Republicans are so absolutely petrified of that they were and still are more then ever willing and capable of rigging another national election.
Best President ever! But first the 2020 election has to be proven as stolen & overturned. If this does not happen i fear 2024 will be a repeat -another stolen election. That’s why current admin. & lefties have to keep the non-stop fear campaign of Covid gloom & doom going. All the way to 2022 & 2024–and bring back the mail-in voting scheme that worked smashingly well in 2020. Donald Trump is still my President – not that vegetable currently in the WH.
100%
Economic success allows for funding all the BS that the uniparty like to divert to their friends. They are fools to think they can reset, and still have wealth to steal. When printed money is useless, where will they get the engine parts for their gulfstream rebuilds? They’re gonna miss us when we are gone.
DC is like mistletoe slowly strangling the tree.
Early on, some chose to roll the dice on a successful businessman -a man without a track record of success in government. Then others started coming around when they saw he could deliver the goods. Some people have to see to believe. He did it once, he can do it again. MAGA AGAIN.
IMO anyone else suggested as a candidate speaks to a persons desire for a more conventional style and/or a lack of strategic planning. For example, DeSantis needs to stay in Florida, not leave the state open for a decepticon to possibly take his place. As for Trump’s style – you don’t get Trump results without Trump style. People cling to “civility”and ” nicey nice” like a life raft. They can f*ck off cause they still don’t understand that Trump is only combative when he needs to be. If the political
establishment/msm treated him fairly he would have dialed it down. Whenever I point this out the other person says that’s a good point or I didn’t think of it that way. Duh
I asked a now-former friend (Libertarian CNN watcher) who complained to me about “mean tweets” before the general election to name one tweet of President Trump that wasn’t based on truth. Silence.
I’ve been thinking….45s stomping all over Mitch on his Telegram channel. 45 is going full steam ahead to endorse MAGA candidates, again read Telegram posts. Gaetz says he wants 45 to be Speaker.
Connecting those dots, I would like to see all those stars line up with 45 taking a pit stop at Speaker before President in 2024.
Today I received a letter from Donald Trump’s organization requesting I donate to the RNC. He even signed it. I am not going to send a penny to the RNC as they will use it to re-elect RINOs.
I guess Trump had a reason to send that, but if he wants my money to go to the RNC, he can donate some of what I sent to him.
President Trump didnt send you that letter. The RNC did and I think hes taken issue with them. But smart of you not to send them money. But why not have some fun? Write a check for say $1000.00 then write VOID across it and send it back. Feels good.
Didn’t he send the GOP a cease and desist letter or something? I know he pledged that the RNC would not benefit from his Super PAC collections. We only give to his PAC directly.
thank you, MIAT!
both you and nvbob are absolutely correct.
unless it’s from save america pac, it’t NOT PDJT!
to donate:
donaldjtrump.com
What pissed me off is it has his trademark signature at the end.
Like you I receive multiple mailings from RNC – now & then I mail it back with a pithy no thanks! Lately we been getting lots of automated calls from RNC – I hang up immediately
CW2, y’all. The Blue States are NOT allowing their fraud (across many years) to be investigated and their citizens by and large appear not to give a fook. We either divorce acrimoniously or throw down. “A Republic, if you can keep it.”
Could you imagine the accomplishments of President Trump, with VP Ron DeSantis, and a congress an senate that would work together to accomplish serious issues. The Uniparty would have their heads spin right off, law enforcement would be supported, we would have a southern border, and BLM & Antifa, would be considered terrorist organizations.
All that would be the first steps in taking our country back and making the US the envy of the world.
LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
I agree. I think we need president Trump to get the ship going back in the right direction and take the slings and arrows, while DeSantis is there to see it live and prepare to take the reins when Trump is done in 4 years. It would be an unbeatable combo no matter how much they cheat.
The phenomenon of President Trump’s 2nd re-election campaign will be something to see.
How big will the rallies be? Will there be any in California or other blue-pill states? What Democrat nominee will debate him?
President Trump bloodied the media, not the other way around.
Yep, PT45 Trumped the Evil Media Mob, Bigly!