“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.
While I live in Florida, and I love DeSantis, he does not have the Trade/Business acumen that Trump has, by a long shot. He’s a lawyer. I doubt very seriously that DeSantis could have done the Trade negotiations that Trump did. No way. He just doesn’t have the business experience. He can learn, but not yet. Trump has been saying that the US has been getting ripped off since the 80s. And when he got into office he went to work fixing that, and succeeded in spades. I want Trump for 4 more years, and then DeSantis to maintain what Trump accomplishes for at least 8 years after that.
Let’s say for the sake of argument that Trump runs and wins in 2024, is it then possible to prove the coup and regain lost Presidential time ?
The DOJ would need to be flushed out with Super Tropical Bleach first. Congress would have to approve additional term for PDJT- but Im not a Constitutional scholar. There are those here that could provide a better answer.
Yes I get your point, I just cannot help thinking Trumps “The diamonds must be returned” statement was some sort of cryptical message !
Maybe he’s holding an ace up his sleeve that nobody knows about !
I would .
Yes to the first part of your question, no to the second part. Unfortunately, the Constitution is specific on the number of terms a president may serve.
As to the first part, Trump should nominate a ruthless, take-no-prisoners AG who will appoint Special Counsels in his mold who will mercilessly go after all those who involved in the fake Russia scam. And if the statue of limitations for the numerous crimes the conspiracists committed has expired, then they will dig and find other crimes.
To paraphrase…..show me the Democrat and I’ll show you the crime.
Thanks.
Nominate a take-no-prisoners AG.
I’ve said that here a few times but was told Trump had no control over who he could appoint. If my polite dissenters are correct, Trump would need more than just a Republcon majority.
Unless I’m mistaken, a President can appoint anyone he wants–subject to confirmation. However, that nominee can serve until the Senate confirms that person.
In the meantime, the AG could do all KINDS of mischief–like appointing multiple Special Counsels. And if the Senate tries to cut funds, PDJT could retaliate.
My point is, Trump needs to go cut-throat…RUTHLESS. If he doesn’t, we all perish.
Its just that simple.
I fully agree, but I guess I got some pushback here for being critical of Mr. Trump’s appointments. Sundance wrote a long, deep analysis of how things work in the Senate SSCI and “siloing” information, and kind of put some political realism into the stealth that basically hamstrung the guy and, “You can nominate whomever you want, ” but you won’t get the votes. Here’s a list of who WE will accept. That makes sense. Why on earth would Trump nominate Wray, Haspel, Barr, and promote Milley?
a) he was politically naive
b) poorly advised
c) not loyal to those who elected him
d) dominated by the Swamp who dictated to him
Now, until recently, I thought the answer was a, b, or c.
Someone somewhere wrote, “Personnel is policy.” No kidding.
I’m going to give him another chance, but we cannot have a repeat of the second half of first term. I want to see, “Today, I settled all of the family business with the deep state,” before policy. Priority Number One. Without elevating that warfare over anything else, nothing else matters for the country beyond 2028.
MC can I borrow your sentence…. Show me a Democrat and I’ll show you the crime.
Oh YA.
Why do my posts always get deleted??
It’s been happening frequently after the most recent update. I noticed multiple comments in this thread gone. I wrote a lengthy comment as a reply and after posting both mine and the one I was replying to are gone. Weird.
Send the man an email and he’ll fix it. As busy as CTH is, he is good about taking care of those things.
If PDJT can do all those things listed without making all the bad appointments to cabinet positions that he previouly did and get off the “the vax is great” thing, well, that would be great.
I’ll admit that DeSantis would be my preferred choice, but the fact is that it’ll be between PDJT and a lunatic demonrat for President in 2024, so it’s an easy choice to make. And besides, PDJT got robbed of his rightful 2nd term, so that wrong should be righted.
The real President Trump, with his America First vision, showed the world what a doer can accomplish. He wasn’t a politician, he was a doer. Politicians are grifters and parasites, dependent on taxpayers to support their failures.
True, now that we know that the country can be run well and how it his policies had it running on all cylinders. We now expect more from folks who run. FJB.
“We don’t have [to] 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.”
Given that he had no track record as a political office holder, Donald Trump was successful beyond what I thought possible.
Rand Paul’s economic outlook closely mirrors my own but Trump is the better street fighter. When the bare knuckle brawls have ended and the Left is defeated, Rand Paul will make a fine choice to govern over the peace that ensues from Trump’s victory.
For the time being. Their ‘thinktanks’ are always busy, busy thinking wa-a-a-y ahead in so many ways to take power and keep it, if we all knew, it would make our heads spin. Why can’t Republicans DO THAT?? No more Mr. Nice Guy R’s. No more RINOs. I believe many more citizens are being awakened as to the true nature of the Dem progressives (they are really REgressive) and especially the youth, who have had their lives upended (and some ended) by the various deceptive shenanigans are going to be hopping mad and hopefully, politically active and help clear the swamp. I can dream. Also, I pray that many will view Glenn Beck’s latest expose. I nearly finished it today; bombshell. View the 2 hr long video here (have to scroll down on the page to find it): https://canadafreepress.com/article-video/glenn-beck-drags-barack-obama-out-of-hiding I appreciate all the praying goin’ on here!!
Sorry to say, his time has come and gone…. and I was his biggest fan. He’s got too many enemies, and he can’t run on the same kind of optimistic crazy messaging he did the first time around. They did steal the election and they’ll likely do it again if he runs.
I’m hoping for DeSantis. Times are insane with COVID and a mentally retarded President.
🔥⚡️Sundance lays out the proof for term 2
Let’s fight for the obvious choice now so that Governor Ron DeSantis will even have a chance after President Trump.
Otherwise everything against President Trump now will be against any other truly MAGA candidates in the future.
Why can’t the globalists see that the stronger the US economy is, the more they can earn from this market? Didn’t they see how Wall Street prospered when Main Street prospered? A billion poor Chinese consumers is worth something, but 350 million prosperous Americans are worth even more. You cannot export a Constitutional Republican form of government you do not preserve and protect at home (into totalitarian regimes that want nothing to do with it), and you cannot export economic prosperity if you kill it at home. On the other hand, if the “elites” have more money than they know what to do with, all that is left is to amass more power and control than they know what to do with.
There is an old saying that might apply to us informed believers –
and it is – “No shit Sherlock!”
Absolutely. There is no Trump after Trump. Never has been. Never can be.
No Chris Christie? 😢
Trump’s enemies found his weakness, germaphobia. They actually convinced him to shut down the economy over covid. Does he realize the error, and more importantly, does he realize Fauci is one of the snakes in the poem he so often read?
Trump knew a lot of people in New York that got COVID. They CHEATED him out of Office, Remember that.
And if I am not mistaken, he had more than a few good friends (in NY) die from it.
Died with the Fauci Bioweapon.
I think PDJTs flaw in that situation was him being a fighter and problem solver. He probably knew it was trumped up on some level. But if not he was up for the fight. Take them and it on and beat it.
So he did what he thought was best and to gain maximum affect. He also didn’t think he would lose the 2020 election (which he didn’t, but he didn’t anticipate the steal). THAT is where he underestimated them. And he figured he would have Covid defeated and gone shortly after his second term started.
They out schemed him there. But you better believe when he takes back his rightful thrown whether in 3 days or 3 years, he ain’t gonna forget what was done and see the board in a MUCH different light.
IF say, Covid was banged on the head straight up and treated like another flu, we would be happily carrying on per as usual. However, by having it run its Build Back Better course of control, division (and INTENDED deaths and maimings), it has ‘educated’ us out of our stupor . These wannabe world control freaks are maniacs and must be purged out of our lives and charged with murder.
I look back to early 2020. I bought N95 masks and HCQ. Then Ivermectin. Trump had to react, just in case. And as soon as I understood it was a disease of the elderly and infirm; I dropped the masking. Trump would have had us back to normal early
Yup, and he did try. But he had no control over the states that chose to continue to keep things going with endless lockdowns, masks, etc., just as he had no control to shut them in the first place – the Fed Gov could only issue guidelines – that too many states were more than happy to comply with and again, keep going and going.
At one point though he was talking about possibly quarantining New York if you recall, and Cuomo was pushing back against that, saying the Fed Gov had no authority to do so. (Probably the one and only thing I did agree with Cuomo on).
The Covid stuff was all over the place.
He pushed for the use of HCQ early, obtaining millions of doses from India – and the evil people running the Fed “Health Agencies” prevented it from being made available to us. Hundreds of thousands of deaths could have been prevented.
Remember his tweet? “The cure cannot be worse than the problem to be solved?”
And he was urging for the country to reopen by Easter. I do believe he probably came to realize it was a mistake to have asked the country to shut for even one day, never mind the first 15, and then another 30.
He tried (I think) to quickly course correct, not knowing this had all been planned.
Actually, Trump didn’t shut anything down. Trump also didn’t mandate that we all wear a mask, nor did he mandate that any American citizen be vaccinated.
Sure, he ASKED businesses to shut down and for people to wear a mask, at first, but he never mandated ANY OF IT and he was advocating that we open back up before any other politician in this country.
Trump did push the very therapeutics that Biden’s tyrants have outlawed for us peasants. What Trump did about the China virus has nothing in common with Biden’s policies and that’s a fact.
Yup, that is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Decisive Battle
https://tinkzorg.wordpress.com/2021/11/02/2740/
“Let’s go Brandon!”
I agree.
the distinction between the two are light years apart and operate in totally different agendas.
President Trump was mislead for sure on so many very important and key issues.
But we also have to be fair about this too.
How MANY things was President Trump MISINFORMED ABOUT (INTENTIONALLY OR JUST FROM PROFESSIONAL INCOMPETENCE) THAT HE DID NOT ACT ON?
and what you will see, if you clearly look at the entire scope of what his Presidency faced, what you find is that it nothing short of a miracle the man did a single thing of merit.
remember those first 100 days in office? I do. At a time when the enemy was inside the wire! Actively seeking to destroy everything and all that he attempted to accomplish. Complete nuclear firepower was brought to bear against this President.
and yet, he was able to successfully fulfil the enormously important first strategic steps to fulfill the promises that he made. And nearly all of them did find success over time.
This establishes the environment he was operating in. Warfare. Knives out.
I can get passed the covid warp speed missteps. it was a freaking pandemic and no one really knew what would happen until the body counts start coming. You really never do know exactly how these special events play out. It was a novel likely bioweapon grade pathogen that looked and smelled like SARS (2003) but with a longer incubation period. So that means its gonna go global real quick and because it’s a likely enhanced lab grown chimera, it’s probably going to have some fancy features we can’t predict yet how that will evolve.
Lots of generalizations and gross assumptions were made in the initial forming of the early stages of the pandemic.
as more data unfolded, President Trump DID push back and questions lots of various aspects of the policy guidance being manufactured at CDC and WHO.
President Trump had some level of informed awareness early in that vaccines even if safe and effective would unlikely alter the course of the pandemic and its long term effects. Thus President Trump again became the unconventional guy in the room by taking the dare to mention that drug therapies is where one should be focused. The treatment of the illness caused by cccp19 is how you actually save lives. Not stringing your hopes on a vaccine that is new never before used, with unknown safety and effiicacy and one that cannot treat people who are already sick from ccp19, not to mention the global penetration necessary to even slow down mutations is never going to be a realistic practical consideration. So right away, President Trump, becoming informed about the big picture, dares to suggest drug therapies..and to look into non-vaccine prophylaxix antiviral drugs.
The inconsistency that we might record from President Trump was a condition of a lack of big picture messaging in the very initial stages, but that eventually matured. Given he was not well informed and lack pandemic scale training and historical perspectives and the science of treating global respirator pandemic pathogens of a bat base corona beta class, misinformed on many levels, all the inconsistency went away when he began to get better intelligence and independent reviewers that he trusted. (remember, President Trump was very much informed about experts and authorities on the matter that were never on the “approved lists”. He has a keen nose for truth, and explains why he was forcible about not taking serious meetings with the corrupt IC on his dailies. he wanted to have a team of independent reviewers back check their work. President Trump had many things set in place that were non conventional. he moved HIS team in. That system took some time to mature. It always does. You just can’t get there overnight. He was doing things that were never done before. And his record shows that system worked very well to get his agenda that he promised fulfilled.
EXCELLENT analysis. I will share this greatly.
Nope, he left everything up to each state.
In hindsight, Trump should have run less on draining the swamp…then drained it. He basically had the entire apparatus of Washington DC against him.
I don’t think he would have been elected without draining the swamp as part of his platform.
President Trump showed you the extent of the swamp.
it’s OUR JOB to drain it.
jmho
President Trump went into office, running for his second term.
He knew time was short. He focused on “first things first”
He had it to the point, and the Swamp and world leaders knew it, to where he would begin his second term with “pulling the plug!” Those left would fall in-line under his power. Then, he would be able to address
Snowden and Assange, the Chi’na virus, those with “God complex”…
Sundance is right. He, and only he, is the “Man For This Time!”
We all need to get busy, find our way of doing our part in helping MAGA!
And, if things we’re saying isn’t helpful, save it. We’ve got a country to save!
And, a willing leader that is our only chance, short of Devine intervention.
Have you bothered to notice how much of the 2016 swamp is gone or on it’s way out the door?
Many think trump made bad choices, I think he was brilliant actually because they were outed and ousted.
that is draining the swamp.
Much like I don’t think 2020 being stolen was all bad, just look at the effect on the sleeping majority it has had. Biden now is waking everyone across all lines up… and that would not be the case if not for Trump, because he has these communists out of the closet racing against the inevitable crushing blow they know is coming.
Trump lost me with one of his petty vendettas, when he declared Stacey Abrams would be a better GA governor than Kemp. Spit. How many of his own voters will he push under the bus?!
You seem to lack strategic thinking skills above a 4th grade level. What does it say to you that an openly hostile Marxist would make a “better” governor than a Manchuria or thoroughly corrupted one?
Better is a relative term. Better than what? Someone who is openly working against you and MAGA or someone who will stab you in the back without warning. And so on.
He’s right!
Donald Trump poses the same existential threat to the established way of doing the federal government’s business in 2024 as he did in 2020. A Trump candidacy will be supported by the GOP only so far as they believe they can sabotage him. For every Marjorie Taylor Green and Lauren Boebert, the GOP has two dozen clones of Mitch McConnell, Brian Kemp, Mike Pence, Roy Blunt, Lisa Murkowski, and Rob Portman.
The founders of our constitutional republic – true geniuses if ever there were any such men – lived in a world where public figures were mostly moral and legitimate players, and who saw a term in the federal government as a duty to the folks back home whom they represented. The founders clearly did not imagine careerist politicians, nor those whose goals were to use the political arena to line their pockets a hundred times over, or to wield power for its own sake. The founders certainly never contemplated lobbyists buying politicians, and writing legislation. And I doubt they could imagine a national election being blatantly rigged and stolen.
Donald Trump, God bless him, exposed such practices to any who has eyes to see and ears to hear. Trump also flushed out the players worldwide who enable and enforce the looting of America’s resources and taxpayers for private gain and dominion. As such, regardless of public support, according to the leaders of the GOP, the Democrat Progressives, and the entrenched western nations, Donald Trump must never be allowed to rise up again and enjoy any access to the levers of power. All of us who have, and will continue to, support Donald Trump as POTUS must never lose sight of these facts.
OTOH…. the Progressive and Deep State played their consummate card: The Stolen Election.
And the Corporate Media has lost much of its power.
Such things can only be done once because they require the element of surprise, I doubt Trump would fall such a thing again.
’24 baby, ’24.
I think the Founders did understand that power corrupts, which us why they installed so many checks and balances to safeguard our freedom.
What they did not anticipate was how cheaply we Americans hold that freedom.
We let them down.
Well stated. George Washington is said to have been asked to “rule” as a king in a new American monarchy. He refused for the very reasons you outlined in your first sentence.
Another Gem by Sundance…
I would also point out, WE, here have a long list of McConnell dictated “Trump appointees” that we hate,…but have a special, elevated platform of adoration, for PDJT’s “Wolverines”; his FINANCIAL Advisor team.
HE called the plays, and they executed, brilliantly scoring touchdown after touchdown.
How he managed to sneak them by McConnell, I don’t know, perhaps some didn’t require Senate approval?
Also, in Sundances synopsis, didn’t cover PDJT kicking the Coc lobbyists OUT of Trade negotiations,…THATS a biggie!
Yes, its “Trump2024”, but he and WE must destroy the RNC/GOPe leadership, once and for all, if he is to have a lasting legacy.
Its WAR, and Ronna must not just go, but must be replaced by an America First replacement, and ditto for McConnell, McCarthy, and the rest.
Pelosi was NOT the biggest thorn in PDJT’s side, in his first term; McConnell was.
Dutch:
Who exactly made the rule that appointees cannot be rejected by the Senate?
Let McConnell reject a long list of Trump nominees in 2024/2025.
At some point the embarrassment meter shifts to the RINOs. Why are Republican Senators rejecting fellow Republicans?
Let Trump loyalists take the fall to expose the corrupt Uniparty. Refusal does not mean jail. Judge Bork simply continued on with his distinguished legal career.
In the days of Hollywood censorship (the Hays code) moviemakers used to submit movies packed with dirty jokes to exhaust the censors. Let McConnell become the new Torquemada for political correctness.
President Trump will have a HUGE mandate to rip up the coup plotters by the roots and salt the ground so they never come back.
That will entail several unique steps:
Well, did this ever happen:
Jan 27, 2017
“Mitch, I’m the President of these United States and if you don’t play ball my way, I’ll be in Kentucky every month until 2020 and retiring YOU, you underhanded SOB!”
Just asking for a friend.
Said before and I’ll say it again: the only people that Trump placed too much trust in was us; the American people that make up our country. Not the far right or far left.
We failed him when we didn’t muster millions of us to surround the W/H while the commies did their dirty work.
Like “High Noon” we failed our leader we elected to save us when he needed us the most.
Trump gets it. No one else, not even Ron DeSantis, does. At least not 100%.
PT45 or bust!
I think DeSantis needs to stay right where he is because he’s showing Republican voters what a bunch of halfwits, slobs or shifty characters the rest of the Republican governors are, and the Republican voters need to see it and understand what that means loud and clear. Is your governor MAGA?
“Do not tell me Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is a better option. ”
Always go with the Original Coke rather than the New Coke.
I agree 100% with Sundance and pray daily that I live long enough to see this all come to pass. Still I get the sinking feeling that President Trump in a new term will be much like the QB leading a team whose players are trying to lose the game.
We are so outnumbered where it really counts. OPM reported in 2021 that there are 2.1 million civilian federal employees, a vast majority of them who will actively undermine anything he tries to do. Not to mention the stench emanating from the Capitol building. How does President Trump (or any MAGA President) ever deal with that? Regardless…I’m all in for whatever it takes.
Perhaps we will see something historic; a determined re-elected Trump who unabashedly, awakened by his many crucifixions, chooses heads of federal agencies to lay down the law and eliminate the insurrectionists within.
I am a compromised supporter but I would still appreciate so much an unambiguous condemnation of these poisonous medical experiments.
He need not be one of those generals who sluffs off the deaths of innocents as the necessary price of winning the war.
So fire whomever he can and don’t replace heads of agencies that need to be shut down. Stymie them with lack of agency heads
That’s a helluva BIG “great” that he did.
Thanks, Sundance for reminding us and laying it all out in detail why there’s no one better for the job than President Trump.
Trump! Trump! Trump! Wonderful Trump!
I love Trump, Trump, Trump, baked beans and Trump!
(With suitable thanks to Monty Python’s Vikings).
Oh, yes… Trump for ’24, you betcha.
How did he fail battling Covid?
Fauci was appointed during Trump’s tenure, that in itself is failure. Also, Operation Warp Speed is an unmitigated disaster responsible for untold thousands of needless deaths. There is not a single piece of evidence that proves the vaccines have saved a single life. This one single issue has caused enormous grief and anxiety with families torn apart by loss of employment and more importantly serious health consequences caused by the vaccine. 178 athletes dead so far this year! The rate of stillbirths is through the roof, one township in Canada has experienced 86 so far this year, they averaged 1 every 2 months last year. Pfizer vaccine trial studies recently released showed 1,223 deaths and 158,000 severe adverse events in the first 90 days of the vaccines roll out. All cause mortality is seeing a 25-35 % rise in highly vaccinated nations. The risk to children from the vaccine is 7 times greater than the risk of Covid according to a recent study and yet mandates are moving forward to force vaccinate the very young. This is nothing less than genocide. People are dropping like flies, but the powers that be still insist we all take this experimental gene therapy that doesn’t stop infection or transmission and if we don’t, we face ruin.
All I ever hear from Trump about this predicament is how great a job he did on the vaccines and if he was still President there would be no mandates necessary because he could sell it better and convince everyone to get the vaccine. The disconnect is mind blowing, but I guess it’s true what they say, “narcissism is self-blinding.”
The sad thing is the number of intellectually lazy Republicans who are saying Trump should sit out this election and every other one. I’ve had it with that kind of talk, and I’ve made it known. At this point I don’t care who gets offended. To hell with the milquetoast RINOs and their supporters.
That photo of President Trump and Gov. DeSantis is one of my favorites. The focus and intensity of DeSantis’s expression as he listens tells us the President is not making small talk over dinner!
Agree that he’s the only option. But he needs tremendous help in these areas:
1) To get elected, he will need great advisors who will let him mostly be himself, but without the statements that turn off suburban women. He absolutely needs that. There will be the election meddling to a huge extent, and so he has to get over 90M votes to overcome the padding that his opponent will receive.
2) After election, he needs someone totally trustworthy who can dismantle the administrative state. This was (is) the thorn (spear?) in his side. I don’t know who is capable of that.
3) He will need a congress with a MAGA plurality who will help in achieving (2). Reduce their budgets – in some cases, eliminate entire departments. (Department of Education? Please. Department of Justice? Please.) Allow for termination of ALL civil employees by politically appointed department heads.
Without that, his second term will be much like the first. Except the thorns may become fatal.
He needs, as a top priority, an army of civilian gatekeepers to forcefully watch over every aspect of the voting. Every. Aspect. Real time, and forcefully if necessary.
Yup. And we need to have or own ready supply of ballots available to counteract theirs. When they come up with 20,000 ballots hours after the polls close, we need to be ready with 30,000 of our own ballots. That seems to be the way to play the game. Sometimes you gotta fight fire with fire.
YES!
So SD reading between your lines, you are not saying you don’t trust de santis. Just that he is an Unknown commodity.
Interesting
The Governor hasn’t made one peep about Dominion/ES&S Machines in our State.
How exactly did he fail at battling the China virus?
What irks me even more than the Commie/Democrats are the turncoats in Red. The GOPe/RINO’s who denigrate and constantly criticize anything Trump does/did. Example is that tub of lard Christie. That man needs to take his pounds of lard and leave the political field. I despise political hacks like him and Nikki Haley. They hate the people in the middle while saying just the opposite. We are betrayed by the likes of those running the GOPe.
Had my very conservative boss/business owner/entrepreneur. He loves the result of Trump’s policies but just doesn’t like him. He is now worried that Trump will run in 2024. I told him get ready cause he’s gonna come back. He thinks Desantis will run and I told him that isn’t going to happen in 2024. I told him accept it, embrace and support Trump. We should. You don’t have to love his personality but you can love his accomplishments. Most of all, support him against the haters.
there is no “if”, “but”, “worry”, “concern”, “unless”, “until”, “maybe”,”sadly”, or “not before”….
PDJT is the way forward.
there is no other option.
all hurdles must be overcome.
all roadblocks must be worked around.
donate.
volunteer.
start talking to voters (everybody can do that, right??)
this article is our declaration of intent.
the diamonds must be returned.
if we get PDJT elected a third time,
the term limit can be sorted out later.
don’t get it backwards – PDJT in office comes first,
without that, we will be stalled indefinitely on anything of consequence.
i’m truly sorry, it’s nothing personal, but i ignore the dissenting voices –
we cannot go sideways or backwards.
PDJT is our best chance to get out of this mess.
With all our prayers, fasting, and reparation made to our God, Who has gifted us PDJT.
Thanks Sundance. Couldn’t agree more.
That is a very good point on DeSantis. He would certainly be my second choice should Trump not run. But no one has Trump’s economic skillset.
I have been trying to think of the easiest way to describe MAGA Trumponomics, and here’s my shot at it — “If it doesn’t benefit Main Street, it doesn’t get done”
That’s as Good of an explanation as any.
“If it doesn’t benefit Main Street, it doesn’t get done”
GOPe, CoC, Globalists, UniParty-R etc. appears to be interested in power, depopulation etc.
I think candidate Trump (we seem to have moved on from the 2020 election), in spite of the best of intentions, would have to explain how he intends to overcome the very same set of problems that plagued his first administration–deep state/uniparty/intel agency opposition, poor staffing choices/appointments (Fauci, among many others), and the entire Covid fiasco and vaccine madness, before he’s anointed the 2024 nominee.
The same questions should apply to anyone from our side who throws their hat into the ring–deSantis included.
It may be that re-taking DC isn’t an option (just like it’s looking like returning Donald Trump to his rightful 2nd term isn’t an option) and our plan ought to focus on extreme federalism, red state alliances, and the creation of parallel systems which can operate without input from the Feds.
Finally, any discussion of 2024 (and 2022) would have to include a comprehensive explanation and plan to ensure free elections. Otherwise I say forget the national stuff and try to make your home state a fortress. Is Dominion still in your state? I bet it is.
If The Donald is re-elected, he should consider physically decentralizing departments in D.C. We want to keep very few of the 96% Dem bureaucrats who make life miserable for MAGA. The swamp can more easily drained if inidividual departments are farmed out to different states such as North Dakota, Mississippi, and Arkansas. Then he can fire or lay off the 30% who don’t want to go, and replace others at the top with his own people. The State Department is an open sewer and will need to be replaced wholesale. We will be in a situation where the debt will be unbearable by 2024 and streamlining the federal government will be job one.
Sounds like a plan. We need to think outside of simply using the very institutions that have repeatedly failed our side and supported the other.
Dr. Peter Navarro said it best.
President Trump 2.0 has learned a lot from his first time as President. He would serve much differently the next time.
Credibility is now everything with ordinary Americans. And there is simply no American with more political credibility than President Trump. That is why he massacred 17 Republican candidates in 2016 who, in any other year, under any other circumstances, would have been declared the greatest group of Republican presidential candidates ever. Most, if not all had some degree of street credibility with social issues, tax policy, etc. None, however, identified what ordinary Americans saw as the critical issue of the rejuvenation of Main Street by pulling the plug on the immigration and foreign trade manipulations of Wall Street.
Remember, Trump essentially ran on Perot’s critique of NAFTA, but emphasized the negative aspects of the open southern border and extended the latter’s “great sucking sound” concerning American jobs to China. And the base of the Republican Party remembered Perot’s critique, further inflamed by the fact that all our candidates would ever do is flaunt the success of Wall Street, as though that had any real impact on Main Street, particularly after the crash of 2008. Asking them to vote for another Bush after Bush 41 took away all of their jobs with NAFTA and Bush 43 wiped out their savings was just stupid. Plus, Republican candidates had gotten into the bad habit of promising but not delivering.
Trump had his credibility issues on important topics like abortion, gay rights and the federal judiciary, but ultimately, he ended up doing more in those areas than either of the Bushes. He generally did what he said he was going to do.
Bottom line, if you had to choose today who you think has the best chance of returning this country to a reasonable form of prosperity and stability for Main Street, who would it be? There is simply no one but President Trump. Not only did he accomplish so much of what he set out to do despite the best efforts of the Uniparty Lilliputians, he managed to open the eyes of a vast majority of ordinary Americans, many not Republicans, to the utter corruption of our government. There is not a Republican governor, including DeSantis, nor a Republican Senator, including Senators Cruz and Paul, that you can honestly say will resist the siren call of the globalists.
But it is Trump’s very sense of self, his sense of grievance, his sense of revenge, his sense of being very pissed off at how he was abused despite his success for the American people, that is, quite frankly, our very best bet that reforms will actually occur that will return our politics to the consent of the governed, as envisioned by the Founders.
We know his instincts are good. We know how he will deal with what needs to be done. We know that he can take a punch and give it right back. There is simply no one else in the Republican Party that we can say that about. If we want our country back, there is only one way. He will not be perfect. He will make mistakes, but his interests and our interests are more aligned than are those of any other possible candidate.
He is simply the most credible Republican presidential candidate possible. Period.
Personally, I’d like to see a Trump/DeSantis ticket. Trump undoes all of Biden’s EO’s on day one, and adds his own. Then, among other things, he shreds the IC and State Dept. leadership and their top underlings several layers deep. He now knows exactly who his enemies are and what tools he needs to use. Trump would have 4 years to put a lot of things back on track. Meanwhile, DeSantis learns the ropes of the Beltway from Trump, and rides herd on overhauling the Education department for starters. Get the right people in place and toss all of the CRT and other wokesters out to the street. Establish a requirement that regular school hours are for regular old-fashioned schooling in K-12, for example. Let the States decide what they want to allow for after hours. I know it will take several years to begin seeing kids reap the benefits of this, but if it can be turned around now, in a couple of decades we would have better rounded young voters.
We know the economy would boom…if they played their cards right, Trump gets 4 years, DeSantis most likely gets 8 after that…12 years of solid conservatism might change a lot of hearts and minds.
At the very least, if not DeSantis, Trump at the top gets my vote all day long.
I agree on all of the above, but ELIMINATE the Dept. Of Education.
Totally agree!!! There are states depts of education that have existed since the late 19th century. the federal one was brought into being by the formerly worst president ever Carter, first by an EO, then by legislative action after the fact. The elimination of this dept would go a long way in getting rid of the communist influences poisoning our
younger generations.
The Governor has a State to run.
Yes leave DeSantis-Florida needs him-we need Florida. What about Navarro forVP? Great article Sundance. Passing it on.
American Leftists will be fleeing north to Trudeau’s open arms.
Newscum is now making everyone mask up from 12/15-1/15, indoors. We here in Placer county have been maskless for over a year now. We exempted ourselves from his mandate, we won’t be enforcing any of this BS.
Excellent!
Bravo.
They’ll do exactly the same to DeSantis, but he won’t be able to withstand the onslaught. Nor does he have global gravitas to take on Putin, XI, Kim, Iran and the NWO (our fake allies) all, totally against him.
DeSantis for VP, to be groomed for 2028.
But all this is under the illusion that elections won’t be stolen anymore.
And Trump will reeeeeelly need to wake up to whom his allies are and who is undermining his objectives.
This. People forget Trump already had an international presence and was fairly well known worldwide. There’s not a single other MAGA Republican who can say the same. It’s Trump or bust in my book.
Trumps understanding of economics and his foreign policy are his very strong points. Love DeSantis, but not now…we need Trump! DeSantis is head and shoulders above Pence as VP, but maybe he needs to continue on in Florida for a while longer…showing the way for the states…federalism.
With all due respect, Desantis would garner more votes than Trump if Trump endorsed him and campaigned for him.
We owe Trump a huge debt. No one could have done what he did. It was a moment,and he was the only man for that moment. But Trump is more powerful where he is now – as an ex-president and king-maker. And galvanizer of working class voters.
Anyway, I am convinced that two seconds after he announces he is a candidate, phony indictments will be issued in NY.
On the economy, all DeSantis has to do is hire Trump’s economic team and get Trump’s counsel on economy.
All that said, if Trump runs I will do all I can to get him elected.
WE ALL know you’re right…..
Thanks for the article. Awesome fond memories.
This.
And think how much more popular Trump has become since that poll was taken a year ago.
The economic successes were well and good. Trump had a noble but limited agenda, almost entirely economic, that he more or less accomplished. Unfortunately, none of it was done in a way that would withstand a coup d’état, which is what we are experiencing now, so it’s all been entirely dismantled.
Would a second Trump administration make those same mistakes? Does Trump even have the temperament to learn from mistakes, in a way that would substantively change how he does things? I ask these questions honestly.
To further quote Machiavelli, especially regarding “all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution”…
“Any one, therefore, who undertakes to control a people, either as their prince or as the head of a commonwealth, and does not make sure work with all who are hostile to his new institutions, founds a government which cannot last long.” ~ Discourses on Livy, Book 1, Chapter XVI
“The severity used by Brutus in preserving for Rome the freedom he had won for her, was not less necessary than useful. The spectacle of a father sitting on the judgment, and not merely sentencing his own sons to death, but being himself present at their execution, affords an example rare in history. But those who study the records of ancient times will understand, that after a change in the form of a government, whether it be from a commonwealth to a tyranny or from a tyranny to a commonwealth, those who are hostile to the new order of things must always be visited with signal punishment. So that he who sets up as a tyrant and slays not Brutus, and he who creates a free government and slays not the sons of Brutus, can never maintain himself long
…
But
[Soderini]Trump was misled by a preconceived opinion, and failed to understand that ill-will is not to be vanquished by time nor propitiated by favours. And, so, from not knowing how to resemble Brutus, he lost power, and fame, and was driven an exile from his country.” ~ Discourses on Livy, Book 3, Chapter III (emphasis and edit added)Both these chapters in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy refer to Lucius Junius Brutus (not Marcus), founder of the Roman republic and deposer of its last Tarquin king, who had members of his family executed, including two of his own sons, for treasonous allegiance to “the preservation of the old institution”.
Granted, Trump did great things economically. But it was all for naught because he did not metaphorically kill the sons of Brutus in his own party who were committed to the old institution. Assuming we survive as an intact nation till 2024, will a second Trump administration see the metaphorical execution of the sons of Brutus? It must. It was this fundamental mistake — the foundation of all his other mistakes — that got us were we are now. So while we rightly seek a second Trump presidency, let us not overlook the fact that we cannot afford a repeat of the mistakes made in the first.
Having said all that, it won’t matter who is in office if we as a nation don’t start taking a more active interest in our civilization on a local level. So while Trump made mistakes that led directly to our current troubles, we as citizens are even more to blame for letting it creep to this point over decades, myself included. We all need to do better, and fast.
yes and yes. people aren’t generally ready to hear this yet but that doesn’t change the essential truth of what you’ve written, and the implications therein for who is likely, and unlikely, to be the 2024 nominee.
So: Trump could fire McConnell? Every RINO and Democrat in CONgress? The entirety of the DOJ? The FBI? The CIA? The DOS? His own VP? ETC All within 2 minutes of being inaugurated? As tho he knew exactly who would conspire against him? And how?
And somehow use the power of the Presidency to control the fake news industry so he could get his message to all citizens 24/7 and not have 24/7 lies broadcast about him?
A limited agenda?
Wow. Were you awake for ‘15-‘20?
You miss the point. Machiavelli was not wrong. In his analogy of the sons of Brutus, he descibes a cold, hard law of political reality that is true whether any of us like it or not, and whether it seems just or unjust. Whatevs seems right in the above obervation that people generally are not ready to face this reality, probably because it ultimately points to just how terrifying our current situation really is — terrifying to a level that most people can’t process or handle.
I have a tremendous advantage over others commenting on this site and elsewhere in that I have been unsuccessful in virtually all my endeavors in my more than fourscore years on this planet. I therefore have the ability to admire successful individuals without reference to any superiority on my part, and give them full credit for their abilities and accomplishments. Donald J. Trump is that rare individual gifted with the power to conjure solutions to the most difficult problems and then implement these in the face of insurmountable difficulties. He is called narcissistic. He is worse. He doesn’t care what people think when he sees clearly what must be done. He is called a buffoon. He cultivates a negative view of himself when it serves his purpose. Donald Rumsfeld, another underappreciated one-time public servant, once said you fight a war with the Army you have. Trump had to govern with the Washington he had. Nobody could have imagined just how bad that is. Bad as the election irregularities were, the cover-up, involving all Washington, was worse. A superior manager has the ability to make use of his enemies to accomplish things. That is the secret of Trump’s many accomplishments in the face of fierce and overt opposition. They had their Russiagate. He had the economy which the last years of Bush and all eight years of Obama couldn’t reussitate, energy independence, tax cuts, a stable Afghanistan with only 250 troops on the ground and no casualties which we could have maintaned forever and a reckoning with our friends and enemies overseas that got us badly needed respect and improved our position, even as they complained at America asserting itself. Call me a Trumpster, but I am dismayed that all discussion of our future prospects centers around political realities, who can please the public and win elections, rather that who has the ability to guide us out of our present difficulties. As for changing his tactics in any future term, I trust he will continue to pragmatically advance the interests of the Country, acting in ways we lesser mortals could not imagine and can only marvel at, with one significant addition. Trump didn’t underestimate the election steal as nobody could have predicted the open, blatant enormity of the undertaking. As a result many powerful people have put themselves in a position where their guilt is undeniable, and there were lots of lesser actors who will plea bargain to mitigate any punishment. One can expect indictments and severe consequences for illegalities committed in the 2020 election. In Trump’s own words: “We got ’em. We got ’em all.”
I think the election “irregularities” (to put it mildly,) were a wake up call from God. We’ve been too busy with our own lives to pay attention to the life of our Republic. Right now it’s on life support. We must make sure that all elections from now on are truly honest and we must make those we elect live up to their promises. We have no hopes of out-bidding the deep pockets of corporations and folks like Soros, but if we have honest elections and dedicated local people who are keeping watch on elected officials, we can use our votes to drive out the liars and thieves.
Associations with Donald Rumsfeld?
“Just imagine what Trump 2.0 would deliver.”
I don’t disagree with anything sundance wrote but I also recall that the historic Trump Presidency began with a 3 branch Republican gov’t and other than his “Tax and regulation Reduction” inspired Bill, he had stiff opposition on all or most other important issues like the Wall etc.
PDJT had no alternative but to govern mostly by Executive orders and by legally manipulating the budgets of some gov’t agencies to pay for the wall etc. More permanent legislation was not possible during his entire Presidency. Most of his links with Congress involved 2 impeachments and constant stone walling.
If Trump 2.0 is exactly the same as 1.0; everything great he accomplishes could be erased a 2nd time by a Dem POTUS on the 1st day of his/her Presidency. Given McCarthy/McConnell are still minority leaders will anything be different in 2024. I don’t see Mitch being replaced by a pro Trumper unless there is a major RINO cleansing.
I’m not as pessimistic about Gov. DeSantis as SD is. Is it not understandable that a Gov. of a State, “has never expressed any larger economic proposal that would give any confidence in a national economic policy.” I would not write him off until I heard his detailed views on this subject which would likely occur if he decided to become a Presidential candidate that has to focus on national economic issues. He’s younger and dealing with or boldly leading other states on many important state issues. However, SD’s assumptions are often right; far more than wrong.
President Trump had a very successful and historic presidency while being constantly attacked and he definitely deserves a 2nd term but IMO, it is most important for the USA to have a Republican President that can serve 8 consecutive years in office without another Dem erasing everything from the last 4 years in his 1st hour in office. 4 Trump years and 8 more DeSantis (or other person) years would be ideal but what is best for the nation is most important.
If P Trump has a similar presidency based on all the past attacks and propaganda of the vicious Dem/MSM opposition and turncoat RINO’s that will definitely be re-energized; a steadier and more rooted America might never be possible again as the Dems will just shift gears into reverse again as soon as their back in power.
Climate Change and all the irrational fears that arise from the “settled science” in the minds of the indoctrinated young will be their vehicle of change while China gets stronger every day. This issue needs to be confronted in a cogent and factual way.
Exactly.
the only choice then.
the only choice now.
in 2024…history repeats.
the only true american president gets his 2nd term.
BIGLY.
PDJT will have my vote again when he starts telling the truth about the vaccines. It’s on him; he keeps bragging about it.
So, saving the Republic is not your top priority?
Time for you to emigrate methinks.
President Trump doesn’t seem so intent on “saving the Republic”…I ain’t leaving, and Trump needs to persuade me to vote for him.
Trump has critically wounded the Republic with his Operation Warp Speed. He needs to man up and own it. Only then will we be able to move on.
SD said “There is only one Donald Trump”.
Yet there was/is the Donald Trump who was America First, and a different Donald Trump who knowingly or ignorantly got pwned by Big Pharma and destroyed America’s health and health care system…so there is more than one Donald Trump.
The latter Trump will never get my support until he comes clean re: the vaccines and advocates a return from the tyranny of the medical-industrial complex.
The former Trump will get my vote every time.
Suggesting that “saving the Republic” isn’t my top priority while not questioning the assumption that the Donald Trump who ruined everything with Warp Speed is the only man to save “the Republic”…well, just please think about that.
Inconsistency between promoting the vaccines and the real science is damning to Trump.
Uh huh, the guy who single-handedly got HCQ banned for use in Covid mitigation simply by supporting it should now come out and trash the vaccine? The so-called news media would have a field day with that. Antibacterial, anti science etc. The best thing he can do is what he is doing, which is to trash the mandates and praise individual choice. Reality is, not what you want it to be.
For some reason, this post made me weepy. I’ve been angry in general since early 2020, and I’ve aimed some of that anger at Trump, for a variety of reasons. I’ve been leaning toward DeSantis. Thank you, Sundance, once again.
well said, lad