…Rule two, there is no bigger rule than the first rule.
“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 Machiavelli 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 economic mess 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 Trump, and institutional Republicans are lukewarm, at best, in defending Trump. Both wings of the DC UniParty fear Trump. Extreme efforts at control are a reaction to fear. 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.
Everything, is about the economics of it.
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 top-line 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, 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.
Agreed. But he has to be elected first. That means getting through the primaries first and then the general. The primaries are critical because every potential Republican candidate sees it as a gimme and all want in. They care about themselves first, not the country.
The savvy of, and actions needed, on the economic front and its tie to national security is acknowledged. But someone had better school him, seriously, on basic Consitution 101 & 202, a real deep-dive. He’s a sharp guy, should take about a week. I voted for him twice but I’m still not satisfied with his support for someone who’s flipped their positions (Oz) and I don’t want to hear – ever again – such vomit as “Take the guns first – do due-process later.” The former goes to his judgement and the latter to his core beliefs.
The “person A supports person B” argument is not a persuasive one, IMO. You can find not so impressive people who support any particular candidate. That isn’t and shouldn’t be disqualifying of anyone based solely on that criteria.
My simple way of chosing a candidate is: how did they perform in their previous or current office and did they inact conservative/populist policies? And on that criteria, DeSantis is a rock star!
Trump will be the nominee, so talk of DeSantis challanging him is a non-starter. But when you consider all the mis-steps that PDJT made (and continues to make, e.g. endorsing Dr. Oz), DeSantis would be my choice.
The so called Middle Class that the politico’s are trying to eliminate consist largely of people deriving their income from the government in one form or another. Hence they are committing suicide and are so stupid they don’t know it.
Lemmings come to mind.
He had me at the escalator and that hasn’t changed.
That man is THE BOSS.
From Easter 2018
Now that was perfect. Thank you EverybodyKnows and Happy Easter.
There is something else that separated Trump from all the other Republican contenders in 2016; and I realized it when he announced….. He was the only Republican who had the balls to win. Period.
CR, well said! The Reps, for the most part, are the party that completely lacks backbone. They don’t even know what “balls” are 😉
And he’s not afraid to win ugly.
He clanks when he walks, too. His presence is so reassuring to average Americans. Not in as long as my life’s memory has there been a President more committed to peace, strength and average people who just want a good life.
God bless our President!
While I’m perplexed at many of the things Trump has said even recently, I agree he is the only one that could even begin to stop this train wreck.
“No brag just facts” Trump has already proven himself and btw he was definitely the peoples choice in 2020.
The election steal in 2020 is when those who voted for Trump should’ve hit the streets in absolute rage but we didn’t….now we gotta reclaim what is rightfully ours plus fix the damage
I think we didn’t hit the streets because we were in such a state of shock at the steal. Then 1/6 happened and they had us afraid to say anything. I wish PDJT had started that new party right away while he had 81 million behind him. Now I think we will just be floundering forward until we hit the dirt. Because of Dominion machines and rinos in our party, I am not optimistic.
When you know the team you are playing against is cheating and stealing your signs, there are two choices: whine about it or make stealing the signs a detriment that hurts them. President Trump knows how to do the latter.
Exactly 💯 💯
The question is do we?
It was such a surreal time–I think many of of were waiting and waiting for our ELECTED REPRESEMTATIVES, House member, Senate–to speak out! To point out the glaring injustice! To begin steps to take it back, have it all reviewed! But nothing. Unbelievable. Nothing but silence. Now we know. Trump always did make people expose themselves for who they really are.
True, we thought the election would be overturned! I sure did! But the 25 Rinos Mitch McConnell controls, denounced the steal. I’m excited about 2o22 elections. I’m thinking Cheney and other Rinos will be voted out and replaced with conservatives who have to run on the GOP ticket.
Hope springs eternal with Mitchy.
Trump didn’t need anyone to hit the streets. Look what happened on jan/6. He needed a plan to run its course. I believe that what is coming down the pipe will expose this massively corrupt government organization and take it down once and for all. It’s the only way that this country will survive.
Where were you? Thousands of us did hit the streets in DC and the various state capitols. I was on the streets of DC three times before January 6th surrounded by an absolute sea of people.
All civil elevations are enabled solely by private economic elevations… and the government can only confiscate and destroy economic elevations (Mises). Something 65%of the USA (the parasite class) will not understand even when it is too late.
If President Trump decides to run, no one can stop him from winning the nomination in a fair fight. He would even win a dirty fight. What might do him in is a total GOP surrender that pulls support for the local committees and denies Mr. Trump access to the ballots of many states for whatever invalid reason they can manufacture. That GOP surrender only works if they run a single candidate in the primary and have no split votes. It would require a straight flush sort of win. For these reasons, I would suspect that if Mr. Trump runs, they will get out of the way and let him take the nomination. They would then work with the Democrats to lose the general election so whatever Democrat runs will win.
But that was what happened in 2016 and he won anyway. There is a real good chance he also won in 2020 with the same obstructions. He knows how to run a campaign and win when even your own party hates you. It will be dirty and ugly and every day will be a new story about how Mr. Trump can not win. Just like 2016 and 2020.
Here is my prediction, I give it about 1:4 chance of being right. The GOP will make an effort to keep President Trump out of the race, and when they fail, they will do whatever they can to work behind the scenes to defeat him. They will work on three fronts: media disinformation including social media, deep state trickery, and rigged voting. We will have to help him fight all three battles. Here is the good news. Mr Trump and his team have seen those plays and they can steal the signs. It will not be as easy for the opposition this time, and they just barely got enough votes counted to make it happen the last time.
Footnote: When Mr. Trump wins, watch the Congress show you how to question and try to overturn an election when they really, really want to do so. It will make J6 look like a Biden rally.
👌Thanks VibeMan for your insights 👍
They aren’t waiting they are doing that now. The pubs working against him.
If DeSantis really is /our guy/ he should stay in Florida and cement his influence there, making it a safe haven for conservative and freedom-loving Americans. Alternatively, he could run as Trump’s VP nominee. If, on the other hand, DeSantis choses to challenge Trump in the primaries, he will make himself look like a member of the controlled RINO “opposition.”
Don’t think he’s going to challenge Trump, but if he does, your assessment will probably prove true.
You are indeed correct.
I believe DeSantis has publicly stated he won’t challenge Trump for the nomination.
yes he did.
He won’t run against Trump. I wouldn’t mind seeing DeSantis as VP so he can learn all the dirty tricks the democrat Communist will pull. We need a VP we can trust. With all that said I would hate to take him from the good citizens of Florida.
DeSantis won against a democommunist candidate that was found passed out naked at a drug party. I’m pretty sure he’s aware of most of the democommie tricks.
I don’t think they can run together since they are from the same state. It’s in thr constitution I beiieve.
An Elector cannot vote for a ticket if Presidential and VP candidates are both from the same State as the Elector, I believe.
You know, rather than just coasting, it might make President Trump a better candidate if he had some honest competition. Steel sharpens steel.
Are you for real?
That is what Schlicter said.
There is absolutely no reason for DeSantis to challenge PDJT. None. We know DS is going to be president one day, and so does DS. He is wise to let PDJT run this pony for as long as he can. One more term and then DS can take the next eight years. Frankly, why would we want it any other way? 2nd term + DS for eight gives us a solid 12 years of MAGA/America First. My question to this group, who are the proper VP candidates (for each)? What does the pipeline look like (by that I mean, who is after DS)? Answers may depend on who makes it to the House/Senate and how he/she performs.
He won’t challenge Trump, but I think as VP he has an incredible opportunity to learn from Trump and carry the mantle for another 8 years. I guess it comes down to who can be bought, Trump can’t be bought, DeSantis is in my view is still a question mark, but proving himself as time goes on
I’m thinking the same, except that DeSantis could also learn from Trump from his position as Florida’s governor, especially if he has his state flying on autopilot by the time PDJT returns to the WH. Plenty of “time on his hands” to learn from the master.
Maybe a minority opinion here, but Trump could learn a lot from DeSantis about actually winning.
Having the support of Nikki Haley and Kristi Noem should be all the proof DeSantis needs that he’s being set up to be the GOPe stooge.
I always ask ; “If not President Trump then who?” I never get an answer.
DeSantis. But he’s not the first best option just yet.
Why is he not the first option. I would love to hear who your other option is?
DeSantis is better than Trump at this point. And his popularity is growing. He is also more nimble and less thin-skinned with the press than Trump was
“less thin-skinned with the press than Trump”. You must not seeing the same DeSantis that I’ve been seeing. He scolds the press all the time. The difference is that it’s not put on replay as often as Trump’s scolding of them was. That’s another reason people like DeSantis is because he hits back. But he doesn’t have the experience that Trump has, not yet.
The sad reality in politics, is that supporters are always trying to push someone forward before their time, before they have more skill and experience under their belt. His time will come. But right now it’s time for Trump to get his second term that was stolen from him.
He didn’t fire Wray and Barr when he had the chance.
Better at what, exactly? He has never done what Trump did on a national scale, so how can you possibly say he’s better?
I have long contended Ron DeSantis is the propped up GOPe maga vote splitting chosen one.
and I stand by that still.
I would disagree except for one thing: if they have somebody else in mind, where is that somebody? We should be seeing the replacement day in and day out and the only one we see with any chance at all is Governor DeSantis.
watch for Nikki Haley to be pushed also Rubio and Pence
Yes. They don’t want DeSantis.
Haley. The foreigner who helped start the whole historical statues removal craze?
NO WAY !
one vote for each then headfirst into a trash container.
DeSantis needs to protect FL from incoming riff raff.
Same for TX, TN.
It looks like they’re pushing Pence. Yes, it’s laughable, but has anyone told them?
I think Abbot is that somebody.
He is doing what Trump did with agreements with Mexico states and legally moving illegals to DC. We love seeing them dumped in DC, but what is really happening when they get there.
Why is Abbot suddenly “MAGA”?
Perhaps Mcconnell thinks he would be an acceptable candidate??
Time will tell.
I dont think America would elect another wheelchair bound Pres. I know it shouldn’t matter but optics do …
Abbott is weak.
Rick Scott
https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-senate-rick-scott-agenda-border-wall-name-after-trump-2022-2
I do disagree, and I think the proof in the pudding will be when DeSantis doesn’t challenge Trump. PeoplesPundit Rich Baris is similarly pro-Trump while a DeSantis fan, and he came away after meeting RD convinced he wouldn’t run. Him not running would mean one of two things: (i) he is MAGA, or (ii) he wants the MAGA mantle post-Trump. Either way, it would show he isn’t the establishment foil.
I hope you are wrong but nothing would surprise me in the corrupt traitorous world of politics.
NOPE
Deborah: A John Boyd-like thinker. Bravo.
This article needs to be repeated over and over again. To many forget or were never aware of what a great President Mr. Trump was. Let’s get the message into everyone’s mind by repetition. But how can you do that when Twitter et. al. control the narrative?
Agree. It was a great reminder for me. I’ve been wallowing in disillusionment at how PDJT’s presidency ended – the COVID missteps, the vaccine missteps, the personnel missteps, and the steal. But to SD’s point, “Rule One: Economic Security is National Security.” I do hope that for his second term, the Kushners remain in Florida running their businesses and raising their family.
Excuse me? I remember every time I put gas in my car what a great president PDJT was. Every. Single. Time.
We were energy independent for the first time in 50 years! And this was after all prior administrations said “it will take too long” and “that’s not possible”.
Yes!
If Trump gets re-elected and he only does one thing….which would be to make AMERICA energy independent again….I’d be satisfied!
Not me. I want us out of NATO and the UN. Close all the foreign bio labs. Fire Fauci and Wallensky. Fire the entire NSC, State Dept, and DOJ. Add in Education and Homeland Security. Reinstate all the tariffs on the EU and China and a few other countries. Revisit Kim Jung Un.
Then he can rest. 🙂
Oh, and fire most of the generals, admirals, and the entire Joint Chiefs. Close the FBI.
OK, I think that’s good for the first week lol
Thank you Sundance. People are so fickle, Mr. Donald John Trump is my choice and remains President Donald John Trump in my mind and in my heart. I will write his name in if I am forced to do so.
Same.
Amen to the above. For years I asked the Lord to send us a President who could manage and run a big business. No more lawyers or out of one side of their mouth’s politicians. Then He sent us our real President DJ Trump. I’ve owned my own studio for 42 years started in 1980. It struggled after O’ Dumbo and began to grow again after Trump. Now it’s all struggles again. Gas is a killer. An example it took $15 of gas for me to drive to Prince of Peace Abbey for Good Friday services. As a Benedictine Oblate I usually spend most of Holy Week there. With business costs rising I just couldn’t afford it this year and it broke my heart. Lead went from $179-$235, and solder from $12.50 to 25.25 in one year!!!!! That’s just two materials not including the huge jump in electricity which doubled my costs for firing my painted glass. We have got to fix voting NOW.
We all need to keep praying for help. Have a blessed Easter
Communists always ruin the economy to destroy the productive, astute middle class which they hate.
The problem is, in manner of the torpedo which destroyed the rabid Russian submarine commander who fired it in “Hunt for Red Oktober”, the ruined economy ultimately brings down the devil-worshipping, kiddie-raper Elites as well.
They’re sowing the wind. They will surely reap the whirlwind.
Maslov’s Theory is where people are motivated to fulfill basic needs before moving on to other more advanced needs (for example, education and love). The most basic needs of all are:
a) Food and water
b) Clothing
c) Shelter
Energy is fundamental in obtaining all of the above three, whether one lives in the past or the present.
Without energy you do not have economic security. Hence the following rules:
Rule One: Economic Security Is National Security
Rule Two: Energy Security Is National Security
Rule Three: There are no rules greater than the above two rules.
A more succinct Rule is:
Rule One: Economic and Energy Security Is National Security
Rule Two: There is no bigger rule than the first rule.
Regards
Climate Heretic
PS Thank you Sundance for educating me.
The one beef I have is who he surrounds himself with. If he doesn’t surround himself with better people it won’t be a lasting change that needs to take place in DC. We will be right where we are when he leaves DC at the end of his last term.
I have the same concerns. Dr Oz and JD Vance worry me. Oz is obvious and Vance voted for Hillary and will not answer if he voted Biden. I also do not like his views upon Trump voters. I do not care what I am called because of my vote but rewarding said person with a Senate seat is unacceptable.
Excellent article – 100% agreement – also knows his way around swamp much better then 2016- watch out for PDJT 2.0 could be an all time Reckoning
IMHO, President Donald John Trump was and is the most awesome President America has ever had at a time when he was needed the most. He was my choice in 2015, thereafter, and also in the future if he runs.
Sundance and I were aligned in support of DJT, as many of us here were. I didn’t care what anybody else thought as I was often maligned for being vocal about supporting him. It was one of the few times in my life, I became forceful because I had that much confidence in him.
One of the things I chose to do was to buy his books and give them away, which successfully converted some of my friends who were naysayers.
He’s good for America and for us.
You were right then, and you’re right now. Happy Easter to you, Dixie.
We got gas today. $86 and change.
I miss life under Trump.
I filled my F-450 today. With diesel @$5.28 and def at $4.15 I put $285 in my tanks. That really hurt.
Dear Sundance-
I love it when I agree with you.
It makes me feel good.
😇
DeSantis might be a good choice as V-P to President Trump where he will learn the skills for a 2028 run.
FINALLY! Thank you Sundance for putting it so succinctly, as you always do. Absolutely TRUMP 2024. Let’s MAGA -ON and not fall prey to old and trivial Nevertrumpisms.
On the Gateway Pundit, there is an article about Ron Desantis . He will not run against Donald Trump. He believes the Election was stolen from Donald Trump and only Donald Trump should run to get his title back. A very classy Person, is Ron Desantis.
You’re forgetting one of PDJT’s starting points is at that spot where everyone says it’s impossible, and he moves forward from there.
A lot can happen between now and the elections of 2024, a lot definitely will happen between now and the elections of 2024, so it might be a bit premature to count President Trump out before the race has even begun.
Of course Sundance is correct here.
There is going to be a great deal to turn around and fix. Trump has show he is capable of doing that. No one else has.
I like DeSantis very much but he is also young in his early 40’s. He can be President in 2028 or 2032 or thereafter. There is no need for him to do it now .
I think Nikki Haley is corrupt and I don’t trust Kristi Noem at this point. I am glad Sarah Palin is running for Congress.
I think we need new people who are unconnected to DC or the establishment Republicans. Outsiders.
I like Wendy Rogers, Andy Biggs, Paul Gozar, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Goetz, Senator Paul Johnson, Jim Jordan.
“Free trade is the serial killer of American manufacturing and the Trojan Horse of world government. It is the primrose path to the loss of economic independence and national sovereignty.
Free trade is a bright, shining lie.”
Pat Buchanan
Exactly 💯 💯
Fair MAGA trade is the way to go.
That “Free Trade” junk is like anything else from government touted as “Free”(public education for example). It comes with wicked propaganda and Globalist strings that completely entangle a person’s Body, Mind and Spirit.👿☠️
It means “freedom” from the “burden” of a level playing field.
The CCP essentially uses slave labor. Allows unlimited pollution. Has no safety standards.
In other words, zero ethics and cheap products.
Our government allows those products to flow into the U.S. The American manufacturer is placed in direct competition with the manufacturing if China. And while our manufacturing plants have standards to follow, the ones in China do not.
Actual President Trump is owed another term.
But he’s got to pick better staff. I know there’s not a lot of great people hanging around DC, but maybe he needs to pick only from the outside. The reason his Economic Policy took off was great staffing. He also had Stephen Miller and a few others, but an awful lot of duds or even enemies–like 30Pence.
At a recent rally, he mentioned Warp Speed once, therapeutics twice and “vaccine” not at all. He’s at least learning how not to get booed. The Bio-Medical Security State MUST be dismantled. I hope he gets that soon.
He’s been mimicking the Deep State Ukraine Narrative: that’s troubling.
I think DeSantis hold be his VP so he can learn and then takeover.
Excellent summation by Sundance. I have no quibble with any of it.
But I do have some thoughts / questions.
Given the Deep State / globalists moved heaven and earth (Hell and earth?) to steal the election, what makes anyone think they won’t redouble their efforts to keep Trump out of the White House?
Let this sink in: The Deep State STOLE a presidential election right in front of us and dared us to object. When we did ( J6), they crucified anyone they could as a lesson to others. Think the Deep State won’t ante up if Trump looks likely to win in 2024? If anyone thought Xiden was just mouthing faux tough guy stuff when he mused about the gubmint having “F-15s and nukes”, think again. I GUARANTEE you there have been discussions and war-gaming and such if it looks like the elites will lose.
The globalists / elites don’t intend to lose, and they will murder as many as necessary. Besides, most of the left are misanthropes anyway. They’re totally cool with de-population–its in their by-laws.
So, while I agree with Sundance that Trump is probably the only person who can return true greatness to our country, I disagree that Trump–and We the People–will be allowed to do so thru traditional means, i.e. voting, etc.
We live in a banana republic folks. Adjust accordingly.
Exactly 💯 💯
✅️BUT what choice do MAGA Citizens really have than to prepare to engage the enemy that will force mandates, force Social Credit Scores in order to daily function in business and travel and will force experimental lab products into our bodies.
✅️Knowing all that you’ve recounted regarding the election for instance, we’ve no other choice at this late stage than to continue to pray,work for and support the only currently viable MAGA President Donald J Trump 👍 😉
Explain to me why, in all this context, he chose to endorse a Kasich-mode, pro-abortion, pto-Obamacare, anti right-to-work, SanFrancisco venture capitalist carpetbagger funded by Peter Thiel RINO in Ohio. Not doing himself any favors here.
I’ll wait.
“Economic Security is National Security”
I was taught “Economic Security is Personal Freedom and Security from day-1. All my life I have lived my personal life this way. The only thing I borrowed money was my residential home, Business and Investment reasons.
Trump is all about Economics (Fair Trade) and not about War (War Machinery).
How many people around the World would be alive today if Trump was sitting in the Oval Office?
Especially Ukrainians/Russians?
Exactly 💯 💯
Thanks Fangdog,
✅️…”Trump is all about Economics (Fair Trade)”…
And, Trump was the ONLY candidate that could have withstood the onslaught of the fake Russian collusion along with as many impeachment attempts the Democratic Marxists could muster. It is my belief that when Democrat subcontractors were illegally allowed the surf and dig in the NSA’s digital files they have on all of us for any of the potential republican candidates no matter who the republican nominee was going to be was going to get hit with all of it.
👍🤔👉Good point👈
Any of our MAGA Citizens are subject to the Deep State attacks.
Sundance. Agree with your assessment and successor names. Following that line of reasoning to disrupt economic security at any cost, who unleashed COVID? CCP China, Globalist Oligarch/Socialist West, combination of both or something else?
The only problem is, look how long it took the Washington cabal to undo all of President Trump’s accomplishments. I’ve personally seen this movie before where after a three year battle our coalition removed a corrupt Village manager and his family and 10 years later it was worse than before. Never underestimate a committed Marxist. While we deal in election cycles they deal in the millennium.
Exactly 💯 💯
👉 Your key words are “committed Marxist”👈
✅️MAGA must be just as “committed” and more than our “enemies foreign and domestic” that have infiltrated our multiple levels of government, culture, religion, education and business.👍👌.
I’m still waiting to see if Trump shows evidence of the clots that seem to abound in the population of those who took the experimental drugs. It did not impress me when he announced that he had received the drugs.
I don’t think it would stop Trump anyway. As for him taking the shot. The Dr told him it was safe and he believed him. He had to set the example. As long as he’s against the mandates, who cares?
Not necessarily going to stop Trump, but as someone who is mortified by the mountain of Adverse Events post-jab and how that info is being suppressed, I think that this is something the Trump is going to have to deal with, and its not hard for me to image a scenario where he come off looking bad either to his base or the masses. It’s not that he took the jab, but that his project warp speed was ultimately abused by big pharma (not sure when in the process they were allowed to hide data and skirt all liability). This may be one of those times when he lapses into looking down on his significantly anti-jab constituency, perhaps because big tech has severed his connection. Ron may lack econ chops, but the only thing good to come from Warp Speed (monoclonal antibodies) is associated with him, not Trump. I don’t know if the public awareness tide will turn on vaccines (the numbers are damning, but people’s disinterest is similarly staggering), but if it hasn’t by 2024 I have some doubt about Trump fighting to further the cause of justice in that regard. Ron might, and he has been anti-authoritarian all the way. Ron’s multiple giveaways to cops look like bad pandering to my mind, but perhaps that will resonate with folks. I’m pro-Trump all the way, but I do have concerns… The MSM have invested a lot of capital into TDS, while there is no comparable Ron DS. Someone above griped about DeSantis “scolding” reporters, but that misses that Ron does so to tremendous effect, and always has a solid command of the facts. Trump, with the exception of economics, tends to be a bid picture guy, and while I loved that he was always attacking, being more in the details would have allowed him to mount more effective, less abrasive defenses.
I recall frequently how ecstatic I was when PDJT won his first term. My younger brother and I could not contain our joy. How I look forward to that feeling again. 2024/Take No Prisoners–The Sequel.
President Donald J. Trump looking out for US(a)
Agree 100%. Must give him both the Senate and House though for the remaining four years. I never remember WINNING so much as when Trump was POTUS. Plus my 401K misses him also.
I felt like we let Trump down so badly when stupid voters gave away the House majority in 2018. That opened the door for the impeachment and non-stop investigations and hearings of anyone associated with Trump. If we don’t get those majorities back in 2020 ….
That was engineered by Paula Ryan and Dominion CheatWare.
Paul Ryan and his herd of House RINOs took a dive in 2018 – 40+ do not simply retire after your party wins House, Senate, and White House in the previous election. California was the pilot project for ballot harvesting.
Paul Ryan should have been run out of town on a rail after announcing retirement but not vacating the Speaker’s Chair. Instead he gets his nice gig at Fox. Tells you all you need to know about House RINOs.
Make it as simple as possible: who are his foes and who are his allies? The answer reveals all you need to know about who is qualified to lead this country. MAGA
I was just over at Illinois Farm Policy News. Dear God. The trend lines for futures in fertilizer, diesel and wheat are scary in the extreme. And now there are interruptions to rail shipment of fertilizer at the precise moment it is needed for planting in the upper midwest. This has the look of a perfect storm that is going to hammer us around Labor Day.
It’s all deliberate.
Just imagine what Trump 2.0 would deliver.
And think how much better it would be with a pro-MAGA House. Restoration of proper budget order and clean appropriations bills would be a nightmare for Senate RINOs. Be fun to watch that meltdown.
One thing people need to realize is that Trump LOVES business. Everything about it from the financial technical aspects, the daily running of it, and mostly The Deals that acquire the customers he loves to schmooze in the process. He is sharp, showman, and shaman all rolled into one and the best advocate for America since Teddy Roosevelt
Here here, Sundance!!! We all know for a fact that Trump delivers results for the American people. Who cares why he’s endorsing Dr. Oz? Nobody in Pennsylvania has to for vote him anyway, so it’s really a non issue for me.
A good reason Trump endorsed Oz is not only because he appeals to women but because of his wife Lisa and her family’s long and deep connections to Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties that go back nearly a century. Lisa is an heir (granddaughter) to the Asplundh Tree Service Company that employs 34,000 blue collar men and women and is one of the biggest philanthropists in Montgomery County (which Trump lost twice in ’16 & ’20)
WRONG !!! It is the centralized nature of “national economics” that has manifest the current “vicious cycle” of America’s decline. … The strength of the USA was “individualism”, “liberty”, “limited government”, and “isolation” (no longer possible but I see no reason to assume responsibility for all other peoples. 1 Timothy 5:8 “But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”).
The priority of “National Economic Security” as a proxy for “National Security” is what Eisenhower warned against. It is the alignment of “corporate” and “government” interests. In short it is “fascism”.
The primary tool is centralized federal bureaucracy and undermining of “Federalism” and “States Rights”. … This all began for certain with Lincoln and his instigating a “civil war” over slaves he cared nothing about; an institution which was “unsustainable” and thus cynically used as a “false flag”.
Wilson, FDR, JFK, LBJ, … and then the last 30 years of “uni-party” have sought to destroy the “republic” from within.
Extremely disappointed to read the propaganda in this piece, including the promotion of DeSantis as a subordinate to DJT. … Trump has an important place in history, but America does not need him in elective office let alone the “dynasty” he wants to create. He is an effective communicator but a terrible executive decision maker; notable are his personnel choices. He is more abdicator than delegator, and covers with “you’re fired”; this was always his management style.
This country will only survive, with a dramatic change – and, that change requires an immediate and certain shift to “limited federal government” and withdrawal from all the hundreds of contrived “police actions” around the world (first, withdraw from NATO; and simultaneously shut the borders and again vet every individual awarded citizenship during the last 30 years). … Institute a “balanced Federal Budget” which the states have to approve and fund (suspend, pending repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments). …
More articles such as this will only evidence that this site has chosen to become part of the “uni-party”.
If you don’t believe that a President should be advocating for economic security on a national basis, exactly what do you think a President should be doing?
“National Security.” “Border Security.” “Defense of the Constitution”, and ensuring all restrictions on government and advocacy for all unenumerated rights retained by the People and the States. … A “president” as the “chief executive” of the federal government should be focused on managing the federal bureaucracies, and NOT “self-promotion” and “marketing” what “corporations”, “generals”, the federal unions and the “uni-party” want. … To summerize: a “president should be focused on “management” and not getting re-elected by the willfully ignorant who can only remember the “crises” of last week. …
“Elective Office” was not envisioned by many of the “founders” (Geo. Washington exemplified …) as a career. Therein lies the arrogance that dooms the US to failure: self-anointed superior intellects. … We are all imperfect, but our imperfections are less damaging with shorter tenures. …
But, Peoria, what do you think a “president’s” job specification should include ? …
Peoria,
What is your definition of “national security” ? Have you decided that abdicating “freedom” for “security” is appropriate ? That educating those in your family and community about the potential cost or contingent “maintenance fees” of “freedom” is the job of “teachers’ unions”, “politicians” and “self-anointed” representatives of special interest groups ? … Do you feel entitled to all you have and think you should have ? … Is your family income in any way today or in the past dependent on one or more “government” contracts or employment ? … And, the military service by your family members (current and past generations) or you was that for the benefits ?
Again, what is your definition of “national security” ?
National security is the same as independence from a dependency on other countries. If we rely on Russia or the ME for oil, what happens to us when they cut us off or jam up the price? How about manufacturing? Do we have national security if we rely on China/Taiwan/Japan/EU/Canada/Mexico for most of our vehicles, semiconductors, lumber, medical devices and drugs, clothes, parts for our electrical grid etc etc etc.
Does the economic security of being our own manufacturer and mining/ drilling our own energy make us secure nationally? You bet!
I think you should reread Sundance’s article again. You clearly misunderstood it.
Who do you suggest then?
“ Actions speak louder than words” is Donald Trump’s middle name
I watched almost every Trump rally during the 2016 campaign. It was heartening to hear him say what I felt. I remember him saying something early in the rally season that he never said again (because he was roundly ridiculed and I have no doubt his advisors told him not to say again). Basically, he not only said that we could be energy independent. He went on to contemplate that the $$ from our energy independence could be used to 1) pay down the national debt and 2) eventually eliminate income taxes because they would not be necessary.
I can imagine the talking heads screaming about option 2. Can you imagine if you didn’t have to pay income taxes because our energy security was paying for it? Do you think a democommunist could be elected after that? I doubt it.
The dems FEAR PDJT. Period.
time is money in all business, even when dealing with the grubbermint.
When Donald Trump smiles, in general….that face lights up and shines with sincere inner happiness with whatever provokes the smile, the rest of those folks just move their lower facial muscle around their mouth…Panda is a good example of a not very real smile.
Donald Trump also has one very sincere smile that very much reminds me a kid who did something that he was told could not be done. or caught doing something and like “what are ya gonna do about it?”….
“Do not tell me Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is a better option…”
He isn’t… I keep getting kicked for saying it but the guy is the Republican (aka RINO) Trojan horse against Trump.
He’s playing people like fiddles and his propaganda band is pouring on the Kool aid!
Conservatives can be pretty smart, but Republicans are quite frankly gullible stooges about candidates. They have to elect them first to notice the guy they cheered is a progressive.
Oh, and if you’re going to defend DeSantis to me… Ya might wanna go check out his donner list and prior DC voting record first. Brown and Brown, CFR, Chamber of Commerce, Club for Growth, Koch Brothers… Get hard to defend against.