This is my story. You will have yours, which we’d like to hear below.
Back in 2016, Roger Kimball organized the Scholars and Writers for America in support of Trump’s candidacy, contra National Review (and many others!). There were just over 100 of us. Among other things, we signed the Statement of Unity, which began:
We are a group of scholars and writers who support Donald Trump, and who in our previous letter wrote that “given our choices in the presidential election, we believe that Donald Trump is the candidate most likely to restore the promise of America.”
We continue to believe this, and today urge opponents of the progressive agenda to put aside any differences and to join with us, as a vote for Donald Trump is the only feasible method of defending the principles of freedom, justice and prosperity we hold in common against the most serious threat we have ever faced, a threat that begins to look like the final defeat of republican government, and the permanent decline of the country we love.
How right we were.
Yet four years before this, in 2012, I might not have signed. Trump was reportedly flirting with the idea of running for President then, and I expressed skepticism, not seeing how a television figure could be serious about the idea. I was, of course, stupidly monumentally idiotically wrong. I didn’t know then that a Disruptor like Trump was sorely needed. But I learned my lesson.
The hard way, of course. Such as being canceled over my position on global warming (this was before it became “climate change”). This was when I and three friends were investigated by Congress for bringing the seemingly good news that in the Great World vs. Models Battle, the World was winning. Strangely, our good news made no official happy.
After I signed the Scholars & Writers letter, I received several emails along How-Could-You? lines from colleagues, and two from people I had thought were my friends. Others, who I also thought were friends, made it known by their actions that it would be best if I didn’t stand so close to them. Cornell, at the first available opportunity, grew weary of me, too, and I was canceled yet again.
This wasn’t only because of the letter. I am, as was and is no secret, Catholic, and I took, and take, the official Catholic line on all things dogma. Like telling men seeking the impossible that what they seek is, well, impossible. Unlike Obama, I never “evolved”. I stuck, and stick, with the Magisterium. Such opinions were not welcome in polite society, and holding them was sufficiently criminal to justify canceling. Take Cato, in which Pat Micheals hired me to be part of a climate Red Team, but a VP, who took an active part on the other side of the gay “marriage” debate, which was then raging, pre-fired me.
Trump won 2016—but only the title. The official Expert position, which Hillary repeated endlessly, was that Trump stole the election. Rather, Vladimir Putin did, by some kind of occult espionage. That the election was stolen was one justification for not allowing Trump to rule. That he wasn’t “one of us” was the other.
Then came the covid panic. Which from Day One I was not buying. Hersterics like Nassim Taleb were running in circles in January 2020 calling people “psychopaths” if they refused to panic. I refused. Trump, alas, had no access to any but Experts like the execrable Fauci, and the panic consumed the globe. Bastions of sanity were rare.
I haven’t checked every name, but the people I know who signed the Scholars & Writers letter in 2016 still, in spite of everything, supported Trump for 2020. I did, too.
The 2020 election gave us those amazing F-curves, in which five states in the middle of the night discovered—mirabile dictu!—huge caches of Biden votes lying uncounted in piles which, somehow, evaded notice during the day.
No less an eminence than Edward Luttwak wrote to remind us that “All agree that Kennedy won in 1960 because of fraud in Chicago & Texas. But Nixon patriotically refused legal remedies”. He wanted Tump to surrender gracefully, too. Boss Daley waited on election night in 1960 to see how many votes were needed, and found them. Boss Gretchen Nightmare and other state rulers must have read their history.
Hillary, previously introducing the idea Presidential elections can be stolen, and the history of theft of Presidential elections being clear and known, I and many others found the F-curves and other signals in states like Michigan (the greatest state) to be statistically curious. And said so. You won’t be surprised to learn that only a mere four weeks ago, before Trump’s Inauguration, my name (among a few others) was still being tossed around in certain legal events (which I don’t care to detail) related to this.
Then everything changed.
It has been one Victory after another since. The Death of DIE (in government). No “birthrate” citizenship. Deportations of those who broke the law. The 51 intelligence Officials and Experts who swore Biden’s Son’s laptop was “Russian disinformation” (in Trump’s effort to “steal” a second election) banned from entering Federal buildings. “Climate change” purged from government websites. Acknowledgement gain-of-lethality experiments by mad scientists caused covid. No more serving children debilitating drugs in service to a lunatic theory. “Gender” banished and sex restored. CDC removes transgender lunacy from their sites. Women crying now brings only scorn, not angst and surrender.
No men allowed to play women’s sports. Forcing Trudeau to behave. Cutting off USAID and purging the Expertocracy. South Africa called out. Panama dug out. Withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council. Going after NPR for pretending to be non-profit. Dismantling the Department of Education.
Those are only a few of the victories. There were so many in so short a time that it’s hard to recall them all. It has left Experts and the woke reeling, or dispirited.
For now. Only for now. History teaches one thing, and that is that politics are endless. All victory is fleeting. But they are to be enjoyed. And extended in length and scope as far as humanely possible.
Which brings me, at least, for the reason I wrote all this, which is to get you to read this, especially if you are a “single values voter”: Navigating the era of High Trumpism. One quote:
When a leader makes a decision, in order for it to have weight it must be considered final. When people second guess or hand-wring over big decisions that it have already been made, they are not encouraging Trump to reevaluate his decision (a move that would make him appear weak and indecisive), they are merely encouraging people to attack Trump, and when people start attacking Trump, they often stop talking about this or that individual decision (or perceived decision), but rather begin unloading their unrelated grievances with the universe and encouraging others to do the same. The ultimate result of generalized negativity is the perception that Trump’s support is shaky and that it’s up in the air whether or not he needs to be listened to.
Indeed. And forget conjuring hypothetical exceedingly rare exceptions to the General’s orders. We aren’t anywhere close to that.
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I submit that, ironically, the stealing of the election in 2020 and the ensuing madness enacted by the executive branch as perpetrated by biden’s deranged, demented, progressive handlers was potentially one of the best things that ever happened in presidential politics. Reason being that Trump, “defeated” and then violated by the weaponization of the legal system, has returned demonstrably more wise to the ways of the octopus that is the “Swamp”, and learned as to how to destroy, or at least expose and set back, the tentacles thereof. It is brutally sad that the last four years of governmental abuse occurred, but an awakened, energized electorate coupled with the return of a far more capable agent of disruption and change to champion is ultimately good.
Donald Trump has become a genius at Presidential governance. The plan for the United States to assume possession of Gaza is an example of how to end the genocide of Palestinians is a perfect example. In other words, if we possess it, how can Israel attack it with our bombs
Thanks for recommending this Conundrum Cluster fellow. He makes a persuasive case for a positive, all-American, can-do message. Great.
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People forget what we were facing in 2016. ISIS was committing atrocities all around the world and the Sea Hagg (Ms Clinton) was publicly stating she was going to start shooting Russian planes out of the sky. Instead of the proxy war we eventually got, we would have been in a shooting war with Russia. This and a million other things. Trump’s victory basically destroyed the Clinton machine.
I agree completely that things are looking up and am looking forward to 12 years of sane conservative government in the United States. Unfortunately there’s no certainty just yet – the fat lady is warming up, but has yet to sing and the next midterms seem likely to be determinative with the big risk there being that the hundreds of lawsuits now being filed will produce headlines right about that time.
On the other hand if getting Trump et al in place is part one, maybe knocking out the climate nonsense can be part two? My dog walk at 6:30 this morning, for example, was encouraged by 30+ km/hr winds at -26C – leading me to invent a new product: mink lined tighty whiteties..
Ah, the confessional. Because you asked, here’s mine.
I’d been a private professional forester in Oregon for 20 years when Bill “Raper” Clinton and Al “Manbearpig” Gore bopped in and shut down Fed forests to “save” the owls in 1994. I went to meetings, protests, wrote screeds, raged around, all to no avail.
All forestry was eliminated on 24 million acres in 3 states, including half the land in Oregon. Quacks and commies canceled anybody and everybody who knew anything about forests. The economy tanked. The state went into a tailspin from which it has never emerged.
I founded two websites and spewed invective into the ether. Meanwhile Fed forests in OR began burning down in 500,000 acre chunks. I railed and railed, but nothing changed. In fact, things got worse. Tens of millions of acres burned across the West. The owls disappeared, principally because they’re not fireproof.
In my web travels I encountered some other sites (very few) posting common sense. I was so grateful to find kindred spirits. One of them was this one. Not only was there deep rationalism and logic, my now pal Matt posted St. Thomas Aquinas every week. What a blessing that was. Despite all my failures to save my forests, I did manage to revive my faith. Mother Mary helped me out, too. “Do whatever He tells you,” she said.
I voted for Trump in 2016, and he won, surprisingly. Nobody I vote for ever wins. But he did nothing to open up my forests. The megafires persisted. Biden was worse. Record holocausts happened across the West. Over the last 30 years 70 towns as well as forests have burned in fires emanating from unkempt, un-managed Fed lands, including Lost (Fallen) Angels.
Now Trump is back. His appointments to DOI and DOA aren’t forest adepts, but we’ll see. Maybe common sense will bolt out of the blue. Elon et al seem pretty clueless about forests, however. These days I pray, not just for forests but for souls. In the final analysis the forests don’t really matter. The souls do, though.
BRIGGS YOU FELLOW-TRUMPER! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR???
There is apparently some petition going around to amend things and let Trump run for a 3rd term!
I mean, he already won thrice… But we can get him a 4th! Even an old dementia’d Trump would keep up the WINNING streak! Who’d run against him? The Democrats? Not without USAID they couldn’t! Just for shutting that down alone, his visage should be added to Mt. Rushmore! If not then statues of him all over New-Gaza doing the Trump dance if he can confound the Israelis into pulling it off!
Just legitimize HAMAS as with Hayat/Ukronazis and all the other little proxies, have US troops coordinate with them to keep order, and employ all the Palestinians who want to stay as cheap labourers to rebuild their own homes and tourist spaces and a US military FOB under US and European firms and the reconstruction efforts alone will guarantee peace for several years and potential long term interest from the Gazan and West Bank colonies for decades as the Zionists seethe. But what are they gonna do? Attack the USS Liberty again?
One good thing about the successful theft of the 2020 election was how emboldened the left became because of it. It was largely their belief that they had all of it well in hand that lead them to over-reach so severely on a wide range of issues – as well as to appoint Kamala the Lesser as a candidate. They fell into the trap of believing their own BS.
Looks like DOGE is heading to the Pentagon next.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doge-analyze-pentagon-spending-after-7th-failed-audit
Hopefully they’ll live to make it to the Federal Reserve too!