Victor Davis Hanson on Trump the Counterrevolutionary
Until Donald Trump’s arrival, the globalist revolution was almost solidified and institutionalized—with the United States increasingly its greatest and most “woke” advocate. We know its bipartisan establishment contours.
China would inherit the world in 20 or 30 years. The self-appointed task of American elites—many of whom had already been enriched and compromised by Chinese partners and joint ventures—was to facilitate this all-in-the-family transition in the manner of the imperial British hand-off of hegemony to the United States in the late 1940s…
What tools did Donald Trump have to wage these many counterrevolutions?
The media? America’s Fortune 400? Academia? The great foundations? The nation’s think tanks? The bipartisan government establishment? The international community? The banks? Wall Street? Corporate CEOs? Silicon Valley? Professional sports? The entertainment industry? Hollywood? The intelligence community? The current and retired top military brass?
In fact, none of them. All had joined or enabled the revolution, on the theory either that their wealth and influence would shield them and their own from its excesses, or like naïve Kerenskyites their status would impress and win over even those who targeted them, or they were inner revolutionaries themselves all along, just waiting to be freed at last by BLM and Antifa.
Against all that money and clout, the counterrevolutionary Trump had only one asset, the proverbial people. He had solely the under-polled and the written-off. They came out to his rallies in the tens of thousands, deluded the pollsters, and told the media less than nothing, but voted and will vote in waves to save America from what it was becoming.
Well, they will vote again. And I have no idea whether the waves will be enough.
For whatever reason, I’ve always been a rebel. When I was young and naive, I was a liberal, wanting to fight against the conservative establishment, but stuck in the military. Fifty two years later, I’m a staunch conservative, fighting against the elite establishment. Deja vu all over again!
The sentence that concerns me more than any other:
People get the government they deserve.
I greatly and entirely reasonably believe if Biden wins, the entire Trump family will be persecuted like no other in US history.
We are dealing with Evil here, an Evil that is out to subjugate us to China.
In perpetuity.
It is as much a fault of the Sasses as it is the Schumers.
Increasingly, some of us are wondering if Divine Providence is at work here:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/donald_trump_and_the_mandate_of_heaven.html
Haha Divine Providence. I also read that article a day or so ago. It was pretty good, and not much God Emperor band wagoning.
The wanderer B Franklin said that Americans had a Republic, if they could keep it. Promptly after that, the people decided to give their power away and become slaves.
Now people are relying on Divine Right of Kings, of all things, which is predictable, given that to fix slavery, often autocratic decrees had to be done, and given this country’s preference for a Divine Kingdom and Judae/Christian rules, it is logical to look at Trump as some kind of savior or messiah.
All the more if he actually plays that part, unlike Hussein.
Cicero,
“I greatly and entirely reasonably believe if Biden wins, the entire Trump family will be persecuted like no other in US history.
We are dealing with Evil here, an Evil that is out to subjugate us to China.
In perpetuity.
It is as much a fault of the Sasses as it is the Schumers.”
You got that right. The one thing that mitigates my worries about voter fraud in 2020 is Trump must know and understand the consequences of a loss to his family. He’s not the “Washington General’s” candidate like Mitt Romney who will gain sudden respectability upon his loss.
Trump and his family will be targeted for retribution.
Trump and his family will be targeted for retribution.
Did you not think he knew that going into the 2015 primaries?
Unless Q and anti Vampiric Cabal alliance assured him of the protection of his loved ones, Trump would likely not have run or run just as a Clinton favor to disrupt the Republican primaries.
He knew what going up against the Epsteins would mean for him. Trump already had a few run ins with the FBI and Epstein.
I’m a YES, we’ll vote him in again. The Dems will be even MORE un-hinged; they will beat their breasts and will scourge their backs. I will be sooooooooooo not-bummed for them, for the choice was theirs.
If not, I’m with Fractal Rabbit’s comment to Cicero.
Wife went early (7 AM in PA) and had to wait 1.5 hours. Me and my two additional children went at noon, took 10 minutes. Not sure what we can say. the other precinct at the voting location had 1.5 hour wait.
I think it depends on your precinct. Love to see great voter turnout no matter the results. Of course, hoping we do not elect sleepy joe and commie camala.
“The schemes in play will end up the same as all the others. They will be embarrassing defeats for the kind of people that the Democrats have become — the type who lie, cheat, and manipulate even in situations where it would be to their benefit to play it straight.” “Donald Trump and The Mandate of Heaven
What those who vote for Biden are clearly incapable of grasping is that if the democrats do manage to steal this election it will set a new and disastrous standard in pyrrhic victories. For they will force upon us an intolerable choice; life upon our knees or politics by other means.
I pray they lose… for their sake.
Geoffrey B.:
If the Dems win, we will live life on our knees, unless we agree with your clever reference to Clausewitz that (war is) “politics by other means.”
I kneel to no man. The choice for me and millions is clear.
CORRECTION for the augustly named Cicero: this is the forever mistranslation of von Clausewitz.
War is politics WITH [“mit”] other means. — CORRECT
War is politics BY other means. — WRONG
THE mistranslation implies that it is a categorical or binary choice. In fact, a proper wording instead suggests that there is a spectrum of political choices, and that war-like or suggestive poses are political, too.
For example: A proper reading of von Clausewitz tells us that Peace Through Strength is real. The mistranslation instead suggests that it is a phoney gambit, if not impossible.
TJ:
I was only responding to the faint von Clausewitz bell that G.B. rang!
You are of course entirely correct, particularly in your exegesis.
Danke!
Righto, Cicero. Thanks.
This VDH post — he reiterates it on FoxBusiness appearance, too — simply stuns me.
Here’s my core excerpt:
Only We, The People.
Do the People govern the US of A, or do these Ruling Class establishment interests?
Hint: no wonder they had to raise the menacing spectre of “Russia, Russia, Russia!” The coup attempt was their counter-counter revolution.
I’m also stunned that too many many folks cannot see this Truth, too.
That is an amazing VDH piece; especially paragraphs 4 & 5.
Off topic: I watched the documentary “The Plot Against the President” last night. I’d give it high marks, particularly in terms of compelling story telling.
It puts out a large amount of material at a relatively quick pace. No pretense of bipartisanship. I suspect that if you don’t know much of the back story to begin with, you might get lost. Because of those points, it may not have any impact on the lefties.
Some of the material was new to me, including some of the players. For example, Kash Patel was a top aid and researcher for Devin Nunes that really made a difference.
TommyJay:
I had much the same feeling about the movie. And I’d never even heard of Kash Patel before, but he was a big player in the whole thing.
America was nice while it lasted; just another democracy that committed suicide.
Even if Trump wins it should not have been close.
If only the president looked like a 25 year old movie star.
Did I mention I’m a tad cynical.