All republics are cyclical with the level of liberality that they contain. They all transform into forms of populist supported Fascism when the levels of corruption and oligarchical manipulation become intolerable. The ultimate straw that breaks the back of republics is schismatic shifting demographics that cause turbulence to social and economic stability.
world view despises nationalism and seeks to identify/connect with like minded elites, ultimately using the sweat and sacrifice of their nations working classes to validate their ideological experiments.
nuanced training that ingratiates the upper middle class of sub-professionals to their preferred way of thinking, and then these sub-professionals, these products of suburbia and academia then try to ape the oligarchies in vain attempt to win their favor.
Members of the political class play among the rest of America in their youths and adapt heirs of commonality but the reality is they are more privileged then the richest athlete or celebrity. Entrenched as they are currently in American politics, media and finance, having co-opted a celebrity culture as their propaganda machine, they have overreached on a number of occasions.
Most significantly- Bush’s failed wars in the Islamic world and Obama’s nonsensical attempts at radical social change (which went eons beyond the scope of the most extreme of the Gracchi brothers of Ancient Rome and were far less supported by popular mandate) which can only logically be construed as an attempt at solidifying government mastery over the population, something that has never been done in America without a populist mandate.
In their hysteria to not be associated with this stereotype, suburban and cosmopolitan sub-professionals have been more sycophantic to the political class and more hateful of the landed, agricultural or industrial class of whites.
The Bundy Rancher protests and the anathema they received from the media are indicative of this. Therefore, the schism America is currently in is inevitable and future turbulence unavoidable. This is in the shadow of the political class’s late 20th century experiment with leftism, such as LBJ’s great society, unfettered and unsupported institutionalization of civil universal suffrage and civil rights, decades of endless limited wars absent of victory, blind faith in a fiat currency backed economy,
Enter the stage Donald Trump. Not entirely a WASP. His grandfather, a German immigrant, made a fortune during the Alaskan Gold rush by running a business in Seattle at the epicenter of the Alaska trade. Returning to NY, he bought property prolifically, which his son, Fred Trump, managed and developed. Fred’s son, Donald, was a slightly troubled teen, straightened out by a military school reputed to have been harsh, and then tested by his father for future worthiness.
His father sent him to run an apartment building in Cincinnati as his rite of passage. Had he failed, his father would not have supported him with a million dollar loan for his first project. Donald did have an advantage, but it wasn’t handed to him. Donald Trump is not the product of breeding, or academia, or any sort of ideology; instead he is the product of rites of passage, something lesser men are envious and even contemptuous of.
He is the last of the 19th century class of powerful magnates. He is a man who possesses a fortune beholden to no one and is one who survived taking considerable risks, to bounce back to success. The fact that he has infinitely increased his family fortune and his wealth cannot be refuted. Unlike other republicans, Trump has not attacked the ideology of the left, but rather he has gone for its jugular by attacking the political class.
Also, a highly educated man, he has chosen the vernacular and colloquialisms of the construction workers and housing managers and maintenance men of his estates. He “walks with kings but keeps the common touch” and this has earned him the loyalty of his people who have stood strongly by him under the current political storm.
The mentality of the left to hold white men of substance as hypocrites or pretenders illustrates why the media strongly mocked Trump’s entry onto the political stage and then is still in denial over his popularity. Trump is the living embodiment for the cornerstone of the left’s narrative, one of which the political class falsely adopts, and that is that white male patriarchy is evil and indicative of every form of vice and destruction.
Trump, an obvious and unabashed white male patriarch, is a living condemnation of the left’s cornerstone narrative. Trump is a white man who does not pander to minorities. He is clearly aggressive and independent, and he has a large, happy and successful family, which interestingly and non-traditionally involves two divorces which show no visible disruption to family cohesiveness.
Also, Trump does not feign identity behind any religion, ideology or genre but is overtly comfortable with his own personality and by his own will and skill has not only achieved wealth and fame but raised a remarkable family.
It’s irrelevant to the left, and to the WASP political class whether Trump agrees with them or not. His very existence on the political scene is a threat to them. In effect, Trump will be the end of the WASP/Puritan aristocracy in America. A fitting one given how Trump, a Scott-German, is akin to the overwhelming majority of Continental Soldiers in the War for Independence; Washington’s Army was mostly Scots and Germans.
The end of the Second World War saw America as the only man left standing. The rest of the world was a wreck. America ensured itself of generations of economic prowess by indebting the industrial nations of the world with the means of its endless supply of invaluable currency. The American Dollar saved the industrial world, and because of the economic arrangements that America designed, forever ensured the dollar as the reserve global currency.
The only challenge to this was the Soviet Union, whose inept Socialist model compounded by Reagan’s arms race, caused it to collapse, further bolstering American hegemony.
In the modern world, America has to shift to a more resilient economy, one less on a wartime footing and more on a prosperity footing, and this means that it resurrects a more robust industry, trade, and export capability.
Trump recognizes the reality, which is the political class that has led America post Reagan is not strong enough to wield the awesome force that is America, let alone mass its power to achieve American interests. There is no doubt Trump understands this intimately. He purposely chooses to not articulate it in a way that gives the political class and its leftist agitators an opportunity to refute it.
Trump is a man of action who gives less consequence to words. Other men of action appreciate this, but men of words fear it. This quality in Trump is in itself anathema to a political class that only knows and uses words to define themselves and fears action and audacity. They will naturally paint audacity as recklessness.
American history is carved from independent men of audacious action. The idea of an America like that terrifies those who feel they would not be able to survive in that environment.
Trump calculated this and conducted his approach with clear understanding that any attempt at conciliation, which previous republicans had done, was futile. He is taking the political class head on and letting his actions speak, and this explains the probable Brexit effect that will win him the presidency.
President Trump will take the following actions:
4. American Military and government apparatus will experience a purge. Trump recognizes its nepotism, corruption and stagnation and is already aligning talent to replace them. He has negotiated corruption in NYC and DC for a life time, he is the best man to purge it.
A Trump presidency will see turmoil and schism but will forever destroy the left’s hold on America and this chain reaction will feed Western Europe as well. His presidency will be very liberating for the working and middle class, and resurrect the industrial and agricultural base that is currently dormant in America. His is a natural populist reaction to corruption and over reach, and his family will no doubt become a prominent American Family for generations to come.
About the author: Joseph D. Labarbera has spent 20 years leading military and civilians, Major in the U.S. Army and Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps; published author; successful real estate investor; hobby farmer; competitive pistol/rifle shooter. Masters Degree in National Security Studies from American Military University and Bachelors Of Arts; City University of New York; Command and General Staff College (U.S. Army). U.S. Army Strategist, Space Operations Planner, Military Parachutist.
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