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▶️ VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: THE RACE FOR THE TRUMP ECONOMY

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: THE RACE FOR THE TRUMP ECONOMY

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he current economic indicators, at least those attributable to the 10-month Trump Administration, are strong. Trump’s first-year economy is surging, but the race ahead hinges on perception, messaging, and whether voters see the boom before the 2026 midterms. Fourth-quarter GDP is estimated to grow between 2.7 and 4 percent, the robust latter figure according to the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank.

Inflation from June to August ranged from 2.7 to 2.9 percent, significantly lower than the 5 percent annual average during Biden’s 2021-2025 term.

Gas prices now average $2.98 per gallon, compared to $3.46, the average cost during Biden’s four years. In less than a year, Trump has increased oil production by one million barrels per day.

Unemployment in the second quarter of 2025 stayed steady at 4.2 percent, roughly the same as the 4.1 percent during the final month of Biden’s tenure.

The stock market has reached an all-time high. Foreign investment is pegged at record levels. Tariff revenue could reach $400 billion by the end of the year—vastly outpacing the $77 billion in all of last year, 2024.

In other words, the economy is rolling along. To the extent the Trump Administration has a problem with the economy, however, it is threefold. One is public perceptions.

In 2021, Biden foolishly borrowed $7 trillion and infused it into the economy at precisely the wrong time. The economy had already been stimulated by Trump’s prior massive lockdown borrowing.

The COVID-19 pandemic was ending. The emerging public was eager to get out, splurge, and satisfy its two-year pent-up consumer demand. And yet supply chains were still disrupted and unable to supply sufficient goods or services.

That perfect storm would ensure that there were too few goods and services for too much cash-flush, inordinate consumer spending.

Despite warnings from even liberal economists that the “stimulus” was a recipe for hyperinflation, Biden, or whoever at that time ran the country, went ahead with his massive borrowing and ensured that inflation would peak at an annual rate of 9.1 percent in 2022.

The mess continued, however, since inflation still kept up in the next two years at 3-4 percent. And when Trump entered office in 2025, goods were over 21 percent higher than when Biden had been inaugurated; with even steeper prices on key staples like energy, groceries, automobiles, housing, and insurance.

Most prices have never gone down. The fact that they have remained high over the last ten months has been blamed on Trump, on the strange rationale that he was supposed to have engineered a deflationary economy in less than a year to lower what Biden recklessly had raised over four years.

The left-wing propaganda is Orwellian: “Our four-year policies created hyperinflation. Your 10-month antithesis did not. But you are still responsible for not undoing in ten months what we did in 48 months. Therefore, we deserve to return to power to repeat the disaster that we made under Biden.”

Second, the administration and Republicans have rarely compared their own economic record with that of Biden’s dismal four years to explain how there is improvement in almost every area.

Trump’s circle understandably has emphasized its accomplishments on the border, reducing crime, curtailing DEI, restoring military recruitment, and especially in foreign affairs, such as the ruination of Iran’s nuclear facilities, the reenergizing of NATO, the oversight of Israel’s successful wars against Hamas and Hezbollah, and achieving ceasefires in conflicts across the globe. These are notable successes. Talk of a Trump Nobel Peace Prize is understandable and warranted.

But the recent off-year elections, albeit in blue states like California, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia, were decided mostly on perceptions of “affordability,” shorthand for the economy.

When independent voters heard little from Republican candidates about the good economic news or of the sharp contrast from the prior Democratic train wreck, they simply bought the left-wing line that the lack of “affordability” was due to the administration in power—that is, Trump.

Third, most of Trump’s key economic initiatives are long-term and will not be fully realized by the end of 2025 or in early to mid-2026.

No one yet knows what the full effects will be of record deregulation and tax cuts by 2026. No administration has ever prompted the deportation of 2 million illegal aliens, as will happen by 2025, with a likely 2 million more in 2026.

Nor does anyone yet know the positive effect on jobs and wages when there are fewer foreign workers undercutting American labor; and even fewer people receiving costly state and federal entitlements.

No one knows what will follow from a record production of nearly 14 million barrels of oil per day, which, with new federal leasing and fewer regulations, may still increase even more in 2026. More federal revenue from leasing and exports? Cheaper natural gas and gasoline for consumers?

No one knows the economic role of a rapidly advancing artificial intelligence industry, with likely huge breakthroughs from robotics to medicine. No one knows the impact of a new generation of smaller micro-nuclear generation stations or more natural-gas power-plants that should provide electricity far more cheaply than massive, state-subsidized wind and solar farms.

No one knows the effect of the massive promised foreign investment. Trump talks confidently of $15 trillion or more promised in foreign investments. If just a third of that sum were to be actualized by late 2026, together with trillions of dollars in new domestic investment, the effect on GDP, unemployment, and federal revenues would be enormous.

Tariffs have caused neither a trade war, stock collapse, nor recession. Instead, the use of tariff threats, jawboning, and deals has resulted so far in little additional inflation, at least if the courts do not intervene.

Again, even downwardly negotiated new tariffs could bring in $400 billion in additional revenue. Far from stuck in a destructive trade war, the U.S. is more likely in 2026 to be in the strongest and most advantageous commercial position with both America’s allies and rivals, like China, in the last half-century.

The Left is certainly apprehensive about the prospect of a likely booming pre-midterm Trump economy by November 2026.

The current shutdown, preplanned by Democrats to synchronize with the recent elections, makes no sense given their prior damnation of minority-party shutdowns, their prior serial votes to approve continuing resolutions, and their prior incoherent claims about putting a sunset on massive Obamacare subsidies, which they also once insisted would never be necessary.

So the likely real purpose of the shutdowns is a nihilist effort to slow down or sidetrack the expanding Trump economy; a sort of smaller replay of what the purported “natural” disaster of COVID-19 did to the then-booming 2019 Trump economy that likely cost Trump the 2020 election.

In addition, there is no reason now for the Fed not to lower rates, and far more than the recent paltry 0.25 percent cut. There is neither wild growth nor high inflation, but most certainly a stagnant housing market, high mortgage rates, and natural uncertainty among builders.

For most of 2025, the media has tried to talk the U.S. into a recession; wrongly predicting a March stock market crash, wrongly assuring us of a mid-2025 recession, wrongly maintaining that tariff-borne hyperinflation would bury the economy by fall, and wrongly insisting a disastrous trade war was upon us, one that would crash both the U.S. and Chinese economies.

If the shutdown were quickly ended and the Fed steadily lowered interest rates by at least 2 percent, and if the media would just report the news rather than seek to create realities by falsification, then a strong, and soon to be even more robust, economy would likely determine the 2026 midterms, and with it the Trump presidency.

So the current Trump economy is in a race of sorts. The challenge is not nature, not war, not the unpredictable, and certainly not wrong economic policies and agendas.

The rub is a failure to highlight the radical improvement from the Biden years in just a few months, to explain that novel policies are already in motion that may revolutionize the American economy within a year, and to recognize the destructive efforts of partisan shutdowns, partisan high interest rates, and partisan hysterical doom and gloom fake news.

If Trump meets these challenges, voters could see the economy take off as never before in 2026; just in time for the midterms. ✪

▶️ ZERO DAYS WITHOUT A DEMOCRAT CRIME

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ZERO DAYS WITHOUT A DEMOCRAT CRIME

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nother day, another Democrat found to be involved in some sort of fraud. I don’t think there’s a single member of that entire party who speaks the truth or plays by the rules. And the legacy media; ever the loyal lapdogs of the Left, fawns over these people, burying scandals or spinning them as virtues.

From multi-million dollar fraud schemes tied to congressional insiders to impersonating lawyers to springing illegal aliens. From doctored court evidence to unconstitutional residency fraud, the evidence piles up like Kamala’s campaign debts. We’re witnessing a pattern of blatant lawbreaking enabled by a complicit media that prioritizes Marxist idolatry over accountability.

Let’s start with the squalid underbelly of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s orbit. One of her associates was busted in a stunning $2.9 million fraud scheme, involving fake claims and embezzlement that robbed taxpayers blind. Calls for Omar’s deportation exploded, given her history of controversial statements and suspicious allegiances. We hear nothing but crickets from the legacy media, who instead amplify Omar’s anti-Israel rants as “bold leadership.” This is protectionism for a squad member whose allies treat public funds like a personal ATM.

Which brings us to Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, the self-proclaimed champion of the downtrodden whose “woman of the people” routine detonated like a bad fireworks show. FEC filings reveal her campaign splurged over $25,000 on luxury hotels and limo services: Ritz-Carlton stays, West Hollywood Editions, Vegas resorts, none in her Dallas district or even in Texas. Add $50,000 on security while she preaches defunding the police and calls ICE “slave patrols.” It’s hypocrisy on steroids: a freshman congresswoman living large on donor dollars, jetting to Martha’s Vineyard while her constituents struggle with crime and inflation. Who does she think she is, BLM? Maxine Waters?

Yet the media swoons. A deranged liberal radio host, Stephanie Miller, was filmed kissing Crockett’s sneakers, gushing about worshipping the ground she walks on — and bragging about it on X. The legacy media? Probably too busy fact-checking Trump tweets from 2016.

This groveling spectacle is symptomatic of the Left’s cult-like devotion that shields criminals. The same filings show her rarely in Texas, yet she eyes a Senate run against John Cornyn. She admits that no Democrat can win, but is spending big on polls anyway. The media response: softball interviews where she’s hailed as a “rising star,” her lavish spending dismissed as “necessary travel.” If a Republican did this, it would be front-page impeachment fodder. This is yet another example of Michael Anton’s “Celebration Parallax” which may be stated as: “the same fact pattern is either true and glorious or false and scurrilous depending on who states it.”

Moving along to California Representative and Fang Fang fiasco survivor Eric Swalwell, who is now facing disqualification. Official deeds declare his Washington, D.C. home his “principal residence,” with no verifiable California address despite representing the Golden State’s 14th District. The Constitution demands residency in the state you serve; Swalwell mocks it. Public records show no owned or leased home in California; his “hometown” Livermore address has belonged to another family since 2008. This is fraud. Swalwell built his career slamming opponents as “out of touch,” and has literally checked out of his state. The legacy media outlets that hounded Trump over emoluments clauses yawn here, recycling Swalwell’s anti-Trump lawsuits as heroic.

The rot continues. Attorneys for former FBI director James Comey have allegedly doctored transcripts. Kevin Clinesmith isn’t alone! In Senate testimony evidence, they altered words to fabricate a question from Texas senator Ted Cruz that never happened — pure fraud in a court filing. Tampering with official records invites contempt or evidence charges. Comey’s team even cited a movie for defense, hiding identities while claiming innocence. This from a man who lectured America on integrity. Predictably, legacy media outlets like the NY Times framed this as a “dispute” rather than obstruction of justice.

More felonies have emerged from the Democrats’ obsession with illegal immigration. A staffer for Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth impersonated an immigration attorney to free a four-time-deported Mexican national convicted of DUI. He demanded access to his “client,” secured a signature on official forms, then tried filing unsigned versions; collaborating with a law firm to cover his tracks. DHS condemned this as “political games” endangering agents and detainees. Duckworth, a vocal defunder of border enforcement, remained silent. The media? Fox broke the story, the others buried it amid climate summit fluff.

Finally, under Gavin Newsom’s sanctuary regime, California’s DMV issued 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses to illegals ineligible under federal law; many unable to read English road signs. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy revoked them all, exposing deadly risks after crashes killed Americans. Newsom, globetrotting to Brazil for “climate deals,” left highways vulnerable. Nineteen other states enable this lunacy, but California’s scale is astonishing. The legacy media praised Newsom as a “visionary” presidential contender with his failures spun as bold progressivism.

These incidents — fraud, impersonation, document tampering, residency lies, and luxury abuse are part and parcel of Democrat DNA. They flout laws while demanding obedience from citizens. The media’s role is criminal complicity. They amplify foot-kissing sycophancy, ignore FEC bombshells and whitewash impersonation as “advocacy.” Conservative outlets expose the truth while the legacy media covers it up to protect the regime.

We Conservatives alert citizens to the crimes. We tell Democrats, “This person stole money from you! These people are funneling deadly narcotics, child sex slaves, and violent cartel members into your neighborhoods! This person committed mortgage fraud! This one sold 20% of our uranium and classified hypersonic missile tech to Russia!” Their response? “Trump is literally Hitler. I’m voting Blue.”

And they are. New York City residents just voted for an Islamist communist, and Seattle residents just elected a communist, excuse me, two “democratic socialists.” Said new mayor Katie Wilson, “We will not allow grocery chains to close stores at will.” That I’ve got to see.

The sheriff of neighboring Pierce County, Keith Swank, predicted that with the election of Katie Wilson, crime will rise, prosecutions will decrease, and she will fire the current police chief within a year. Joe Walsh was right. You can’t argue with a sick mind.

America demands accountability: investigations, indictments, resignations, and deportations. Prosecute transcript tamperers, revoke illegal licenses, scrutinize every FEC filing, call out every lie, and have the IRS randomly audit elected representatives, staffers, bureaucrats, and their family members.

Why the delay? Perhaps AG Pam Bondi is afraid of making martyrs out of leftists before midterms. When the Left fabricated evidence and issued scurrilous indictments against Trump, it galvanized conservatives and we rallied behind him. Is she afraid the same thing could happen if she goes after prominent leftists? At this point, what do we have to lose?

We’re facing Sophie’s Choice. If no one is held to account, they won’t stop. If we hold them to account, we could energize their base. I say we put our cards on the table and enforce the law. Accountability starts with us refusing to shy away. ✪

▶️ THE GOLDEN AGE IS OVER

THE GOLDEN AGE IS OVER

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t’s always just assumed that when Republicans want to cut government spending, it’s to eliminate waste. More to the point, it’s to try to save the taxpayer money so that ultimately yours and my taxes don’t go up as fast or as much. We’re not crazy enough to expect our taxes to go down, are we? 

However, when you look at the way the Trump Administration has been cutting spending, it’s much more strategic than simply trying to save money. In cutting the spending on certain things, Trump is cutting the financial lifeline to much of the Left’s corruption. 

The cuts to PBS and NPR provided an obvious example of this. The money saved was good, but that wasn’t the point. The point was, Trump cut the financial feeding tube to one of the left’s largest and oldest propaganda machines. 

We all know the saying that if you want to study criminal or corrupt behavior, “Follow the money.” Trump has done that, and as he has made cuts, the largest and loudest squeals are coming from those who have been taking advantage of us the most. Trump is bringing all of this to light. 

A whole ecosystem of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), nonprofits, think tanks, and other entities is writhing in financial pain after Trump has cut the flow of cash to them. 

The marquee example of this was Trump’s shutting down of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). It provided humanitarian aid, but it appeared to do so as cover for the United States’ regime-building and regime-killing activities around the world. 

By design, USAID actually did provide aid in countries that offered political value to the U.S.in the global balance of power. As previously reported, the lines between aid and other, more questionable activities were often blurred at entities like USAID. 

The Catholic Church has used its own aid organizations to generate huge revenues for the church and advance a leftist agenda. 

Reinforcing all of this, the head of the Catholic church-affiliated overseas aid group Caritas Internationalis made an interesting declaration in October. Alistair Dutton, the organization’s secretary general, told the National Catholic Reporter, “I talk about the golden age of aid being over,” he said. “We’re not going to see that money coming back.” 

As a result, Dutton said Trump’s cuts will affect people dealing with war and hunger, and those on the front lines of “climate change.”

If you voted for Trump, you’ll likely hear what comes next as good news. The United Nations (UN) reported in October that member governments are very likely to fall short of a goal to double by this year public financing to help countries “adapt to climate impacts.” 

Whether the U.N. or Dutton realizes this or not, what they’re saying is essentially that the climate change slush fund that’s used to grease the palms of greedy, corrupt, and power-hungry tyrants around the globe is going dry. 

Yes, there are people who still believe that the natural phenomena; floods, drought, monsoons, that have been happening around the world for millions of years, are now due to man-made “climate change.” And to address that, you need to give more of your tax money to the fascist leaders of banana republics. 

What happens if we don’t give these ‘supreme leaders’ the cash? Not surprisingly, Dutton follows the standard leftist script, “Millions of people will die.” 

To accept this premise, you have to ignore the fact that people are already dying in these countries, mostly because the aid we’re giving isn’t even showing up in the form of food for suffering people. It’s lining the palaces of petty tyrants and all of the go-betweens and liaisons along the way. 

Also, you have to assume that “millions” is doing a lot of work in this scare tactic. Most of these estimates are unsubstantiated. They never live up to the hype and fearmongering to justify their taking more of your money away from you. 

The whole point of American aid to foreign countries is to ‘take care of’ the post-influential people in that country so that we can call them friends when we need a favor in that part of the world. 

Organizations like Caritas know this, but they also know that they exist to put a humanitarian veneer on all of it. To do that, you do have to provide some aid. 

Still, as an inadvertent sign of progress that Trump’s aid cuts are having the desired effect, Dutton talked about specific impacts: 

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is obviously our largest international member, and so they have been very badly affected by the money that they have lost. But members in Latin America also lost direct funding from USAID and are suffering dreadfully from the cuts that they have had directly on their income not coming through Catholic Relief Services, he said.

And then through the projects that USAID was funding through the U.N. system — in the week after the announcement [was] made back in January, Caritas Bangladesh had to stop all its services within the Rohingya camps and lay off 450 staff who were providing shelter and food and care of various different kinds throughout those refugee camps. And we’re seeing that in refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. So we are seeing this worldwide.

In other words, thanks to Trump, less of your money is going to countries that aren’t grateful, never return the favor, and, when possible, wish America harm. 

It must be pointed out that conservatives are some of the most charitable people in the world. We do have hearts. So, if you are a charity and you’re affiliated with a church or some other organization that has no relationship with a government, by all means, we support you, especially in your efforts to feed, clothe, and house the hungry and the needy, and victims of natural disasters. 

But if you’re running a nonprofit, and U.S. taxpayer money is your most dominant source of revenue, are you even a charity? Or, are you more like a business or political entity that straddles all of the lines between church and state in order to advance a leftist ideological agenda? If the answer to this second question is “Yes,” then all of your so-called charity is actually serving one primary purpose, and that is to put corrupt leftists and radicals in power around the world. ✪

▶️ HOW TRUMP IS REASSERTING AMERICAN ENERGY INDEPENDENCE

HOW TRUMP IS REASSERTING AMERICAN ENERGY INDEPENDENCE

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resident Donald Trump is working to correct a drift which began during the Biden years. For no good strategic reason, the country watched its hard-won energy independence slip away.

Fortunately, sanity has returned; the new administration reversed the restrictive rules that closed large areas of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve, choking off future oil and gas development.

Many of those limits stemmed from Biden-era directives that favored environmental symbolism over practical national strength. The Department of the Interior signaled a fundamental shift when it announced the repeal of those rules and reopened millions of acres for leasing.

This isn’t about politics. It’s about whether a nation chooses to stand on its own or sit quietly while foreign producers decide its fate.

Fixing What Biden Broke: A Return To Energy Reality

The prior administration, led by faceless, nameless loons, treated American energy abundance as a liability rather than an advantage.

Pudd’n Head Joe restricted leasing in the National Petroleum Reserve, discouraged exploration in promising tracts, andincreased regulatory pressure, all the while insisting that the transition toward alternatives move forward even if the groundwork wasn’t nearly ready.

That foolish choice left the United States exposed to global market shocks, foreign leverage, and higher prices that punished middle-class families and small businesses.

It was an apparent contradiction: you can’t talk about climate ambition while importing barrels from nations with weaker environmental standards; and build a secure economy while ignoring the resources sitting beneath stable American ground. President Trump called attention to that contradiction and moved to fix it.

Opening The Petroleum Reserve & ANWR

Trump’s decision to reopen the National Petroleum Reserve and restore access to the whole coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is grounded in both law and logic.

Congress established the petroleum reserve to serve as a strategic supply, not a museum. The Biden Administration expanded special-protection zones that effectively fenced off the reserve’s purpose.

Trump’s Interior Department removed those barriers and reactivated the original mandate, applying the same principle to the coast plan in ANWR. For years, politicians treated that area as untouchable, even though Congress explicitly approved limited drilling. Trump restored that approval in practice by clearing regulatory roadblocks and signaling to the private sector that exploration is again welcome.

Why Energy Independence Can’t Wait

We understand energy independence isn’t a slogan. It’s a shield against an unpredictable world. Nations that control their supply enjoy stability, while those that outsource it live on borrowed time.

America hands over the leverage that foreign producers can use at any moment. However, if we develop our own reserves, we gain negotiating strength and economic durability, with consequences reaching far beyond Alaska.

Domestic production affects manufacturing, transportation, agriculture, home heating, and national defense. When our leaders refuse to use any resources available, they surrender the very advantages generations before them built.

Trump’s decision to reopen development reminds us that independence requires action rather than aspiration.

The Economic Stakes For Alaska

More than most, Alaska understands the stakes; its economy rises and falls on energy, infrastructure, and responsible development. When leasing stopped, revenue stopped, jobs disappeared, and community investment slowed.

Opening the millions of available acres revives exploration, processing, shipping, and support industries that reach from Anchorage to smaller communities, depending on the resource at hand. Federal royalties and state revenue rise with production, and the multiplier effect spreads across sectors from logistics to construction.

Biden’s restrictions ignored those realities, while Trump re-centered them by restoring access and giving the state a chance to thrive again.

Environmental Concerns & Practical Responsibility

One argument from environmental groups is that opening the Arctic region invites irreversible harm. Although those concerns deserve acknowledgement, the Arctic is delicate, and development requires rigorous oversight.

The solution isn’t to shut down activity; it’s to manage it responsibly. The United States already maintains some of the world’s highest environmental standards. Producing energy in America is cleaner than outsourcing it to regimes that care nothing about ecological care or indigenous communities.

President Trump accepts responsibility for managing resources with accountability, rather than pretending abstinence protects the planet. Faithful stewardship means balancing production with preservation rather than choosing paralysis.

Important Historical Context

Energy independence has played a decisive role in America’s past. Pennsylvania oil fields, Texas’ wells, and offshore developments of later decades shaped our country’s rise.

We grew strong by harnessing our natural wealth to fuel industry, transportation, and defense. It’s a relevant lesson, where modern leaders can’t reject the very engines that built our country.

The approach President Trump is taking mirrors that earlier mindset by reviving the idea that Americans should develop what we own; a concept that doesn’t belong to any ideology, but rather to common sense.

A National Reset In Strategy

Reviving Alaska’s energy rules marks a larger strategic shift. Trump rejects the notion that the United States must accept dependency as inevitable, arguing that the country controls its destiny when it controls its supply chain.

It’s a distinction the Biden Administration never recognized, as it treated resource abundance as something to be apologized for. Trump treats it as something to steward and deploy, which is the heart of the story. A nation that refuses to mobilize its resources loses its autonomy, whereas a country that insists on using what it owns regains it.

Final Thoughts

President Donald Trump restored the fundamental principle that energy independence isn’t optional; it’s foundational. He reopened land that should never have been closed, correcting policies that ignored both economic and strategic realities.

America owns the reserves sitting underneath her feet. Our nation now faces a choice; it can continue down a path that keeps it vulnerable to foreign markets, or it can follow the example Trump has set, using the tools that guarantee strength.

Independence has always been a choice, and Trump decided the country would no longer surrender to it. ✪

▶️ COMMENTARY: “OUR DEMOCRACY” (I’M SURE)

COMMENTARY: “OUR DEMOCRACY” (I’M SURE)

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y now, whenever you hear anyone invoke the phrase “saving our democracy,” that should be a signal that they are intent on destroying this republic; and with that, your natural rights to free speech, economic liberty, and public order. What began in 2016 as a simple, high-level plot to take out Donald Trump and squash Trumpism; a grassroots revolt against those very high-level DC insiders, turned sharply in 2017 into a long-running cover-up operation that spawned a multiplying cycle of seditions, treasons, and betrayals of the public — as the insiders desperately tried to evade culpability for each previous act — and finally blossomed into a rolling coup with crypto-Jacobin overtones as the insiders’ useful idiots were recruited to run with the ball of color revolution.

For those who can’t quite wrap their minds around this game, a color revolution is the surreptitious overthrow of an elected government by concealed parties. Neocons in the US State Department developed the practice of color revolution on many countries over the years. Mr. Obama added a layer of gnostic Marxists to the personnel mix at State, and these wannabe revolutionaries built a fantastic matrix of NGOs outside State to marshal the useful idiots with jobs and salaries. The NGOs, in turn, were connected to international moneybags, with strange agendas of their own such as the megalomanic climate change crusader Bill Gates and George Soros’s Open Society Foundation, which funds anarchist district attorneys, the defense of election fraud, mass illegal migration, internet censorship, and money-flows into Antifa, the Left’s street fighters.

The motives of these players might appear murky, but at this point they can be boiled down to 1) staying out of jail, and 2) retaining control of their empires. Hillary Clinton, for instance, surely wants to stay out of jail for her RussiaGate caper, and retain the ill-gotten lucre of the Clinton Foundation she lives off. At 95, George Soros himself is probably beyond caring about all this, but his son Alex, 38, carries on, and recently cemented his alliance with the Clinton Foundation by marrying the former Mrs. Anthony Wiener, Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s long-time wing-gal.

The Democrat Party plays an increasingly curious part in this rolling coup as all its efforts look evermore insane and self-extinguishing — the bootless government shutdown being the latest exercise. The party can no longer meaningfully represent organized labor — since labor moved to faraway lands — so it attempted to replace that earnest bond with fronting for women and minorities. This has resulted in two problems. 1) women taking over the actual machinery of the party has transformed mere politics into never-ending psychodrama and boosted the amplitude of political dirty-fighting to dangerous new levels; and 2) cultivating minority groups has led to an orgy of race-and-gender hustles that amount to gigantic racketeering operations (i.e., making money dishonestly).

All of that sound, fury, and roguery is now dedicated only to staving off the party’s collapse and thwarting Mr. Trump’s attempt to restore something like regular order in public affairs, which the Democrat Party calls “authoritarianism.” Regular order is something that healthy male psychology takes an interest in, since it entails defense of the culture, in this case, Western Civilization and its heritage. That implies the uses of strength as opposed to the stratagems of weakness. It must acknowledge and rely on classic virtues such as fortitude, prudence, and a preference for what is — as opposed to wishes and fantasies.

Psychodrama dispenses with all that for the sake of emotional gratification, often mis-characterized as empathy or caring. It can transform easily into sadism — as you can see now with the calls for violence and murder against Trump-adjacent persons. Meanwhile, be aware that the cries for “saving our democracy” come from the people opposed to regular order in elections, that is, voter ID, voting on election day only, with results reported out at day’s end, paper ballots and no electronic counting machines, and no mail-in ballots (except for people out of the country on election day). All of these stipulations are observed in other nations of Western Civilization, and beyond, even in lands where people go about half-clothed.

The current psychodrama, of course, is the latest installment of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. The Democrats are flogging it with Wile E. Coyote zeal. I suspect it is an Acme booby trap for the ages and it is being carefully laid by Mr. Trump, the Roadrunner, to blow up un the Dems’ faces when all the documents are finally sorted out. Anyway, it has nothing to do with the real-world problems that the US faces, such as runaway financialization of the economy, a broken medical system, mass job layoffs, the collapse of education, surging mental illness, the drug plague, and the sinking middle-class.

We’re entering a new phase in the ongoing color revolution, the coup against America, and it’s liable to be the final phase in which all the mystery gets wrung out, the motives are revealed, and the players are correctly sorted and labeled according to their deeds. No new psychodrama will avail to stop what’s coming. ✪

▶️ AG SEC ROLLINS: EVERYONE WILL NEED TO REAPPLY FOR EBT

AG SEC ROLLINS: EVERYONE WILL NEED TO REAPPLY FOR EBT

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n Thursday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins discussed data on food stamps and said that data from blue states is “going to give us a platform and a trajectory to fundamentally rebuild this program, have everyone reapply for their benefit, make sure that everyone that’s taking a taxpayer-funded benefit through SNAP or food stamps, that they literally are vulnerable and they can’t survive without it.”

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Rollins stated:

“29 states, mostly the red states, responded with their data sets, February, March, April. … But here’s the most unbelievable news I have really, just over the last few days: That 5,000 dead people, that was just one month, the number is closer to 186,000 deceased men and women and children in this country are receiving a check. Now, that is what we’re really going to start clamping down on. Half a million are getting two. But here’s the really stunning thing: This is just data from those 29 mostly red states. Can you imagine when we get our hands on the blue state data, what we’re going to find?”

She continued:

“It’s going to give us a platform and a trajectory to fundamentally rebuild this program, have everyone reapply for their benefit, make sure that everyone that’s taking a taxpayer-funded benefit through SNAP or food stamps, that they literally are vulnerable and they can’t survive without it. And that’s the next step here.”

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