I didn’t leave Donald Trump. He left me.
Before the summer of of 2016, I didn’t care much for Donald Trump. I knew him only because he was unavoidable. But I quickly jumped on his presidential bandwagon because of one thing: unlike the losers for whom conservatives previously had to settle, Trump could win.

Like the outsider Ross Perot before him, Trump didn’t need the job. He had already made his mark on the world. He had the money and the audacity and just the right amount of crazy to take on the corruption. And it seemed he had a drive toward greatness not just for himself but for the country.
Ike Eisenhower was the first to identify publicly the Dulles-driven Deep State demons of corruption after World War II. John Kennedy lost his life when he came up against them. Then followed a series of very flawed presidents who one after another went down whenever they stepped out of line, until Ronald Reagan.
Reagan, too, nearly lost his life. He was determined, however, to change the suicidal course of America, and for a while he prevailed. But then his legacy was squandered, quite intentionally in retrospect, by that son-of-the CIA George H. W. Bush. His interruption of Reagan’s progress led to the malaise of the Gulf Wars, 9-11, and Obama.
Trump looked like the antidote. But hopes for Trump were dashed in his first term by the Covid con game that led to the farcical mail-in ballot scam which put the Obama puppet Biden into office. Then the seemingly indomitable Trump bounced back, regaining the presidency.
His initial moves were inspired. Like locking down the border, tight. Like putting RFK Jr. in position to turn back the tide of bad health care leadership ushered in by Obamacare. Like reinvigorating the military with true patriots after double-dealing generals like Lloyd Austin and Mark Millie. And like moving one step closer to a more equitable, consumption-driven taxation model by shifting momentum from income tax to tariffs.
But… Trump was either lying to America all along, or he got hijacked along the way, or his mind, though still remarkably strong, went brittle. Whatever happened, the snakes have taken firm control while he just acts as if he’s still in charge. The Faustian deal he made to get back into office past the corrupt election machinery may even keep him in power past the mid-terms, despite his poll support cratering.
Yet, personally, I don’t think he was lying. I think Trump really intended to make America great again. He believed that victory would be won by empowering the citizens once more. The social mobility, good basic education, and Judeo-Christian values which had fueled America to overcome the Depression and defeat the Nazis in the 1940s were his model. He would wipe out the vestiges of communism and set us up as the shining city on the hill as we were before.
Unfortunately the bottom line is that Trump has failed. The first sign of impending failure in the second term was the Big Beautiful Bill. Instead of taking up issues in regular order with clean votes, the BBB signaled that the swamp was in charge, trading pork for performative legislation which would later be eviscerated by lawsuits and sensational journalism. The second sign was not cutting off Ukraine. Then there was Epstein and the lack of prosecution of the pedophiles. Not to mention the administration’s tepid moves toward legitimizing the elections, knowing whatever they do will be held up in litigation long enough for the elections this year and in 2028 to be compromised yet again.
And now there’s the fool’s errand of invading Iran. How many thousands of millions a day is it costing our treasury? How many lives must be sacrificed? How many times must we be told over years and years that Iran is an imminent threat? How much inflation can a middle class and the poorer class support? And all just to get back to the previous status quo of safe passage through Hormuz. It is such folly, such Benjamin Netanyahu / Lindsey Graham / Mark Levin folly, the very kind of stupidity Trump supposedly ran against.
In retrospect it is becoming clearer that our alliance with Israel is more the problem than the solution. This explains Israel’s perplexing rush to be the first nation in the world to have its population fully Covid “vaccinated.” Israeli leadership has apparently cast its lot in with the global elitist enemies of the American republic.
But no matter. Now it is spilt milk. If you have been paying attention, you know where the problems lie. You know that all the folly is just a side effect of the primary issue, that the little guy has been laid wide open to the malfeasance of too-big corporations and too-big government and the dirty scoundrels who gain money and power from the dysfunction.
That phone attached to you like a tick and the nattering Nabobs of media will tell you otherwise, but all is not well: the Deep State, and corporate monopolies, are running your life. And that of your children. And your aging parents. And your boss and your employees and every single citizen.
Just try to be different, to step out of line, to think for yourself. You need only remember the draconian measures of the Covid mess to know what will happen to you when the Deep State and Big Biz are firmly in charge again. And sadly, with the turn he’s taken this year, that will be in great part thanks to Donald J. Trump.

The only hope for the Republic lies closer to home now. The federal government is a complete loss. The states must rise to the occasion. And good state government starts with your school board, your sheriff, your mayor, and your legislators. Good state government can overrule federal mandates, challenge federal law in court, and rein in runaway cities. And good local media can keep the voices of truth alive that are already being suppressed and will soon be extinguished again on the national level.
The fight now moves completely to state government. The fight is not Democrat vs. Republican. It is citizen vs. the federal government. It is life vs. death. It is family values vs. perversion. It is freedom vs. totalitarianism. All that and more must be legislated, adjudicated, and enforced on the state level as bulwarks against the globalist, elitist, Godless forces that want to make one world with two classes only, masters and slaves, the antithesis of civilization.
And beyond that, for it will take a long, long time now to rebuild the Republic if it is even possible, each citizen must think first of self-sufficiency. Do not look for institutions to provide for you. Eat your own food. Drink your own spirits. Care for your own children. Leave Trump to his just desserts. Pray to God who always loves you no matter what Earthly demons attack. And pack your own heat. Because God helps those who help themselves.
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