by PAUL COLLITS – THERE has never been a President-elect like this one. Donald J Trump is re-writing the rules of the weird two-month transition period between an election and the inauguration.
Americans have never seen anything like this. Many are claiming, for the second time in living memory, that it is morning in America.
- Trumps historic victory gives cause to believe there’ll be fewer speed bumps in his way.
- They’re underestimating what’s coming under Trump.
- A revolution is being played out in plain sight.
Perhaps mourning at The New York Times and The Washington Post, in Ottawa, Brussels, Canberra, Sacramento and in Mexico City.
The great American political scientist, perhaps one of the greatest, Robert A Dahl, once penned a book called After The Revolution.
REVOLUTION
Well, it seems that we are living through a revolution in the making, even before the new man takes up residence in the White House.
Lenin planned his revolution in exile, in Zurich, in the background, unnoticed, while the great European powers were slugging it out in the bloody trenches of northern France and elsewhere. Not knowing what was coming to Russia.
In America right now, there seems to be a revolution being played out – and revolution is the right word – in plain sight.
Others think there is a revolution afoot, like Energy Intel’s Scott Ritter: “When the polls opened across the US on November 5, most Americans thought they were participating in yet another election.
“By the time the winner became clear in the early hours of November 6, it became clearer that they had just witnessed a result that could pave the way for a revolution in how the US is governed.
“Radical change — revolutionary change — is in the air. The impetus comes from the pact between Trump and his MAGA supporters that puts domestic needs ahead of foreign entanglements.
Typically, the transition period of a lame duck government sees the outgoing president going through the motions, giving pardons and commutations to friends.
We see announcements of incoming cabinet appointments. We see debates over the likelihood of the Senate approving these appointments.
We see speculation about the coming presidency. We see jockeying in the legislature and we see a few pardons from the outgoing lame duck president.
We do not normally see a revolution. We didn’t in 2016.
Is the term “revolution” just a throwaway line? What are the indicators of a revolution under way?
Well, the appointments are nothing like 2016. RFK Jr is the main one, obviously.
If he is confirmed by the Senate, and if he and Trump do a fraction of what they say they will, then that is a revolution, right there.
There is another way of looking at the appointments. That people like RFK Jr are willing to come aboard suggests that they believe there is a revolution under way.
RISKED
The same with Elon Musk, who risked much in his endorsement of Trump and in his active campaigning. Musk’s target is the size and reach of government, shrinking the State in all its forms, and not limited to rooting out bad apples, not just shaking the tree, even, but uprooting it entirely.
The challenge to the deep State is real this time. Incumbents are fleeing the building on a daily basis. Wray at the FBI is but one example.
The reckless, bazball-style actions of Biden demonstrate that Trump’s opponents believe there is a reckoning coming.
The flailing Justin Trudeau certainly expects the worst. As should Hamas.
Then there is all the sucking up. What with all the visits to Mar-a-Lago and million-dollar donations to the inauguration, it is clear Big Tech isn’t expecting business-as-usual come January 20.
The taking of both houses and a majority vote gives cause to think that, this time, there will be fewer speed bumps in Trump’s way.
Post-election public support for radical push-back on things like illegal immigration is an emboldening development.
Revolution is also indicated by Trump’s stated priorities, outlined in the many speeches and announcements since November 5. The sheer volume of his statements suggests big things are coming – and serious MAGA intent.
Trump played an almost perfect campaign game. This has continued after the election. He has used every opportunity to embed the new values and to spell out exactly where things are going.
He is building a mandate after the election, not only to ensure a smooth transition but to ensure it is turbo-charged.
RADICAL
It has been aided by an alt-media campaign of equal excellence. Trump’s ground game was helped massively by friendly actors, right the way up to Joe Rogan, in making the electorate not only comfortable with Trump 2.0 but with the radical program to come.
I am thinking of people like Jack Posobiec of Human Events and The War Room.
Recently there was a warning from the out-there-Right against embracing heroes.
Like many on the fringes, Posobiec is programmed to see Trump as an establishment asset, as controlled opposition, and therefore not to be trusted by the truly awake as “one of us”.
The analysis above, however, suggests Trump will be no asset for the establishment. Nor will he be controlled – by anyone.
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee would agree: “They’re underestimating what’s coming under Trump.”
UK businessman and author Ed Dowd is now more of a fan: “I think back to what worried me most about Trump: demagogic nationalism, nativistic protectionism, executive centralisation and the leadership cult.
“Features of his last term confirmed my worst fears, particularly his green lighting of lockdowns for COVID and disregard for religious and personal freedom in the period. He also has a terrible record on spending, mitigated in part by solid efforts toward deregulation and higher quality picks on the bench.
“To my amazement, when Trump realised he was wrong on COVID controls and began to argue for opening up again, he was denounced by the whole of the political opposition!
WORSE
“Then once he was out of office, everything became vastly worse, including mask mandates, forced closures and finally the unconscionable forced shots that have not only killed and wounded many but demoralised and subjugated the population in ways that can only be compared with wartime conscription.
“As regards Trump himself, what we’ve seen emerge since then is a changed man in many ways, or so it seems. He has new appreciation for the wicked power of the deep State and the toxicity of lawfare of which he is a main victim.
“The kinds of people he has gathered around him, including RFK Jr and Elon, is also encouraging.”
Trump will not be a perfect outsider-ruler. He may not even be effective, especially in embedding permanent change, in the long term, such is the power of future presidents of a different stripe, and their executive orders.
His enemies will find new ways of negating him. They may even try the old ones again, like indictments and assassination.
There are 50 governors, and not even all the Republicans want or like Trump’s MAGA brand or his out-there style of governance.
Many of the larger states are blue. They have sanctuary cities and corrupt judges everywhere, judges with little interest in the popular will.
Will Trump’s enemies try for another pandemic to derail him, as they did successfully in 2020? Well, perhaps they already are, what with the Californian Governor’s bird flu State of Emergency.
SAFETY
Newsom has declared that “all residents are to obey the direction of emergency officials with regard to this emergency in order to protect their safety”.
Does this sort of language sound vaguely familiar? Wow. Unbelievable.
Oh yes, they will try again, with fear (again) as the trump (pun intended) card.
An alleged pandemic forces Trump to play on their home turf, not his. It hands all of the aces to the deep State – again.
It will be harder this time, though, with people like RFK Jr and Jay Battacharya in strategic jobs and people like Tony Fauci and Francis Collins not.
Despite the doubters and the potential threats, Trump will govern as an outsider. He does mean to run a revolution this time. There is little doubt about that.
It is highly unlikely that the World Economic Forum will penetrate ze cabinet in Trumpland.
Then there is Project 2025.
No, there has never been a transition quite like this one.PC
