Loading ...Trump is so far beyond what anybody has yet recognized
(except maybe Victor Davis Hanson who I encourage you to read and watch). Nobody gets it yet. Nobody can get it, since nothing like this has ever happened before. It’s the shock and awe of a confident leader occupying a newly discovered landscape of wide-open political permission. Anything is possible
JEFF CHILDERS
ll end today’s overlong Weekend Edition with a strong recommendation that you watch this YouTube video titled, “Victor Davis Hanson on Trump’s unstoppable rise to power.” In the hour-long episode,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GstoRIioBuQ
conservative historian and public intellectual Victor Davis Hanson discussed his perception of Trump in a historical context. It was taped on January 21st, without the benefit of seeing the week play out, which makes it even more significant. VDH called it
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Remember, this was taped shortly after the Inauguration, before most of the week’s developments. Hanson started his remarks saying, “we’re going to be in for a roller coaster ride in a way we’ve never seen before.” And how.
Hanson’s discussion was packed with historically minded ways of interpreting what we’re seeing, in fascinating ways you probably never considered before. Given how remarkably prescient his comments were, Hanson was prophetic, accurately predicting what nobody else recognized as to how the first 100 hours would play out.
It will reassure you and make you even more excited about what’s coming next.
“Trump,” Hanson explained, “doesn’t play by the Marquis of Queensbury rules. His view of the world is: these are pretty nasty people, and under the guise of sober and judicious language, they impeached me twice, they tried to get me off the ballot, they waged lawfare in five different jurisdictions against me. They’re not nice people, and I’m not going to play by their rules.”
Hanson immediately recognized from Trump’s Inaugural Address that things were very different:
Trump’s inaugural address was a powerful speech, and he began it very optimistically talking about a new golden age for America. How do you assess his speech compared with previous presidents? Obviously, the famous ones from John F Kennedy, FDR, and so on — those were aspirational speeches. They were, you know, ‘pass the torch to a new generation,’ ‘ask not what your country can do for you,’ all of this ‘morning in America stuff,’ but Trump’s was operational.
It was a blueprint of attack. He went through all of the things, from DEI to energy, to the border, to crime, and he promised ‘we’re going to end illegal immigration,’ ‘we’re going to end this misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment on anchor babies,’ ‘we’re going to end Catch and Release.’
It was very detailed. It was a plan of attack like we haven’t heard before, and you could see it on the faces of our former presidents. It wasn’t just that he bitterly attacked Joe Biden —and by association blamed the Clinton/Obama record— but when they heard what he was detailing and promising, the faces of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, even George W Bush, it was ‘oh my God, this man is a revolutionary! He’s going to cancel everything that we did!”
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Through his historical lens, Hanson sees the world in a much broader context, much differently than most commenters, especially the hot takes. For instance, Hanson recognized critical historical context in Trump’s cozying up to the Tech Titans, and it should greatly reassure you. Consider this:
In theory, the Tech Lords are contradictory to the MAGA people, except he’s not really getting Jamie Diamond and the bankers and the financiers up to Mar-a-Lago. He’s getting people who make Rockets, who make Tesla, who opened up X, who have social media, who —Bezos— have newspapers, they have Rockets, they’ve revolutionized the way we buy things —Amazon.
And so, what that appeal is to the MAGA people is that these are can-do people, and they can lend their expertise to make the country rich rather than just themselves.
These Tech Lords are not really so much political as they only have one overriding political interest. They don’t really care about high taxes taxes on the middle, because they can pay anything, and they have lawyers. So the higher the taxes the more they evade it or the more money they make. They don’t care about censorship, unless it intrudes into their own business.
But one thing they cannot tolerate is regulation. And when they saw what Biden was doing, forcing them to do certain things, to enter the political realm, or telling them that these new technologies of biotechnology and space and AI and cybersecurity and cryptocurrency were all going to be controlled, they thought ‘I don’t mind anything else but I want to be able to make money and to do stuff unregulated.’
And that’s good for the country. And it’s good for the Tech Lords, and so that’s why they turned on Biden. The argument they made to Trump was, ‘you don’t like me, we don’t like you, but you believe in entrepreneurism, and you’re going to free us, and if you do that the United States will be preeminent in oil production, in space, and AI and biogenetics, you name it. We will do that for you.’
And so with Trump, it is very similar to FDR when the war started.
Hanson then compared Trump’s tech initiative to America’s entrepreneurial explosion after the Great Depression. I promise, especially if you feel anxious about Trump and the Tech Titans, you’ll want to hear this. Watch or listen to the whole thing.
Trump is so far beyond what anybody has yet recognized (except maybe VDH). Nobody gets it yet. Nobody can get it, since nothing like this has ever happened before. It’s the shock and awe of a confident leader occupying a newly discovered landscape of wide-open political permission. Anything is possible.
Not everything can be accomplished via EO.
In Congress, he’s really in a teetering 50 – 50 battle with two recalcitrant RINO bitches voting mostly like Dems (&/or LGBTQ proxies), and then we have dementia Turtle.
For his revolution to be lasting he needs the recession/market meltdown SOON, so that its over by a year from now. Then he needs gains in the midterms to lock things down better, legislatively. He probably needs to close some loopholes too, so we don’t get another 180 in 2029 off these same devices he using.
Oddly, he probably needs California to “lead” again. Cali is still the heart of tech (although Texas is gaining and FL is trying). So he really NEEDS Newsome to get with it (or blow it so bad he does get recalled this time).
Its great to see T being ambitious, and he has a great team. And ample public support. But I don’t expect the Resistance to cave. They are too irrational to visualize what T has in mind.
and don’t forget the blackmail!