The Second Coming Of Donald Trump - A Real Insurrection, And The Demise Of Progressive Elitism

The Left is still huddled, crying, and wounded after their humiliating defeat on November 5th, but crybabies will be crybabies, and the Trump juggernaut goes on - a unified, concerted, and determined movement intending to rid the country of the cant and presumptuous arrogance of the last four years. 

'What is a woman?' Are you kidding? Trash, so much inane, distracting nonsense, as insignificant as old wrappers and cigarette butts pushed to the curb.  Enough! and with that, the whole woke premise, the whole balmy charade, will be swept into the Potomac downriver to the Bay and out to sea. 

Ronald Reagan was a revolutionary.  'Government is not the solution', he said. 'Government is the problem', and with that simple manifesto remade the country and returned it to its origins.  An era of individualism, private enterprise, and American patriotism was ushered in.  The legacy of the suppressive state was dismissed, ignored, and replaced by a new entrepreneurial dynamism that had long languished under progressivism.  

 

'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall', Reagan said, challenging the Soviets to end their oppressive, autocratic Communist state, to liberate the people of the East, and return Germany to freedom and opportunity. 

Reagan was a man of principle and few words.  What more was needed to be said about lower taxes and less regulation, reducing the influence of government, returning the military to strength and international status, and restoring respect for the fundamental values of America's Founding Fathers and the Constitution? 

The government that Reagan inherited was a tame, dull, sodden, soggy place. Its assumptions, brought forward from the old-fashioned unionism of Gompers and the socialism of Eugene Victor Debs, were tired and shopworn.  Old warmed-over chestnuts, no longer activist but a kind of resting-on-one's-laurels sedentariness.  Americans were ready for the Morning in America message of Reagan, his optimism and his faith in individual enterprise, God, and country. 

The situation in the America of today is similar.  Americans are fed up with cant, bloviating self-righteousness and the perpetual hammering and hectoring of the Left.  'Leave us alone!', voters shouted after four years of intrusive, redistributive, unilateral reforms; after four years of seeing their values derogated, the country compromised through the weak policies of compassion and goodness.  

There the similarity ends, for the state of the union today is a far more bloody-minded contentious place than it was almost fifty years ago.  Not only did the Left push their neo-progressive reformist agenda, they were a rabid pack of street dogs. Making America into a fantastical Utopia was not just a political agenda but a life-or-death existential struggle against any logic, any reading of history, any understanding of political dynamics.

The ten years prior to this, Donald Trump's second presidency, were vile, hateful affairs, ad hominem, scurrilous attacks on him and a scornful pissing on the 'garbage', 'the deplorables' who voted for him. Not only would the Left have to stay in power, but the whole country would have to reform and regroup into a compassionate progressive union - by force, intimidation, and threat if necessary. 

So it is no surprise that the second coming of Donald Trump will be revolutionary.  Now with all the organs of power firmly in Republican hands - White House, Senate, Supreme Court, and House of Representatives - the job will be far easier than before.  Trump overwhelmingly won the popular and electoral vote, and made significant inroads into formerly rock-solid liberal constituencies.  His mandate to govern is absolute and uncontested. 

 

Not only will Washington be a radically different political place, it will be a new, welcomed cultural one.  Donald Trump is America's first real American president - glitzy, showy, full of outrageous bombast and self-confidence, with middle brow tastes for yachts, mansions, and arm candy, an OK Corral shoot-'em-out mentality, and a fierce America-first patriotism. 

With all the levers of power in his hands, he will roll back the Left's radical environmentalism, ghetto entitlements, pusillanimous foreign policy, neutering of natural competitiveness, and sing-song social permissiveness.  His administration will be Ronald Reagan's and then some.  Given the smearing, dismembering attempts to remove him from the political scene, Trump will be no accommodating, generous, winner.  There will be payback, and then some; but structural and systemic.  The judicial system which was used by Democrats to destroy him will be the first to go.  No longer will such venal and self-interested uses of the courts be allowed. 

The reins, traces, and harnesses will be off the private sector, the perennial engine of American productivity.  Education will return to a McGuffey's Reader Three R's originalism, and gone will be multiple intelligences, self-esteem, gender studies, and cooperative learning.  Traditional welfare will be a thing of the past, and government largesse will be no longer, replaced by an incentive-based, goal-oriented private system. 

By the end of four years, Washington and the nation will retain few traces of the intellectual buggery and patronizing of the past.  The economy - both at the high end, Wall Street and economic indicators, and the low end, jobs and opportunity - will flourish.  Machiavellian foreign policy will rule, and Putin, Xi, and the ayatollahs will be met with someone with the same determined, willful approach to international relations. 

 

'Insurrectionist!, shouted the Left after the Mardi Grass, wild frat-boy drunken revelry of January 6th; but of course it was nothing like a real insurrection as anyone who has given a cursory glance to real insurrection, civil war, internecine, inter-tribal conflict would know.

The Cuban, Russian, and French Revolutions were insurrections, and the rise to power of the Sandinistas and the Paraguayan generals smaller events but no less important. 

This second coming of Donald Trump will be a real insurrection - not the violent, guillotine, chopping block kind, but revolutionary nonetheless.  No shibboleths will be left standing in the aftermath.  The country will return to its Enlightenment, Jeffersonian origins, a far, far better place that Americans have seen in a long while.