Trump & I

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Apart from hatred, politicians don’t provoke feelings of great passion in me. There is nothing inspiring about managers with comb-overs; men who never fought in battle, who never led from the front, who don’t write their own speeches and rely on teleprompters to recite them, who come from law schools and Goldman Sachs, who make promises that they have no intention of keeping.

The less said about women politicians, the better. There are a few who are not terrible, but women stuffing themselves into pantsuits and entering the political arena has had a mostly corrosive effect on politics, civilization, and women themselves.

My readers may have noticed that I didn’t write much about Donald Trump or the elections in the United States. In fact, the only time I did was to criticize Trump’s proposed immigration policy.

I don’t live in the United States. It makes about as much sense for me to obsess over American politics and presidential elections as it does for me to do the same over politics in Germany. In fact, it makes even less sense. I live in Europe. What happens in Germany is of more importance, simply because of proximity.

Yes, the USA and Germany are both important countries, but I’m not there on the ground. I’m not German, and although I was born in America, I don’t really consider myself an American either. It’s not my place to comment or put out “hot takes” on the political drama happening in either country.

Frankly, I don’t think American politics is very interesting anyway, even with The Donald back in action. I find Trump Enthusiasm Syndrome just as strange and unwarranted as Trump Derangement Syndrome. Trump is likeable and endearing, he is a fountain of memes, his sense of humor and comedic timing is superior to that of many professional comics; but as a statesman and leader, he underwhelms. How we dearly wish that Trump was the bogeyman the left makes him out to be! Will things be different now that he has a second chance? There are reasons to be sceptical.

America’s Problems Run Deep

The United States of America suffers from diseases that a presidential election cannot and will not cure.

The American people are mentally and physically unwell. Nearly 75% of the population are overweight. Almost half are obese. Vast quantities of Americans take antidepressants, starting at ages as young as 12 years old. Suicide is a leading cause of death, especially for men.

I say “the American people”, but who are they? What does that mean anymore? America is as unwell demographically as it is mentally and physically. Only 60% of the population is “White (Non-Hispanic)”. The country is so racially discombobulated, it is forever condemned to the endless tension, violence, tedium, complaining, grievance-grifting, and general dysfunction that comes with a hyper-diverse society and free-for-all democracy. Both the American left and what passes for the American right are fine with this. Donald Trump has promised to “let a lot of people come in” to the country as long as they come “legally”. This promise is met with nods of approval and frantic applause. Civic nationalism is essentially baked into the American way of life now. The MAGA movement looks just as “diverse” as a Democratic Party rally. There are gay MAGAs, lesbian MAGA mommies, transexual MAGA drag queens, biracial couple MAGAs.

Americans will never be able to unite as a people while the United States remains in its current form. That is: a multiracial, multicultural, quasi-empire. In what was presumably his final speech as president, Joe Biden once again referred to the United States as “an experiment”. There is little left of an organic nation. America is a project of social engineering; apparently, one which is never finished or even meant to be finished.

The best chance for unity in America is ideological unity, or at least unity of values, but this is just as unlikely as national unity. Donald Trump might have won an emphatic victory, but his win was also thanks in part to the miserable candidate the Democratic Party offered, and the shambles of the past four years. America is still split roughly 50-50 between people on the liberal extremist left and people on the conservative “right”. With effective propaganda and a decent candidate, there’s no reason to think that the Democrats can’t achieve victory of their own in four years’ time.

Regardless of who wins presidential elections, the polarization of the populace will continue apace. There is no common ground between someone who thinks that abortion is the most important issue, that women should be able to terminate the life of a baby in the third trimester, and someone who thinks that abortion is murder.

There is no common ground between someone who believes that borders are imaginary, that no human is illegal, that no amount of immigration is too high, and someone who wants to build a wall across the American south.

With a growing “diverse” population, even traditional American values like the right to free expression are losing their prominence. Reverence towards the men who enshrined such rights has also diminished, and of course it has. How can anyone expect a 20-something college student from Bangladesh to care about what a bunch of old, dead Europeans believed? How can anyone expect her to feel a sense of continuity with those bygone men?

Even if we consider the 2020 election as stolen or rigged in favor of Joe Biden (and it almost certainly was), it still doesn’t change the reality that in less than a quarter of a century, America has schizophrenically veered from George W. Bush, to Barrack Obama, to Donald Trump, to Barrack Obama’s Vice President, then back to Donald Trump, with each election leaving approximately half of the country not just disappointed, but horrified, angry, and despondent.

This isn’t healthy. Politics and elections shouldn’t provoke such intense emotions, unless civil war is being waged; although many Americans may feel like they are in a sort of cold civil war. Perhaps they are right to feel that way. I don’t think America is anywhere near a civil war, but it’s worth remembering that civil wars don’t start overnight. They can simmer for decades before armed, violent conflict boils over. Think of the Spanish Civil War. Before that war began, Spain was a country that had been polarizing for years and years. There were two dominant and opposing positions, but there were also a smattering of various factions with their own ideologies operating in the margins. Sound familiar?

Liberals screaming and crying because Trump won is childish, obviously, but those intense emotions (assuming they aren’t merely performing for the Internet) are ultimately not too different from the emotions that inspire a man to take up arms against his own countrymen in a fight to the death.

That liberals shriek after Trump wins, that conservatives feel like Obama destroyed the country, shows that, correctly or incorrectly, Americans think that the fate of “the greatest country on Earth and in the history of mankind™️” is at stake with every election. Both political parties and the media do their best to whip up as much melodrama and hysterics as possible. “Vote like your life depends on it, BECAUSE IT DOES.” This is not normal political rhetoric in a stable, healthy nation-state.

But of course, stable, boring politics doesn’t make for good entertainment, and America is nothing if not the epicentre of showbiz. Celebrity endorsements, rap stars performing at rallies, music videos, campaign ads, merchandise, arenas packed with people eagerly awaiting the special appearance of some Hollywood star or stand-up comedian. Team Red vs Team Blue! Who will win? Tune in tonight at 8:00 p.m. Eastern, 5:00 p.m. Pacific. The Presidential Election, brought to you by: Aflac.

In a country where pop culture is the only culture, where the Avengers are the national icons, politics is just another spectacle.

“Make Israel Great Again!”

Americans, and everyone else living in “the West”, don’t get a say on Israel. For all the intractable differences and ideological divisions, the Democrats and the Republicans agree on one thing: America’s unconditional support for a tiny Jewish state in the Middle East.

There’s simply no choice in the matter. Whether you vote for Clinton or Biden or Trump or De Santis, the American regime will always be ready to ask “How high?” whenever Israel says “Jump!”.

While the rank and file of the Democratic Party and its multicoloured voting base might be loathe to support Israel, the leaders have no such qualms. As for the Republicans, forget about it. I’d wager that not even 5% of American conservatives and Republican voters disagree with the statement “Israel is our greatest ally and America must always support them”. The vast population of American evangelicals practically worship the state of Israel. There’s no fixing this.

Of course, Trump is expected to grovel at Israel’s feet and pander to Jews. Both parties are in the pocket of Jewish donors. But just because it’s expected doesn’t mean I can’t find it off-putting and worthy of ridicule. That an American presidential candidate promises to “Make Israel great again” should strike any normal person as odd. How many other foreign countries does Trump want to make great again? None? Just Israel? Why? WHY?

Trump’s philosemitism has reached levels of bizarre hyperbole. In the end, however, all his pandering was for naught. 79% of American Jews voted for Kamala Harris. And yet, I don’t think Trump is interested in winning the Jewish vote. There’s something else at play. Something more ominous.

Trump panders to the Jewish priestly class and the Israeli ruling class. In return, the priestly class has come to view him as a second Cyrus, a Moshiach come to fulfil prophecy. Here is a compilation of rabbis and Trump himself stating just that:

🚨Epic Rabbi Compilation🚨

“Trump, the Savior of the Jews”

Rabbis claim that Trump is the Messiah of Edom (the West) who will lead it to assist and serve Israel. According to Exodus 21:6, a Servant who wants to remain with his Master needs to have his right ear pierced.
Trump… pic.twitter.com/H8zfLQIRCM

— Jongiraitis (@JuanasFabricias) November 4, 2024

And what are the prophecies Trump is meant to fulfil? Supposedly, he is going to usher in the new age in which Esau (Europe/America) serves Jacob (Israel), in which the third temple is built, in which the great war between Gog and Magog wipes out all the enemies of Yahweh and his “chosen people”, a one-world-government is established in Jerusalem, and the nations of the world become Jew-serving Noahides. All of that sounds like a lot to accomplish in just four years, but the truth is that the path to this final destination was paved long ago. Trump’s second term as president will just be a few more steps along that path. His slavish devotion to Israel and his bellicose rhetoric towards Iran make all of this seem less like crazy talk and more like a very real possibility.

In 2016, Donald Trump was such a breath of fresh air thanks in large part to his politically incorrect honesty about America’s disastrous foreign policy and shambolic wars in the Middle East. This time around, Trump seems more likely to start World War Three at the behest of his Israeli chums.

Trump’s Promises

Another reason why I’m not particularly enthused about Trump is that he has promised to do things that I find very disagreeable, if not genuinely frightening.

We’ve already addressed his promise to turn legal immigration up to 11, thereby continuing the demographic disfigurement of the United States, just doing it “legally”.

He has also sworn to criminalise so-called antisemitism and “remove the Jew haters”. Given the context of his comments (the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on October 7), we can assume that by “Jew haters” Trump was referring to terrorist sympathisers. But it doesn’t take a stretch of the imagination to conclude that anyone protesting the obvious criminal actions of the state of Israel could be roped in with “Jew haters”.

As for so-called antisemitism, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance has taken it upon itself to define what it is, and 31 countries including the Zionist outpost known as the United States have decided to embrace it. One of the IHRA’s examples of antisemitism is “expressions of animus towards the Jewish State of Israel”.

Another of Trump’s promises is to tackle America’s illegal immigration crisis by establishing a cutting-edge “biometric entry-exit visa tracking system”. Once again, the liberties of ordinary Americans will be curtailed in the name of national security. Just as the Patriot Act and airport security measures treated Americans no different than terrorists, Trump’s biometric tracking system will lay the groundwork to treat Americans no different than the border-hoppers flooding up from the south. And MAGA will lap it up.

These are three major issues, especially for nationalists, and on all three Trump’s position is cause for concern. We used to bemoan the fact that Trump didn’t keep his promises. This time around, we might do well to hope that he doesn’t.

Do Not Underestimate a Wounded Animal

If American presidents are not elected, but rather installed, what does it say that Trump is back in the White House? Did the true powers-that-be want Trump in office? If so, why? Consider that major newspapers did not endorse either candidate for the first time in ages, which effectively was an endorsement for Trump. What do they know about the coming years that we, as yet, do not?

Could it be that the situation in America is so grim, the “elites” are willing to let Trump assume office so that he will also be forced to assume responsibility? Or perhaps they have something cooked up to derail Trump’s second administration just as they derailed it in the past with Black Lives Matter riots and Covid-19?

The Democratic Party machine, the extremist liberals, and the deep state, are not going anywhere. The results of the election show that Trump has a mandate to do what he wants, what “the people” want, but as the past several years have made crystal clear, a feature of Our Democracy™️ is that The Establishment makes sure the people don’t get what they voted for. We’ve seen this play out in the United States, and in European countries such as France, Austria, and Germany. There is no reason to think that the entrenched powers in America are going to let Trump run roughshod over them.

I shudder to think what manufactured crises will beset Trump’s second term.

Mr. Brightside

It’s not all doom and gloom. Trump does have some good proposals too, such as ending what is known as “birthright citizenship” which allows those who are born on American soil to become American citizens automatically and which has created the phenomenon of “anchor babies”.

Trump’s team seems to be much better this time around. I have misgivings about Elon Musk. I’m wary of things like Neuralink and I vehemently disagree with him on the matter of immigration, legal or otherwise. That said, I think his heart is in the right place, and more importantly, he has demonstrated that he’s capable of changing his mind, of seeing the light as it were. His purchase of Twitter changed the course of this eternal battle we find ourselves fighting. Whether he takes on an official role in the Trump administration or simply calls Trump from time to time with advice and ideas, I think that’ll be a good thing on the whole.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is another figure who might be able to start making America feel better again. He has already made public statements about the need to restore healthy food in America, to take on Big Pharma and Americans’ addiction to prescription drugs, and so on.

No matter who fills Trump’s cabinet, at the end of the day it’s worth remembering that America is a huge country with a gigantic population. The daily life of people in America will not be dramatically changed because of the man in the Oval Office. The policy decisions that most affected me or my family almost always came from local government, not the White House. This will continue to be so. The Founding Fathers, imbued as they were with revolutionary republican ideals and paranoia about monarchies, ensured that the American head of state doesn’t actually have that much power and doesn’t actually have power for that much time. In fact, many of Trump’s promises are “executive orders”. These executive orders are as easily revoked as they are implemented.

From the nationalist perspective, Trump’s victory is a powerful symbolic one. Had Trump lost “again”, it would have been very easy for the globalist liberal establishment to declare nationalism, populism, and anti-immigrationism dead. The Republican Party would have had to return to Mitt Romney types. European nationalists would have lost an ally and European liberals would have felt new wind in their sails.

Whether or not some faction of the “elites” wanted Trump in office, it’s obvious that another, rather significant faction did not. It’s always good to throw a spanner in the latter faction’s works, and Trump is that spanner.

So, instead of making predictions in order to burnish my own self-importance, I prefer to wait and see how things will play out and remain steadfast in my station, lowly as it is, as a writer who is primarily concerned with the survival and prosperity of Europeans and the European diaspora.

Let these words serve as a repository of my views on Trump. In this day and age when there is a dearth of critical thinking and Internet culture has made political discourse very catty and petty, people find it hard to comprehend that you don’t have to “pick a side”.

Opposing Israel doesn’t mean that one supports Palestine, and vice versa. Opposing Russia doesn’t mean that one supports NATO. Criticizing Trump doesn’t mean that one supports the Democrats, and praising Trump when he does something good, or simply enjoying the memes that Trump produces, doesn’t mean that one endorses him.

I have long favored a third position, for lack of a better term.