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by Constitutional attorney Robert Barnes
Trump’s Next Big Hurdle is Himself
Trump’s virtue and vice reflects two sides of the same coin: his stubborn independence from outside voices and abundant self-confidence. On the good side, it makes him immune from elite critics, orthodox thinking, establishment mindset, and institutional narratives. On the difficult side, it makes him unlikely to acknowledge errors, reverse course when needed, or look beyond his own horizon. A few examples of this.
During his response to the State of the Union, he wanted to remind everyone how wonderful the vaccines were, and why he deserves credit, not Biden. This tone-deaf response led to an avalanche of criticism on his own Truth account, and triggered Trump deleting the statement. But it reflected a stubborn unwillingness to acknowledge he got taken for a ride by Big Pharma and it’s institutional allies in 2020 to the detriment of his own Presidential legacy and his core constituency.
It reflected a trend. Trump remains mute on Julian Assange, who his own administration secretly coordinated the imprisonment of. Trump remains silent on Edward Snowden, whose disclosures first outed the great dangers of the Obama administration’s weaponization of the intelligence community ultimately turned on Trump. Trump failed to comment on Amos Miller, when his own Department of Agriculture under Dumber Boss Hogg Sonny Perdue instigated the harassment of. Trump skipped support for Brook Jackson, whose case his own DOJ slow rolled to keep secret the Pfizer fraud of the Covid vaccine he just again celebrated.
Trump promised to hire the best and drain the swamp. Instead, he hired the Swamp. Barr’s own DOJ sabotaged his 2020 campaign. Rosenstein greenlit the Mueller onslaught. Pompeo promoted the Deep State at State. Bolton killed the North Korea nuke deal. His own generals sabotaged withdrawal from Syria. RussiaGate, and Ukrainegate, led from within his own administration, derailed détente with Russia. Elliott Abrams continued foolish coups in Venezuela. Miley almost induced war with Iran. Pence made his 2020 challenge DOA.
The administrative state remains fully intact at the end of his term, and used his power to make sure his reelection was doomed. Trump recently endorsed a host of establishment and deep state candidates over populist challengers, while considering corporatist Noem and war whore Tim Scott for the Vice-Presidency, a Deep State death invite for Trump, while employing critical campaign aides deeply embedded within the establishment.
Trump’s vulnerability – aside from the weak side of his instinctual refusal to admit error, a stubbornness that can come in handy when refusing to change many of his populist policy preferences from elite critiques – is he tends to see the world from his own horizon. To Trump, the problem with the lawfare is just it’s use against him, not an institutionally ill system of state power that corrupts all it touches and threatens all Americans’ liberty. This failure to appreciate the institutional problems divorces him from the true source of the lawfare against him, as well as the solutions essential to a successful second term for himself and the country. Institutional problem require institutional solutions, not individual ones.
This is why Trump’s next big hurdle – as he dominated Super Tuesday, ended the nomination early, won SCOTUS blessing of ballot access, and may be on the verge of dismissal or post-election delay of his criminal exposure – will be Trump himself. His best skill set for handling this hurdle is his marketing instincts and competitive impulse: the threat of a Kennedy campaign stealing votes for Trump can be his best incentive to shift toward policy prescriptions that mirror the institutional illnesses infecting our governance. The question is: will he?
It's made up of the Epstein Cartel in London and Washington, the Illiteracy Cartel in the school system, and the Debauchery Cartel in Hollywood.
"In today’s world considering the U.S., logic, reason, and common sense have been abandoned, and replaced with ignorance, dependency, and indifference; all to such a degree as to have made impotent the intellect of Americans.
"Critical thinking and acting on that solid premise, have completely disappeared in favor of desertion of reality, truth, and moral behavior. As Mason Carter said: “A critical thinker is not someone who knows all the answers, but someone who keeps asking better questions.” Americans no longer ask questions, they no longer seek truth, but they expect to be entirely taken care of by governing forces.
"This is not just an attitude of the expectation of enslavement, but is one of a slave who has given up entirely, and now just waits for whatever consequences are forthcoming, hoping only to survive."
-- Gary Barnett
And so "white" is now in every way pejorative. A racist insult.
"America was built by white Europeans, mostly Anglo. Our ethical standards are those by which the rest of the world measures itself. Instead of modelling, migrants come to steal, murder and rape.
"Yes, we “whites” are a flawed people. Our leadership is often complete garbage, and extractive in the extreme. Our superior banks rake dough off us, like we are rice paddies they own. Instead of - here’s an idea - supporting the culture. But, but, in every town and city, we still stand, our Church, our Schools, our Courts, our Farms, Ranches, Forests and Mines, our Businesses, our Ideas, our Innovations.
"We have a rich, deep, culture of great writing, art, architecture, religious faith, and...manners. We don’t eat with our hands. We don’t slaughter animals in our back yards. We don’t twerk like whores and thunder around the stage mimicking group sex, breasts and buttocks flapping everywhere. We have formal ...
For more than two decades Congress has been avoiding the courageous scholar Robert B. Spencer. Finally, this week, he publicly gave expert testimony before the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government. His expertise is unmatched internationally: militant Jihad and how blind, foolish, irrational and ignorant Western nations are being culturally, spiritually and politically conquered by traditional Islam. Present tense.
The link is below. It's a four minute read. I asked A.I. to summarize it and Spencer's words were too hot for them to touch. The politically correct robots were as cowardly as US congressmen have been for the last quarter century.
In 2016 I contacted the Trump transition team immediately after the election to formally recommend Spencer for Secretary of State, giving my endorsements directly to Ed Meese (Chairman) and Becky Norton Dunlop, the keeper of resumes. Why Spencer? Because International Islam is the greatest geopolitical threat in the world, and...
