{"id":107025,"date":"2025-01-27T08:32:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=107025"},"modified":"2025-01-27T08:32:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:32:22","slug":"107025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=107025","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve read other pundits making the same point. The demoncrap zeal to try to bury Trump backfired. If he would have been left alone and won a 2nd term (which the standard is that they’re usually not much more than nothingburgers), he would be gone now – with who knows who would be in office. Now, it’s his 2nd ‘first term’ and he’s really “rarin’ to go”.
\nAnd please excuse some language.<\/p>\n

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The Left Gave Us Trump 2.0: And they\u2019re not going to like it one bit.<\/a><\/p>\n

My\u00a0New York Post<\/em>\u00a0column, which should be online tomorrow, opens with\u00a0this quote<\/a>\u00a0from Marc Andreessen:<\/p>\n

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I go on from there to talk about how Trump is following my earlier advice to\u00a0\u201cmove fast and break things\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in spades, and how that\u2019s affecting all sorts of stuff, including general attitudes.<\/p>\n

Well, if you follow me here, you probably don\u2019t need to be told how fast Trump is moving. But I have a few other thoughts here that didn\u2019t fit the column. The main point is that the Democrats\u2019 over-the-top rule-breaking, norm-busting attacks on Trump have backfired bigly. I like to use the Tolkien quote, \u201coft evil will shall evil mar,\u201d and that happened here for sure.<\/p>\n

A second consecutive Trump term would have been better, from my perspective, than Biden\u2019s sham administration, obviously. But it certainly would have been better for the Democrats than this second non-consecutive term. Trump spent the past four years not only planning his comeback, but planning what he would\u00a0do<\/em>\u00a0after his comeback.<\/p>\n

In his first term he was too busy running to plan, and he was na\u00efve about how Washington and the federal government \u2013 and the Republican Party \u2013 actually work. Not so much anymore. I\u2019ve seen people \u2013 to continue the Tolkien reference \u2013 compare him to Gandalf the White coming back after battling the Balrog, and that\u2019s not a bad analogy.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s this one, which pretty much sums up what I\u2019m saying here. Like Sulla, he\u2019s been taking names, and he has a list.<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s\u00a0this:<\/a><\/p>\n

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It really is. Trump could get carried away with this stuff at some point, but at present he seems to be settling all family business in a very measured way. Where the opening months of the first Trump Administration were confused \u2013 Omarosa in the White House? \u2013 this time around he\u2019s realized that personnel is policy, and he\u2019s clearly done a lot of thinking about who his personnel will be. And it\u2019s no coincidence that he\u2019s put a lot of people who were victims of various government agencies in charge of those same agencies. Not much danger of them going native, I think.<\/p>\n

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A second consecutive Trump term would have delayed the advance of the left\/Democrat agenda, and pushed it back in some minor ways, but would probably have ultimately been no more than a bump in the road for that agenda. This Trump term will likely burn it down.<\/p>\n

It helps, of course, that most of that agenda was always heavily unpopular. Open borders poll badly with almost every constituency except elites. Likewise affirmative action. Likewise the entire Trans agenda, etc., etc. These things were kept in place basically through bullying: Calling anyone who opposed them a racist and using the power of the media, and leftist institutions, to punish them.<\/p>\n

But they squandered that power going after Trump, blowing the media\u2019s credibility and wrecking the moral and intellectual authority of institutions like universities and corporations. (Covid policy, which was a part of the anti-Trump campaign, made that much worse). It wasn\u2019t enough to keep him out this time, and it\u2019s nowhere near enough to effectively oppose him now. And they also gave him a motive to be ruthless in going after both their agenda and their institutions.<\/p>\n

Oft evil will shall evil mar. It\u2019s funny how that works. I\u2019ve been depressed about the state of things in the past, but miracles keep happening, as\u00a0this guy<\/a>\u00a0notes:<\/p>\n

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It seems that God really does watch over fools, drunkards, and the United States of America. Thank God.<\/p>\n

But, you know, the Lord also helps those who help themselves. There\u2019ll be plenty of\u00a0work for all of us<\/a>\u00a0in the coming years. Be grateful to be in a position to make a difference, and do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve read other pundits making the same point. The demoncrap zeal to try to bury Trump backfired. If he would have been left alone and won a 2nd term (which the standard is that they’re usually not much more than nothingburgers), he would be gone now – with who knows who would be in office. … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107027,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107025\/revisions\/107027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}