I was going to use today’s column to ruminate on Scott Pinsker’s interesting essay over at PJ Media yesterday entitled, “Is MAGA a Political Movement or Is It a Revolution? Here’s Your Sneak Peak Into America’s Future,” but I decided there’s something bigger out there I should write on.
Pinsker’s answer to his own question is that MAGA is a movement that needs to become a revolution, and I’m not saying he’s wrong about that. I think I would use different terminology, because what MAGA generally encompasses is a counterrevolution.
The revolution already happened.
Pinsker says that it happened as a response to Donald Trump winning the 2016 election. That isn’t quite right. The revolution was Barack Obama’s takeover of the Democrat Party and forcing its conversion from liberalism to outright neocommunism — Obamunism, if you will — and then doing the same to the country at large.
And this was such a comprehensive redirection of the political marketplace that here we are, the better part of 20 years later, and it’s actually still very much possible that Kamala Harris — a Xerox of a Xerox of a Xerox of Obama, lacking any perceptible political skill or insight, much less leadership qualities of any note — could be elected president.
Harris is a cipher. She’s a puppet of a shadowy regime that has seized control of the institutions of power in this country. That regime is bipartisan — sort of. There are “Republicans” who used to call themselves conservatives who are now backing her — at my site The Hayride on Friday, I talked about the despicable swamp rat Charles Boustany, one of former House Speaker John Boehner’s little minions, who joined a letter crafted by his fellow establishment power pimps to support a candidate who favors (despite what lies she currently tells in an effort to cover her tracks) a ban on hydraulic fracturing, free sex-change operations for prison inmates and illegal aliens, a tax on unrealized capital gains, banning plastic straws, and banning deportation of criminals from other countries.
It’s bizarre.
More to the point, as I keep saying here in this space, it’s villainous.
We’re increasingly beset by villains in our cultural and political life in America.
Consider the unfurling story of one Ryan Routh, a sicko would-be assassin who laid in wait for Trump for some 12 hours near the fifth green at Trump International Gold Club in Palm Beach, and who missed the opportunity to take out the former president only because a Secret Service agent happened upon Routh’s rifle barrel as it stuck out from a chain-link fence. Nobody bothered to secure the perimeter of that golf course, a suspicious bit of incompetence that miraculously wasn’t fatal to Trump.
Routh was perhaps an over-flamboyant version of the common modern Democrat, whose Trump Derangement Syndrome has broken the meter. In a manifesto/suicide letter that surfaced over the weekend and echoed most of the rhetoric of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris over the last three years plus, Routh claimed the mantle of kindness and gentility in defending his intended murder of the GOP presidential candidate — something that is shockingly prevalent among outwardly respectable and upscale pretenders to cultural power. You can find his attitude quite often among shoppers at Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s, dog-walkers in nice blue-city neighborhoods, and on selective and expensive college campuses.
And you can find it in government and media circles, too.
Something else that showed up in Routh’s manifesto letter was a $150,000 bounty offered to anyone who could “complete the job” of slaughtering Trump. Now, it isn’t in evidence that Routh has the resources to make good on that figure, though there was apparently a GoFundMe someone was running on his behalf in order that he would succeed in recruiting mercenaries for the Ukraine war effort.
But the amazing thing, as Donald Trump Jr. noted, was that the FBI released the letter with the bounty offer unredacted.
And then the mainstream media ran with the story!
So now there is a public price on Trump’s head for the next would-be assassin to seek. That the payoff of the bounty is specious at best is not particularly material; not long ago it would have been regarded as outrageous to circulate such dangerous information regarding a candidate in a presidential race.
Now? It’s as par for the course as assassination attempts themselves.
And when Elon Musk notes that, by contrast, nobody is pushing Harris’ assassination, he’s attacked by dunderheads like Keith Olbermann as stoking political violence.
No sooner did Routh’s bounty letter make the news cycle that it was further revealed that he had a list of places Trump was scheduled to be for the next several weeks.
And then his son was arrested for kiddie porn. Which is an awfully good way to ensure he doesn’t dish on his father, isn’t it? Or, going in the opposite direction, maybe somebody motivated Routh into serving as a would-be assassin with a threat of his son’s exposure.
Though I’m sure Ryan Routh, international nut of mystery, was simply a well-informed lone wolf.
That arrest of Oran Routh could be a nice segue into the Sean Combs story, on the eve of what are likely a set of revelations that expose a great deal of the entertainment industry as a massive sex-exploitation factory that makes Harvey Weinstein look like a wayward Presbyterian deacon out on the town. But I’ll hold off on that cancer, other than to note that the singer Pink sure did give an impassioned performance at the Democrats’ convention in Chicago just a few weeks before she had to trash the bulk of her social media posts as the Combs scandal burgeoned last week.
Government shares the morals of Hollywood, you know; though not necessarily their good looks.
We’re awash in sexual abuse of minors, just as we’re awash in sex trafficking as a whole. Nearly 300,000 migrant children are unaccounted for by the border authorities on the watch of Harris and the Biden administration and the cabal that pulls their strings; what percentage of those do you think were dragged into “sex work?”
You know as well as I do that it isn’t a small fraction.
In a decent country this would be a scandal so big we’d talk about little else. Instead, it gets meager coverage from a news media whose members every once and again will get pinched for their own contributions to the kiddie sex trade and child sex trafficking that is run away from by a Democrat Party (with Republican co-conspirators, to be sure) shot through with pedophiles (or at least the pedo-adjacent), including the current puppet in the White House.
Villainy is a very good word to describe this horror.
But when they’re not importing migrants to sex them up, the current crowd in charge are bringing them in to drive you down economically. J.D. Vance’s brilliant promotion of cat-eater memes was actually a light touch in bringing to light the societal problems caused by mass migration of Haitians, Venezuelans, and others among the global poor — as we saw in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, a little town being deluged with migrants to work in local food-processing factories and thus displacing Americans and depressing wages…
And when ordinary Americans object, you get this sort of out-of-touch nonsense. Bloomberg:
Bloomberg News analyzed immigration court data obtained by researchers at Syracuse University that show where the 1.8 million asylum seekers and refugees who landed in the US in 2023 have taken up residence…
Migrants landing in swing states, and across the country, are gravitating to counties that voted for President Joe Biden in 2020.
In the battleground states that will decide this November’s election, about 72% of migrants in 2023 went to Biden counties while less than a third went to Trump counties, the Bloomberg analysis found. Counties that voted for Biden four years ago are home to roughly 60% of the overall US population.
Swing states received 12% of all migrants, with most going to blue counties like Philadelphia, home to Pennsylvania’s largest city, and Gwinnett, which is outside Atlanta.
Much like in previous generations, migrants are headed to places with growing local economies, bolstering the labor force in places that are already thriving. In swing states, 85% of migrants settled in places that saw GDP growth from 2019 to 2022, according to the latest available data….
These newcomers are unlikely to become US citizens before the election, so they won’t be casting ballots of their own.
Ace of Spades had the correct response to this…
This is an especially sick thing to demand, when the town you’re talking about has had a collapse of local employment due to deindustrialization, that is, outsourcing manufacturing jobs to the third world.
But let’s flood this already low-employment town with lots of illegals willing to work for dirt wages. That’ll really help the locals to thrive!
How much more obvious could Bloomberg be that they are making a case for liberals getting what they want politically — a never-ending flood of third world “new voters” — so long as those dirty foreigners are penned up with Dirty White Working Class.
We also find out that the Biden administration is busy fast-tracking George Soros’ takeover of the talk radio market, one more milepost along the road to a stifled national discussion. And once again a mismanaged supply chain lies exposed as dockworkers are ready to strike. Meanwhile, the Biden administration now wants to send troops to the Middle East that will somehow keep the Israel-Iran war (can we finally call it what it really is?) contained; there is no reason to believe that won’t backfire, and perhaps intentionally.
All of these things fit a pattern, which is to create, through action and inaction, a demoralized and despairing society that is poorer, more ignorant, unhappier and more desperate than ever.
And when the people driving that pattern then tell you “we can’t go back” to an America not under their thumb, with the not-so-implicit threat that any attempt to do so will be met with even more violence than that continuously threatened to Trump, you ought to be quite clear that they’re villains.
And act accordingly to stop them.
We hope to see you at the ballot box on or before Nov. 5.
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