Betting markets have firmed decisively in Trump’s favour; polls are tightening and trending towards the former President; and Harris’ campaign has switched decidedly negative.
With Trump on course for a historic victory next week, it has quickly become clear that the anti-Trump Complex (Media, Democrats, Deep State) face a choice: admit that Trump is no ‘threat’ to America or democracy and that he should be permitted to assume office in accordance with the Constitution.
Alternatively, and I believe this is more likely, anti-Trumpers won’t give Trump any time to govern peacefully, but will double-down on their dark, dystopia rhetoric and attempt to usher-in a period of violent instability.
Of course, anti-Trumper should use the election as a trigger point, to walk away from their final Trump hoax, and give the new President a chance to govern.
However, recent signs and the history of the past eight years, suggest that the Left-Media-Deep State is not capable of such an act of magnanimity.
And anyway, if Trump is given clear air, their florid claims of ‘fascism’ and ‘the end of democracy’ will be shown up as so much hot air.
We continue to see signs that anti-Trumpers are ready to break the rules and follow the wrong path, in the coming weeks and months.
Don’t rule out a successful attempt on Trump’s life between now and inauguration day in January.
America’s tradition of the peaceful transfer of power is literally priceless has been robust and reliable. It is worth multiples of its national GDP.
Conceding an election loss isn’t easy.
Just ask Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, neither of whom conceded in 2016 and 2020, respectively.
But neither were those elections freighted with the existential weight of the nation that has distinguished this election – mainly by the Left-Deep State, but increasingly Trump and his supporters as well (Trump surrogate Tulsi Gabbard now says Trump must become President to save American democracy).
This column isn’t about the need for Trump and the Republicans to lower the temperature after next Tuesday – it’s easy to be magnanimous when you’ve won.
No, it will fall to the anti-Trump forces to emulate past losing sides and concede defeat, accept the verdict of the American people, and give America a chance to move forward under the new Trump administration.
Democrat Presidential candidate Al Gore mustered enough courage and dignity to do the right thing by the country in 2000, despite great controversy over the conduct of parts of the election (remember ‘hanging chads’ in Florida) and a tight Supreme Court ruling along partisan lines in favour of George H W Bush.
Gore conceded gracefully and gave America a chance to adjust to a new government.
Trump in 2020 didn’t so much as concede (he had understandable concerns about the conduct of the vote in many tight state races), but he did leave office peacefully, by the time the Constitution required, on the inauguration of President Joe Biden.
As most sensible people in the United States know Trump is not a threat to democracy or the country.
He is an ageing populist; a patriot of heartland American, with centrist instincts domestically and isolationist instincts abroad.
But Trump is pursuing a long list of populist policies (he’s championed for decades): closing the border; ending foreign wars and misadventures; re-establishing on-shore manufacturing; reducing the size of the federal government; and energy independence.
These are the real reasons Trump has been so assiduously and thoroughly targeted over the past eight years.
His policies will end decades of status quo rule in America, which has delivered power, wealth, prestige, and the ‘illusion of competency’ for a generation of America’s political and foreign policy elite – on both sides of politics.
It also delivered a shrinking middle class, diseases of despair, falling life expectancy, rising violent crime, unregulated migration, and wasteful foreign ‘forever wars’.
But no matter these facts. The ruling class needed a narrative to destroy Trump and so we got the Trump hoaxes, from Russia-gate to Stormy Daniels to that one about Trump grabbing the steering wheel of his Presidential limo, and that one about him praising Hitler’s generals.
We are down to one.
The hoax of the Trump ‘threat’ remains and in the closing days of the campaign, it has been set on fire and launched into space, in case anyone missed it over the past eight years.
Take Democrat Congressman Jamie Raskin of New York. He is on tape, calling for Congress to block the ratification of Electoral College votes, if Trump wins the election. He has since qualified his comments, while maintaining that Democrats have a role in blocking a Trump presidency, under certain conditions.
No neophyte off the street, Raskin is a veteran New Yorker prominent in many partisan battles in Washington.
He must be taken at face value.
He even admits on the tape that such a move by a Democrat-controlled Congress would usher in ‘civil war conditions’.
Raskin has not withdrawn his original comments, nor has he been rebuked by Democratic Party leaders. So a Democratic Party block of the appointment of a Republican President is eminently possible, should they have the numbers and choose to do so.
Let that sink in.
Raskin helpfully explained it would be Congress’s ‘duty’ to ‘disqualify’ Trump (under section 3 of the 14th Amendment) as an ‘insurrectionist’ from assuming the presidency.
Or take veteran Democrat strangest and prominent commentator, James Carville, who last week conjured up bloodthirsty war imagery in a metaphoric suggestion to Democrats to ‘break the rules’ and sneak up behind their opponents and ‘slit their throats’.
Carville has become a loose cannon in recent years, but has been a respected Democratic Party commentator for decades, following a career in which he was an influential senior adviser to Bill Clinton before and after Clinton became President in 1992.
Does Carville’s call to ‘break the rules’ reflect the mood, if not the precise tactics, being war-gamed within today’s Democratic Party?
Then there’s the spectacle of The Atlantic magazine.
In a widely reported but hotly disputed hit piece last week, The Atlantic went ‘full Godwin’ and asserting, without evidence, that Trump ‘speaks like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini’.
What, not Lenin and Mao as well?
Earlier this year The Atlantic ran a long article by a liberal law professor and former appellate judge, arguing that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution should disqualify Trump from returning to the Presidency because, they said, Trump was an insurrectionist.
And did you see the June cover story of The New Republic, portraying Trump as Hitler?
You get the picture.
All this isn’t to reveal anything new about recent American politics – these hoaxes and scares have been commonplace since 2016.
But in the context of a likely Trump victory on November 5, the hoax-pushers and hoax-believers now face a stark choice.
The stakes could not be higher – the approaching fork in the road clearer.
Between now and Inauguration Day on January 20, 2025, the massively powerful anti-Trump Complex have the opportunity to do the right thing, leave the final hoax behind, and concede defeat gracefully and peacefully.
But don’t bet on it.
Trump, like a great gambler who knows his opponent too well, has called their bluff, simply by running and surviving.
Their humiliation will be in his success in delivering a peaceful and prosperous United States.
The anti-Trump Complex cannot abide a successful, peaceful, prosperous America under a Trump presidency. Trump is their existential threat.
So my money (besides being on Trump for the win) is that the Left, Media, and Deep State will chase their losses in the days and weeks following a Trump victory, in a desperate effort to recover their hopeless situation.
Unexpected crises and violent chaos could be sparked and encouraged, creating the conditions for the halting of the usual constitutional process that establishes a new administration.
The Jamie Raskin playbook may emerge, backed by eminent legal scholars, with Congress urged to do ‘their duty’ and block the Trump presidency.
And as America slides towards a new civil war, who do you think the Left-Media-Deep State will blame?
With Trump on course for a historic victory next week, it has quickly become clear that the anti-Trump Complex (Media, Democrats, Deep State) face a choice: admit that Trump is no ‘threat’ to America or democracy and that he should be permitted to assume office in accordance with the Constitution.
Alternatively, and I believe this is more likely, anti-Trumpers won’t give Trump any time to govern peacefully, but will double-down on their dark, dystopia rhetoric and attempt to usher-in a period of violent instability.
Of course, anti-Trumper should use the election as a trigger point, to walk away from their final Trump hoax, and give the new President a chance to govern.
However, recent signs and the history of the past eight years, suggest that the Left-Media-Deep State is not capable of such an act of magnanimity.
And anyway, if Trump is given clear air, their florid claims of ‘fascism’ and ‘the end of democracy’ will be shown up as so much hot air.
We continue to see signs that anti-Trumpers are ready to break the rules and follow the wrong path, in the coming weeks and months.
Don’t rule out a successful attempt on Trump’s life between now and inauguration day in January.
America’s tradition of the peaceful transfer of power is literally priceless has been robust and reliable. It is worth multiples of its national GDP.
Conceding an election loss isn’t easy.
Just ask Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, neither of whom conceded in 2016 and 2020, respectively.
But neither were those elections freighted with the existential weight of the nation that has distinguished this election – mainly by the Left-Deep State, but increasingly Trump and his supporters as well (Trump surrogate Tulsi Gabbard now says Trump must become President to save American democracy).
This column isn’t about the need for Trump and the Republicans to lower the temperature after next Tuesday – it’s easy to be magnanimous when you’ve won.
No, it will fall to the anti-Trump forces to emulate past losing sides and concede defeat, accept the verdict of the American people, and give America a chance to move forward under the new Trump administration.
Democrat Presidential candidate Al Gore mustered enough courage and dignity to do the right thing by the country in 2000, despite great controversy over the conduct of parts of the election (remember ‘hanging chads’ in Florida) and a tight Supreme Court ruling along partisan lines in favour of George H W Bush.
Gore conceded gracefully and gave America a chance to adjust to a new government.
Trump in 2020 didn’t so much as concede (he had understandable concerns about the conduct of the vote in many tight state races), but he did leave office peacefully, by the time the Constitution required, on the inauguration of President Joe Biden.
As most sensible people in the United States know Trump is not a threat to democracy or the country.
He is an ageing populist; a patriot of heartland American, with centrist instincts domestically and isolationist instincts abroad.
But Trump is pursuing a long list of populist policies (he’s championed for decades): closing the border; ending foreign wars and misadventures; re-establishing on-shore manufacturing; reducing the size of the federal government; and energy independence.
These are the real reasons Trump has been so assiduously and thoroughly targeted over the past eight years.
His policies will end decades of status quo rule in America, which has delivered power, wealth, prestige, and the ‘illusion of competency’ for a generation of America’s political and foreign policy elite – on both sides of politics.
It also delivered a shrinking middle class, diseases of despair, falling life expectancy, rising violent crime, unregulated migration, and wasteful foreign ‘forever wars’.
But no matter these facts. The ruling class needed a narrative to destroy Trump and so we got the Trump hoaxes, from Russia-gate to Stormy Daniels to that one about Trump grabbing the steering wheel of his Presidential limo, and that one about him praising Hitler’s generals.
We are down to one.
The hoax of the Trump ‘threat’ remains and in the closing days of the campaign, it has been set on fire and launched into space, in case anyone missed it over the past eight years.
Take Democrat Congressman Jamie Raskin of New York. He is on tape, calling for Congress to block the ratification of Electoral College votes, if Trump wins the election. He has since qualified his comments, while maintaining that Democrats have a role in blocking a Trump presidency, under certain conditions.
No neophyte off the street, Raskin is a veteran New Yorker prominent in many partisan battles in Washington.
He must be taken at face value.
He even admits on the tape that such a move by a Democrat-controlled Congress would usher in ‘civil war conditions’.
Raskin has not withdrawn his original comments, nor has he been rebuked by Democratic Party leaders. So a Democratic Party block of the appointment of a Republican President is eminently possible, should they have the numbers and choose to do so.
Let that sink in.
Raskin helpfully explained it would be Congress’s ‘duty’ to ‘disqualify’ Trump (under section 3 of the 14th Amendment) as an ‘insurrectionist’ from assuming the presidency.
Or take veteran Democrat strangest and prominent commentator, James Carville, who last week conjured up bloodthirsty war imagery in a metaphoric suggestion to Democrats to ‘break the rules’ and sneak up behind their opponents and ‘slit their throats’.
Carville has become a loose cannon in recent years, but has been a respected Democratic Party commentator for decades, following a career in which he was an influential senior adviser to Bill Clinton before and after Clinton became President in 1992.
Does Carville’s call to ‘break the rules’ reflect the mood, if not the precise tactics, being war-gamed within today’s Democratic Party?
Then there’s the spectacle of The Atlantic magazine.
In a widely reported but hotly disputed hit piece last week, The Atlantic went ‘full Godwin’ and asserting, without evidence, that Trump ‘speaks like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini’.
What, not Lenin and Mao as well?
Earlier this year The Atlantic ran a long article by a liberal law professor and former appellate judge, arguing that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution should disqualify Trump from returning to the Presidency because, they said, Trump was an insurrectionist.
And did you see the June cover story of The New Republic, portraying Trump as Hitler?
You get the picture.
All this isn’t to reveal anything new about recent American politics – these hoaxes and scares have been commonplace since 2016.
But in the context of a likely Trump victory on November 5, the hoax-pushers and hoax-believers now face a stark choice.
The stakes could not be higher – the approaching fork in the road clearer.
Between now and Inauguration Day on January 20, 2025, the massively powerful anti-Trump Complex have the opportunity to do the right thing, leave the final hoax behind, and concede defeat gracefully and peacefully.
But don’t bet on it.
Trump, like a great gambler who knows his opponent too well, has called their bluff, simply by running and surviving.
Their humiliation will be in his success in delivering a peaceful and prosperous United States.
The anti-Trump Complex cannot abide a successful, peaceful, prosperous America under a Trump presidency. Trump is their existential threat.
So my money (besides being on Trump for the win) is that the Left, Media, and Deep State will chase their losses in the days and weeks following a Trump victory, in a desperate effort to recover their hopeless situation.
Unexpected crises and violent chaos could be sparked and encouraged, creating the conditions for the halting of the usual constitutional process that establishes a new administration.
The Jamie Raskin playbook may emerge, backed by eminent legal scholars, with Congress urged to do ‘their duty’ and block the Trump presidency.
And as America slides towards a new civil war, who do you think the Left-Media-Deep State will blame?
