We must be very cautious about something. All patriotic, God-fearing Americans were ecstatic when Donald Trump won the Presidency last week. Still, it’s imperative to realize that we have only just begun, that the victory is not even close to being complete and that there is still a very long, difficult road to travel. The radical Democratic Party and the Deep State will not give up. They will never surrender. They're only going to double down and try even harder to accomplish their nefarious purpose of taking over America and turning the country into a godless, totalitarian Marxist state. That's what they live for, their only reason for existence. The election of Donald Trump was just the beginning of defeating them; it wasn’t the end.
If we become complacent, if we aren’t cautious and double-down ourselves, we will ultimately lose. Any malevolent enemy like the Left needs to be thoroughly annihilated, every cancer cell destroyed because as long as there is one scintilla of breath left in any of those people, they will never give up. You don’t compromise with evil, you don’t placate it, you don’t pet it. You destroy it utterly. It’s the only way, or it will come back. And we are a long way from destroying the Evil that is the Deep State Left.
But because of human imperfections and pride, the title of this column is true: it may be harder to stay on top than it is to get there in the first place. Over 200 years ago, historian Sir Alexander Fraser Tytler got it exactly right. Great nations start in bondage, in slavery, oppressed by tyrants. Then (those who become great) develop a spiritual faith, a belief in something higher and nobler than themselves, and it builds a certain, unique character in them. That spiritual faith produces great courage, and that courage eventuates in freedom. Freedom at last! But it’s always a long, demanding process.
Freedom creates prosperity, and, sadly, at that point, the scale starts tipping the other way again. Once people become prosperous, they want to enjoy that prosperity and become increasingly pleasure-oriented. They desire to enjoy the fruits of their labors, and thus, the faith, courage, virtue, and qualities that led them to the top gradually disintegrate. Tytler says they go from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to apathy, from apathy to dependence, and then...back into bondage. Such are the principles of human history. And, up to a certain point, such has been the history of the United States.
America started as an English colony, of course, but the faith of our early pioneers was great. That faith led the country to liberty and prosperity, following exactly Tytler’s path. By the 1950s, we were the undisputed power of the world, the paper-tiger USSR notwithstanding. We were free. And wealthy. And we became selfish and fell asleep, enjoying our liberty and luxury. The enemy, always lurking and waiting, attacked, and we apathetically and ignorantly watched the decline.
Yes, America had Reagan. But, since then, it has had two Establishment Bushes, Clinton, Obama, and then, horribly, Joe Biden. We almost fell back into bondage. But we woke up just in time to elect Donald Trump, especially this year. America is not finished yet—sigh of relief.
However, we need to realize this is just a new beginning. The Democrats and Deep State don’t understand why they lost, but that is irrelevant. They are never going to give up, and if we think, because we’ve reached the apex again, that we’ve “won” the final victory, then we have completely forgotten the lessons of history that Sir Tytler taught us 200+ years ago. Folks, it isn’t time to enjoy the fruits of our victory; it is time to fight even harder to ensure history doesn’t repeat itself, and we lose our freedoms.
In the 1950s, America was the greatest nation on earth, and we want to Make America Great Again. But the Democrats and the Deep State—many of whom are Republicans—don’t want that. And they’ll keep fighting to get what they want.
Mr. Trump has made some excellent choices for his Cabinet, but Mr. Trump himself can only do so much. He’s not a dictator, and we don’t want one. Trump will do some good things, but he won’t get everything he—and we—want, and we can’t expect him to. The forces against him are too deep and entrenched, and they will fight for their lives. Just look at what else has happened in the Republican Party recently.
Mike Johnson will be Speaker of the House again. I have not trusted that man since almost the first day he became Speaker and betrayed the Republican Party by wasting billions of Biden dollars (our money) on Ukraine. He’s been an Establishment Republican, and he’ll have to prove, to me at least, that he’s not. He hasn’t even come close to doing that yet.
And then the Senate. They elected a Mitch McConnell clone as Majority Leader, not a MAGA Republican. We must understand that many of the Republicans in Congress have been in Washington for a long time, longer than Donald Trump has been around. They aren’t populists; they are McConnell Establishmentarians. And they are going to be there a while longer. It will take a few deaths and a few more election cycles to cleanse the Republican Party of these treacherous, Deep State collaborators. We’ve done nothing yet but put MAGA in the Presidency. We got back to the top there. But staying there will be grueling and require a continued, yeah, redoubled effort not to lose it. Because the Left, the Establishment Deep State, will fight every step of the way.
No. As Patric Henry said, “The war has just begun.” All over again.
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