Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2016 to become the 45th President of the United States primarily because the Washington political elites pursued policies to perpetuate their own power and fortunes and ideologies while promoting policies which were detrimental to a large segment of working and middle-class Americans. Trump’s winning electoral vote margin came from the working-class voters in the Rust Belt states which had previously been part of a Democratic Blue Wall which Republicans had found impregnable over many election cycles.
For too long American manufacturing jobs flowed overseas to rebuild our Allies past the national security benefits of the policy. Unique among elected officials, Trump’s nationwide and worldwide construction and real estate operations placed him in contact with working class Americans, including members of trade unions. Trump recognized their plight, and his campaign during the 2016 election especially engaged blue-collar workers using the slogan “Make America Great Again”.
But Trump’s election in 2016 over Hillary Clinton delayed the completion of “transforming America” which President-elect Obama promised just prior to his election in 2008. Another eight years under a President Hillary Clinton would have completed that progressive cultural, political, and economic transformation which Obama initiated eight years earlier. Via unlimited immigration, sixteen years of continuous progressive rule could have given Democratic control of the Texas Electoral Vote and transform America into “one-party authoritarian State”.
Because Donald Trump interrupted the course of Obama’s progressive “Transformation of America” in achieving absolute power, all Washington, media, legal, corporate, university, and cultural elites were mobilized in massive efforts to destroy Donald Trump and his presidency. Outsider Trump’s audacity to challenge the Washington aristocracy was a cardinal sin which demanded Donald Trump’s complete political, personal, and business destruction from which there is no redemption!
His followers were called “deplorables” by candidate Clinton during the election process, and their denunciation in the media continued to this day. This ‘War of Hate’ against Trump was waged unrelentingly without consideration of the damage that such a campaign would have on America’s body politic and culture. This campaign of personal destruction against Trump included two impeachments, two special counsel investigations, a Congressional investigation, and numerous prison sentences given or attempted on his advisors.
The hate campaign against Trump was waged concurrently with an underground effort to divide Americans into victim vs. oppressor groups identified by skin color, sex, gender, sexual preference, and ethnicity. White supremist male Americans were the major targets of ridicule and derision.
These efforts to divide America continued with renewed vengeance under the Biden Administration when it became evident Trump would seek to regain the presidency in 2024. With a nod from Biden and with unofficial meetings with his staff, Georgia, New York, and Justice Department officials filed legal action against Trump that could put Trump in prison for over three-hundred years and bankrupt his multi-billion-dollar company. Initial New York convictions occurred with $500 million in judgments and 34 criminal counts which, if administered, would end Trump’s life in jail and destroy his company.
However, both New York convictions are likely to be overturned upon appeal, and his criminal conviction will likely be dismissed because of subsequent Supreme Court rulings. The Justice Department Special Counsel indictments have also come undone under recent Supreme Court rulings, and they also face likely dismissal. The Constitutional undoing of these criminal cases shows how far his opponents were prepared to go in retaliation against Trump’s interruption of their pursuit of absolute political and economic power over American citizens. It is not personal; it is just about power!
Instead of separating Trump from his supporters, the venom and intensity of the elite’s attacks on Trump only made them more determined to see him reelected. Chris Christy and Nikki Haley led the Republican Party Never-Trumpers’ effort in the Republican primaries in 2024 without success. If Biden can withstand the calls for him to stand down because of his age-related cognitive issues, the November 2024 election looks to be a Trump rematch against Joe Biden.
The assassination attempt on Trump’s life on Saturday, July 13th, in Butler, Pennsylvania, will undoubtedly give Trump a further boost in the polls. The event produced the famous photo of a defiant Donald Trump with blood running across his face and the American flag flowing in his background. This image will make it hard for Joe Biden to find a competing backdrop for his campaign. Trump went into the Republican Convention with solid party unity capped with Nikki Haley being invited to speak and the squeaky-clean Senator J.D. Vance named as his running mate. Against an age-challenged Joe Biden and a competence-challenged Kamala Harris, the Trump/Vance team should be favored to win in November – subject to Biden’s exit and further October surprises!
For over twenty years elites from both political parties have sold out to big money, power, ideology, and the personal enrichment. Ordinary Americans are caught between hanging on in our high inflation private economy or becoming welfare pawns of the State. The more affluent among us are basking, so far, in a booming stock market and an inflated stock portfolio – until the next crash!
A Trump/Vance win in November could bring a needed, reformation in American politics if they both stay true to their commitment to those segments of our population that have been left behind in the elite’s race to globalization, internal division, and absolute power. If Vance were to succeed Trump in 2028, the American politics and economics could be completely reformed – something long overdue.
John Whitmore Jenkins
July 19, 2024
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