Last week the President of the United States announced a peace accord between Israel and Hamas - an end to two years of fighting, death, and destruction. Trump's defiance of the terrorist intentions of Hamas and his ultimatum - sign or all hell will break loose - and his unequivocal support of Israel, its right to exist, and its absolute right to defend itself all combined to bring Hamas to the table.
Whether or not the Palestinians who for sixty years have vowed death to Israel and the extermination of the Jews will ever give up sovereignty, arms, and anti-Israel aggression is an open question. The terms of the agreement make clear provisions for the disarming of Hamas, their exclusion from power, and the return of peaceful relations with Israel, but the Palestinians, fueled by Koranic imperative, misplaced historical claims, and ingrained Jewish hatred will only reluctantly give in.
Nevertheless, the peace agreement engineered by President Trump has been concluded, and the remaining hostages held by Hamas are about to be released, a time for celebration, joy, and jubilation in Israel and a time of recognition of the skill and influence of the American president.
Last week the Nobel Peace Prize was announced, going to a Venezuelan woman who for years has been the leader of the opposition to President Maduro, a Communist dictator who through his Maoist and Cuban policies have ruined a once prosperous, peaceful country. Ms. Machado was deserving of the prize, fighting tirelessly as she has for sanity, order, and the well-being of her country.
In a generous, magnanimous statement after receiving the prize, she acknowledged the indispensable role of President Trump who had continually put pressure on the Maduro government, called him out for his failed policies, radical hegemonic interests, and bloody rule. She also referred to Trump's recent success in the Middle East, suggesting that he more than she deserved the prize.
From former President Obama? A wordy, carefully crafted statement that expressed thankfulness that the war between Israel and Hamas was over, that peace was returning to the Middle East, and that prospects for a successful Arab-Israeli relationship were good. But not one mention of Donald Trump!
In one of the most callous, ignorant, shameless acts, he deliberately chose to ignore the role of the the President, the sine qua non of peace in the region. Without the determination, force, and inimitable understanding of power politics of the President, the fighting would still be raging and the hostages still held in Palestinian dungeons.
Not one mention! Not one reference, a total intellectual airbrushing of perhaps Donald Trump's greatest achievement in his less than nine months in office.
As callously indifferent and even hateful as Obama was, the President of Mexico when asked about prize-winner Machado's generous acknowledgement of the American president, she said, 'No Comment', a bald, blatant denial of the truth, reality, and the accomplishments of Donald Trump.
Was she in such solidarity with American political progressives? Would her acknowledgement of Trump's role be seen as condoning his attacks on Venezuelan drug traffickers' boats? She, like Mexican presidents before her are beholden to the Mexican drug cartels and serve at their pleasure, so any reference to aggressive action against them would be tantamount to her own death sentence.
In a craven, self-serving, politically shameful moment she showed her cowardliness, impossibly base political motives, and political insignificance.
These are just two of the more noteworthy statements ignoring the role of the American president but their sentiments are echoed throughout progressive ranks. Trump got what he wanted, they say, a totalitarian Jewish rule over the Palestinian people, a continuation of Israeli oppression and occupation, a denial of the right of return, restitution, and reparation. Trump is not a peacemaker but a warmonger, a Jew-lackey, an autocrat who cannot be trusted. He will deny rightful Palestinian claims for a state and allow Israeli hegemonic territorial ambitions, etc., etc.
There is seemingly no end to Trump hatred - a virulent, endemic, inbred bitterness. Any moderation, any flexible give, and acknowledgement of good is simply not possible.
Why? Progressives have from the very first appearance of Trump on the political scene branded him as a moral reprobate, a virulent, fascist, warmongering racist; an evil man, a destructive, arrogant, dangerous autocrat out to destroy democracy, scour the country with anti-gay, segregationist pogroms, create a white, minority-hating, insular government of the rich and privileged.
These sentiments, at first only the screeds of political opposition, became internalized, adopted and incorporated as beliefs, part of a universal canon, a secular theology, a psycho-social reality.
This fulminating hatred is new for America. Many voters mistrusted Richard Nixon, his dirty tricks, Watergate, and his lies and political treachery; but few hated him with the passion and indelible rancor that liberals today feel for Donald Trump.
There were voters who felt that LBJ was a warmongering, sadistic child killer, and the prosecutor of a senseless genocidal war against the Vietnamese people; but they understood him as a vulnerable man, influenced by his ambitious advisors, convinced that Southeast Asia would fall to the Communists without American opposition, and devastated by the death and destruction - especially difficult for a man whose goal was to create a just, fair, and inclusive American society.
Ronald Reagan was considered by many a simpleton, a B-grade actor with few thoughts in his head, and his Morning in America was typical of his brainless political notions; but he was clearly a good man, a principled man, a patriotic man.
Every president has been subjected to criticism, suspicion, and negativism - none have escaped censure ; but none have received the hyperbolic, virulent hatred leveled at Donald Trump, but no one has adequately explained the phenomenon. Was it his outrageous braggadocio? His Borscht Belt incorrect humor? His Hollywood, glitz, glamour, and sequined persona? His arm-candy, yacht, and mansions? Resentment, jealousy, envy?
Nothing claimed by the Left has had any salience, not a scintilla of reality. Every lawsuit lodged against him has been overturned or thrown out. Every catty, smarmy allegation about sexual, financial, economic, or social misdoings has been shown to be frivolous name calling.
In nine months Trump has closed the southern border, advanced American energy independence, rolled back the most egregious woke policies of the Biden administration, brought investment, jobs, and industry to the United States, negotiated fair trade practices, begun to reduce the size of government and the bloated bureaucracy - all in the nation's interest. Yet not one world of praise or acknowledgement hs been accorded, not one note of appreciation.
The Democrats cry foul at every Trump initiative, and every statement, every utterance is only Trump hatred and not one word about alternate policy or programs. There is no one home.
The American Left is now only a hallucinating, fevered, inconsequential political presence. It has lost all credibility, all salience, all respect. When reduced to such pure, unalloyed, unmitigated hatred, nothing less than irrelevance can be expected.
This President has done more in nine months than any President ever has in the same amount of time. His campaign promises have been fulfilled, and in a mastery of diplomacy, strength, canniness, and determination, he has remade the world order.
The conservative movements in Italy, Germany, France, the UK, Netherlands, Hungary, and Poland are to a large degree results of Trump's influence. European leaders are unafraid of calling out hegemonic, Koran-inspired Islamic terrorism, the curse of uninhibited immigration, and the abandonment of white, Christian culture.
The Left has every reason to be concerned. Every one of its cherished canonical points has been removed from serious consideration. It is a political enterprise with no foundation, no ethos, no moral center, and no relevance.
Every political observer knew that the Trump presidency would be different, but few had any idea of its truly reformist, revolutionary impact.
Amazing as it may seem, the Left still has adherents, unreconstructed, wild, Trump-hating partisans who will never ever be able to rid themselves of this inchoate, innate loathing. So, because of these incorporate, inherent, permanently lodged feelings, the country has three more years of hysterical, increasingly discordant rants.
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