The No Kings protests recently concluded around the country - inchoate, disassembled, joyful affairs of liberal camaraderie - expressed concerns that Donald Trump was overstepping his constitutional authority, arrogating imperial power to himself, and threatening to turn the country into a monarchy.
Nonsense of course. Those protesting were simply unhappy that the President was putting the American house back in order, returning it to its foundational principles, and rejecting the fanciful, disruptive notions of gender reassignment, open borders, identity politics, and socialist economics.
The American Left, still reeling from their electoral defeat in 2024 in which Donald Trump handily defeated Kamala Harris, a candidate who ran only on her racial identity and 'proud womanhood', is still licking its wounds. With no coherent, sensible, objective set of policies to counter the President's conservative agenda, protestors have taken to the streets to howl, cry, and beat their breasts in frustration - as if those outcries make any difference whatsoever to a determined, willful, and self-confident president.
'What about the black man?', protesters cry, insisting that Trump's SS storm troopers are about to round up black people, pack them into cattle cars, and consign them to brutal gulags. Gay men, lesbians, and transgenders will be sent to the gas chambers in a social purge no different than carried out by the Nazis - racial and gender purification in the extreme. The vision of a world run by women, surrounded by gay acolytes, celebrating a brave new world of diversity has disappeared in the wake of the Sturm und Drang of Donald Trump's juggernaut.
Donald Trump has in the few short months of his presidency redefined executive power. A man who cut his teeth on the mean streets of New York real estate, for whom legal action is child's play, and whose cutthroat, no-holds-barred victory at all costs creation of a building empire, has no intention of being civil, compromising, or accommodating.
The world since the first human settlements has been violent, combative, territorial, and self-defensive - not surprising since those characteristics have been hardwired into human DNA since apes came down from the trees; but Joe Biden insisted that with love, hope, and charity a new utopian future was possible. Through understanding, compassion and modesty the world could indeed become a better place.
Presidents Putin of Russia and Xi of China licked their chops when they heard these nostrums, undaunted and unintimidated by America's admonitions. China made good on its promise to bring the Uighurs to heel, to secure Tibet within the Han orbit, and to make sure that Taiwan did not get too ambitious. Russia sent its tanks into Ukraine fulfilling a millennia-old prophecy about Russian territorial sovereignty.
Iran, happy beneficiaries of Obama's nuclear treaty which did little to slow the enrichment of weapons grade plutonium and the building of intercontinental ballistic missiles to deliver them and which did nothing to address Iran's support of terrorism and the building of an Islamic caliphate, were delighted when Biden took over the reins of government.
Trump has joined the new world triumvirate of power, equal to Russia and China in their hegemonic principles. All three nations are now unabashedly Machiavellian, advocates of Clausewitz, emperors and imperial regents.
Each president is imperial in his own way given culture and history. Xi rests on millennia of powerful Chinese dynasties which ruled the empire with authority, cultural integrity, and absolute will. Putin recalls the storied history of Tsarist Russia, Peter the Great, Alexander the Great, Nicolas I and many more. There is nothing surprising in Putin's desire not only to recall but recreate Russia's imperial past.
'We are entering a new era of royal democracy' wrote one political observer of American politics - 'a hybrid of imperial intentions within a traditional democracy'.
Donald Trump is neither a dictator who commands the loyalty of army and can call them out of their barracks at will; nor is he the product of Communist statism which has central authority and executive power enshrined in its canon.
He must use the levers of power, the checks and balances of the democratic system, and stretch executive authority to the limits of the Constitution to achieve his ends.
A foreign policy based on Darwinian confrontation, but within the sanctions of American governance, is the expression of this new royal democracy. Trump wants Iran out of the way and Venezuela neutralized to keep their oil reserves out of the hands of Russia and China. He wants to re-establish American hegemony in its backyard, Latin America, and has no intention of backing down on his promises to establish American control of the region.
A crackdown on illegal immigration will restabilize America's borders and restore a modicum of cultural homogeneity - the re-establishment of an ethical and moral center so lacking in the progressive era. The reopening of American lands to energy and rare earths exploitation will add to the country's geopolitical strength.
The waiving of wokism and a return to millennia-old principles of human normality will further contribute to America's solidarity. And patriotism which will replace divisive multiculturalism will be the overriding, unifying ethos.
A king in fact? Hardly, but a Darwinian imperialist in reality. What are world wars, civil conflicts, tribal rivalries, family disputes, ethnic demands, and religious aggression if not examples of Darwinism? Human nature, that innate, hardwired, ineluctable foundation on which all action is predicated, is found in both newborns and nations. Machiavelli anticipated Darwin, understood the basis of human activity and pronounced it indissoluble and permanent.
Where does progressive idealism come from? How can millennia of history be ignored. Those who insist that the world is becoming a more peaceful, accommodating place are just whistlin' Dixie. The Twentieth Century was one of history's bloodiest and the Twenty-First is proving to be no different.
Conservatives accept this state of being and deal with it. If the world is a violent, contentious place, then be prepared to counter the aggression, territorialism, and self-interest that threaten national sovereignty. There is no point to sweet talking, compromise, or treaties. Life has never been a bowl of cherries and never will be.
Donald Trump understands this better than any president in history. Yes, Roosevelt authorized the firebombing and incineration of Dresden; and yes, Truman gave the 'Bombs Away' to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki; but in both cases America was the victim of naked aggression.
Trump intends to be ahead of the curve, to obviate any possibility of attack, to make the first strike, to obliterate the enemy. Haven't Iran's intentions been exactly the same?
There are three years left in the Trump presidency and 'You ain't seen nothin' yet'. The No Kings rallies are hardly blips on the radar and nothing but annoying fleas on a dog. There is no 'there' there, no meat, nothing of substance. Unlike the rallies to end the Vietnam War or to end segregation, the No Kings affairs are just happy jamborees, insignificant, minor episodes, weekends out.
Meanwhile Donald Trump goes about his Machiavellian business.
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