America was founded on Enlightenment principles - logic, wisdom, the pursuit of happiness, faith in God, individualism, and the rule of law. Rousseau and Locke were the mentors of Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, and Franklin. America was to be a country in which individual enterprise would be the way to prosperity, but only if practiced within a respect for community, polity, and commonwealth.
America has had its ups and downs over centuries and these principles have been tested as the country developed from a small, rural, agricultural state to a world industrial power. Contrary to the Founding Fathers' vision, government grew exponentially and became more than just a caretaker of Constitutional law but an intervener in civic and personal affairs.
Despite the Civil War which broke the nation apart, it retained a certain moral ethos and a respect for foundational principles. Jefferson and Hamilton argued over electoral authority - Jefferson, a populist, believed in the rule of the majority; Hamilton a federalist, concerned about mob rule insisted on an intermediary body of wisemen who would mitigate the naturally selfish and self-interested demands of the majority. It was a system which respected the rights of the individual to vote his conscience, but which restrained the natural human tendency to favor the near-at-hand.
Over the decades, this system - wise and reasonable in principle - failed in practice. The Senate, supposedly a body comprised of men of good judgment, patriotism, and national interest, devolved into the same caterwauling, parochialism as the House of Representatives. 'Government for the people, of the people, and by the people', spoken by Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address, renewed Americans' belief in participatory, inclusive government; but in the years following Lincoln, this principle became distorted, eroded, and nearly forgotten.
Government became the prime mover, the interventionist higher power, and the be-all and end-all of constitutional authority. Fueled by radical Republicanism during Reconstruction, government was a Big Brother who would put the Union back together but only succeeded in driving it further apart. The punitive sanctions imposed on the South only created resentment, hatred, and a commitment to reestablish slavery.
Government never retreated. It could not stand by while the giants of industry - Rockefeller, Carnegie, Mellon, J.P. Morgan, and Vanderbilt - built an unimaginable machine of productivity and prosperity. Government, seeing itself becoming marginalized, supernumerary in the great private sector expansion of the times, felt obliged to put the reins on capitalist expansionism, and in so doing expanded its influence and power.
Years later FDR and his New Deal further expanded the reach and influence of government. Roosevelt effectively created the welfare state and institutionalized progressive liberalism. Although postwar enterprise enabled the private sector to recover ground and become once again the center of American economic might, the following years of the Sixties and beyond reversed the trend and returned the country to government-led monopoly.
The Biden Administration was perhaps the worst, most exaggerated, most distorted government in history, for it took governmentalism to an extreme degree. Capitalism was to be limited, restricted, and ultimately dismantled in a long overdue period of social reform. The individual would be subsumed within the ethos and control of the state which arrogated to itself unabridged power.
Not only did progressives hope to create a country where all enterprise was filtered through government authority and tested against a received code of behavior, they introduced outlandish, absurd policies and programs that defied logic and history. Their DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusivity - program which distorted the American belief in equal opportunity and value and in so doing divided the country along racial, ethnic, and gender lines instead of reinforcing unity and universal adherence to a common ethos.
It was a disaster of monumental proportions. It was George Orwell, Big Brother, Animal Farm and 1984 all over again. 'Four legs good, two legs bad', shouted the usurpers, the new authoritarian dictators; and the Biden claques did the same thing. 'Heterosexuality bad, homosexuality good...white bad, black good...women good, men bad', they claimed and went about reconfiguring government to accommodate these twisted ideas.
Government was no longer JFK's the best and the brightest, but the most colorful, alternately gendered, small, plus-sized, and defiantly progressive one.
Then, to the surprise of most observers, Donald Trump won the presidency of the United States, beating an entitled woman who ran on nothing but her sex. 'It is time for a woman to run this country', said Hillary Clinton, 'and this woman will'.
Not only that after four years of the destructive, divisive, and corrosive Biden Administration, Donald Trump beat another entitled woman this time one who added race to the mix. 'It is time for a black woman to lead this country', Kamala Harris said, 'and I am the black woman to do it'.
The American public was fed up with the bullying, pandering, hectoring, and intimidation of progressives who condemned them universally - racist, misogynist, homophobic to the core, Harris said, 'but I will right the ship and show Americans a new direction'.
In the endorsement of Donald Trump Americans rejected such anti-American sentiments and the arrogance of political poseurs and elected a President the likes of which the country had never seen. A big, outsized, personality; an outspoken, rude, profane, but brutally honest politician, he not only proposed a new conservative agenda but intended to reshape American political and social culture. His first four years were remarkable for their unabashed, unique, and revolutionary governance and in his second, current term he intends to finish the job.
Trump is the first real American president. He is middlebrow, unabashedly fond of glitz, glamour, arm candy, yachts, and mansions. He is a man of Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the mean streets of New York without a drop of Kennedy's Camelot, a White House of Pablo Casals, Robert Frost, and the elegance of haute couture. He is without a scintilla of Bush I's patrician heritage, Kennebunkport, old English reserve, Chippendale and Townsend, Copley and Remington.
Trump is brashly Wild West. He is a gunslinger, a fan of OK corral resolution to disputes, a territorial Westward expansionist, a man who not only believes in the principle of individual enterprise, effort, and influence but embodies it. His razing of USAID and his march down Independence Avenue not only challenged the bureaucratic rule of Washington but began to eliminate it.
His geopolitical moves against Venezuela, Gaza, and Iran restored American unilateral military options. His loosening of private industry to drill for energy and rare earths have restored American energy independence and positioned it well for the AI future. His rejection of the hyperbole of climate change and the transparent designs behind the hoopla to increase the size and influence of government have stopped the progressive tide; and his rollback of the most absurd gender-shifting ideas of progressivism has restored the central, irremediable ethos of America.
It is for all of these reasons that the Left so hates him - a visceral, absolute, reflexive, universal hatred. Anything and everything the President does is wrong, objectionable, and anti-democratic. His turpitude, aggressive totalitarian ambitions, and his total disregard for the poor, the marginalized, and the disadvantaged make him a neo-Hitler, a man as devoid of moral direction as Stalin; a Pol Pot, a horrific example of human nature in the extreme. Plus the fact, he is so bourgeois
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