Why Stop At Deporting Illegal Immigrants? - Let's Clean Up The Whole Mess Once And For All

It has been nearly three weeks since the resounding election of Donald Trump, and he has made his intentions very clear.  The promises made on the campaign trail - closed borders, small government, energy independence, a muscular foreign policy, strong military, and a rollback of the woke agenda - are now becoming fact.  His cabinet appointees are all dedicated to the tasks at hand, and given the trifecta - White House, Senate, and House - and the conservative Supreme Court, swift and uncompromising structural and policy changes are in the offing. 

 

What is most concerning to the Left is Trump's deportation policy.  On Day One of his presidency, he will authorize a clean sweep of the country to round up and ship out illegal immigrants.  This illegal, unconscionable, horrific cattle drive, say progressives, will be no different from Stalinist pogroms, Kristallnacht, and the dark days of the deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto.  

It is exactly what the Left feared and warned the country against - Trump is the very reincarnation of Stalin and Hitler, a man of evil intent and autocratic will who will first remove all those who sought refuge and asylum, and then, in an attempt to remake the country in his white, xenophobic image, will put dissidents, naysayers, and cultural outliers into concentration camps. 

The MAGA deep state is now energized, confident, and angry.  The January 6th march on the Capitol was just a taste of what was to come.  Congress was easy pickin's, the first step to an extirpation, an expunging, a royal cleansing of America to return it to its originalist patriotism. 

Black people, gays, lesbians and transgenders will be scraped and hauled out of the ghetto, the gay bars of the Castro, and the flannel-and-jackboots quarters of Bernal Heights and interned, subjected to the worst kind of Pol Pot Year Zero re-education. 

'What's a mother to do?', moaned Amanda Blevins, a distraught, disconsolate, and grieving Harris volunteer, left hanging in North Philly after the election results were announced.  How could this have happened?  How could a good woman, a person of principle and good faith be so summarily tossed aside by the electorate.  Her defeat was a defeat not only for her party but for the millions of brown and black Americans who now would be sent packing or rounded up in cattle pens.  

Democracy as we know it is a goner, Amanda concluded; and as she looked around at the boarded up buildings, gutter trash, bent and swaying Fentanyl dopers, burnt out cars, and human shit, she began to cry.  What would become of these poor people?

 

But then, as she watched a grossly fat woman shove her buttocks out the window of her tenth story public housing block and piss down the side of the building, something in her snapped.  She was in the worst of all possible worlds, one without recourse or resurrection, a benighted, miserable place that should be all rights be shut down, emptied, and sealed off.  Honduran immigrants? she said to herself. Why stop there?

Years of progressive servitude, of hewing to the compassionate, considerate, generous lie passed before her eyes in a fast-forward reel of sheer stupidity - the slums of Anacostia, West Baltimore, St. Louis, and Detroit, and the billions of dollars of entitlements, walkin' around money, sinecures, and no-show jobs.  Decades of mollycoddling the irresponsible, the morally derelict, pouring money down the public sluice into a trough with nothing to show for it but piss-ant, in-your-face, fuck you animus. 

'Stop it!', her good angel said to her bad. 'These people are the unfortunate minions of servitude, legatees of slavery, Jim Crow victims who need love, accommodation, and caring'. 

'Bullshit', said her bad angel. 'They are nothing but unredeemable reprobates, a cancer on the body politic, disrupting goons who haven't contributed one iota to the commonweal'. 

And so it went, on and on, back and forth, until the volunteer was safely back home in her pleasant corner of Bethesda.  'How was the trip, dear?', her husband asked, giving her a hug, knowing the acid reflux she must be tasting after so humiliating a loss.

'Fine', she said.  'Just fine', and again the reels began to spin off their spools - Black Lives Matter, George Floyd and the blackened, soot-stained, crumbling remains of P.S 42, burned to the ground for no earthly reason.  

Her husband noticed a change in his wife, something remote...No, that wasn't it, bitter perhaps, or just plain angry, nothing like remorse or regret. 'What happened in Philadelphia?', he asked, but his wife was in no mood for talking to him or anyone.  After an epiphany one wants to be on one's one, keeping one's own counsel. 

 

One by one the progressive shibboleths came crashing down.  Gender fluidity, gender reassignment, sexual aberrants claiming God's grace.  Why, there in front of her was the Reverend Willa Allen, formerly Willard Baker Allen, eroto-maniac, former telephone lineman, father to bastards up and down the Main Line turned girly girl with a sacramental mission. Who would possibly listen to this fraud, this shamanic buffoon? 

Amanda Blevins short-circuit epiphany was not all that remarkable.  She suffered from a kind of intellectual idolatry not uncommon in women of her age, coming out of her own experience of paternal patriarchy, perceived notions of unfair privilege, and the guilt of whiteness.  She was innately, inherently, genetically conservative - a woman of fierce independence and individuality, who fell prey to blandishment and idle notions of progress.  It took only a look at the gross mess of a Philadelphia slum to wake her up, shiver her timbers, and set her straight. 

When this happens, the transformation is often exaggerated.  There is no more observant Catholic than a converted one, say Protestants, and the same is true in spades of progressives.  Once they see the light - and given enough time most do - the expression of newly-found commitment is something to behold. 

It took only boarded up buildings, dog shit, and Trump's promise of deportations to push her over the edge.  'Get rid of them all while you're at it, Mr. President', she thought but could not yet say, so deeply ingrained was her liberal conscience, battered and shopworn as it might be; but her intentions were there unmistakably. 

So for once the Left was right - there was indeed something insidious afoot.  It turns out that their hectoring, hammering, and intimidation had an unexpected effect.  Counter-reformation was only the meme of the Trump juggernaut.  So much resentment and anger had built up after years of whaling and whacking away at conservative values, conservative politicians, and good, old homebodies, that this was bound to happen.  The energy with which the new Administration took its mandate was fierce, fueled by a lot more than political philosophy. 

 

Trump had said before his first election that he would 'drain the swamp' rid the country of the stink and mire of Washington.  This time, after years of being the target of hysterical animus, witch trials, and smear tactics, he is pissed; and he has gathered around him men and women equally so.  

Pogroms, Kristallnacht, Warsaw ghetto again? Hardly.  Only the febrile notions of the defeated who simply cannot get over the humiliation of resounding defeat; but the new administration will not let the viral, infectious claims of the Left stand.  Gone will be racial pretense, gender presumption, and the weird culture of revisionist history.  

Amanda eventually calmed down and did the right thing - joined the Trump train. Epiphanies come and go, and most of us are sensible people, so a kind of moderated activism is what usually defines us.  It should be noted however that she became one of a latter day Mosby's Rangers, guerillas in the new civil war of contrasting values. 

The Business Of America Is Business - Donald Trump And Let The Buying And Selling Begin!

'Engine' Charlie Wilson, former CEO of General Motors famously said that 'The business of America is business', and he hit the nail on the head, but his aphorism did not just apply to corporate interests, but to the very ethos of the country.  Americans all learn about the economic value of everything, are able to negotiate from a very early age - a larger portion of meat, the proper reward for polishing, dusting, re-arranging, and emptying. 

When a young boy was given bathroom cleaning as his chore and his sister vacuuming, both for the same allowance, he protested. 'Cleaning toilets is disgusting', he said.  'I should be paid more', to which his sister replied, 'Perhaps, but it takes you less time.  We're even'. 

One man takes a longer but less trafficked route, while his wife rankles at his waste of time and money.  There is only one way to go, says she, the least costly way, but her route is difficult, distracting, and banked with bad intersections. 

He buys an expensive suit while his wife hits the roof over the cost. 'I buy one new suit every fifteen years', he says.  'Amortize that'; but that is no comfort for a woman who has been brought up to believe in the absolute value of price.  There is a sticker price for everything, she believes, and lowering it is the Holy Grail. Sitting on an investment portfolio of millions means nothing if that price cannot be brought down. A touch of Calvinism kicks in every time she looks at a price tag.  'Too much!!!', her inner Puritan voice hollers. 

 

In America, we instinctively understand the economic value of everything.  Marriage is a contract, properly adjudicated, agreed upon, negotiated, and signed and both explicit and implicit codicils and caveats are part of the bargain. Limits, duties, responsibilities, and attention paid are all matters of preserving the economic value of the bargain. 

In the movie The Talented Mr. Ripley, the Jude Law character, noticing that he has been paying too little attention to his girlfriend sulking in her cabin, asks Ripley to excuse him. 'Marge maintenance', he says, and goes below decks to service her. Part of a male-female dynamic played out a hundred thousand times a day. 

A consultant who was asked to help a small drilling operation, long funded by a non-profit foundation, to become private in the new, post-Communist world of Romania, found that the drilling team had no idea whatsoever about the nature of the market.  Pointing to his co-workers, the head of the drilling team asked the consultant, 'Who is the owner?', having no sense whatsoever of the investment, shares, or capital that underlie ownership. 

A taxi driver complained to the consultant that he couldn't make any money with fares so low.  The consultant suggested that he raise his rates to cover his needs, but not too high as to depress demand.  The taximan looked at him incredulously.  'How?  It can't be'.  For the man, after fifty years of Communism, not only did the private market never exist, but the whole notion of private exchange, so innate and central to the American ethos was a foreign, unbelievable idea. 

Of course buying and selling is as old as humanity.  Whether barter, cowpie shells, beads, chickens, or labor, negotiated exchange has existed forever.  Yet only in Americans, it seems, has it become so much a part of the culture - a universal, unquestioned, innate belief in the right and rightness of setting prices and negotiating for profit.   

Americans have taken capitalism to an iconic level.  Not only is the economy based on market principles, but each and every one operates by the same rules every day of the year.  Whether marital relations or buying a new car, the playbook is the same.  Men negotiate for sex, and women to avoid it.  Used car dealers chop the clock, and buyers are skeptical.  The minute we wake up in the morning, the meter is running. 

And so it is that the Trump revolution is among many other things a revolt against neo-socialist progressivism.  Giving my money (tax revenues) away to someone who has not earned their own and has no intention of so doing, goes against the grain.  Affirmative action - giving a valued university placement to an unqualified applicant and paying his tuition while refusing entry to a full-freight-paying qualified one, is a corruption of foundational values.  

Restricting private enterprise - the essential human activity since the first human settlements - in the interest of vague notions of 'equity', ignores history, human nature, and the value of opportunity. Disrupting market forces for subjective, unproven, arrogated assumptions is wrong and wrong again. 

The so-called Robber Barons - the industrialists who in a laissez-faire era of capitalism built the foundations of the American economic empire - were single-minded and absolute in their desire to build, to dominate, and control.  As a result of the intellectual energy, ambition, and pure desire of Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, and Morgan America would rule the world and their pockets would be filled with cash.

 

It didn't take long before progressives took umbrage at this accumulation of wealth, never looking beyond money to the factories, railroads, and financial institutions created and expanded by these men.  So much money in private hands - and ill-gotten money at that, amassed on the backs of the poor - was immoral, and should not stand; and so big government was born and raised, and attempt was thereafter made to quiet the private enterprise of every individual and more importantly to quiet the very entrepreneurial, valuating nature of them. 

The Land of Giveaway reached its nadir in the recently concluded Biden-Harris Administration in Washington.  Government money was there for the asking.  Billions of dollars of tax revenues were spent on imaginary infrastructure projects, unproven social programs, and investments in wildly erratic 'environmentally healthy' programs made. Worse, individual responsibility whether financial, economic, or social, was demeaned and dismissed. Communitarianism, a transparent re-introduction of failed socialist schemes, an idolatry of race, gender, and ethnicity served up the expense of individualism became the zeitgeist. 

It is no wonder that a counter-revolution was in order.  It's tenets are simple: keep what you earn, and expect no one to pay for you; invest, profit, and benefit from your own labor; supply and demand is the law of the land; government has no business in how you run your affairs; 'can' instead of 'should' is the byword of the new generation. 

The new Trump Administration will not only dramatically reduce the size of government and reduce dependence on it; and not only will release the productive energy of the private sector, but will reset the ethical compass - individualism, unrestricted personal enterprise and interchange, and the restoration of the individual to social primacy.  This last, among all else, is the centerpiece of the Trump revolution. 

The nagging, hectoring, badgering, and intimidation by th so-called social reformers of the Left is over. Identity politics is a thing of the past - no one will be given an artificially confected suit of correctness, no one will be obliged to bow down to blackness, gayness, or any other -ness. Everyone will pull his own weight, and the human dynamics that have always ruled the configuration of society will be freed to do so once again. 

'Government is not the solution', said Ronald Reagan. 'Government is the problem', and only Donald Trump in his second term in office will finally, and once and for all, address the issue. 

Is there a role for government? Yes, but limited.  The Constitution is clear about one and only one role - national defense.  The other government agencies have been created and accrued over time with little logic and less national interest.  They are assumed to be necessary but have never been called to justify why. What are their objectives, how were they derived, have they been measured for impact and performance, and could they have been met better by the private sector?

The Trump Administration will ask these questions and demand answers. 

Divisive America, A Problem? - Hardly, Clash Not Compromise Has Been History's And Darwin's Lesson

A recent article in a national newsmagazine bemoaned the fact that the country had reverted to what the writer saw as a tribally primitive land, ruled by pettiness, outrageous shamanistic claims, and a bullying righteousness.  

Of course he took the Right to task for returning America to such a Paleolithic place - they are the ones who, ignorant, indulgent, and credulous, are responsible for democracy dying in darkness.  Locked in their squirrel-hunting, bass boat woodsheds, they see nothing but drying coonskins and rat shit, come out to vote for an idolater, a brutish clown, and go back in. 

Yes, the country is divided along party, cultural and political lines; and yes the clashes are often untamed, certainly intemperate, and as ad hominem and barbaric, but no more than the good ol' days of Early America.  In the election between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson one of Adams' handbills accused Jackson of being a cannibal, that after massacring over 500 Indians one evening, “the blood thirsty Jackson began again to show his cannibal propensities, by ordering his Bowman to dress a dozen of these Indian bodies for his breakfast, which he devoured without leaving even a fragment.” 

A supporter of Adams named Charles Hammond, in an editorial in the Cincinnati Gazette, wrote (and emphasis is his), “General Jackson’s mother was a COMMON PROSTITUTE brought to this country by British soldiers. She afterwards married a MULATTO MAN, with whom she had several children, of which General JACKSON IS ONE!!!”

Anyone who has paid even scant attention to modern American politics knows that nothing has changed.  Campaigns have been smarmy, nasty affairs straight out of barrooms, brothels, and poolhalls. The Left's witch hunting of Donald Trump - the lawfare, charges from buggery to treachery, attempts to derail, upset, discombobulate his campaign were right out of the American playbook. 

So, has the country sunk into infamy - a country with no respect for law, the judicial process, fair play, and respect? Of course not, since it has always been this way, the barmy nastiness sometimes couched in irony and innuendo, but only steps away from the bare-knuckle affairs far more common in political history. 

Are we more divided than ever? Perhaps yes, but so what?  History shows only that the clash of civilizations, societies, and cultures is permanent; and that one side will always prevail.  Along the way civilization - art, literature, science, and its darker corollaries - will be spread until thwarted.  Napoleon met his Waterloo.  Eventually Genghis Khan's Mongol-Turkic successors were turned back.  Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were beheaded, Robespierre ran amok and was silenced, the Russian Revolution introduced the world to Communism and after infecting much of it, was itself overthrown, discredited and dismissed. 

Pressure builds up until revolution breaks out.  The French and Russian Revolutions did not happen overnight.  It took years of oppression and frustration for the populace to finally act.  The American Revolution was no different, and only a casus belli, The Boston Tea Party, finally caused it to erupt. 

America today is no different.  After four year of the Left’s hectoring, shaming, dismissively arrogant assumptions of right, a coalition of Americans have had enough.  Tired of being called 'garbage' and 'deplorables', tossed aside like trash, given no more respect than curbside litter, they revolted.  

They were not the prognathous-jawed, thick-foreheaded Neanderthals assumed by the righteous Left.  They wanted no part or the Godless, transvestite, black idolatrous, socialist vision foisted upon them.  Nor did they want the received wisdom and arrogated authority of official Washington, Right or Left. 

It is right to be divisive, for that is how fundamental structural change happens - revolution.  It is Darwinism at its most obvious.  Political philosophy is no different than a newt's eye or a salamander's webbing.  The conflict between an originalist, nativist, fundamentalist Right and a fantastical progressivist Left is normal and expected.  The air must be cleared.  The Right will no longer knuckle under to the presumptuous and arrogant demands of the Left.  

Ronald Reagan began the movement, and Republican presidents followed suit.  The neo-socialist welfare state of FDR was questioned and challenged.  The Left was still old fashioned, labor-oriented, community organizing, and communitarian.  It gave a good fight, ruled now and again, but never had it coalesced into the bolus of viral political animus of today.  

The Right wasn't just wrong, they were dead wrong; and evil besides.  Donald Trump was not just a populist trouble maker, a bombastic showman, and a vaudevillian.  He was the spawn of the devil and should be treated as such. 

And so the divisions and divisiveness of the country increased and quite naturally so.  It was a matter of principle, long held, historic, and permanent said the Right.  It was a matter of moral vision, said the Left, a New Age vision of equality which brooked no opposition.  An existential moment. 

The resounding victory of Donald Trump in 2024 was the first explosive step toward redressing the imbalance.  It was not - as progressives rightly observed - simply an electoral victory but a cultural one.  Gone would be the old pillars of power - the bloated bureaucracy, the notional righteousness of the ruling elite, the internationalist, environmentalist, faux communitarian ethos of the Left; and in their place would be a proudly nationalistic government.  Gone would be any trace of fabulist sexuality, the idolatry of racial identity, the inclusiveness of slums and dysfunction, and the myth of wealth equality. 

The Left is flummoxed, discombobulated, and gobsmacked.  They don't know what hit them.  The juggernaut was supposed to be on their watch.  Utopia was supposed to be at hand; and now, licking their wounds, headed back to the kennel, they are dazed and confused. 

They have nothing to go on but the old, tired, vindictive howls of 'Racist! Misogynist! Homophobe!', and will need to get their heads together and come up with something, anything to rid the capital of this....this scourge!

They probably will figure something out, but not until it's too late.  At the same time, pendulums being what they are, as much as conservatives may hope for an unbridled future ad perpetuam, it won't be.  So these four years must be truly upsetting - the wrecking crew is already in place, and on Day One the demolition will begin.  There will be little left of the progressive agenda after four years if the crew does their job quickly, thoroughly, and well.  

It will be a major polar shift - away from official Washington to the states and their residents.  A radical populism the country has never seen. 

So while the Left is still wondering wha' happened? the new Administration will not stop until 'Mission Accomplished' - that ironically naive pronouncement by George Bush which will now be realized.