Is It Time To Cut Trump Loose?

And if it is time to cut Trump loose, defenders of the American tradition of culture and governance face two questions:

1. What does this say about the state of America today? And,

2. Who could we support?

I’m not writing off Ron DeSantis. I like a lot of what he’s said—and done. People are pointing out that he hasn’t got rich in politics, yet, and that must mean something. On the other hand, there seems to be little to no doubt that DeSantis is the Establishment pick for now. That’s concerning. It probably means that the Deep State and the Big Money people think they can “work with” him.

Who else is there? For now I only see Trump as the alternative, or vice versa—DeSantis as the alternative to Trump. Anyone else right now is a dark horse, for sure.

Why am I bringing this up?

For the record, I don’t regret either of my two votes for Trump.

Nor am I forgetting the odds that Trump overcame, the hell he went through, to save America from a truly horrifying fate in 2016. The Russia Hoax, and the faux impeachments, the betrayals. His steadfast support for SCOTUS nominees who have given America a measure of hope. His exposure of the Deep State and its tentacles that reach throughout the federal government and the Uniparty Establishment. The fake 2020 election and the vindictive Deep State/Establishment persecution of Trump—and his refusal to back down.

All this is remarkable and uplifting.

But, then, I’m not forgetting the entire Covid Regime and the ravages that regime has worked on the character and institutions of this country—and Trump’s refusal to man up to his role in it.

And now this:

Gay Old Time At Mar-A-Lago

Rod Dreher’s post is largely a quote from a Politico story. And, yes, I’m well aware of Dreher’s own shortcomings:

I’m old enough to remember the image above in 2017, when then-President Trump met in the Oval Office with conservative Protestant leaders — men who would become among his greatest public supporters, seeing in Trump a God-ordained secular political savior. To be fair, Trump turned out to be a lot better than I expected him to be, from a Christian point of view, especially in his judicial appointments. But I wonder how the old-school MAGApalians regard this report from Politico. Excerpt:

Hundreds of guests in tuxedos of all styles — sequined, quilted, velvet — and colorful gowns sipped on Trump-branded champagne and martinis. Between courses of steak and bite-sized Key lime pie, they danced to “YMCA” and “Macho Man,” the disco anthems at Trump rallies.

Thursday night’s Log Cabin Republicans’ “Spirit of Lincoln” gala in the main ballroom of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago beachfront club was a joyous celebration of gay rights and — in a case of ironic timing — the historic same-sex marriage law signed by President Joe Biden days earlier.

The long-planned event in honor of the conservative LGBTQ organization’s 45th anniversary brought in Republican notables like former Ambassador Ric Grenell, Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.), former State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus, who emceed the evening in a feathered turquoise gown, and former GOP gubernatorial candidate from Arizona Kari Lake, who was swarmed by guests eager to meet her and take a photo.

But the main attraction, obviously, was Trump. He received a standing ovation after delivering an enthusiastic affirmation of gay rights not often heard in the GOP.

“We are fighting for the gay community, and we are fighting and fighting hard,” the former president and 2024 candidate said. “With the help of many of the people here tonight in recent years, our movement has taken incredible strides, the strides you’ve made here is incredible.”

Trump hosted a Mar-A-Lago party at which he identified the LGBT rights cause as “our movement”. [Apologies: I thought Morgan Ortagus was a man.]

Somebody’s being made a fool of here, and I don’t think it’s the Log Cabin Republicans.

Not my party, not my movement—not politically, not culturally.

This is important. The trans mania, the developing pedo mania, the queerness mania that we see everywhere—it all follows from this “our movement”.

Now, follow me on this.

Yesterday at The Saker there was a very well thought out article that compared the Roman drive to destroy Carthage to the current mania among our elites to destroy Russia. It’s called simply Carthage Must Be Destroyed. Read it all, it’s good.

The author naturally starts with the history of Cato the Elder’s crusade to utterly destroy Carthage, which had already been soundly defeated in the Second Punic War and subordinated to Roman might. He then goes on to compare that historic situation to Russia after the Cold War:

Moscow as the New Carthage

The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 was not the result of losing a war. It was caused by the failed policies of a centralized economy, exacerbated by American manipulation of the oil markets, and a costly American-backed guerilla war in Afghanistan. The United States moved in with “shock therapy” economic advisors and took the opportunity to restructure a confused and gullible Russia, including writing a new constitution.

For Russia the collapse of the Soviet Union had many similarities to the loss of Carthage in the Second Punic War.

Despite making peace with their former adversary, and honoring their treaties, Russia found that she could never be accepted as a friend on equal terms by the Western world order. And this was for the very same reason that Carthage could never be tolerated by Rome. Russia was and is in every way an equal to the Anglo-American Empire.

Ever since Vladimir Putin became President of Russia, the chorus of the West has become louder and louder that Putin must go. While they cannot say it aloud yet, what they really mean is “Russia must be destroyed!”

If Russia had continued the policy of submission to Western control that was begun by Boris Yeltsin, we can be assured that Moscow would have eventually met the same fate as Carthage from the Anglo-American Empire.

However, the appointment of Vladimir Putin as President of Russia derailed their plans. Under his rule Russia has steadily reasserted her former leadership and strength against the machinations of the Anglo-American Empire.

But their are reasons for the Anglo-American Empire’s hatred for Russia that go beyond the fear of Eurasian competition. I’ll skip the author’s accounts of various false flag operations perpetrated against Russia and Putin and the author’s fear of a nuclear false flag. It’s lengthy and worth reading, but we resume here, with the concluding section:

The End of Mutually Assured Destruction

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The problem is that most humans are only rational some of the time. And some small percentage of us may reach a state of complete irrationality most of the time.

Furthermore, humans have a strange tendency on rare occasions to go mad together in crowds, not unlike lemmings who follow each other over the cliff into the sea. Nazi Germany in the 1930s comes to mind.

While Russia has recently been trying to protect herself from the acidic influence of Western imposed sodomy, the West has fully embraced it. And that, not merely as one of many valid options, but as a totalitarian state religion that children must be indoctrinated into. This is what Mr. Putin meant when he said that the West has become Satanic.

Sodomy is not merely an individual choice. It is a suicidal choice both for the individual and for human society. Consistent sodomites have no offspring, so they must recruit the offspring of normal people in order to grow in numbers. But in the end, a civilization that embraces sodomy as the preferred lifestyle will completely collapse morally, economically, and numerically.

The West has come under the spell of a death cult, currently led by the World Economic Forum. Their irrational desire to deindustrialize and depopulate the world in the name of environmentalism and technocracy can only be described as insanity. Ultimately both sodomy and Malthusian environmentalism are rejections of our Creator, and the mandate to be fruitful, multiply, and exercise dominion over the Earth and its living creatures. It is a rejection of the mission of transforming the Earth from wilderness and wasteland into a garden.

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; All those who hate me love death. (Proverbs 8:36)

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Not my movement, and if it’s Trump’s movement now, then it’s time for me to cut him loose and consider alternatives. Not just alternative people, business more or less as usual, but alternative movements. It’s tough.