Legacy media figures and social media profiles are trying to explain what happened on Tuesday in a predictable way: by condemning America as a racist and sexist country. I don’t know if they will every come around to the truth, but here it is if they ever decide to: Kamala Harris didn’t lose because she is a woman, or black, or Asian. Harris lost because a majority of states and an absolute majority of Americans rejected progressive policy and politics and voted for Donald Trump and populist-nationalism.
Until progressives take the time to understand why Americans wanted Trump as President, and why they want America First policies, they’re going to have a devil of a time winning elections in the future—even if they throw money at them (Democrats three to every one Republican dollar this time around). I can guarantee progressives that shaming and trashing their fellow Americans isn’t going to cut it. Folks are over that. Mutual knowledge was realized big time November 5, 2024.
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Following up on something I told you several weeks ago, this from The New York Post: “Last year, the bureau initially estimated that violent crime slipped nationwide by 2.1% in 2022 compared to 2021. But this past September, the FBI quietly released a revision showing that violent crime actually rose 4.5% in that time frame” (source). This is an example of how progressives politicize crime statistics.
This development strongly suggests that the FBI cooked the books so the Biden-Harris Administration could claim that crime was down under their watch in order to make a stronger case for reelection. This is what House members are trying to determine. If this was intentional, it would constitute significant election interference.
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This isn’t the first time the administrative apparatus hid or obscured information to interfere with an election. Before the 2020 election, the FBI hid the Hunter Biden laptop from the public for several months. When Rudolph Giuliani and associates revealed the existence of the laptop, even sharing some of its content, more than fifty intelligence officials wrote an open letter, which was widely circulated, claiming it was “Russian disinformation.” They did this knowing that the laptop was authentic. In other words, they lied; the CIA ran cover for the FBI to protect the Biden-Harris campaign.
Polling data shows that had the laptop been a campaign issue a significant portion of the electorate would likely have instead voted for Trump. For example, a survey of 1,335 adults conducted by the Technometrica Institute of Policy and Politics (TIPP) found that nearly 80 percent of Americans believe that President Donald Trump likely would have won reelection if voters had known the truth about Hunter Biden’s laptop (source).
When we say that the 2020 election was rigged, it’s things like this that we’re talking about. The deep state doesn’t want Donald Trump to be president because his America First stance complicates the globalist project to incorporate the American populace into the transnational political-legal order. Tens of millions of Americans saw through the lies this time. They remembered the Hunter Biden laptop lie, and they reflected on the myriad of other lies—the lockdowns, social distancing, masks, vaccines, “safe and effective,” “suckers and losers,” “good people on both sides,” “bloodbath,” “dictator on day one,” “inject bleach,” “drink fishtanks cleaner,” “eat horse paste,” ad infinitum.
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As I know many of you have figured out (and if not, read more Freedom and Reason), fascism is not the presence of a charismatic leader who talks tough or other such reductive nonsense. Fascism is corporate statism, i.e., an unelected, undemocratic, and illiberal structure and process of administrative and technocratic control. When Democrats and progressives in the media tell us that Trump is a danger to democracy, what they really mean is that Trump is a danger to bureaucracy. People saw through that and voted in defiance of the demand that the people accept the illusions.
They could see that fascism protects the apparatus of bureaucratic control via the political manipulation of language and lying (along with lawfare, etc.). Many voters not only understood that Democrats and progressives lie constantly but why they lie. They now grasp why mainstream media lies. This is why the Democrats lost and the mainstream media is now more unpopular than Congress. Like Toto, the concern citizen pulled back the curtain to reveal the Great and Powerful Oz, only what was revealed was not a well-meaning huckster, but something dark and dangerous.
Elon Musk buying Twitter and turning into the free speech platform X was certainly a game changer. That’s why progressives despise Musk. For those who conflate liberal and progressives, you’d think they’d be thrilled that we’re on the threshold of a Kennedyesque moment, replete with rocket ships (literally grabbed from the sky) and satellites and plans for world peace. But, no, they hate what’s coming with the same passion they hated the Kennedys back then. That’s why they assassinated Jack and Bobby. And that’s why they tried to assassinate Trump—and probably will again. Their blown cover shatters the conflation.
I worry a great deal about Trump’s safety. He is a once in a generation talent operating in a political milieu that destroys talented people. Worse, he is a patriot. My hope is that he secures peace between Russia and the Ukraine, allows Russia to protect ethnic Russians in Ukraine, and pulls NATO far away from the Russian border—even better, pulls the United States from an alliance that should have gone away with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. But should Trump do these things, the military-industrial complex will have it in for him big time. The power elite did not like Jack Kennedy’s concern for peace in the world. Peace doesn’t sell weapon systems. They won’t take kindly to Trump’s push for world peace. They didn’t take kindly to it the first time around, as we all witnessed with our eyes and ears.
And they won’t take kindly to Trump’s moves to reign in the medical-industrial complex and Big Food, either. Just as corporate capitalism needs war to sell weapons, and the medical industry needs sick people to move its goods and services. Like dead Ukrainians, sick people are money makers. There are children to alter and mutate.
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Republicans don’t lump the LGB with the TQ. This confuses people in the bubble who think—like I did for before my deep dive—that trans is “gay adjacent.” This is why it’s so important to get out of the bubble. The bubble weaves the woke items together in a seemingly seamless tapestry. But pull a thread (they’re all loose and hanging) and the fabric unravels. To avoid this, progressives dare not pick at threads—or tolerate those who do.
It only took a few weeks of Steve Bannon’s War Room back in March of 2020 for me to realize that the populist movement was not only ascendant but the rediscovered liberal path. That’s why liberals like Bobby Kennedy, Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Naomi Wolf, Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, and many others have joined the movement. Already we hear Bannon and others taking care to use the word “progressive” to describe the threat to democracy instead of “liberal.”
Ever since that March when the technocrats made us hide our faces and stay away from each other—except for those participating in the color revolution that helped install the Biden-Harris regime—I have been writing about America’s political realignment on Freedom and Reason (which, by the way, has broken all previous records this year). What I argued then—and the past four years have only confirmed my thesis—that the “left-right” continuum makes little sense anymore.
Traditional labels actually line up like this: corporatists and progressives (authoritarians) on the one side, and liberals and conservatives (libertarians) on the other. The dynamic can also be rendered thusly: transnationalist (or globalists) versus patriotic nationalists. The latter is shamed for its libertarianism, but that’s what America is, or at least should be, all about, namely liberty. Once all that was sorted out, and the Republican Party reformed around the new dynamic, it was inevitable that liberals would move to the Republican Party. I expect they will continue to do so. (It feels like Jimmy Dore and his ilk are almost there, doesn’t it?)
The party is today more like the party at its inception, i.e, the party of individualism, innovation, and invention—and a patriotic commitment to our Union. To be sure, there were moments in between where it seemed the party would come closer to its original conception. But neoconservative and neoliberal hegemony took it off course (e.g., the Reagan presidency was hijacked by these tendencies). Indeed, these tendencies saw it form the Uniparty with Democrats. Bush, Sr., Clinton, Bush, Jr., Obama—these regimes constitute an unbroken string of Uniparty presidents. Now the neoconservatives and neoliberals are on the run, and it feels like morning in America.
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