Trump's provisional Presidency
Trump's eccentric presidency will fail because he is an egoist presiding over an oligarchy. He wants to save the empire at the expense of the beleaguered Republic.
I am surprised that in his inaugural speech President Trump did not thank the Democratic party for propelling him to the presidency. The Democrats made two catastrophic sequential errors by advancing first Hillary Clinton and then Joe Biden as presidential candidates. Both were easy targets for a maverick populist to arrive on the scene and blow them out of the water. For the Democrats credentials and age didn’t matter just any body with a pulse would do.
Eisenhower warned that anybody over 70 should not be in the presidency but the raging gerontocracy is not to be denied. In other words it should not be a retirement home for aging gentry.
Trump has arrived in office with the same dilemma Obama faced, and that is the alligator swamp to be cleared which is not a one person job. Obama like all previous presidents had all the usual greeters waiting at the door to snuff out any good intentions he might have had.
For the Empire, Presidents are like Hors d’oeuvres at a beach party swallowed whole and soon forgotten.
Trump arrives with a jumbled cult of war hawks and oligarchs aka known as a cabinet and the world is receiving its marching orders—that it has come to this. But Trump may have already served his purpose by delivering his audacious “shock doctrine”.
His presidency has undeniably served as a wake-up call for drastic reform, touching on numerous areas and challenging the status quo. This disruptive approach, while controversial, underscores a core value of the presidency: the ability to provoke change and spark necessary conversations. In this sense, he might be seen as a provisional leader, one whose tenure is so appalling it will set the stage for future transformations, leading the way for other administrations to follow.
Lest we forget Trump is a very angry man avenging his savage treatment by the Biden regime. Revenge should always be served as a cold plate and not at the expense of the rest of the world. Where there is great haste and resounding impertinence wisdom and prudence are gutted .
The Republican party is reactionary which goes against the essence of conservatism as defined by Edmund Burke, the founder of Conservatism. For Burke change and governance must be evolutionary and progressive. It must be organic, not locked down in tyrannical exceptionalist values and subversions.
In 1911 Sociologist Robert Michels wrote his book Political Parties which was a study in oligarchic tendencies in modern democracies. He documented how democracies at their outset are truly open and democratic, but with time they become more authoritarian, totalitarian and ultimately “locked in the iron law of oligarchy”.
Half a century later French philosopher Simone Weil drew a similar conclusion when she wrote her book on the Abolition of Political Parties as she too saw how they ultimately become totalitarian and oligarchic. She would be astounded to see how effectively and accommodatingly the Democratic and Republican parties have neutered themselves out of existence to facilitate the newest oligarchy.
Oddly enough Joe Biden mentioned the crisis of oligarchy in his farewell speech; “Today an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead." He was elected president and was retired in an oligarchy.
Trump’s demagoguery is flagrant and unrepentant when he states in his inaugural address , “America will soon be greater, stronger, and far more exceptional than ever before. We will be a nation like no other, full of compassion, courage, and exceptionalism. Our power will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a world that has been angry, violent, and totally unpredictable."
He is the child of American hubris which is destroying America and the West. He refuses to see the utter folly of America’s so called ”exceptionalism” and the damage it has done to his own country and the world. He practices the politics of scapegoating and perversions of his predecessors when he accuses the world of being “angry, violent, and totally unpredictable” when all three are the hallmarks of the American empire so drunk on power trying to conquer the world that was never its to have.
This one paragraph sinks his presidency as it expresses the same delusional megalomanical aspirations that have brought the American Republic to the brink of collapse. He insists on being another stooge for the empire when the Republic desperately needs a statesman who can restore truth, honesty and integrity to politics and revive America for Americans not as appendages to a parasitic empire.
Everything old is new again, and Trump appears unconcerned about Blowback, domestically and globally as defined by the eminent Chalmers Johnson.
In 2003 George Bush Jr. used “shock and awe” to turn Iraq into the ruined state it still is today. Now in 2025 Trump is going global and the rubble is going to be hemispheric, atmospheric, and apocalyptic.
He should go back to making chip shots from a sand trap with the wrong club.
The world needs some optimists today so perhaps I should just shut up. The corrupt Supreme Court gave the green light to bribery with its Citizens United decision. Unsurprisingly, we now have a thoroughly corrupt congress which is highly unlikely to act to reverse that grotesque decision, the one that has made them so rich. When the Senate voted on an additional eight billion dollars to continue the on-going genocide in Gaza, as I recall only 18 or 19 of the 100 US Senators opposed it. With a Senate like that, a House whose membership depends on bribes solicited every two years, and with presidents the likes of numbers 46 and 47, is there any way back for the United States? I'm old and don't expect to see it but I would like to see signs of a turnaround for the world my grandchildren will inhabit.
There is no beleaguered Republic. There is only the Empire, and it's been that way for at LEAST 24 years. Bush v. Gore was the final death knell.
Trump was elected on a promise to end the Empire and restore the Republic. It was the Democrats who were telling us to celebrate the glory of the Empire, not Trump.
It was the Democrats who censored social media, not Trump. It's the Democrats who tell us that we are required to respect our corrupted institutions and our corrupt officials, not Trump. It was the Democrats who persecuted their chief political opponents, not Trump. It was the Democrats who enabled both the Ukraine War and the Gaza Genocide, not Trump.
EVERY time the Democrats accuse Trump of something, it is for something that they themselves either have done, are doing now, or want to do in the future. Every. Single. Time.
You really need to understand this. Trump's no knight in shining armor. He's certainly no Luke Skywalker who will overthrow the Evil Empire. He's a deeply flawed human being; even worse, he's a capitalist.
But he's no Fascist. He IS a sign most Americans want a peaceful Republic over a warmongering Empire, and that we are seeing through the lies of our government.
Please start seeing through them as well. Better an egoist than a globalist.