A Restive Lion Wintering in Mar-a-Lago
Elections have consequences. Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.
—Stephen K. Bannon
Just why exactly was it that you might not have voted for Donald Trump in 2020?
Was it because of the strongest economy in modern history that Trump created, with record low unemployment, nary a whiff of inflation, and rising real wages, particularly for blue-collar and black and brown Americans?
Or was it because Trump cracked down on Communist China’s economic aggression, forced an uneasy peace upon North Korea and Iran, and kept Vladimir Putin tightly pinned down in a strategic box?
Or maybe it was Trump’s securing of our southern border and global supply chains while he rebuilt America’s manufacturing and defense industrial base?
Or maybe, just maybe, it was those damnable tweets.
If so, how’s that working out?
Clearly, not very well, as under the Joe Biden regime, everything that can go wrong seemingly is going wrong.
On the economic front, the Biden White House is grappling with a virulent stagflation, the likes of which we have not seen since the 1970s.1 Amidst slow growth and recession, inflation has soared even as real wages have fallen.2 While Wall Street hedges its bets and Corporate America raises prices, Main Street and blue-collar America are bearing the entire economic burden.
Not coincidentally, on our southern border, millions of illegal aliens have blown by what once was a well-functioning border wall and a solid cadre of Customs and Border Patrol agents.3 That border is now in complete disarray as drug cartels and child traffickers transport huddled masses from around the world to our country.4
Never mind that it is black and brown and blue-collar Americans who now find themselves suffering from higher unemployment and stagnant wages from this invasion. Never mind that American schoolchildren are being forced to sit in ever more crowded classrooms as diseases like tuberculosis, chickenpox, and measles once thought to be under control now make a comeback in Joe Biden’s Woke America.5
Yet, as bad as our economy and southern border are, it may be worse on the foreign policy front—and certainly more dangerous.
•A Biden-bungled Afghanistan has become a breeding ground and sanctuary for all manner of Death to America Radical Islamists;6
•Iran is once again fomenting state-sponsored terrorism even as the missiles once again fly in the skies over North Korea on their way perhaps one day as far as Seattle, Chicago, and New York;
•Communist China’s dictator Xi Jinping has renewed his march for global domination from Africa and Latin America to the Taiwan Strait;
•A revanchist Vladimir Putin has accelerated his bid to recapture the old countries of the Soviet Union, including a battered and bleeding Ukraine;7 and
•Xi and Putin themselves have formed an unholy alliance to mutually reinforce their imperialist and revanchist claims.
Meanwhile, with the days of Trump energy independence for America long gone, frantic calls from the Oval Office and State Department beg hostiles like Venezuela for oil even as the fracking wells of North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and Texas remain under siege from a Let Them Eat Solar, Green Raw Deal Left.8
Then, there is this irony: far more people have died under the Biden regime from a virus spawned by the Chinese Communist Party than under Donald Trump’s watch.9 Wasn’t Trump supposed to be the incompetent one with blood on his hands?
Faced with this bleak landscape, many Americans who voted for Joe Biden are suffering from a terminal case of buyer’s remorse. According to poll after poll, if the election were held today, Trump would beat Biden handily.10 Meanwhile, more than a third of American voters want the 2020 election overturned.11 Yes, overturned!
None of this American angst should come as a surprise. During the 2020 election, I and others repeatedly warned of the dangers of turning the keys of the White House over to a puppet of the radical Democrats and to a man with clearly diminished mental capacity. Yet far too many Americans voted against an incumbent president who, simply based on this stellar record, does indeed qualify for consideration as one of the greatest presidents in American history, certainly on the economy and even perhaps on foreign policy.
So how exactly did this abomination happen? Just why is a true lion now taking his restive winters in Florida at Mar-a-Lago even as a forgetful pack mule for globalism and corporate corruption sits behind the Resolute Desk in Washington, DC?
Read on, dear reader, and all shall be revealed.