By Wayne Allensworth
For years — no, decades — patriots have lamented the GOP politicians’ reluctance to wield power once they have it. Our opponents had no compunctions about that, of course, and they dug a mighty deep hole for us. That’s not true any longer. Donald Trump promised he would use all the authority of the presidency on our behalf and turn back the dismal globalist-leftist tide. And he’s doing it.
The incident with Colombia is a case in point: When the narcostate refused to accept Colombian illegal-alien deportees, Trump threatened it with tariffs and visa restrictions. Colombian President Gustavo Petro quickly surrendered. Trump is rounding up criminal illegals and cleaning house. He secured a Gaza ceasefire that the Biden administration either wouldn’t or couldn’t accomplish, has designated the Mexican drug cartels terrorist organizations, and across the board has acted to protect and defend this country. Our country.
America is not an idea to Trump, but a real place with concrete interests. Trump is moving in the direction of extricating the United States from the Ukrainian quagmire. Under Trump, America will no longer be a doormat, or a candy store that the globalists endlessly raid to finance their utopian schemes. Whether Trump is serious about acquiring all or part of Greenland, I don’t know — and I don’t really care. It has not become a distraction taking him away from his primary task of securing the nation at home. If he kicks the Chinese out of the Canal Zone, more power to him. I much prefer a president wielding his “big stick” to secure America, drain the Swamp, and focus on the Western Hemisphere over one who plays the managerial regime’s global great game.
Whatever his faults, Trump’s many virtues make up for them. If his bull-in-a China-closet style upsets some folks, including Republicans, just remember what dire straits this country has been in for decades. For once, an American president is acting as if the dangers to our security, sovereignty, independence, and even existence as a coherent nation were real, not merely a rhetorical device for GOP politicians to use during a campaign. And his actions are popular: Trump’s approval rating is now at an all-time high, higher than at any point during his first term. The establishment is reeling, as it and its minions suddenly realize that a sizable contingent of the ordinary people it has treated with condescension and contempt do not love them.
The world is watching. Putin has sent signals that he is ready to talk — he has praised Trump’s courage after the assassination attempt on him in Pennsylvania and has agreed with the newly inaugurated president that if he and not Joe Biden had been in office after the 2020 election, the crisis that resulted in the Ukraine War might not have taken place. Trump is somebody Russian President Vladimir Putin can understand. Yet he, and perhaps other leaders around the globe, will watch to see how Trump’s fight with the globalist Blob goes before getting serious about possible negotiations. Putin will want to determine whether Trump can deliver on any agreement reached over Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Trump halted all foreign aid pending a review of those programs, a review that may halt further aid to Ukraine as well. True, the program is imperfect, predictably leaving a loophole for the Israelis. But this observer is confident that whatever happens in the Middle East, or concerning talks on Ukraine, or regarding curtailing Chinese influence, the United States is far less likely to go to war with Russia, Iran, or China under Trump. He has made it abundantly clear that staying out of wars is a major foreign policy goal for his administration. That doesn’t mean he won’t wield the “big stick” on occasion, perhaps in ways that may be grating to non-interventionist sensibilities. But he is far less inclined to risk a major war than the globalists, intoxicated with hubris, were.
All of this raises a question: Why didn’t past Republican presidents act as decisively as Trump has to end, say, the migrant invasion of our country? Why didn’t they act to reform the permanent bureaucracy, which they constantly complained about? Why didn’t they take on so-called “affirmative action” that violated the rights of so many Americans? It was partly a matter of will. Trump has it and they didn’t. Trump has done more in one week to fight those battles than his nominally conservative predecessors ever did. All we heard were excuses about why they couldn’t act. But it’s clear now that they simply had no desire to act. And they, too, justified wars and interventions in places nobody ever heard of for reasons that were hard to explain. They, too, were part of the problem, and we were far too easily placated by political slogans and lots of flag waving.
This fight is just beginning, and we should not let down our guard or forget that there are a lot of problems that government action can’t solve. We will have to start with ourselves, our families, and our neighborhoods as well as support the administration. We are embroiled in what is essentially a religious battle. But Trump is our man. And the time to strike relentlessly and without letting up is now. The political “perfect storm” your observer saw coming has taken place, giving the new administration a window of opportunity to act. Our enemies will reorganize and fight back.
Pray for Trump and his team.
Chronicles contributor Wayne Allensworth is the author of The Russian Question: Nationalism, Modernization, and Post-Communist Russia, and a novel, Field of Blood. For thirty-two years, he worked as an analyst and Russia area expert in the US intelligence community.
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