By Wayne Allensworth
It has been my hope that a more thoughtful, circumspect President-elect Donald Trump, one who could wisely choose U.S. Senator J.D. Vance as his vice president, learned something from his first joust with The Swamp. It appears that he has. Trump is serious about his agenda. He will not appoint neoconservatives and GOP backstabbers like Niki Haley, Tom Cotton, and Mike Pompeo to cabinet positions. Trump’s “X-Men” are already proving their worth on his transition team: Robert Kennedy Jr. is shooting down neocon Marco Rubio’s angling for secretary of state. It’s likely that some of the holdovers from the GOP’s checkered past will change their stripes, sensing that the direction of the political winds has changed, but Trump and his team must remain vigilant. The battle over the Senate majority leadership will be a critical part of the struggle with holdover establishment Republicans. The perfect political storm we had hoped for has come to pass. Now it’s time to move and move quickly to take advantage of the opening offered by Trump’s blowout win over the hapless Harris-Walz ticket.
And the signs are again, good ones: The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump will act quickly to secure the southern border and begin deportations. It’s likely that a significant number of illegal aliens in this country will self-deport once that begins, or even once they hear about Trump’s plans. The globalist Blob had erased our borders to permanently transform the country demographically.
As reported by the WSJ:
“The behind-the-scenes discussions, which started months before the election and have picked up in the days since Trump’s victory, include policy changes required to increase deportations, according to people working on the presidential transition, members of Congress and others close to the president-elect.
Among the changes: revoking a Biden administration policy directing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement not to pursue immigrants in the country illegally who haven’t committed other crimes and making changes to the immigration court system to speed up cases. Trump’s allies have said they are planning first to focus on immigrants in the country illegally who have received final orders of deportation from an immigration court, of which there are about 1.3 million, as well as those with other criminal convictions or charges.”
We can’t reverse all of the damage that has been done, but we genuinely progress on that front, even as the Trump-Vance team secured unprecedented support from minorities and forged a new America First coalition, a Coalition of the Sane. That Trump carried 12 of 14 heavily Hispanic counties in South Texas that have suffered from the alien invasion tells the story: Trump did not “Hispander,” as clueless GOPers have in the past. Those voters want to live in America, not Mexico or Central America. They instinctively understand that we can’t have a country without a border and that masses of illegal aliens entering the country will drive down working-class wages.
The New York Times reported on the shift to Trump:
“Eight of the top 10 Democratic counties that most swung toward Mr. Trump on Tuesday were on the Texas border or within a short drive…One of the biggest swings came in Starr County, a rural area of 65,000 people dotted with small towns where sections of border wall have been rising, incomes are low and many travel long distances to jobs in the West Texas oil fields. The county flipped Republican on Tuesday, backing Mr. Trump by about 16 percentage points. He lost the county to Hillary Clinton by 60 points in 2016.”
Hispanic voters, as the Times reported, feared that the Democrats would undermine the oil and gas industry and their livelihoods.
Trump intends to Drain the Swamp and weaken the Deep State. He made his intentions clear in March 2023 in a video and news release that explained his Agenda 47:
- Trump will re-issue an executive order on removing “rogue bureaucrats”—that is, the pod people who refused to follow presidential directives. He promised to clean house and get rid of “corrupt actors” in the intelligence apparatus, i.e. those who had taken part in the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign’s “Russiagate” hoax and otherwise sought to undermine his presidency. Trump further promised to “overhaul” departments and agencies that had been weaponized against the left’s political opponents. On top of that, Trump pledged to reform the FISA courts whose warrants were used to spy on his administration under false pretenses.
- The president-elect stated that he would establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to declassify and publish all documents on Deep State spying, censorship, and corruption.
- Trump said that his administration would pursue government leakers who had colluded with “the fake news” to “deliberately weave false narratives and subvert our government and our democracy.”
- Every inspector general will be independent of and physically separated from the departments they oversee so that they do not become the protectors of the Deep State.
- Trump will ask Congress to establish an independent auditing system to monitor the intelligence agencies. He aims to ensure they are not spying on citizens, running disinformation campaigns, or engaged in the political spying that was carried out against his campaign.
- The president-elect pledged to continue efforts launched during his first administration to move parts of the vast federal bureaucracy outside the Washington Swamp, effectively cutting down the concentration of administrative power in D.C.
- Trump aims to ban federal bureaucrats from taking jobs at the companies they regulate. Trump specifically mentioned the FDA — calling Bobby Kennedy, Jr! — and its regulatory capture of the very body that was supposed to oversee it.
- Finally, Donald Trump promised to support a constitutional amendment imposing term limits on members of Congress.
He ended his remarks with this statement:
“This is how I will shatter the deep state and restore government that is controlled by the people and for the people.”
Bravo! Godspeed, Mr. President.
When the fake news media were pushing claims of Trump becoming a dictator, of seeking revenge on his opponents, who had been avenging Trump’s 2016 victory for years, this is what they meant: That a duly elected president would reign in an out-of-control Swamp that had become a power unto itself. That insubordinate bureaucrats would be fired. That the administrative state would be cut down to size. This is a start, my friends, but only a start. The Blob, whose minions are currently demoralized, will regroup and resist. But I hope and pray that some of the people who work in Washington and were taken in by false narratives or trapped by the bureaucratic machinery will take stock of what has happened and reassess their loyalties.
I know that there are decent and intelligent people there and am hoping for the best.
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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