The Return of Donald J. Trump
The Return of Donald J. Trump
Brian Cates
Brian Cates
June 14, 2021 Updated: June 14, 2021biggersmaller Print
Commentary
Right now, Donald J. Trump’s opponents can’t quite believe what they’re seeing.
Just a few short months ago, the “Swamp” denizens of Washington were breathing sighs of relief. They had done it! They had defeated the awful Trump, handed the White House to Joe Biden, and could now begin implementing all their cherished plans for a post-Trump America.
And then an amazing thing happened.
A twice-impeached former president who had supposedly incited an “insurrection” at the Capitol Building on Jan. 6 has returned—and he’s looking stronger than ever.
On the night of Saturday, June 5, Trump emerged to give only his second public speech since leaving the White House this past January. Trump was invited to hold court in front of an enthusiastic crowd at the state GOP Convention in Greenville, North Carolina.
This was not in the script that had been so carefully written. The former President Trump is supposed to be a historical footnote at this point. He’s supposed to be utterly destroyed, completely irrelevant, so radioactive nobody will go near him.
Not only is Trump not sulking in private in utter disgrace, he’s now exerting more direct control over the GOP than he ever did when he was in the White House.
Control the Money, Control The Party
The first quarter’s fundraising numbers revealed that Trump is in the process of raising a massive war chest to draw on in the 2022 and 2024 elections. Trump’s Save America PAC outraised the GOP almost 2 to 1 in the quarter, $85 million to $44 million.
So how did that happen?
At his big CPAC speech in late February and then in a released statement on March 9, Trump called for his supporters to begin sending their donations directly to him rather than to the GOP. While many legacy media commentators and top GOP politicians mocked and dismissed Trump’s Orlando speech as the ravings of a sore loser, it soon became apparent that the Trump base heard him and responded to his request. That money gives Trump an immense amount of clout.
And it didn’t take long for the real estate billionaire to begin exercising that clout. Trump played a role in getting Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) tossed from her GOP leadership seat and replaced by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.).
Trump also made a key move during his convention speech. After current North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr stated he will not seek reelection in 2022, former House Speaker Paul Ryan and the GOP establishment wing of the party quickly anointed their chosen successor: North Carolina House Rep. Mark Walker.
And then, during his speech, Trump called up fellow North Carolina House Rep. Ted Budd and endorsed him, and by doing so instantly rendered Walker irrelevant. After all, when it comes to who the GOP base is going to listen to, Paul Ryan or Donald Trump, the answer is obvious.
Running Against Trump’s Slate for 2022 and 2024 Will Be Prohibitively Expensive
Whatever the establishment GOP and their donors expected to have to spend in the upcoming GOP primaries in the next two elections, they had better go ahead and quadruple it. At the very least.
Trump has made it clear that he fully intends to make it awfully expensive to get GOP establishment picks elected. He will be running his own endorsed slate of candidates against the candidates put forward by the establishment.
That entrenched GOP establishment wing was able to hold out for all four of the years that Trump was president, hunkered down and determined to wait him out. Trump could often give them only token attention before turning back to more pressing matters.
Now, Trump isn’t president, which means he can give them his full and undivided attention.
He’s going to root up the party’s Republican establishment wing by starving them out financially, and then beating them electorally. Trump’s plan is that when he returns to the White House in 2024, the Democratic Party isn’t going to be a viable political force due to the exposure of the alleged election theft, and the Republican establishment will be gone from a Congress where Trump supporters are fully in control.
Of course, Trump’s opponents can see where this is going if he gets his way. And it’s making them increasingly nervous.
Panic at CNN
CNN anchor Jim Acosta argued the Saturday morning prior to Trump’s NC convention speech that the country is in the midst of a “slow motion coup” because the former president hasn’t gone away in disgrace yet.
Far from being hunkered down in a bunker, isolated and under siege, Trump was about to hit the campaign trail again. It was almost as if five years of relentless, dedicated effort by an increasingly frantic news media to destroy this man and his family had all accomplished nothing.
If Trump would return to the White House for a second term, one thing is clear: Every attempt to destroy him as a political agent of change in this country will have failed. And in a second term, Trump would have a far easier time implementing his full agenda than he did the first time around.
Brian Cates is a writer based in South Texas
Brian Cates
Brian Cates
June 14, 2021 Updated: June 14, 2021biggersmaller Print
Commentary
Right now, Donald J. Trump’s opponents can’t quite believe what they’re seeing.
Just a few short months ago, the “Swamp” denizens of Washington were breathing sighs of relief. They had done it! They had defeated the awful Trump, handed the White House to Joe Biden, and could now begin implementing all their cherished plans for a post-Trump America.
And then an amazing thing happened.
A twice-impeached former president who had supposedly incited an “insurrection” at the Capitol Building on Jan. 6 has returned—and he’s looking stronger than ever.
On the night of Saturday, June 5, Trump emerged to give only his second public speech since leaving the White House this past January. Trump was invited to hold court in front of an enthusiastic crowd at the state GOP Convention in Greenville, North Carolina.
This was not in the script that had been so carefully written. The former President Trump is supposed to be a historical footnote at this point. He’s supposed to be utterly destroyed, completely irrelevant, so radioactive nobody will go near him.
Not only is Trump not sulking in private in utter disgrace, he’s now exerting more direct control over the GOP than he ever did when he was in the White House.
Control the Money, Control The Party
The first quarter’s fundraising numbers revealed that Trump is in the process of raising a massive war chest to draw on in the 2022 and 2024 elections. Trump’s Save America PAC outraised the GOP almost 2 to 1 in the quarter, $85 million to $44 million.
So how did that happen?
At his big CPAC speech in late February and then in a released statement on March 9, Trump called for his supporters to begin sending their donations directly to him rather than to the GOP. While many legacy media commentators and top GOP politicians mocked and dismissed Trump’s Orlando speech as the ravings of a sore loser, it soon became apparent that the Trump base heard him and responded to his request. That money gives Trump an immense amount of clout.
And it didn’t take long for the real estate billionaire to begin exercising that clout. Trump played a role in getting Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) tossed from her GOP leadership seat and replaced by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.).
Trump also made a key move during his convention speech. After current North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr stated he will not seek reelection in 2022, former House Speaker Paul Ryan and the GOP establishment wing of the party quickly anointed their chosen successor: North Carolina House Rep. Mark Walker.
And then, during his speech, Trump called up fellow North Carolina House Rep. Ted Budd and endorsed him, and by doing so instantly rendered Walker irrelevant. After all, when it comes to who the GOP base is going to listen to, Paul Ryan or Donald Trump, the answer is obvious.
Running Against Trump’s Slate for 2022 and 2024 Will Be Prohibitively Expensive
Whatever the establishment GOP and their donors expected to have to spend in the upcoming GOP primaries in the next two elections, they had better go ahead and quadruple it. At the very least.
Trump has made it clear that he fully intends to make it awfully expensive to get GOP establishment picks elected. He will be running his own endorsed slate of candidates against the candidates put forward by the establishment.
That entrenched GOP establishment wing was able to hold out for all four of the years that Trump was president, hunkered down and determined to wait him out. Trump could often give them only token attention before turning back to more pressing matters.
Now, Trump isn’t president, which means he can give them his full and undivided attention.
He’s going to root up the party’s Republican establishment wing by starving them out financially, and then beating them electorally. Trump’s plan is that when he returns to the White House in 2024, the Democratic Party isn’t going to be a viable political force due to the exposure of the alleged election theft, and the Republican establishment will be gone from a Congress where Trump supporters are fully in control.
Of course, Trump’s opponents can see where this is going if he gets his way. And it’s making them increasingly nervous.
Panic at CNN
CNN anchor Jim Acosta argued the Saturday morning prior to Trump’s NC convention speech that the country is in the midst of a “slow motion coup” because the former president hasn’t gone away in disgrace yet.
Far from being hunkered down in a bunker, isolated and under siege, Trump was about to hit the campaign trail again. It was almost as if five years of relentless, dedicated effort by an increasingly frantic news media to destroy this man and his family had all accomplished nothing.
If Trump would return to the White House for a second term, one thing is clear: Every attempt to destroy him as a political agent of change in this country will have failed. And in a second term, Trump would have a far easier time implementing his full agenda than he did the first time around.
Brian Cates is a writer based in South Texas
They should be better than the GOP though.
He trusted all the wrong people when he made appointments.
A lot of them actively undermined him at every turn.
"It was almost as if five years of relentless, dedicated effort by an increasingly frantic news media to destroy this man and his family had all accomplished nothing."
I would add that the left and their media donkeys Carts have spun their tires bald,
Now that the smoke has cleared, they find themselves less than an inch from where they started.
The time for Trump to create his own social media platform (or endorse one such as Gab) is now. He loses momentum if he waits any longer.
Trump also needs to have learned, or learn right now, from the two major mistakes he made as president the first time.
(1) Do not leave untrustworthy people in any cabinet or assistant position. And thoroughly purge the FBI, Justice, ahd Homeland Security departments. I recommend Rudy Giuliani as attorney general.
(2) No truce with the people who did the most to wreck our country, such as Eric Holder, Comey, Brennan, and those who persecuted Stone and Flynn. Firing them isn't enough -- put them behind bars. Then launch a RICO investigation of Antifa/BLM and other Soros orgs and put them all away, along with their accessories in Congress and the treasonous district attorneys that have been letting the terrorists walk while persecuting heroes like Kyle Rittenhouse.
This is not about getting positive TV coverage. It is about saving civilization and making it stick.
Political person determines they can control the party by controlling the money flow to its candidates.
Does that sound plausible? Yes. In fact we see it often. Why was Obama able to cow and control the Democrats? Because he was a cash cow for fundraising. Why do parties generally kow-tow to their POTUS? Because of the political pull their fundraising ability has.
So is the basic premise something on solid founding? I think so. Thus we turn to the question of "Is Trump doing this?" which begs the question "Is he smart enough to."
I make an effort to not underestimate the intelligence of an opponent. As I recall, George Bush said something along the lines of being perennially "misunderestimated". I think it wiser to overestimate an opponent's capability than to underestimate it. Plus one should never mistake persona for intellect or cunning.
Trump certainly has a fundamental understanding of money and its influence and power on politics. I suspect he underestimated the Republican establishment's ability to resist, or overestimated how many would grow the backbone needed to stand with him. Putting those together I think it quite plausible he could figure this strategy out, and I think it is an area he actually has a fair bit of expertise in, so I expect the if he did come up with it, he would know how to make it work.
As to whether or not he is is another story, and perhaps he is. But if so, I'd wonder if he has detected and overcome his other main fault: being too trusting that people are in a position due to capability rather than politics.
In business that mind set will serve you well. Woe be unto the new CEO who cleans house. But as Trump should have learned, woe be unto the new POTUS who does not. Personally, I think he has good instincts for selecting business people, but not for political ones.
Further he has, despite public persona, demonstrated the ability to know he lacks some knowledge and go to someone he thinks has it. I suspect, and it was a suspicion I had before he was elected, that he took advice from others on what political appointments to make or not make, and got terrible advice - probably from a swamp resident.
So to me the question is not if he is doing what is asserted above, but if he has learned the correct lesson that to not have politics as usual you need to clean house of the political actors.
With out transparent and fair elections .....we don’t have a country. This was not just another 4 yr election. This is swamp draining at its finest.
Trump has stated that sometime he would like to lose just to see who is loyal and who isn’t. It is clear in the Rep. party who is not loyal (RINO’s) and Trumps endorsement will defeat them.
Trump follows the rule of law and this is the greatest sting operation in the history of mankind.
I also look in my own State where the establishment Governor is being challenged by a conservative Lieutenant Governor for control of the Party and the heat is being turned up now that several of the RINO's in the State Congress who upheld the ridiculous pandemic power-play are finally being exposed in the media. We'll see how much of it actually changes in the run-up to the primaries in another few months.
I believe we saw our last free and fair election in 2016.
It doesn't matter how much money Trump pours into the primaries if the subsequent elections are rigged.
I suspect that as a country, we're toast.
One must be elected once before one can be "re-elected."
(They are both guilty of treason. Try them in a just military court. Hang them.)
The election authorities are thieves, looters, and traitors. Feed them to the birds in the city square for all other looters to observe and learn their fate.
Mike Lindell keeps claiming he has the proof of international meddling in the election, but no one is even willing to examine the evidence.
The justice and court system is utterly corrupt and controlled by traitors.
The DNC and GOP left-globalist wing of the parties are the same group of crony-capitalists who love the advantages that gov't can shower their clique with!
Unfortunately, justice to this subject cannot happen here in a comment section.
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Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.)
Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio)
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.)
Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.)
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.)
Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.)
Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.)
Rep. Tom Rice (R-S.C.)
Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.)
Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif.)
and every Democrat.
Even that isn't enough, imo.
Would that it were so, but that's a pipe dream. More likely, the Republican Party will slide deeper into irrelevancy due to the infighting and the ongoing demographic changes.
Dims: nervous
Trump: kicking @$$ and taking names