He also said this:
“This is no time to lack faith in the authority of the CIA Director, but you must for now because hardly anybody commands authority except Mr. Trump, the president, and he has been busy frittering it away on childish tweets, calling his enemies names as though we were back in the third grade.”
“He better cut that out and show some decorum or his enemies will peel away the authority that he has left in this epic battle to preserve the republic from utter ruin.”
The end of the op-ed ( 12 December 2025 ) to which you linked:
"Mr. Trump needs to take a cue from the name of that desk he sits behind in the Oval Office: it's called Resolute. Please stop yapping idly and just be resolute in the face of your enemies."
It's rather sure the Trump-Vance administration hasn't got Kuntsler in their view, but nonetheless, "be resolute in the face of your enemies" seems to be ongoing. Resolute.
What seems NOT to be resolute in this moment is captured in Kunstler's latest, the topic of this thread:
What part of that does Western Civ not understand? Jihad rolls across Europe without opposition. Nightclub massacres, trucks smashing through bodies in the Christmas markets, rape gangs, beheadings of teachers and Christian priests in broad daylight — none of that was enough to bestir the prime ministers and presidents of Euroland to consider expelling the uninvited hordes. New York City, the bastion of Lefty-left masochism, now lives under the sway of Mamdani’s soft jihad, the Islamic call-to-prayer rings through the neighborhoods twenty-five years after 9-11.Taking a word or two from the Kunstler piece, "not bluffing." The jihad rolling over the world in "not bluffing." Neither should we. And this op-ed end....
The old arrangements are over, especially the sponsored export of jihadi terror. The Hormuz crisis is the actualization of the global resource scramble underway. The winners and losers are sorting themselves out now, and Mr. Trump seeks to make sure that America is on the winners’ side. So, you must ask: why does the American Left, as personified in the Democratic Party, so desperately want our country to lose?As above, Kunstler's underlined words are most worthy.
I think he has stated that he changed his mind on a number of things.
I suggest you get off his back. He’s a very skilled writer who is pointing out a lot of true things.
Nobody had everything right at every step.