Posted on 08/04/2025 5:21:56 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Trump is rewriting the rules of politics, economics, and culture—and no one, not even the experts, knows what happens when the old orthodoxy finally breaks.
Donald Trump’s far-ranging counter-revolution, to quote the old Star Trek mission statement, seeks “To boldly go where no one has gone before.”
Because no conservative president has dared to question the last 70 years of progressive cultural, social, economic, and political dominance, all traditional wisdom, all our renowned “experts,” and all the self-described “authorities” have no real credibility in their mostly flawed analyses and wrong prognoses.
Read what our legacy media predicted in March for this summer’s economy, or in January for the future of the border, or what would happen should the U.S. Air Force enter Iranian airspace.
Take the border. “Comprehensive immigration reform” (a euphemism for rolling amnesties and a still-open border) was the establishment’s answer to 10,000 foreign nationals storming the border during peak surges of the Biden administration.
But no president had ever simultaneously 1) pressured Mexico to close its borders and patrol ours, 2) announced a plan to complete a border wall along the entire US-Mexico boundary, 3) stopped catch-and-release, 4) ceased refugee applications after illegally entering the U.S., 5) introduced policies encouraging voluntary self-deportation, and 6) prevented all illegal entries at the border.
The result is that we do not know the full effects of these combined border policies.
So far, one million foreign nationals have lost jobs, and 2 million Americans have gained them since Trump’s inauguration. How much money will be saved in local, state, and federal entitlements if illegal immigrants return home?
How much trauma and costs will be avoided if 500,000 criminal aliens are deported?
How many serious and lethal hit-and-run accidents will be prevented?
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
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Others have gone before and they are exemplary, Trump is like a founding father, with the same patriotism and vision.
Samuel Adams comes to mind:
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ON LIBERTY
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.”
Samuel Adams , August 1st ,1776, from speech given at the Philadelphia State House.
Donald Trump has the same spirit and sense of destiny for America.He seems to be a reincarnation of one of the Founding Fathers. As to which one, your guess is as good as mine.
You could change the title of the excerpt from “On Liberty” to “On Tariffs”.
“Donald Trump’s far-ranging counter-revolution, to quote the old Star Trek mission statement, seeks “To boldly go where no one has gone before.”
How quickly they forget the “old Star Trek mission statement”.
"To boldly go where no oppressed, black, obese, non-binary, queer, gluten-intolerant vegan has gone before."
... yet.
“To boldly go where no one has gone before.”
Trump is organizing the government as it was intended to be not how much money you can make off it.
It’s why the democrats hate him so much.
“..If 500,000 criminal aliens are deported? “I do t think this will be that successful , Victor. One Swede to another.
I SINCERELY HOPE THE UNINSURED MOTORIST INSURANCE DROPS DOWN.
rarely has a party embraced signature policies that are so despised by the American people. As a result, we have no idea what the result will be other than a national implosion at the polls.
Sadly though, I won't be the least bit surprised if the Democrats gain control of the House and Senate after the 2026 mid-terms.
Right - it was “…to boldly go where no MAN has gone before.”
Star Trek was always too woke for me - but thankfully not so woke as to avoid ‘exclusive’ pronouns.
“Star Trek” never had any credibility with me because their slogan had a split infinitive.
The show is fine, it's the fans that I can't stand. An old "joke" about The Grateful Dead.
Structural changes across the economy, culture, and politics of the country are underway. Our bicoastal experts and authorities are mostly predicting a multifaceted systems failure—without explaining why or how.
Please click on the link and read the full column at American Greatness. Prof Hanson is correct - no one knows what will happen as Pres Trump breaks the old habits.
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson The Sword of Perseus
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I remember an argument with my father about welfare. A former FDR democrat, I remember him at the kitchen table, telling me that giving a man welfare and other aid deprives him of independence and drive. The words my father used made it sound like such a person would be made a slave.
This was very long ago.
traditional wisdom
That phrase is not necessarily an oxymoron, but writers keep using it to describe assumptions that are neither wise nor traditional.
True enough.
COVID broke the social compact, allowing for depravity and putrefaction in social situations and beliefs to sprout.
You want to run, or at least to disengage. Think of the push for men as women in the military, of the California bill that would legalize taking children, of making certain cities Muslim-with the five calls per day.
I don’t want to be a rube, so I read up on topics that interest me. I’m getting to the point of devising ways not to go near any downtown. I’m probably better friends with some folks I know online than actual face-to-face friends.
Rant off.
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