A Post-Trump Era? Not So Fast By Conrad Black

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A Post-Trump Era? Not So Fast

The former president enjoys an immense following and those who united to depose him are going to have to do much better than they have to maintain their coalition and prevent his successful return.

By Conrad Black
February 25, 2021

These are only the opening days of what is supposedly the post-Trump era, and whether the country has really seen the last politically of Donald Trump is a matter that depends upon Donald Trump. The principal Trump-hate outlets are still pleased to refer to him as “the disgraced former president” but, of course, he has not been disgraced and there is no indication that he will be.

All of the Democrats and about a third of Republican officeholders are engaged in an elaborate and strictly observed pretense that Trump was a freakish and horrifying interruption of the normal, serene, bipartisan devolution of events in Washington. Like a dreadful meteor, he came and he went, pushed into the instantly forgotten past by a united effort of civilized Americans.

This is only the first and most wishful phase of the Biden Administration, which, although it has shown no open recognition of the fact, owes its existence to the support of a substantial number of traditional Republicans offended by the former president’s radical ideas and comparatively uncouth political manners. They more than balanced the sharp increases President Trump achieved for the Republicans in votes from African Americans and Latinos, along with traditionally Democratic working-class voters.

There appears to be a consensus to restore the traditional honeymoon for an incoming president, something that was withheld from Trump uniquely among presidents of the past century and is a useful and becoming practice to retrieve. President Biden, an admirer of Franklin D. Roosevelt, has invoked the “Hundred Days” of the profound legislative and executive reform with which FDR began his first administration in 1933 to address the most pressing aspects of the Great Depression, starting with the collapsed banking and stock and commodity exchange systems that greeted him on Inauguration Day. Roosevelt had a broad mandate to do whatever he judged necessary to arrest and reverse the economic and psychological depression that was strangling the country, and many of his imaginative measures were passed virtually without opposition and some with almost no debate.

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[Sled Dog]

Hmmm...Mr. Black needs to review some definitions.

Trump's ideas were not "radical", meaning "new and unusual", they were "reactionary", meaning "trending back to older ways of doing things".   

Trump attempted to be the most Constitutional president since Coolidge.

The entire enormous body of the federal and state governments, and their bureaucracies, staunchly opposed any such thing, for the Constitution challenges their ill-gotten power and their gravy-trains.

I see how McConnell, forget the media and the Rodents, has been eagerly changing the sheets in the bridal suite every day since the Usurpation, even going so far as rubber stamping Rodent appointees without challenge.

What Trump's political future should entail is not Trump running for his third election win and term as the Real President, but as conservative political king-maker, supporter the myriad of conservative political candidates eager to oust anti-Trump (= anti-American) RINO scum from the political landscape.

If Trump succeeds in ethnically cleansing the RINO from the American political party, the GOP has a much stronger chance of attracting former Rodents, those whose EEG's aren't flat lines.  Once Trump succeeds in gaining virgin Americans to the GOP, the rest of us will need to teach them how to be Americans, how to think like Americans, and how to resent what the Rodents have been doing to them.

But first, Trump needs to collect them away from the Rodents that believe men can be women, that murdering babies is good, that a racist resents when an illegal alien takes his job and his tax dollars and his vote, that China is our friend, and that we can run an industrial nation on hot-air and sunshine.

If Trump proved anything, he proved that the base of the party has to regain control of it's Congressional delegation.   He'll need to work to that end first of all.