The indictments have fueled him. If he wins in 2024, his second Presidency will marry that personal fury with a conservative attack on the administrative state to remake the government radically.
Yes! It was only shortly before last September's start of the seditious conspiracy trial against members of the Oath Keepers that prosecutors finally disclosed that at least five informants, including the organization’s vice president, had been planted in the weeks and months before January 6. Shortly after this, the New York Times revealed that the FBI had as many as eight informants inside the Proud Boys on January 6—information that the DOJ fought tooth and nail from disclosing to the trial’s defense team.
Only a couple months before January 6, the FBI was engineering the Whitmer fednapping hoax, which involved more than a dozen informants and undercover agents who had a hand in the plot from start to finish. That makes three simultaneous cases that the FBI was trying to weave together to paint a picture of dangerous domestic terrorists supposedly bent on committing violence on Donald Trump’s behalf. That's not a coincidence.
And Alex is surprised or concerned Trump or other candidates like Ramy clearly says he will "clean house" on these overtly corrupt Fed agencies. It's so blatantly OBVIOUS what needs to be done! Ask Oliver Anthony! "and they don't think you know, but I know that you DO"
For Alex to say that the unelected bureaucrat class is "independent of the White House" is to ignore current events exposed in this very Substack. Those agencies clearly take their orders from the current White House as revealed by Alex's lawsuits against Twitter and now the Biden Administration. It was also revealed by Matt Taibbi's exceptional series on "The Twitter Files". The fact that these powerful agencies didn't take orders from a reform-minded President Trump during his administration doesn't make them independent at all. All it demonstrates is that they have grown so powerful that they are now immune from ordinary politics. This is what we mean by the "deep state".
We now have proof that we are being ruled by a shadow government - one which controls almost all media and very powerful government agencies including law enforcement and intel agencies armed with surveillance capabilities which were unimaginable even a decade ago. And the shadow government is accountable to no one.
This might be okay if the folks running it were benevolent, or at least competent. But they are clearly far from that. The COVID lockdowns, the pumping of trillions of newly created dollars into government programs, the vaccine mandates, the opening of the southern border, and an insane war against Russia over the Ukraine demonstrate a malevolent combination of fear, idiocy, recklessness, and vindictiveness by this shadow government which has Americans worried and angry.
In the words of Michael Moore "He [Donald Trump] is the human Molotov Cocktail they’ve [working-class voters] been waiting for. The human hand grenade they can legally throw at the system which stole their lives from them."
74 million people see in Donald Trump. He LOVES this country and everyone in it! He hugs our flag while the left burns it. He knows what this country has done for him and wants that for every American.
He promotes peace around the globe while the left promotes wars.
You said Trump isn’t smart? How did he become a Billionaire then President. He isffin
Trump also knew what the left was doing ahead of time and they called him a conspiracy theorist. Obama was spying on his campaign. The virus was a flu and came from the Wuhan Lab in China.
Now that 24 hours have passed and I have gotten over my outrage (from the comments I wasn't the only outraged one), let's step back and take a look at what Berenson wrote beyond the anger trigger.
Deep down, Berenson has a deep-abiding faith in big government. He wrote this piece as if government is all just good bureaucrats wanting to do good for the people, and carry out the people's will as directed by their elected officials. He wrote:
"As one person emailed me, if you’re a Republican, making agencies and the Justice Department creatures of the White House is a wonderful idea, as long as you plan to win every Presidential election for eternity."
Berenson blames bureaucrats-on-autopilot on Trump not knowing how to preside over government. How many remember the multiple times Obama told us he found out about some government misdeed "when I read about it in the paper." Remember that joke while Obama was president- "The only government employees doing what Obama tells 'em is Seal Team Six."?
The government is so gigantic nobody - not Trump, not Obama, not Schumer, not McConnell, not McCarthy - nobody, not even a group of 435 people combined, knows everything it's doing. If nobody knows what it's doing, it's out of control.
Berenson has a keen intellect and a determination to get to the truth. Despite his intelligence, he seems unable to connect all the government mis/malfeasance he wrote about on his substack with a bureaucracy running unchecked.
Government has grown without restraint for over a century. It's not a Democrat/Republican thing- government gets bigger and bigger no matter which party is running the country. There's always just one more good excuse to cede a tiny little increment more power to government, without giving any thought to the downside.
Government has grown to where it's about to engulf us. We are at the precipice of totalitarianism. No, Mr. Berenson, it's not radicalism for Trump - and a lot of the rest of us - to want to reduce the size of government and bring it back under the control of the citizens.
I agree with all the Jan 6 cynicism others are expressing here. The whole thing smells. Always has. But I don’t get how that is the takeaway from Berenson’s commentary. Berenson is saying that after Trump has been on the receiving end of abuse from the deep state, he is going to exact revenge. And abuse the power of the executive branch. My God is it possible for it to be worse or rival what Biden has been up to? Read Missouri v Biden. As others have pointed out Berenson has this odd naïveté about the government agencies being some benign collection of public servants. Especially odd since he rose to prominence fighting the health establishment over Covid policies.
It seems like Berenson should stay in his lane on Covid etc. Maybe his problem is with that all died down he needs to weigh into other topics. I dunno. Bottom line we have a run amuck federal government and we better act fast to take corrective action before it completely consumes our Republic.
FOIAed emails show that they were 'working' 1/6 for weeks beforehand and knew of threats to law enforcement. They also STRONGLY suggest that undercovers were in the crowd by 11:15 am, long before any violence. We know that Metro PD had bracelets for their undercovers.
Yet we're still supposed to believe that the government got caught flat-footed and THAT'S why it took 7 hours to activate the National Guard? It doesn't make sense.
Exactly. And the emails show them discussing threats weeks beforehand. There's only one logical conclusion to be had -- it was a setup in order to disqualify Trump from running in 2024.
The ONLY other option is the most extreme incompetence by everybody involved, the kind for which the only remedy is ritual suicide.
That is the biggest joke. There are cameras all over the place yet they can't identify him. They went through the footage from the Capitol over and over and found people just walking near the Capitol and arrested them. They were all unarmed. They are still looking for more people to arrest for Jan 6th and it's 3 years later. I have a friend who lives in NC and the FBI showed up at her door a few weeks after Jan 6th. They asked her to prove where she was on Jan 6th because someone reported her. Thankfully she was able to show she was in family court that day because she is a guardian ad litem. She is in her 60s, a mom and grandmother. She thinks that someone reported her because of her posts on social media. She is a Republican, Trump supporter.
Revolver News's expose of that particular situation is telling. It is blatantly obvious that security camera vids were heavily tampered with. You have to be convinced that DNC HQ cctv system was from the 1970s.
This is correct. They ginned it up to frame it on Trump. There is a reason they went to the "insurrection" word so quickly for something that was far from it. Abusing the 14th Amendment was part of the plan.
magic words like anti-vaxxer, vaccine hesitant, variant, build back better, inflation reduction act, follow the science etc. These criminals are so predictable and yet they get away with it scot free and the sheep follow the verbiage prompts
Desmet's "mass psychosis" comes to mind. But this was less organic in the sense that the constant drumming of identical scripts saying "insurrection" almost immediately cemented the defining description of the J6 election integrity protest (Haywood) for the screen zombies watching MSM.
You are 100% correct about that. I am weary of reading, hearing and seeing false media reports like that. Trump encouraged PROTEST, but specifically requested peaceful protest and did so multiple times, including on J6.
Democrat protests like the 2020 "summer of love" were allowed to continue despite the fact that the protestors were burning cities to the ground, fire bombing Federal buildings with Law Enforcement officers in them and burning an historic church in DC. The double standard on full display. No one in the Capitol on Jan 6th was armed. The BLM rioters had bricks, molatov cocktails, 2x4s, guns and umbrellas to deflect pepper spray and rubber bullets from LE and to use as weapons. How many of them are in jail? Jan 6th defendants are STILL in jail in DC being mistreated by guards.
The FBI says Antifa is not an organized conspiracy. So where did the staged pallets of bricks come from?
A truck was intercepted by local law enforcement on its way to one of the riots in a mid-west city (I'd have to look it up- Kenosha maybe?). The truck was loaded w/ riot gear- helmets, shields, etc. Who paid for that? Where did the $ come from? Truck rental? Equipment? Truck fuel? That stuff fell out of the sky like manna from heaven?
The government knows who did it. But pretend not to.
I remember the pallets of bricks magically showing up around the corner from the "peaceful protests". That's another good point about the truck, where did their military style equipment come from? Wray would not investigate Antifa or even call it a domestic terror group. We have grandmas and grandpas who attended Jan 6th and walked around the Capitol Building, (also known as The People's House), unarmed and they were hunted down across the country. They were quickly labeled domestic terrorists.
If I remember correctly, there was video of a young woman near a drop off of bricks giving orders to some of the protestors. I think it was filmed by one of the independent journalists walking around the protestors, who was trying to get to the truth. My guess is some of the money came from Soros.
Sorry but he did nothing to discourage it either. He hid in the Oval Office during the riot and ignored pleas from his staff to reach out to rioters and stop the violence. Yes, he’s so much better than any Democrat out there. Yes, he did some very good things as President. But, can we really abide what 4 tumultuous years of a Trump presidency will do for the USA? He will not bring along congressional candidates like he did in 2016. Independents will NOT vote for him. Democrats will throw out Biden and put in a more palatable candidate ( popular, liveable, untalented, but appealing to shortsighted, ignorantDems and independents).
He asked for help but didn't get it. This was a set-up. He asked for 10,000 National Guard troops to be assigned to the Capitol due to the anticipated size of the rally. Pelosi denied the request and even stood down officers in many areas of the Capitol. Have you seen the numerous videos of the guards waving people into the building, Ray Epps encouraging violence, etc.?
I've always wondered how he was supposed to reach out to rioters. Do we assume that during the riot, people were constantly checking their Twitter feeds for updates from Trump? To me it appeared that they were otherwise engaged.
Good question. But he changed his mind about going forward with them and simply left. I wish he had calmed them down, rather than calling Pence a traitor and further agitating them. In hindsight, the crowd is probably reevaluating the whole thing.
Nancy, Why would those four years be tumultuous? Could it be because the media and the left will have it no other way? How can we do anything other. The first four years were only tumultuous because that is how the left made it, with the constant barrage of attacks (ridiculous impeachments based on lies, and then inflicting Covid and weaponizing that). You do realize America has been attacked, right? The ultimate goal is to take our founding documents out in the middle of Constitution Ave and burn them. We are in a war. We just do not want to accept that fact. We all want to believe America is just going through some cycle and all will be fine. America has enemies and they are inside the wire. There are people who should be thrown in jail as insurrectionists, but they were not the ones at the January 6th protests. That was all ginned up by the organization that wants to burn the documents. It doesn’t appear this can be corrected with or without Trump. Everything that is occurring is leading toward a predicted end. A sovereign America is in the way. World government is the goal. The world has to get back to Babel. As Tucker Carlson has begun to figure out by finally reading his Bible, we humans are not really in control. We are being acted on by outside forces. We only think we are. I can sleep at night because I know America is not my home and my retirement is not my ultimate treasure. All that will be gone one day but my home and treasure is elsewhere. Praise God! I am afraid this experiment is nearing its end.
Stan. I agree with all you’ve said. Depressing isn’t it? I simply don’t think Trump can be elected. If he’s the candidate, I’ll vote for him reluctantly. In my opinion, there are a couple primary challengers that could win. It may be hopeless either way, but I’ll have a bit more optimism if a Republican is at the helm.
How can Alex not see that Biden and his son, Hunter, were making money from selling influence to Ukraine and China, our biggest enemy? There is proof of that in Joe's own words on video. The emails were on Hunter's abandoned laptop that the FBI ignored until the statute of limitations ran out. Tony Bobulinski, a former associate of Hunter proved the laptop was Hunter's. He had the same emails saved on more than one electronic device. 50 former security officials lied in a letter before the 2020 election and said that the laptop was Russian disinformation when they knew it was not. Election interference??? That's what I'd call radical.
Maybe or maybe he wants to get rid of us Trump supporters. In some of his posts he almost seems ashamed that he has mostly people on the right as supporters.
For the love of god can you please just stick to Covid. You actually add value there and if you do I’ll be more than happy to continue sending those donations you grovel for. But pls stay away from all other topics cuz you’re so over you skis. It’s painful.
Jim, Alex is on borrowed time with me. I definitely will NOT subscribe again to read his nonsense. If it weren’t for Covid, we wouldn’t even know he exists.
Given the fact he has been uniquely subjected to the whims of Biden's jackboot thugs, I think it's entirely appropriate for him to comment on government overreach.
Of course, it would be more helpful too our country if he actively voted to STOP it. Or will he just roll over, and be an active partner in seeing our constitutional freedoms whither away?
Blows my mind that someone can be against the Covid hoax - obviously if you are reading Berenson - but you think he's "over his skis" to talk about the parties behind that hoax.
It was not the failure of the second Iraq war that paved the way for Trump.
The widespread support of Trump is a gesture of supreme repudiation, the political assertion of an insurgent and highly mobilized public reacting to a stifling left-wing orthodoxy intent on either erasing or replacing everything from merit and our shared sense of history to free speech and biological dimorphism, essentially rebuilding Western thought from first principles while racializing everything. In the face of such idiocy, many Americans rightly balk. “Make America Great Again” is just as much about nostalgia and stopping the Left from bulldozing the country as it is a call to sweep away the ruling order.
Brad, it's been years in the making. Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, the 80's patriot movements...the true "radical" middle American finally found a moment through a talented spokesman and leader - Trump.
This post understates what the Biden Regime and the Democrats generally did to weaponize and politicize our Federal law enforcement agencies (and, in Michigan, Manhattan and Atlanta, GA, State and/or local law enforcement agencies as well) against political opposition. Anything Trump might do in a second term in this regard will be, AT WORST, to continue the politicization and weaponization of our Federal Government. The notion the Federal Government will be "more politicized" under Trump than it already is under Biden, as Alex states above, is probably wrong. How could the Federal Government be more politicized than it is right now? It certainly could not be more weaponized.
What Alex describes is the concern the left and Never Trumpers share: that Trump in a second Administration will turn the tables and do to them what the leftists in the Federal bureaucracy, Federal law enforcement and the Biden Regime are doing now to Republicans. Guess what? They are right. Why would Trump do anything different? I sure as heck would unleash the dogs of war on these fascists if I was Trump and I won a second term. Name someone who would do different.
Ironically, that is the only way to put an end to the weaponization of the Federal Government. If the Democrats don't get a NASTY taste of this bitter pill, they will never stop. Never.
But, a second Trump Administration would likely not be nearly as bad as the current Biden Regime, because Trump and Republicans will put an end to the Federal Government's censorship and suppression of American's Free Speech. You can bet on that.
My message to anyone concerned about the issues raised in this post is this: Don't worry. There is no conceivable way Trump could be WORSE in a second Administration than the fascism we are fighting now in the Biden Regime and, in many respects, a second Trump Admin will be much better.
I tend to agree with your comment. I'm not a fan of Trump, though I voted for him. Biden (or whoever is controlling him) is clearly worse than any president in my lifetime. Biden has undermined every part of our constitution. He's been corrupt for years, it's clear he profited from foreign companies and governments when he was in office. Honestly, though I put most of the blame on the media at this point. They have lied, they have remained silent, they don't ask any difficult questions. They are the reason Biden et. al have been able to do everything they've done without push back. I mean COME ON -- Biden's comments? His inability to communicate? His clear signs of senility? How can they just ignore it? Sorry -- just so frustrated by everything at this point. All I want is for our constitution to be the law of the land and upheld, our rights upheld, and the bureaucracy to be cut in half.
Can he? I'm asking honestly. I recognize that his first term was clouded by "russian collusion" -- and yes, it was all a lie made up by the Democrats to destroy any chance that he could accomplish anything. What's going to cloud his second term? Will he be able to accomplish anything? Reduce the size of government? Cut bureaucracy? Prevent non-elected agencies from creating rules that impact people so that congress can avoid making hard decisions? It seems to me that Republicans -- including Trump -- can only halt the progress of Democrats expanding the size and scope of government, and when Democrats are in charge they expand more. Republicans get in and they don't expand as fast (but do because most Republicans won't make hard decisions either.) He can't stop anything -- Congress has to do it, and no one, republican or democrat (except maybe Thomas Massey and Rand Paul and a few others) will cut anything. IMO. Yes, I've become very cynical.
The majority of the bureaucrats work for the office of the president. He has said he will place in contracts, a regulator cannot work for a industry they regulated for 8 years (I think) after leaving agencies.
Plus he plans on having 25 hundred ready to go day one.
and Republicans NEVER fight back. We let the Hillarys and Hunters and Comey's and Faucis get away with this crap. Because most of them are part of this whole swamp also. Cleaning house, making people accountable and fighting corruption is not politicizing. It is the right thing to do.
This is one of the most pro-Trump articles I've read recently. Do you realize, Alex, that's exactly what we want? Like destroying as many federal agencies as possible and ending all support to Ukraine.
They never mentally recovered from losing to Trump in 2016. He DIDN"T use his power to indict Hillary..or anyone. The gov't didn't operate like that....but it's different now. We didn't like Hilary and many of us wanted her investigated, but ultimately it was "better" to move on. Now? You're right...it's all on the table. Through the Green New Deal, COVID, DOJ, etc. they've proven they have absolutely no guardrails. Be careful what you wish for, because when Trump wins, he will have a SEETHING electorate expecting blood. There will be blood.
There will be relief. Pure beautiful relief the low lives are out of the Whitehouse and off our backs. I’ve known presidents since Harry Truman visited our city by train. Standing on the landing at the back of the coach, he smiled, waved, made a speech and I knew, even at 8 years old, I would love this country until I die.
Your introductory paragraph made it sound like Trump is an unhinged wack-job.
He's not the only one who's angry. After reading of your many adventures with the government and its handmaidens, the social media companies, I'm surprised if you're not.
How many times did Trump have to say "peacefully" before it would have been good enough for you Alex? It was a Fed op and that was proven. You sound like a broken record that the left just bought off.
So if Biden or Newsom wins, how will things be different than you described other than maybe the Federal Government gets bigger instead of smaller and we continue to slaughter people in wars? Seems like pretty much everything you described has happened over the last few years with the Dems in control.
AS opposed to "larger and more politicized", which is what we get today.
Reagan thought the only solution was to starve the beast. He wasn't very effective at doing it.
Long ago, far away. The POTUS was a Texas Democrat. I was working for the DOD as a mid-level Engineer. About 25 years old, I decided that whatever disease the people I worked with was likely communicable, so I resigned. Had an exit interview with the Head Fred--about three levels above me. He asked me why I was leaving; I had a "good" career path ahead of me. I told him: "Look around. There are about 3000 people in this building. Fire a third of them and more work would get done." He sadly shook his head and said: "More than that, son, more than that."
I was told the same, frequently. The precipitating event was a conversation with an "older" co-worker. He was actually competent, one of the few that could have made it on the outside. He had run afoul of some politics, couldn't be fired due to his career status, but was put in the penalty box, pretty much permanently. They promoted him to GS-10. At the time, technical people were GS7,9,11,12,13. I was a 9. No project ever called for a GS10, so he was retired in place. Good guy, got in early, made the coffee and read cookbooks all day.
I asked him why he didn't go get a real job. Answer: "just sitting it out until retirement". he looked old as the hills to me--I was 24/25. How long? "Fifteen years". That is when I decided I HAD to get out of there.
My mother too - around the same time period - left a position at the Pentagon for the same exact reason. She was in her early 20s, had a master's degree and realised she didn't want to be part of the dysfunction despite the plethora of benefits and a promising upward track.
I think Reagan's problem was a mix of poor advising (imho) and that no president (or political party) wants to be associated with job loss. While I would love to see the beast starved to death, I know that a lot of people will lose their means of support - some more able to move on into the private sector than others.
He should have sought counsel from leftist spin doctors who could convince the masses that drinking poison is good for your health...
He thinks this failed neo-liberalism policy is still worthwhile. No matter how corrupt, inept and bloated every agency of the federal government becomes. A strong federal government to lead the way my ass. Lead the way to what, more useless war and death. More idiot policy that stomps on personal freedom. More woke bullshit shoved down everyone’s throat. More of a uselsss military thy cares more about tranny bullshit and telling all whites there racists. Fuck that. Berenson should stick to the Covid shit, he is just an msnbc parrot when it comes to this stuff.
Trump might be angry, but Americans are more enraged. We have watched the corrupt Biden white house destroy democracy. I'm going to vote for him again and pray that he takes back the White House.
Right? If not for the plandemic he would still be President. So here is that "not smart" guy beating the entire cabal of Ivy League-educated elites. What does that say about the members of the cabal if Trump is "not that smart"?
He ended ISIS, reformed the tax code, massively fortified the southern border, increased his re-election haul of voters, increased the number of female and minority voters, brought about the Abraham Accords, started no new wars, increased pacification of the Middle East, nominated 3 justices to the Scotus, and fought off the lying, trash, libelous media for 5 straight years.
Sounds like a dumbass to me.
Oh, and had the most hilarious tweets above everything else.
Lt. General Keith Kellogg, National Security Advisor to VP Pence, said that Trump had a great grasp of foreign policy. Kellogg said Trump's instincts were spot on with China, Iran, Russia and North Korea.
Also, who knew what they were like until AFTER covid? Seriously? I condemned Fauci early on, because I studied virology and immunology. Many conservatives attacked me, until they finally saw the light.
"he is sloppy" - Not quite. He built and runs a very large business empire with many disparate operations. You don't get there being sloppy. Sorry.
"intemperate, easily distracted" - Yup. As are many successful people.
"and not all that smart." - Nope. People that claim Trump is "not that smart" are not that smart about people.
He enjoyed the trappings of the office - "Crap no... are you kidding? A billionaire happy to live in the White House and deal with the low-grade charlatans that infest that town?
"and the world’s attention" - Well yes, but then he already had it.
"but when entrenched and powerful interests confronted him, he backed off." - Sometimes, not always... and will probably never again.
I don't care how much Trump hate a person has in his heart. The breathtaking government power abuse to take him out should inspire patriotic support to elect him or maybe Vivek, for their commitment to cut that crap out of our system. THAT crap is our only real existential threat to democracy. All patriots better get their collective heads out of their asses to get this. This isn't really about Trump, this is the Ivy League managerial class that dominates government, Wall Street, the mainstream media and big tech stomping all over regular Americans and daring them to do something about it.
Alex, you seem so sensical on most things except when it comes to Trump. You're still saying he is responsible for the Fed op of January 6th? Radicalized? You are downright delusional and frankly, not worth the $6 a month. Good luck with the TDS. Bye!
The FBI encouraged the Jan 6 "riot." It's time to just accept that as one of the many lies the government has told us.
Yes! It was only shortly before last September's start of the seditious conspiracy trial against members of the Oath Keepers that prosecutors finally disclosed that at least five informants, including the organization’s vice president, had been planted in the weeks and months before January 6. Shortly after this, the New York Times revealed that the FBI had as many as eight informants inside the Proud Boys on January 6—information that the DOJ fought tooth and nail from disclosing to the trial’s defense team.
https://www.euphoricrecall.net/p/the-fedsurrection-hoax
Only a couple months before January 6, the FBI was engineering the Whitmer fednapping hoax, which involved more than a dozen informants and undercover agents who had a hand in the plot from start to finish. That makes three simultaneous cases that the FBI was trying to weave together to paint a picture of dangerous domestic terrorists supposedly bent on committing violence on Donald Trump’s behalf. That's not a coincidence.
And Alex is surprised or concerned Trump or other candidates like Ramy clearly says he will "clean house" on these overtly corrupt Fed agencies. It's so blatantly OBVIOUS what needs to be done! Ask Oliver Anthony! "and they don't think you know, but I know that you DO"
For Alex to say that the unelected bureaucrat class is "independent of the White House" is to ignore current events exposed in this very Substack. Those agencies clearly take their orders from the current White House as revealed by Alex's lawsuits against Twitter and now the Biden Administration. It was also revealed by Matt Taibbi's exceptional series on "The Twitter Files". The fact that these powerful agencies didn't take orders from a reform-minded President Trump during his administration doesn't make them independent at all. All it demonstrates is that they have grown so powerful that they are now immune from ordinary politics. This is what we mean by the "deep state".
We now have proof that we are being ruled by a shadow government - one which controls almost all media and very powerful government agencies including law enforcement and intel agencies armed with surveillance capabilities which were unimaginable even a decade ago. And the shadow government is accountable to no one.
This might be okay if the folks running it were benevolent, or at least competent. But they are clearly far from that. The COVID lockdowns, the pumping of trillions of newly created dollars into government programs, the vaccine mandates, the opening of the southern border, and an insane war against Russia over the Ukraine demonstrate a malevolent combination of fear, idiocy, recklessness, and vindictiveness by this shadow government which has Americans worried and angry.
In the words of Michael Moore "He [Donald Trump] is the human Molotov Cocktail they’ve [working-class voters] been waiting for. The human hand grenade they can legally throw at the system which stole their lives from them."
BOOK it Danno...so very well stated!
A beautiful, succinct, summation. Thank you!
Alex it’s obvious you don’t see what
74 million people see in Donald Trump. He LOVES this country and everyone in it! He hugs our flag while the left burns it. He knows what this country has done for him and wants that for every American.
He promotes peace around the globe while the left promotes wars.
You said Trump isn’t smart? How did he become a Billionaire then President. He isffin
Trump is smarter by far than his media opponents. Witness how he turned their trophy mugshot into a campaign poster!
Trump also knew what the left was doing ahead of time and they called him a conspiracy theorist. Obama was spying on his campaign. The virus was a flu and came from the Wuhan Lab in China.
He became a billionaire without being a politician, or someone favored by politicians. Excellent.
He inherited a $100 million real estate portfolio from his father.
Still private money. As opposed to taxpayer money.
Now that 24 hours have passed and I have gotten over my outrage (from the comments I wasn't the only outraged one), let's step back and take a look at what Berenson wrote beyond the anger trigger.
Deep down, Berenson has a deep-abiding faith in big government. He wrote this piece as if government is all just good bureaucrats wanting to do good for the people, and carry out the people's will as directed by their elected officials. He wrote:
"As one person emailed me, if you’re a Republican, making agencies and the Justice Department creatures of the White House is a wonderful idea, as long as you plan to win every Presidential election for eternity."
Berenson blames bureaucrats-on-autopilot on Trump not knowing how to preside over government. How many remember the multiple times Obama told us he found out about some government misdeed "when I read about it in the paper." Remember that joke while Obama was president- "The only government employees doing what Obama tells 'em is Seal Team Six."?
The government is so gigantic nobody - not Trump, not Obama, not Schumer, not McConnell, not McCarthy - nobody, not even a group of 435 people combined, knows everything it's doing. If nobody knows what it's doing, it's out of control.
Berenson has a keen intellect and a determination to get to the truth. Despite his intelligence, he seems unable to connect all the government mis/malfeasance he wrote about on his substack with a bureaucracy running unchecked.
Government has grown without restraint for over a century. It's not a Democrat/Republican thing- government gets bigger and bigger no matter which party is running the country. There's always just one more good excuse to cede a tiny little increment more power to government, without giving any thought to the downside.
Government has grown to where it's about to engulf us. We are at the precipice of totalitarianism. No, Mr. Berenson, it's not radicalism for Trump - and a lot of the rest of us - to want to reduce the size of government and bring it back under the control of the citizens.
I agree with all the Jan 6 cynicism others are expressing here. The whole thing smells. Always has. But I don’t get how that is the takeaway from Berenson’s commentary. Berenson is saying that after Trump has been on the receiving end of abuse from the deep state, he is going to exact revenge. And abuse the power of the executive branch. My God is it possible for it to be worse or rival what Biden has been up to? Read Missouri v Biden. As others have pointed out Berenson has this odd naïveté about the government agencies being some benign collection of public servants. Especially odd since he rose to prominence fighting the health establishment over Covid policies.
It seems like Berenson should stay in his lane on Covid etc. Maybe his problem is with that all died down he needs to weigh into other topics. I dunno. Bottom line we have a run amuck federal government and we better act fast to take corrective action before it completely consumes our Republic.
FOIAed emails show that they were 'working' 1/6 for weeks beforehand and knew of threats to law enforcement. They also STRONGLY suggest that undercovers were in the crowd by 11:15 am, long before any violence. We know that Metro PD had bracelets for their undercovers.
Yet we're still supposed to believe that the government got caught flat-footed and THAT'S why it took 7 hours to activate the National Guard? It doesn't make sense.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/reviewing-fbi-emails-involving-january
Trump offered Pelosi on several occasions back up national guards pre 1-6 too if I recall, which she of course denied or said "wasn't needed".
Exactly. And the emails show them discussing threats weeks beforehand. There's only one logical conclusion to be had -- it was a setup in order to disqualify Trump from running in 2024.
The ONLY other option is the most extreme incompetence by everybody involved, the kind for which the only remedy is ritual suicide.
Not to mention that the identity of the pipe bomber has never been found.
That is the biggest joke. There are cameras all over the place yet they can't identify him. They went through the footage from the Capitol over and over and found people just walking near the Capitol and arrested them. They were all unarmed. They are still looking for more people to arrest for Jan 6th and it's 3 years later. I have a friend who lives in NC and the FBI showed up at her door a few weeks after Jan 6th. They asked her to prove where she was on Jan 6th because someone reported her. Thankfully she was able to show she was in family court that day because she is a guardian ad litem. She is in her 60s, a mom and grandmother. She thinks that someone reported her because of her posts on social media. She is a Republican, Trump supporter.
Revolver News's expose of that particular situation is telling. It is blatantly obvious that security camera vids were heavily tampered with. You have to be convinced that DNC HQ cctv system was from the 1970s.
This is correct. They ginned it up to frame it on Trump. There is a reason they went to the "insurrection" word so quickly for something that was far from it. Abusing the 14th Amendment was part of the plan.
They were using that term "insurrection" at the very beginning of the day. Obviously , planned to subvert Trump.
Yep. "Insurrection" is the magic word that disqualifies him from running again.
magic words like anti-vaxxer, vaccine hesitant, variant, build back better, inflation reduction act, follow the science etc. These criminals are so predictable and yet they get away with it scot free and the sheep follow the verbiage prompts
most incompetent insurrection of all time 🤣
Desmet's "mass psychosis" comes to mind. But this was less organic in the sense that the constant drumming of identical scripts saying "insurrection" almost immediately cemented the defining description of the J6 election integrity protest (Haywood) for the screen zombies watching MSM.
Exactly!
President Trump did not encourage riots on Jan. 6th. That is a bullshit lie from the demorats and their allies in the media.
You are 100% correct about that. I am weary of reading, hearing and seeing false media reports like that. Trump encouraged PROTEST, but specifically requested peaceful protest and did so multiple times, including on J6.
How dare Trump encourage anyone to protest? Who does he think he is?
Protest, including "mostly peaceful protest" (heh) is reserved only for Democrats and their minions.
Democrat protests like the 2020 "summer of love" were allowed to continue despite the fact that the protestors were burning cities to the ground, fire bombing Federal buildings with Law Enforcement officers in them and burning an historic church in DC. The double standard on full display. No one in the Capitol on Jan 6th was armed. The BLM rioters had bricks, molatov cocktails, 2x4s, guns and umbrellas to deflect pepper spray and rubber bullets from LE and to use as weapons. How many of them are in jail? Jan 6th defendants are STILL in jail in DC being mistreated by guards.
I'm with you 100%, Louise.
The FBI says Antifa is not an organized conspiracy. So where did the staged pallets of bricks come from?
A truck was intercepted by local law enforcement on its way to one of the riots in a mid-west city (I'd have to look it up- Kenosha maybe?). The truck was loaded w/ riot gear- helmets, shields, etc. Who paid for that? Where did the $ come from? Truck rental? Equipment? Truck fuel? That stuff fell out of the sky like manna from heaven?
The government knows who did it. But pretend not to.
I remember the pallets of bricks magically showing up around the corner from the "peaceful protests". That's another good point about the truck, where did their military style equipment come from? Wray would not investigate Antifa or even call it a domestic terror group. We have grandmas and grandpas who attended Jan 6th and walked around the Capitol Building, (also known as The People's House), unarmed and they were hunted down across the country. They were quickly labeled domestic terrorists.
If I remember correctly, there was video of a young woman near a drop off of bricks giving orders to some of the protestors. I think it was filmed by one of the independent journalists walking around the protestors, who was trying to get to the truth. My guess is some of the money came from Soros.
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They rely on their voters not to verify...simply go with what is said to them. Critical thought is lost on them as WE all know here
Sorry but he did nothing to discourage it either. He hid in the Oval Office during the riot and ignored pleas from his staff to reach out to rioters and stop the violence. Yes, he’s so much better than any Democrat out there. Yes, he did some very good things as President. But, can we really abide what 4 tumultuous years of a Trump presidency will do for the USA? He will not bring along congressional candidates like he did in 2016. Independents will NOT vote for him. Democrats will throw out Biden and put in a more palatable candidate ( popular, liveable, untalented, but appealing to shortsighted, ignorantDems and independents).
He asked for help but didn't get it. This was a set-up. He asked for 10,000 National Guard troops to be assigned to the Capitol due to the anticipated size of the rally. Pelosi denied the request and even stood down officers in many areas of the Capitol. Have you seen the numerous videos of the guards waving people into the building, Ray Epps encouraging violence, etc.?
Apparently you believe the #FakeNews media about everything. If you trust their BS, then you aren't paying attention.
Apparently you aren’t open to honest debate/disagreement.
There is no point in debating someone who believes the #FakeNews BS.
What good would reaching out to the 'rioters', whose core was made up of government agent-provocateurs, have done?
I've always wondered how he was supposed to reach out to rioters. Do we assume that during the riot, people were constantly checking their Twitter feeds for updates from Trump? To me it appeared that they were otherwise engaged.
Good question. But he changed his mind about going forward with them and simply left. I wish he had calmed them down, rather than calling Pence a traitor and further agitating them. In hindsight, the crowd is probably reevaluating the whole thing.
Cassidy Hutchinson gave testimony that he tried to go to the Capitol. He was lambasted for that.
I’m sure that many, many people are reevaluating the whole thing.
Nancy, Why would those four years be tumultuous? Could it be because the media and the left will have it no other way? How can we do anything other. The first four years were only tumultuous because that is how the left made it, with the constant barrage of attacks (ridiculous impeachments based on lies, and then inflicting Covid and weaponizing that). You do realize America has been attacked, right? The ultimate goal is to take our founding documents out in the middle of Constitution Ave and burn them. We are in a war. We just do not want to accept that fact. We all want to believe America is just going through some cycle and all will be fine. America has enemies and they are inside the wire. There are people who should be thrown in jail as insurrectionists, but they were not the ones at the January 6th protests. That was all ginned up by the organization that wants to burn the documents. It doesn’t appear this can be corrected with or without Trump. Everything that is occurring is leading toward a predicted end. A sovereign America is in the way. World government is the goal. The world has to get back to Babel. As Tucker Carlson has begun to figure out by finally reading his Bible, we humans are not really in control. We are being acted on by outside forces. We only think we are. I can sleep at night because I know America is not my home and my retirement is not my ultimate treasure. All that will be gone one day but my home and treasure is elsewhere. Praise God! I am afraid this experiment is nearing its end.
Stan. To further clarify, I’d love to seeing our president expressing a loving, unifying message -even as s/he wars with “Goliath”. This just might bring along the otherwise unengaged electorate. Winsome Sears comes to mind. https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/08/28/for-me-the-glass-is-always-half-full-virginia-lt-gov-winsome-sears-says/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=ODI0LU1IVC0zMDQAAAGN24hd4n-q7rXIt1Yv6LfD4As2kkLzmTV8Iuosh7XQvIAClAfGdm3F53A9oivAT6O3bIGjl7OnvwlWWj4kdf3zIVC7vTSRdKih26I2zsSMzJWufy4
I do love her!
Stan. I agree with all you’ve said. Depressing isn’t it? I simply don’t think Trump can be elected. If he’s the candidate, I’ll vote for him reluctantly. In my opinion, there are a couple primary challengers that could win. It may be hopeless either way, but I’ll have a bit more optimism if a Republican is at the helm.
Biden is the problem dude, not Trump!
No it’s the Obama people running things. Biden has NFC.
The perfect puppet Biden is
How can Alex not see that Biden and his son, Hunter, were making money from selling influence to Ukraine and China, our biggest enemy? There is proof of that in Joe's own words on video. The emails were on Hunter's abandoned laptop that the FBI ignored until the statute of limitations ran out. Tony Bobulinski, a former associate of Hunter proved the laptop was Hunter's. He had the same emails saved on more than one electronic device. 50 former security officials lied in a letter before the 2020 election and said that the laptop was Russian disinformation when they knew it was not. Election interference??? That's what I'd call radical.
Maybe because he is choosing not to look... just like his stance on ivermectin
Maybe or maybe he wants to get rid of us Trump supporters. In some of his posts he almost seems ashamed that he has mostly people on the right as supporters.
Or maybe he realizes he is more aligned with us Trump supporters and that scares him....
Ooo, I didn't think of that.
Both suck, one is a puppet of the deep state and other distributes vaccinations, eg. COVID vaxx.
We can’t win
Why? Because you say so?
For the love of god can you please just stick to Covid. You actually add value there and if you do I’ll be more than happy to continue sending those donations you grovel for. But pls stay away from all other topics cuz you’re so over you skis. It’s painful.
Jim, Alex is on borrowed time with me. I definitely will NOT subscribe again to read his nonsense. If it weren’t for Covid, we wouldn’t even know he exists.
Just cancelled myself. His trying to further the insurrection bullshit was his last straw, man.
Not happy to say it but I 100% agree
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I'm staying for the comments.
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Given the fact he has been uniquely subjected to the whims of Biden's jackboot thugs, I think it's entirely appropriate for him to comment on government overreach.
Of course, it would be more helpful too our country if he actively voted to STOP it. Or will he just roll over, and be an active partner in seeing our constitutional freedoms whither away?
Took the words out of my mouth! Alex apparently still reads and believes what he reads in the NY Slimes. That should be a give away.
He had sooooo many years of indoctrination...its a long detox :)
You can take the reporter out of the NYT, but you can not take the NYT out of the reporter.
Stfu idiot! We need people like Alex to expose these scumbags.
Hi Holly, nice to meet you. Could you expand on your statement? Exactly who are the scumbags??
Uh . . . Trump's opponents?
Blows my mind that someone can be against the Covid hoax - obviously if you are reading Berenson - but you think he's "over his skis" to talk about the parties behind that hoax.
JR - and whom would those‘parties’ be?
I'm ok with his analysis. I thought this was fairly even handed. Bureaucracies around the world need reform, or they will dissolve.
I'm okay with his analysis, too. But he's wrong.
It was not the failure of the second Iraq war that paved the way for Trump.
The widespread support of Trump is a gesture of supreme repudiation, the political assertion of an insurgent and highly mobilized public reacting to a stifling left-wing orthodoxy intent on either erasing or replacing everything from merit and our shared sense of history to free speech and biological dimorphism, essentially rebuilding Western thought from first principles while racializing everything. In the face of such idiocy, many Americans rightly balk. “Make America Great Again” is just as much about nostalgia and stopping the Left from bulldozing the country as it is a call to sweep away the ruling order.
https://www.euphoricrecall.net/p/reflecting-on-trumps-rise
Brad, it's been years in the making. Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, the 80's patriot movements...the true "radical" middle American finally found a moment through a talented spokesman and leader - Trump.
Well said.
This post understates what the Biden Regime and the Democrats generally did to weaponize and politicize our Federal law enforcement agencies (and, in Michigan, Manhattan and Atlanta, GA, State and/or local law enforcement agencies as well) against political opposition. Anything Trump might do in a second term in this regard will be, AT WORST, to continue the politicization and weaponization of our Federal Government. The notion the Federal Government will be "more politicized" under Trump than it already is under Biden, as Alex states above, is probably wrong. How could the Federal Government be more politicized than it is right now? It certainly could not be more weaponized.
What Alex describes is the concern the left and Never Trumpers share: that Trump in a second Administration will turn the tables and do to them what the leftists in the Federal bureaucracy, Federal law enforcement and the Biden Regime are doing now to Republicans. Guess what? They are right. Why would Trump do anything different? I sure as heck would unleash the dogs of war on these fascists if I was Trump and I won a second term. Name someone who would do different.
Ironically, that is the only way to put an end to the weaponization of the Federal Government. If the Democrats don't get a NASTY taste of this bitter pill, they will never stop. Never.
But, a second Trump Administration would likely not be nearly as bad as the current Biden Regime, because Trump and Republicans will put an end to the Federal Government's censorship and suppression of American's Free Speech. You can bet on that.
My message to anyone concerned about the issues raised in this post is this: Don't worry. There is no conceivable way Trump could be WORSE in a second Administration than the fascism we are fighting now in the Biden Regime and, in many respects, a second Trump Admin will be much better.
I tend to agree with your comment. I'm not a fan of Trump, though I voted for him. Biden (or whoever is controlling him) is clearly worse than any president in my lifetime. Biden has undermined every part of our constitution. He's been corrupt for years, it's clear he profited from foreign companies and governments when he was in office. Honestly, though I put most of the blame on the media at this point. They have lied, they have remained silent, they don't ask any difficult questions. They are the reason Biden et. al have been able to do everything they've done without push back. I mean COME ON -- Biden's comments? His inability to communicate? His clear signs of senility? How can they just ignore it? Sorry -- just so frustrated by everything at this point. All I want is for our constitution to be the law of the land and upheld, our rights upheld, and the bureaucracy to be cut in half.
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Or better… let’s cut the bureaucracy by, like, 95%.
Now we’re talking!
That'd be great, I'm trying to be realistic ;) haha
Honestly, I would be happy to just disband the EPA, the Department of Education (states can handle it) and the ATF, then go from there.
Trump will stop the regulatory capture that has brought us here.
Can he? I'm asking honestly. I recognize that his first term was clouded by "russian collusion" -- and yes, it was all a lie made up by the Democrats to destroy any chance that he could accomplish anything. What's going to cloud his second term? Will he be able to accomplish anything? Reduce the size of government? Cut bureaucracy? Prevent non-elected agencies from creating rules that impact people so that congress can avoid making hard decisions? It seems to me that Republicans -- including Trump -- can only halt the progress of Democrats expanding the size and scope of government, and when Democrats are in charge they expand more. Republicans get in and they don't expand as fast (but do because most Republicans won't make hard decisions either.) He can't stop anything -- Congress has to do it, and no one, republican or democrat (except maybe Thomas Massey and Rand Paul and a few others) will cut anything. IMO. Yes, I've become very cynical.
Yes
The majority of the bureaucrats work for the office of the president. He has said he will place in contracts, a regulator cannot work for a industry they regulated for 8 years (I think) after leaving agencies.
Plus he plans on having 25 hundred ready to go day one.
https://www.project2025.org/personnel/
The unelected bureaucrats run the government and they are all Democrats.
25 In 25
https://www.project2025.org/personnel/
Interesting. I'm in my 60s, I wonder if I'm too old for politics 😳 just kidding At least half of Congress has 20 years on me.
and Republicans NEVER fight back. We let the Hillarys and Hunters and Comey's and Faucis get away with this crap. Because most of them are part of this whole swamp also. Cleaning house, making people accountable and fighting corruption is not politicizing. It is the right thing to do.
Republicans in DC never fight back because they are in the same club. It's now the elites vs. the serfs.
yep!
[If the Democrats don't get a NASTY taste of this bitter pill, they will never stop. Never.]
Nah, this will continue to escalate.
That's how it "works!"
This is one of the most pro-Trump articles I've read recently. Do you realize, Alex, that's exactly what we want? Like destroying as many federal agencies as possible and ending all support to Ukraine.
They never mentally recovered from losing to Trump in 2016. He DIDN"T use his power to indict Hillary..or anyone. The gov't didn't operate like that....but it's different now. We didn't like Hilary and many of us wanted her investigated, but ultimately it was "better" to move on. Now? You're right...it's all on the table. Through the Green New Deal, COVID, DOJ, etc. they've proven they have absolutely no guardrails. Be careful what you wish for, because when Trump wins, he will have a SEETHING electorate expecting blood. There will be blood.
I am ready for the retribution presidency, the Democrats have me seething.
We want lots of mugshots
There will be relief. Pure beautiful relief the low lives are out of the Whitehouse and off our backs. I’ve known presidents since Harry Truman visited our city by train. Standing on the landing at the back of the coach, he smiled, waved, made a speech and I knew, even at 8 years old, I would love this country until I die.
That’s right!!
Mr. Berenson,
Your introductory paragraph made it sound like Trump is an unhinged wack-job.
He's not the only one who's angry. After reading of your many adventures with the government and its handmaidens, the social media companies, I'm surprised if you're not.
How many times did Trump have to say "peacefully" before it would have been good enough for you Alex? It was a Fed op and that was proven. You sound like a broken record that the left just bought off.
So if Biden or Newsom wins, how will things be different than you described other than maybe the Federal Government gets bigger instead of smaller and we continue to slaughter people in wars? Seems like pretty much everything you described has happened over the last few years with the Dems in control.
You forgot Michelle Obama, but anyway..
Exactly what you said - Alex makes the claim that "oh it'll be smaller and more politicized" if Trump wins.
Is that truly LESS preferable to a larger, aggressive administrative state that has already proven it is happy to hunt its political opponents?
AS opposed to "larger and more politicized", which is what we get today.
Reagan thought the only solution was to starve the beast. He wasn't very effective at doing it.
Long ago, far away. The POTUS was a Texas Democrat. I was working for the DOD as a mid-level Engineer. About 25 years old, I decided that whatever disease the people I worked with was likely communicable, so I resigned. Had an exit interview with the Head Fred--about three levels above me. He asked me why I was leaving; I had a "good" career path ahead of me. I told him: "Look around. There are about 3000 people in this building. Fire a third of them and more work would get done." He sadly shook his head and said: "More than that, son, more than that."
I can only imagine what it is like today.
I am currently a federal employee. I privately speak with young new employees and tell them to get the hell out while they still can.
I was told the same, frequently. The precipitating event was a conversation with an "older" co-worker. He was actually competent, one of the few that could have made it on the outside. He had run afoul of some politics, couldn't be fired due to his career status, but was put in the penalty box, pretty much permanently. They promoted him to GS-10. At the time, technical people were GS7,9,11,12,13. I was a 9. No project ever called for a GS10, so he was retired in place. Good guy, got in early, made the coffee and read cookbooks all day.
I asked him why he didn't go get a real job. Answer: "just sitting it out until retirement". he looked old as the hills to me--I was 24/25. How long? "Fifteen years". That is when I decided I HAD to get out of there.
My mother too - around the same time period - left a position at the Pentagon for the same exact reason. She was in her early 20s, had a master's degree and realised she didn't want to be part of the dysfunction despite the plethora of benefits and a promising upward track.
I think Reagan's problem was a mix of poor advising (imho) and that no president (or political party) wants to be associated with job loss. While I would love to see the beast starved to death, I know that a lot of people will lose their means of support - some more able to move on into the private sector than others.
He should have sought counsel from leftist spin doctors who could convince the masses that drinking poison is good for your health...
He thinks this failed neo-liberalism policy is still worthwhile. No matter how corrupt, inept and bloated every agency of the federal government becomes. A strong federal government to lead the way my ass. Lead the way to what, more useless war and death. More idiot policy that stomps on personal freedom. More woke bullshit shoved down everyone’s throat. More of a uselsss military thy cares more about tranny bullshit and telling all whites there racists. Fuck that. Berenson should stick to the Covid shit, he is just an msnbc parrot when it comes to this stuff.
Trump might be angry, but Americans are more enraged. We have watched the corrupt Biden white house destroy democracy. I'm going to vote for him again and pray that he takes back the White House.
However bad the next election cycle gets, never forget: The Democrats created this, through their obsessive persecution of Trump.
How people can still think Trump is not that smart amazes me. It is their own insecurity rhat does this.
Right? If not for the plandemic he would still be President. So here is that "not smart" guy beating the entire cabal of Ivy League-educated elites. What does that say about the members of the cabal if Trump is "not that smart"?
It's true, he's stupid.
He ended ISIS, reformed the tax code, massively fortified the southern border, increased his re-election haul of voters, increased the number of female and minority voters, brought about the Abraham Accords, started no new wars, increased pacification of the Middle East, nominated 3 justices to the Scotus, and fought off the lying, trash, libelous media for 5 straight years.
Sounds like a dumbass to me.
Oh, and had the most hilarious tweets above everything else.
Lt. General Keith Kellogg, National Security Advisor to VP Pence, said that Trump had a great grasp of foreign policy. Kellogg said Trump's instincts were spot on with China, Iran, Russia and North Korea.
Trump allowed the public health security state to take over under Covid. That was stupid. You can call it a mistake, but it was still dumb.
Does not make him stupid.
Also, who knew what they were like until AFTER covid? Seriously? I condemned Fauci early on, because I studied virology and immunology. Many conservatives attacked me, until they finally saw the light.
People with 20/20 hindsight vision are the worst.
"He governs by instinct" - Yup
"he is sloppy" - Not quite. He built and runs a very large business empire with many disparate operations. You don't get there being sloppy. Sorry.
"intemperate, easily distracted" - Yup. As are many successful people.
"and not all that smart." - Nope. People that claim Trump is "not that smart" are not that smart about people.
He enjoyed the trappings of the office - "Crap no... are you kidding? A billionaire happy to live in the White House and deal with the low-grade charlatans that infest that town?
"and the world’s attention" - Well yes, but then he already had it.
"but when entrenched and powerful interests confronted him, he backed off." - Sometimes, not always... and will probably never again.
I don't care how much Trump hate a person has in his heart. The breathtaking government power abuse to take him out should inspire patriotic support to elect him or maybe Vivek, for their commitment to cut that crap out of our system. THAT crap is our only real existential threat to democracy. All patriots better get their collective heads out of their asses to get this. This isn't really about Trump, this is the Ivy League managerial class that dominates government, Wall Street, the mainstream media and big tech stomping all over regular Americans and daring them to do something about it.
Alex, you seem so sensical on most things except when it comes to Trump. You're still saying he is responsible for the Fed op of January 6th? Radicalized? You are downright delusional and frankly, not worth the $6 a month. Good luck with the TDS. Bye!