Regardless of whether you watch left-leaning or right-leaning news outlets you can’t miss the fact that Trump is bulldozing the Washington establishment into the ground and increasing his popularity from day to day. And both sides (when they’re being honest) agree that they’ve never seen anything like this transition. Trump is getting his people confirmed by the Senate and he’s removing people from the federal bureaucracy that he sees as impediments; prosecutors, inspectors general, generals, you name it. He’s even going after birthright citizenship. His deportation initiative is going full speed ahead and has found allies in some blue cities. Nothing seems off the table. He’s a juggernaut. So why does this make me think there’s a George Floyd or a COVID pandemic about to be unleashed on us?
I guess I’m surprised at how smoothly it’s all going. Could the Left have been so completely flummoxed by Trump’s victory and his organization that they can’t fight back at all? I have read that a network of antifa and LGBTQ freaks are communicating on TikTok about attacking ICE agents doing their jobs. I’ve also read that they’re discussing assassinating Trump. And if I’ve heard these things then obviously everyone on the Left knows about it already. This jibes with what’s already going on. Apparently the two assassins who killed the Border agent in Vermont were transgender freaks of one sort or the other. So, there is some stuff going on. But all of this seems pretty tame compared to what I imagine the Left could put out on the street if they unleashed all of the psychopaths they command. So that is what I’m wondering about. Is this the calm before the storm?
Now maybe it’s the case that without the FBI and Justice Department running interference for them, that antifa and the other leftist goons aren’t a very effective force. I’m assuming the FBI is right now in panic mode wondering when their jobs are going to be pulled out from under them. That might be the simple answer. Or maybe it takes time to plan and organize a color revolution in 2025. Maybe they’re looking to publicize a mistake made by ICE agents during a deportation arrest. Possibly a child hurt or killed during some firefight with gang members or drug traffickers. Or maybe they’re looking for a valid US citizen accidentally mistaken for an illegal alien. Possibly that’s what they’re looking for to spark a firestorm against Trump’s administration.
Of course, it’s also possible that the popularity of Trump’s agenda will protect him from even some problems and mistakes that inevitably will happen in something as massive and difficult as finding and deporting tens of millions of people hiding in the general population. The scope of such an endeavor is sobering to consider. It will consume enormous resources in dollars and man-hours. It will not happen quickly or easily. But so far people are increasingly supportive of this project as it becomes a reality. Especially as we see him going after gangs and cartels that are wreaking havoc in cities across the country.
So maybe I’m wrong. Maybe it’s just winning all the way down. But for some reason it seems too easy.
Analogies go only so far. Hopefully, the German/Russian campaign of WWII wont be an analogy.
The Germans ran rampant against the Russians until the Battle of Stalingrad. The Russians allowed the Germans to break themselves trying to take the city and break themselves the Germans did. The losses could never be made good in a country of Germany’s size and they never recovered.
Somehow, it seems Trumpian, embolden by his winning, to not recognize a tar baby (another analogy) and to spend himself not recognizing a trap.
Let’s hope he’s learned from his former problems. But I give him credit for showing some backbone.