Today is the twenty fifth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Well, I’ll leave it to the professional pundits to try and wax poetic about the deep historic meaning of the day. What I will say about 9/11 is where I have now found myself. I won’t review my personal links to the New York attack and my visceral desire for revenge and justice against those responsible for the attacks. All that is now ancient history and buried under the aftermath of the politicians and bureaucrats who reshaped our world using our support as a tool.
All that I learned from everything that was done by the American government is that politicians as a class are at best useless idiots and at worst our mortal enemies. Almost without exception the Republicans proved themselves almost as awful as the Democrats. Their embrace of globalism and the contempt for the well-being of their countryman is stunning and unmistakable. The Democrats are only worse because they openly embrace the agenda that the Republicans pretend to abhor but follow in stealth.
9/11 and its aftermath are responsible for Trump and MAGA. He looked at the betrayals and the contempt and he employed the naked truth to drive the likes of JEB Bush and the rest of the useful idiots off the map and then banished Hillary Clinton to the ash heap of history. And then he learned how Washington works and he relegated Kamala Harris to the position she deserves village idiot. Trump has made plenty of mistakes. This Iran war is devastating our wallets with high priced oil. Maybe he had no choice. I can’t say for sure. But honestly Trump is attempting to bring manufacturing back to this country and I respect him for the effort.
But very soon he will be leaving center stage and it will be time to find a new champion. At this anniversary of 9/11 I think it is time to start looking at the next generation of MAGA politicians and have them start auditioning for the top spot. I don’t expect Vance or Rubio or DeSantis to start doing a bad Trump imitation. It wouldn’t make sense and it isn’t necessary. Trump already smashed the fun house mirrors and let us see the Republican and Democrats for who they really are. What is needed now is for the new guys to speak honestly and clearly about where we go from here. Trump was the disrupter. Now we need builders. The next president has to communicate with anyone left in the middle who hasn’t picked a side and convince them it’s time to move forward. We have to put in place a program to reduce government to a size that allows us to end the deficit and begin to reduce the size of the debt. And hand in hand with this is a program to continue Trump’s efforts to reindustrialize America. These two goals are the key to reinvigorating this economy and country. And finally tying back to 9/11, the next president has to finish the work Trump has begun closing the borders and deporting all the illegal aliens. That would truly be the best tribute we can pay to the victims of those attacks.