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Back in 2015 and 2016 Codevilla wrote about the oligarchic basis of the American regime and along with Michael Anton recognized Donald Trump’s ability to expose the uniparty for what it was. I read that Codevilla was involved in some kind of automobile accident. And he was a very old man. God rest his soul. He will be missed in conservative circles. A very wise man.
Angelo Codevilla Addresses the Civil War
Unsurprisingly, Anthony Codevilla has a very long history in the US involvement in Afghanistan. In this essay he walks through its beginning in 1979 and through the Russian War and bin Laden’s appearance as an amateur warrior and the aftermath of 9-11 and the tragicomedies of Iraq and Afghanistan occupations. He identifies the mindset that shapes the terms of these occupations and the utterly useless outcomes they produce.
This fellow Josiah Lippincott takes Angelo Codevilla to task for his essay, “What is Trump to Us?” His point is that despite whatever failures Trump had in his term in office without him there would be no populist movement. He does a pretty good job of defending this idea and reminds us of who would be the conservative political team if Donald Trump hadn’t appeared on the scene, guys like Marco Rubio.
One of the more interesting ideas that he presents is the idea that Trump should run for Liz Cheney’s house seat and then become Speaker of the House if the Republicans recapture the House of Representatives. That’s a pretty wild idea. I like it. Can you imagine Trump mocking Nancy Pelosi from the Speaker’s lectern? Anyway I like his point of view. Sure I’d love to see DeSantis step up and start to push our agenda forward but until he does something revolutionary we still have to remember that without Trump none of this would even exist.
Angelo Codevilla has an article that analyzes Trump’s invaluable action as a catalyst but also the failures of his administration to drain the swamp. It’s a good analysis of the 2016 election and its consequences. Codevilla claims that Trump’s awakening of the country against the Elites is what triggered them to drop the mask and tighten the oligarchic controls that they already possessed.
He then talks about the failed chances to rein in the Deep State and goes on to discuss what future leaders must do to restore our freedom. Even if you do not agree with every interpretation of the events or conclusion it is a very thought provoking read.
This article feeds into my own process of trying to figure out how we move forward from the awful place we currently find ourselves in. If there is to be any hope of pushing back against the forces that are actively working to destroy our society competent leaders will have to step forward with workable plans and a gigantic dose of audacity.
In a recent opinion piece Angelo Codevilla discussed how state enforced nullification of anti-constitutional federal laws and programs could act as the basis for a new federalism that allows conservatives to regain their freedoms without requiring a civil war.
In the article he stresses that it will take very strong leadership from someone to make something like this a reality. Codevilla gives Charles De Gaulle as an example of a leader attempting to restore a nation. And he stresses that the leader has to put the cause above his own personal concerns for glory or gain. He must submerge his personality into the cause. Codevilla wisely refuses to speculate about whether Donald Trump will be that leader. But I’m not that wise and I want to at least discuss what the options will look like and how we’ll know when a leader has arrived.
First off, I want to remind everyone of one thing. Prior to Donald Trump’s appearance on the scene none, and I mean none, of the so-called Republican leaders at the state or federal level did a damn thing about challenging the Left’s narrative about anything. When it came to immigration, they kowtowed to the supposition that illegal immigrants should be made citizens and that unlimited illegal and legal immigration was a necessity and “the right thing to do.” Good old JEB! Bush went so far to say that the crime of illegal immigration was “an act of love.” And so, anyone who objected to it was a heartless monster who hated children and love. It took Donald Trump to know that this con wasn’t actually believed by the American people. And the establishment Republicans continued to denounce his “callous indifference” to criminal aliens all the way to his inauguration and beyond. Eventually some of these NeverTrumpers woke up and realized they had better come up with a new con that included parroting the things that Trump had shown them. But I ask you to think about this bit of history because many of those same people are once again presenting themselves to us as the future saviors of the conservative half of the United States.
Of course, we won’t be seeing JEB! or John Kasich or Carly Fiorina or Chris Christie anymore. They are all done. But expect Nikki Haley and Marco Rubio to be right there explaining how they’re ready to make America Great Again by only making twenty or thirty million illegal immigrants, citizens, at least in their first term anyway. After that I’m sure a billion will seem like the right number. My point here is that the GOP Establishment will never disappear. They will always bounce back with whatever spin they think will allow them to perform their gatekeeping act and prevent anything from interfering with their “opponents” running the country off a cliff.
So, anyone who tells me that what we need is Trumpism without Trump is talking about something that has never been seen before in real life. If anyone wants to assume the mantle either in opposition to Donald Trump’s run in 2024 or in his absence if he decides not to run, I say show me what you’ve got. Prove to me you know what we want and then prove to me that you can and will do it. And that’s a tall order. Even Donald Trump was stymied in his desire to “drain the swamp.” The swamp refused to be drained and he couldn’t change that. If someone has a plan, we’ll need to know what it is and how he proposes to do it. In fact, I’m not sure that a lot of us even think a President of the United States can do it alone. It might take a ` coalition of red state governors with or without a Republican president to make any progress against the combined power of the Deep State and the Globalist Corporate Cabal that currently has us by the throat.
So, anyone who wants to be the new Trump has a lot of explaining to do. I need to know what and how. I want to see some evidence that he actually believes in the things he claims to stand for and I want to know who he plans to fire in the Justice Department and I want to know who will be his Attorney General.
And not to be too critical of how he handled an impossible job, if Donald Trump will be running again in 2024, I want to know what he will do this time to prevent the train wreck that the Justice Department caused for his administration. I’ll want to know what policies he will champion and who in the legislature and who in the governorships he has allied himself with to make these things realities instead of lost causes.
It’s a very long time until 2024. I would say that anyone who waits until then to start causing changes in the direction of this country is not a leader. I like that Ron DeSantis is enacting legislature to protect Floridians from first amendment violations by Silicon Valley and unconstitutional federal laws. I’d love to see him form a coalition with Texas and some of the other red states. What I’d really like is for these measures to be challenged by the feds and then see a state governor and legislation refuse a federal court’s ruling against them. I’d like to see them win a staring contest with Creepy Uncle Joe and win! That’s when I’ll know that here is some leadership on the horizon. Until then it’s just speculation.
Anthony Codevilla lays out how he sees restoring a way of life would have to take place in the United States. And he clearly says that neither side is going to convince the other side to go along with it. But he thinks the only way to avoid actual warfare is for the two sides to separate along regional or even local areas and ignore each other. In this way the larger country can still cooperate on things like roads and armed forces without having to completely split the country in two.
It’s very long but worth reading if you enjoy an historian’s recapping of the historical precedence for re-establishing a conquered nation. He goes into the way he thinks a national leader has to act to have this movement succeed. And he does say that a strong leader will be necessary.
This is a short post by Codevilla asserting that before we can act effectively against the usurpers in Washington, we must first acknowledge that the Republic as we knew it is already extinguished and replaced by the oligarchy that controls both the bureaucracy in Washington and the globalist corporations that work hand in glove with them. But once we do acknowledge this reality, we can take effective action to organize like minded people to start effecting a different future for ourselves that doesn’t revolve around the oligarchic domain.
Codevilla points in the direction of the governors of red states beginning to nullify the dictates of the federal government where they overstep constitutional limits. But he does not go into any detail as to how this will happen and what level of resistance the federal government will offer. But I think we all are beginning to see that some extremely brave men will be needed to cross a kind of Rubicon at some point in the not-too-distant future. If not, then the idea of escaping the oligarchy will be just a fantasy.
I find it is becoming increasingly easy to hear the same ideas being stated by different types of writers. Codevilla is an academic. But plenty of ordinary people and plenty of pundits are beginning to coalesce around the idea that a rejection of the regime in Washington is what is already happening. The biggest question is when will a serious collision happen and who will win?
Reading around the blogosphere I find that even moderate voices are coming around to the realization that they only have three choices, Fold, Flee or Fight. And the top choice this week seems to be flee. What complicates it is the fact that they don’t differentiate fleeing a blue state vs. fleeing the country altogether. And with good reason. No one knows whether heading to a red state is just a very short-term delay in the life sentence that the federal government is declaring against all its enemies. But it is sort of encouraging to see that others are coming to the same conclusions.
What also remains to be seen is if some kind of coordination will be the popular approach. After all there is safety in numbers and if you are planning to uproot your whole life it might be helpful to have a few or a few thousand comrades along to establish a beachhead somewhere and share the expense and risks of starting a new life. I have actually had a number of conversations with folks who are earnestly searching for destinations that won’t treat them like what they are experiencing in the present state of Woke-istan. And they have been looking at ways to band together. If a dozen families buy a big chunk of land, they can each put up a house and still leave a common area for recreation, socializing and community projects of various sorts. These communities are always fraught with the danger that civil strife will show up even in these Gardens of Eden but life is full of trade offs and compared to having a BLM mob heading for your homestead the prospect of battling over the height of your forsythia bushes seems a reasonable risk.
But I am not minimizing the risk and trauma associated with uprooting yourself. Obviously few people will be intentionally heading into the wilderness or the jungle but just moving to a new town is a dislocation. Imagine having to learn a new language and culture. That’s the one I’m chewing over right now. Even moving to a place like Italy, the land of my ancestors, would be a shock. I am an American. I never wanted to even leave this country for work or vacation. It is the world I love and I love what it stood for. Italy is just another strange place where people have a history of being ruled by gangsters. The fact that America has become just another country among the rest of them doesn’t make it any easier to move there. But maybe enough of the good things in the old America has rubbed off on these strange places that they will be good places to live. I’ve been thinking about Hungary and Poland. I don’t know how they’ll feel about me but I’ve heard things about their views on all the social craziness that’s going on and it’s refreshing to hear of places that are saying no to the madness, very refreshing.
Because of family commitments I won’t be moving, even out of state, for at least a year or two. But now is the time to be analyzing information and narrowing the choices to the best options. And there is a lot to do. Selling real estate, moving assets, even learning a language isn’t something you do overnight. Just gathering the information isn’t automatic. What must you know? Who can you trust? Will things change?
But one thing is certain. Flee or fight are the only options for me. Living under these people is death. Death for the soul and the end of all the things that make life precious; family, tradition, pride, freedom. They are the enemy of all of these. Their rotten hive existence is contemptible and their tactics are exactly the gangster model that people fled here from other lands to escape.
Yes, people are waking up and that means there is hope that some of us will be free again someday. Wasting time on winning the mid-terms other than as a way to screw with some of the RINOs that stabbed Donald Trump in the back doesn’t interest me. I’ve seen enough to know they’ll rig whatever elections they need to keep control of the levers of power in Washington. Well, let them for all I care. I just want to escape from under their yoke. Let them live in the hell they’ve assembled. I hope to live to see the day when their rotten anthill collapses under its own filth. The only thing I ask is that me and mine aren’t there when it happens.
Angelo Codevilla is one of the deep thinkers over at the Claremont Institute and I’ve been following his writings since 2016 when he and Michael Anton were sounding the alarm that the American Republic was about to be euthanized by the Clinton/Obama crime family. In this sizable (8,000+ words!) essay he comprehensively lays out his explanation of how we got where we are and what we will have to do going forward if we hope to recover some of our freedoms. He is pretty pessimistic about our chances and rightly so I think. Anyway this is a pretty deep dive and he goes over a lot of things that we all are aware of but from his own way of looking at it. I eat this stuff up. Your mileage may vary.
Watching the doctors tell us how and when we can resume our lives is more than a little galling. Trump will have to tread a fine line not to be accused of genocide by the medical elites. But I think he’s up to it. Nice overview by Codevilla. Just the right amount of outrage.