Trump Is No Fluke And MAGA Is No Fad

“When you mess with the American dream, you’re on the fighting side of Trump,” he wrote in “The America We Deserve,” published in 2000.

In 2015 & 2016 I watched and wondered how an outsider and businessman could defeat our One Party system in DC and get elected to anything, much less the presidency. The roots of the Make America Great Again Movement extend back to at least 1993 when the DC establishment, Ruling Elite, Democrats and RINOs turned their backs on working Americans, sending our jobs overseas: The North American Free Trade Agreement,^ created a “Giant Sucking Sound” as our jobs were sucked out of American factories and into Mexican & Canadian factories. In 1994 Democrats lost both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years.

MAGA is the consequence, not the cause, of a long-term structural change in the American political and economic system during which our politicians put America and Americans last, weakening us, as they built the structure for the Globalist takeover. Over much of the past 50 plus years,* the Democrat Party and RINOs abandoned the working class, embraced global trade, “married” themselves to the super wealthy, the DC establishment & the coastal “elites.” All this, while pretending to care about minorities and the underdog. They even created made-up words for those they claimed to be helping: “people of color” and “marginalized.” They promoted & funded political violence, institutionalized racism and divided Americans into identity tribes. Under Trump, the Republican Party has reinforced their traditional fight for civil rights (the GOP was founded in the 1850s on civil rights for slaves^^), belatedly started cutting back oppressive regulations and promoting programs that helped the bottom 90 percent.

Nearly 63 million Americans voted for Trump in 2016. Seventy-four million voted for him in 2020. In November, not only did 77,284,118 million vote for him, Trump won the seven battleground states, and expanded the number of counties he won compared to 2016.

Trump hasn’t just shifted the political consensus on a set of policy positions, though by moving both parties on trade and immigration, he certainly has done that. The rationalization of 2016, that Trump was a protest vote by desperate Americans trying to send a message to the establishment of both parties like the Tea Party Movement was unsuccessful in doing, is no longer operative.

Donald J. Trump is the leader of a movement, a movement that many long time Democrat voters are quietly embracing. The Left messed with the American Dream. They have been banished to the political desert for generations to come.

^NAFTA was signed by President Bill Clinton on December 8, 1993 and went into effect January 1, 1994. The US House and US Senate were both controlled by Democrats at that time.

*LBJ’s “Great Society,” wherein Democrats promised to end poverty when they passed the biggest tax increase since 1913. Poverty never improved, but these massive taxes were the beginning of the end for the one-income family, especially for blue collar households. Democrats owned the White House, House and Senate at that time.

^^The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an anti-slavery party. Its mission was to stop the spread of slavery into the new western territories with the ultimate goal of abolishing it entirely. The GOP mission was accomplished in barely nine years thanks to great sacrifices by SO MANY who believed slavery was wrong. Although slavery was gone, much work was left to be done to ensure that former slaves could fully exercise their constitutional rights. This work, however, was dealt a major blow by the assassination of the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, which placed a Democrat, Andrew Johnson, in the White House. During the following 100 years, Republicans proposed each & every civil rights legislation. Some were blocked by Democrats, some were passed over Democrat opposition.