Will the Establishment Accept Trump’s Inevitability?
The Republican Establishment has been jumping on the Trumpwagon as his nomination by the party becomes inevitable. Any early scheming to push him off because of the lawsuits mostly has evaporated. Nikki still is howling she’ll keep her campaign going. Even as she lost last night in New Hampshire.
But will the Democratic Establishment go along? They’re the ones running the show, after all. All the legal actions against Trump, not just the two by the Biden-Garland “Justice” Department, have been started by Democrats.
I have a hunch Democrats will just let things play out. The reason: Biden is such a disaster in every area. Like all Establishments, the Democrat-Republican Establishment in America fears one thing: a peasant revolt. Ours may be willing to let Trump come in, make some deals, and fix some of what’s broken – to make the peace among the nations.
The obvious main problem is the one I keep emphasizing: foreign policy. The Establishment certainly is happy to make money from the increase in arms sales and the rise in the stock prices of the companies in the Military Industrial Complex. They also were salivating at the prospect of breaking up Russia and looting its natural resources. But Biden and his team of incompetents let things get out of control.
The threat of nuclear war, at its highest level ever in 2022-23, seems to have subsided as Russia’s inexorable victory in Ukraine approaches. Even the Establishment doesn’t want to get atomized. It would ruin the next soiree in Davos.
But look at all the wars inflaming the globe under Biden-Blinken: U.S./NATO/Ukraine against Russia; Israel vs. Hamas in Gaza; Israel vs. Hezbollah in Lebanon; U.S./UK vs. the Houthis in Yemen; Ethiopian civil war – I forget which side we’re on, with China and Russia on the other; U.S./Pakistan vs. Iran; Biden bombing Syria and Iraq.
Meanwhile, Biden stupidly pushed Russia tight next to China, with Iran thrown in, plus North Korea. Russia greatly has increased its defense spending and now has its own, gigantic, military-industrial complex. The Biden fools should have read my stuff. Russia never was “a gas station with missiles,” as the late fool John McCain, a top Biden pal, called it. What do you call a country that control’s most of the world’s uranium; builds the most nuclear power plants; sends more rockets into space than the U.S. or any other country; and has a huge aviation sector? A major economic power.
The Establishment types also see BRICS+ expanding. It already had Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Now Saudi Arabia and Iran are going to join. BRICS+ is bigger than the G7. Meanwhile, China brought Iran and Saudi Arabia close together. It’s called diplomacy. Biden can’t do it. Trump can, and did.
Our military is so dispirited it can’t attract enough new recruits to fight all the existing wars, let alone new ones. If Americans start dying by the thousands in one of those hot spots, almost nobody will join. A draft would be a joke. The youngsters would march through the streets with their hippy Boomer grandparents, enjoying one last Woodstock high smoking dope and listening to Hendrix howl the Star Spangled banner before heading off to whatever “trip” awaits them in the next life.
Then there’s the border. Who ever heard of a country without a border? Even liberals like Big Apple Mayor Eric Adams are screaming their cities’ social services are being overwhelmed by all the illegals flooding into the country. The Establishment for 200 years has welcomed cheap labor to cut wages and boost profits. But things are out of control in this area as well.
Thus the Establishment, dread it as they might, well may be coming to conclude Trump’s inevitable return must be allowed, come what may. He’s a deal maker.
But these international and national problems do have real solutions that aren’t that hard to envisage. Trump would meet with Putin and work out an end to the Ukraine War and start nuclear arms negotiations. The Russiagate Hoax long is over, since the Durham Report showed the whole “collusion” meme was started by Hillary and the FBI. Deals could be made with China over Taiwan, mainly just returning to the status quo ante of benign neglect, while restructuring America’s military power just in case.
Who knows what Israel-Hamas will be like a year from now. But Trump already had the Abraham Accords with Arab nations and maybe that could be a start of a possible solution to the Palestine situation. I’m just throwing stuff up in the air here. Maybe it’ll always be a disaster.
But sometimes good things happen. Maybe one time is now.