Timothy Birdnow

Here is a pretty clear-eyed analysis of what went wrong and what may be coming, or should come.

I agree with most of his diagnosis, but I fear he is wrong in his prescriptons. Trump is not going to be able to ignore the penny-ante judges now; they will have solid grounds to impeach him for it. He could have done so over the last two years with Congress in the GOP hands. Not now.

He's not going to be able to cut spending. You may remember he tried to do just that and caught hell for it with the GOP in power; now, with the Democrats, he will just be writing another article of impeachment for himself and a series of judges standing in his way.

He's going to find it hard to finish the Iran war without any funding. Democrats are going to cut off funding for the military.

Trump wasted opportunities talking about his ballroom, and that little project is on hold permanently now.

The author calls for building a new Republican Party, a MAGA party. But if we couldn't do that when we were in power how are we going to do that out of power, when every single vote counts? I assure you the RINO wing is toasting with champagne right now, because they wanted us to lose and lose large so as to make it clear the MAGA way is a failure (as they predicted) and the key to success is to move to the middle and govern with "comity" with the Democrats rather than fight them and move to the Right (which used to be the center just twenty years ago). Karl Rove may act unhappy but he has no doubt been humming a merry tune. Thom Tillis and John Cornyn are probably at a strip club together putting fifties in g-strings and sucking down $20 dollar beers together right now.

The RINO's wanted this for a reason; they will use it to try to take "their" party back. And they may succeed. Fox News will be on board with that idea.

I strongly suspect Trump will decide he's done enough and he's smart enough to know that if he plays nice they MAY let him go once he's out of office, provided he clam up and go away. Trump has no way to protect himself or his family now, and that is the man's first duty, after all. He is an extraordinarily brave man, but there comes a point when that isn't enough. I don't care how brave you are you don't walk into a fist fight with a grizzly bear. Trump is smart enough to know that.

His party let him down, and America let him down. Now we both face the whirlwind. Why should Trump face it too? He already has. How many more assassination attempts will he face?

I don't know if they WILL let Trump go away quietly, but he no longer has the tools to fight back and it's pretty much his only course of action.

I would say we are probably going to see a "kinder, gentler" Trump in the upcoming two years, and he will probably be a quieter one at that. Maybe I'm wrong; it is his nature, after all, to fight and to talk. But every fight and every comment can and will be used against him. He has lost all his rights, except maybe to remain silent.

As the Second World War was wrapping up the British, in an act of extreme ingratitude, turned out Winston Churchill and put the socialist weenie Clement Attlee. Trump is victim of the same mentality, only America turned Trump out mid-term while the war was still being fought. It's an absolute disgrace and proves America has lost the ability to be a world leader. There is no fortitude, no courage, no loyalty to anything or anyone in America. It's all about the smart phones and the Lattes and the easy living. A nation that places comfort and pleasure over responsibility and virtue is destined for the ashbin of history. America should be ashamed of itself. History will not ignore these faults; it never does in the end.

We'll get what we asked for and when we do we won't like it. But the media will blame it on Trump and a lot of Americans will hate Trump, just as the media wants them to, and Mr. Trump will become the absolute nexus of blame - the American Goldstein for the two minute hate.

Why should Trump put himself through that?

I am sure Trump is privately seething at this massive ingratitude; I know I am. Basically he stood before the dragon and his fellows all fled. Cowards.

We should take this time to remake the GOP and purge the RINO wing for good. I doubt we'll do it though. And we should ignore the judges, but I doubt we will. We should make the entire GOP executive committee resign and put in all MAGA folks, but I doubt we will (they should have known how to deal with this stuff but they did not, and they did not fund anyone who unseated a RINO.) We need to build a rapid response team to turn out and raise hell over any and every act by Congress that is unamerican. We have to learn to fight like Democrats. That was, after all, what made Trump appealing in the first place.

And we need a moral and spiritual revival in America. God can heal the land and restore us, but He has to have a reason. America is a Godless place, an habitation of demons and every unclean bird. And it is so with the full blessing and support of a majority of Americans. Here in Missouri an amendment to the constitution to ban abortion and transing kids went down in flames. The Archdiocese of St. Louis did almost nothing to promote this. Commercials were running non-stop against it on the television, and they were not answered. The Archdiocese could have run commercials themselves; they didn't bother. At any rate this bespeaks an immoral America and God will punish an immoral America.

If I were God I wouldn't bless America either. We have forgotten Him, and rejected Him. I'd let us enjoy the fruits of our own labors.

We need a major religious and spiritual revival in this country; it's the only way to save anything.

Personally I do not think we CAN save America; a whole generation has grown up apostate or worse, and they have grown up with ideas that are monstrous, doctrines of demons, and they believe them. Morality and decency are Newtonian; for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Or as the Bible says, as ye sow so shall ye reap. We have been sowing a lot of weeds and are then baffled that weeds are the main crop.

Anyway I think America is toast, and not even an English Muffin, just plain old Wonder Bread toast, dry (Remember the Blues Brothers; Elwood always ordered dry white toast). All we have at this point is the ability to perhaps influence the shaping of post America. I said this before, during the Biden era, and I was surprised by Trump, but Trump was like Diocletian in the latter Roman Empire; a strong leader who attempted to right the nation and had limited success but only accelerated it's decline. Trump is not Diocletian, who persecuted Christians and thus brought the wrath of God down on the eternal city, but he is the last chance, the reversal, the reaction to the madness. Once he's gone the whole thing will implode. Maybe not right away (it took Rome a hundred years to die after Diocletian) but in the speeded-up world of modernity it will probably collapse much more quickly. Rome wasn't built in a day and it didn't all in a day either, but America pretty much was from an historical perspective on time and probably will fall even faster.

All we can do now is try to shape the future as best we can. It won't be the America we knew, but it could be better than the radicals want it to be.

Diocletian, by the way, instituted feudalism. He ordered that all working class people must stay at their jobs and the jobs of their fathers and could not leave. He issued this order because everyone was quitting work and moving to Rome to go on the dole, and so this both cost the government money and led to a terrible drain in skilled workers. Diocletian's answer was to just tell people they were stuck doing what their fathers had done. It was pretty much the end of Roman times and the beginning of the Dark Ages. We are going into a new dark age now.

So where do we go from here?

First, don't give up the ship. All may be lost but sometimes there is no point in giving up, and miracles happen. George Washington saw several miracles during his largely defeated campaigns. God moves in strange ways and He may forgive us and restore the land. We have to be in the fight even if it seems pointless to us.

Second, we need to remember. Hold America close to our hearts and do not forget her. Tell others, especially young people, what we had and what they lost and why. If you have any printed books, especially old history books, stash them away for the future. The Left is digitizing everything so it can be easily edited and they can erase America one fact at a time. They won't be able to get all the printed books though, and having them stashed somewhere for future generations could lead to people remembering and perhaps some sort of restoration may be possible.

Pray, and encourage others to pray.

Remember, the Christians of Europe had watched the rising tide of Islam swallow up much of it's territory, and when the Moors invaded France I am sure everyone thought it was over; the Muslims seemed unstoppable. Charles, the Mayor of the Palace of France, led an army on a suicide mission and he won a huge victory at Tours (aka Poitiers) leading him to be named Martel (the Hammer). Much later at the gates of the city of Vienna an international coalition led by Polish king Jan Sobieski stood there ground against the Turks, and won the great victory that drove the Muslims out of Europe permanently (more or less; they still controlled parts of the Balkans and Greece). In both cases it appeared impossible but because these people were ready they won. We must stand likewise.

Stranger things have happened; the Japanese were saved from a Chinese invasion by a big wind that drove the Chinese ships away from their islands. It was called the Kamikazi - the Divine wind. They would use the same name for a suicide squad later to no good affect.

God has blessed America repeatedly. The stories of Washington having God's protection are legion. During the War of 1812 the British were driven out of Washington in total defeat without any American firing a single shot at them. God Himself did the fighting and they knew it! A tornado swept through the British camp and lighting struck a number of them. By the time they left they vowed to fight no more; how do you fight God? As a much later saying went, your arms are too short to box Him.

In fact Bismarck would famously say

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America," He did that because we were a very religious and moral country, by and large, and consecrated to Him. But in our arrogance we rejected our covenant with Him. This is the result.

Anyway the country is lost as we knew it but not all is lost; we can still affect the future and we have a duty to do so But let's be clear about it; we can't restore what has been lost; that would be tilting at windmills. Quixsotic (and I would point out this word is pronounced Kehoetik, not Quicksotic as so many mistakenly say - it's homage to Don Quixote of La Mancha.) We have to see the bigger picture. Politics is just one tool.

So hang in there everyone

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