Most of us remember the day Donald Trump descended the golden escalator at Trump Tower, greeting the waiting cameras.
It was an extraordinary moment in American history. A business leader, a television host of one of the most popular shows, and a highly colorful personality with no prior connection to government was about to announce his candidacy for President of the United States.
That was ten years ago. Today, America is a vastly different country, one that bears little resemblance to the one in which we grew up. And the person who uncovered the mess that America had become – again, Donald Trump.
Trump showed us how the two major political parties had become indistinguishable from one another. We learned how the media complex answers to the elite in Washington and vice versa. Most shockingly, we came to know about the so-called deep state, where career bureaucrats feeding off the Beltway money machine would go to any length to keep a stranger away.
Most Americans have been struggling to restore normalcy.
However, the only difference has been how one defines normalcy. The liberal left and the RINO Republicans want to restore the normalcy that existed before Trump descended that escalator. To the conservative and MAGA right, the state of normalcy that America needs to get back to is the one going back to the prosperous 1980s, when President Ronald Reagan changed the arc of America after the Carter administration had brought it to its knees.
America really began to turn towards a deep state bureaucracy after 9/11. As the homeland security state grew under President Bush 43, and America went into war against Afghanistan and then Iraq, elected officials became subservient to the national security agencies in the hopes that there would never be another attack. Government agencies became more powerful, and our politicians mindlessly followed the ideology of a few career bureaucrats who controlled the levers of power.
When Barack Obama became president and won on a theme of change, the deep state became more emboldened. As the nation's first black president, Obama wanted to swing America so much to the left that it was shocking. The deep state, aided by executive agencies and the courts, was ready to stand guard and defend against any move that resisted Obama.
Trump was such an outlier candidate within the GOP political establishment that many believed that he was doing it all for show, perhaps to increase his exposure for his next private venture and grab media attention. The big media outlets, unable to comprehend what might happen 15 months later, gave him wall-to-wall coverage and thousands of hours of free publicity. When Trump spoke the truth, it sounded harsh and stark, but it made compelling television.
Even as Trump began to rise in the polls, the pundit class was not ready to accept him. Here is a montage ridiculing the idea that Trump could ever be president.
What happened in 2016, during the Crossfire Hurricane scandal (which was overseen by former FBI Director James Comey), was a classic example of using extraordinary government power to advance deep state goals while abandoning everything that America stood for. Senior FBI agents texted each other that they would never let Trump become president. These individuals were texting on government-issued devices. Yet, the deep state bureaucracy and Congress never charged those agents with a crime.
Directed by senior officials of the Obama administration, Comey decided to sabotage the Trump presidency before it even took office by entrapping his first National Security Advisor, General Michael Flynn. What followed were some of the most retaliatory tactics ever launched by the government against a sitting president. And the whole premise - that Trump colluded with the Russians - was based on a lie.
Literally the day after Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified in front of Congress that there was no evidence to charge the Trump administration, California Congressman Adam Schiff was ready with sharp knives to go after Trump again. This move resulted in Trump's first impeachment. Trump survived again.
After January 6, the Big Tech platforms silenced a sitting president. The deep state was now resolved to put Trump away forever. Another impeachment followed, although Trump had already left Washington. The J6 committee spent millions of dollars of public money to air dirty laundry about Trump. State, government, and local officials took the lead and fired 94 lawfare shots in the hopes that at least one of them would put him in jail. The FBI raided his home in Miami. Trump was photographed in an orange vest at the Fulton County courthouse. He became a convicted felon in New York on inflated charges from 30 years ago. America was as bad as Syria, Pakistan, and Iraq combined, or worse.
A lone gunman in Pennsylvania shot at President Trump, with the bullet grazing his ear, in the first-ever assassination attempt against a White House occupant since the attack against President Ronald Reagan. President Trump survived again. A few weeks later, another possible attempt on his life was quickly thwarted by the Secret Service.
When Trump won in a landslide last November, it was the most remarkable moment in American history since 1892 - a candidate winning non-consecutive terms of office. It was a crystal clear message to the establishment, and that message was that the American people were disgusted with what has been happening in their country.
And they trusted President Trump to take charge and go after those people who, sitting in their corner offices and deploying the vast levers of government power, had sought to advance their personal goals against the dreams of the average American, who works hard and pays taxes to pay the salaries of those who are supposed to serve us.
Since taking office, President Trump has understood his mandate better than any president in recent memory. The first to go had to be the lower levels of bureaucracy of the deep state. It was always at these levels that things stalled. These levels were beyond reform. The only way was to eliminate them.
The courts, long since embedded into the deep state ecosystem, began to use their power under the Constitution to stop Trump's actions from taking shape. This fight goes on to this day. However, Trump has mostly been victorious at the Supreme Court.
Trump's next step was to follow through on the promises he had made to the American people, namely that he would drain the swamp at the higher levels, the forces that had handicapped him during his first term. The American voter had given him a clear mandate to do this.
When a federal grand jury indicted James Comey on two counts in the Eastern District of Virginia, the media and the Democrats erupted in frustration and horror that Trump was waging lawfare against his opponents. That was rich. No one in the media admitted that the evidence presented was obviously so compelling that an independent grand jury in one of America's bluest counties decided to deliver an indictment on two different counts of lying to Congress and obstructing justice.
The media should hang its head in shame. They became accomplices to a fraud on the country and accumulated Pulitzers they did not deserve. Americans have turned away from these so-called news outlets, now exposed as Democratic Party operatives. They will not be judged in a court of law, but in the court of public opinion. The reckoning is underway.
The left is calling Trump’s actions retribution. Still, it is needed given how the left committed numerous irregularities and went to extraordinary lengths to take Trump out of the equation. Those responsible for America's travesty over the last 10 years must be held accountable.
Not an eye for an eye. Accountability that cleanses, so America does not sink into a banana republic but remains the shining city on the hill.
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