BEFORE TRUMP

    Before the stunning victory of Donald Trump in 2016 there existed in the United States among almost all senior elected officials a common understanding of the American people and the role of the United States in world affairs.

    The American people were seen as incompetent, ignorant boobs who needed to be led, fed, housed, cleansed, transformed, and most of all punished by the enlightened few occupying the most important offices of government.   Since the close of the second world war the American taxpayer was envisioned by both political parties as Atlas holding the planet on his shoulders and bringing civilization to everyone everywhere who previously lived in a cave and wore a loincloth.

   In matters of trade this meant accepting the ideas of Philip Dru administrator endorsing one way free trade and a steeply graduated income tax.   But as it turns out, one test is worth a thousand expert opinions, and with the passage of time Americans came to see exactly how fatuous these ideas were.
What eventuated was a export of major sectors of the American manufacturing base.   The policies effectively turned the United States into a colony of all of the rest of the nations of the earth. The United States exported its manufacturing base, raw materials, and commodities.   It imported manufactured products, low wages, and excess populations of foreign countries.

  Trump was elected and immediately set about reversing these historic trends.   For many years Republicans and Democrats had assured Americans that their manufacturing jobs were gone for good and were never coming back and it was time to get retrained to flip burgers at Hardee's.   But after only two years in office Trump had shown that the standard bromides of Republicans and Democrats were nothing more than vicious lies.  The success which he has had on economic matters virtually assure his reelection.

  It has been my long experience that nothing engenders more resentment and hatred than dramatic success in large swaths of the public wed to envy and greed.   Thus, it is in my view that the life of Donald Trump is in real jeaparody from the crazed left, Islamo-fascists, mainline Democrats, and RINO Republicans.   For the vast center of the American public however, many can not remember ever being so respected by the leader of the country.