With my fortuneteller hat on…

 

The big historical questions of “What will happen?” are usually best settled in hindsight. The biggest questions generally concern whether or not some historical catastrophe was inevitable or not. The American Civil War. World War I. World War II. Meticulous historians, back when we had them, have given us answers to those three in particular. Yes, yes, and yes. The one that bears the strongest resemblance to our current turning point is our own American Civil War.  The young constitutional republic had been born with a deadly contradiction at the heart of its founding documents, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. The reason for the contradiction was political compromise needed to secure sufficient nationwide support for the adoption of the Constitution. Slavery was a ticking time bomb from 1789 on. Eventually there would have to be a reckoning. 

Was actual warfare inevitable though? Yes. North and South were unified by their shared English heritage of language, common law, and a Judeo-Christian morality underpinning a consensus social contract based on marriage, altruism, the dangers of seven deadly sins, and the responsibility of individuals to be both faithful and loyal in their personal conduct. Based on the shared experience of British tyranny, North and South also agreed that the greatest institutional danger in a free society was the government itself. Why the Bill of Rights was inextricably attached to the Constitution as a permanent set of inviolable constraints on the power if the federal government. So far so good.

North and South were very different in other respects. The North had a mercantile economy. There were farmers, of course, and many rural communities, but the engine of prosperity was skilled trades and the manufacture of goods people wanted and needed. Cities grew in populations, there were factories that made things and companies that mined things, and banks that loaned money to entrepreneurs looking to make money in business. The South had a land-based economy that lent itself to the emergence of an aristocratic class who owned land and the people who worked the land, from highly skilled trades like blacksmithing and builders to slaves who picked crops and waited on the wealthy landowners. The commercial and industrial opportunities were reduced by the fact that landowners did not sell land but bequeathed it to their sons and daughters much as the Brits bequeathed titles and estates to theirs.

The problem of slavery was that the southern economy could not prosper without it. It was never the case that most or even a plurality of southerners owned slaves. Their bosses did. The cotton and tobacco had to be picked and sold up north or across the ocean to Britain, and that was just the way of things.

Why the Civil War was inevitable. The planters who became politicians and generals may have been for slavery, but the troops were fighting for their own way of life. It was a collision between two opposing sets of values. When the North had become rich enough to remember their lip service to altruism, the calming link between cotton fields and cotton mills began to erode. All the back and forth from the 1830s on was simply postponing the inevitable. Worlds in Collision terrestrial style. The Constitution and the Christian morality forming its backbone required the termination of slavery in the United States. Even if it wrecked both the Worlds at War.

That’s where we are today. I believe in advance rather retrospect that a second American Civil War is inevitable. We have reached a point where a single sharp enough blow to civil order will catalyze an explosion of violence that will turn into the modern equivalent of the 1860-1865 slaughterhouse. No one will be able to stop it. I personally believe that Donald Trump will not survive his term in office. If he is assassinated, there will be hell to pay. By everyone.

My reasoning is simple. There are some key factors people talk about without full comprehending their implications. Together, these factors constitute a perfect storm that will whirl together with sudden ferocity when the crucial blow is struck.

We see the Democrat elites in Washington, DC, and in the blue states and sanctuary cities. These are the counterparts of the Confederate leadership in the 1860s. They are, regardless of their token affiliations with Christianity or Judaism, profoundly atheistic in their policies, convinced that establishment credentialing in various technical disciplines entitles them to make life decisions that should not be challenged by their superstitious inferiors. In other words, they own, or should own, all the reins of power in the nation and the world. Their accomplices are their technocratic tyrants seeking a phantom called ‘global government’ by personal empire builders in Europe, China, India, the Islamic world, South America. and industrial oligarchies in medicine, computer/AI technology, and energy. What they share is the real liberty enjoyed by those who do not believe in an afterlife. “He who dies with the most money (and titles) wins.” Perfect simplicity. There is no consequence anywhere but here on earth, and if you control the law, the media, and the institutions who define and police the daily instructions of life, you are a completely free agent.

We think we can defeat or restrain them by voting them out of office. But the elected ones are only the chatterbox layer. Scrape them away and new ones just like them will take their places. Because what it’s taking Trump 2.0 to show us is that the Deep State is much deeper and wider and bigger than anyone thought possible, including Trump. My biggest concern during the campaign was Trump’s assertions that he could fix things quickly. Nothing happens quickly in DC but headlines. Problems being experienced (dubbed even by the MAGA faithful as missteps or betrayals) by Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, and Kristi Roem were inevitable. The backstabbers from Trump 1.0 may be sidelined, but the backstabbers in Trump 2.0 are probably in full camo and as deep as the benches of Ohio State, Michigan, and Alabama. Who can you trust right out of the gate? Anyone you want, but what you will get is a steady drip of leaks, missed deadlines, unreturned calls, and bungled handoffs to other ‘cooperating’ agencies. 

I know why he promised quick results. He knew he would take lumps in the first year or so on multiple domestic fronts, but he was lightning swift to pour out a blizzard of EOs to get change in process. Have I lost confidence in him? No. He is doing what I thought he would do, in very much the same order. What a politician does not share in tweets press conference skirmishes is his own realistic concerns about the enormity of the challenges and risks he is taking on. He knows everything I’ve already said here.

My dad used to talk about how bad it could get in fighter escorts of heavy bombers. We’re not talking glamorous dogfights here. We’re talking anti-aircraft fire so intense that you could see the field of explosions ahead continuously renewing and strengthening itself ahead of you. What could the pilot do? He could do his job. Which he could do by accepting that he was already dead or would be in the minute or two, and keep his head clear for flying.

That’s where Trump has been since the Butler rally. He’s assuming that if they get mad enough and want him enough, they’ll get him. That’s the contract he made with God. He will do everything in his power to save the nation, but he knows better than we do that the Secret Service, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, and the Pentagon brass, all of whom are sworn to protect him, are riddled with DEI hires and promotions, double agents of numerous kinds, and treacherous friends so close he won’t see them coming until their own personal appointment with the Ides of March.

We look at all that and still hope, because most of the people are not poisoned with government ambitions, political and personal blackmail in office, or irrational vendettas of their own for imagined slights at the hands of Trump.

That’s where the deep deep reality kicks in.  It took the Charlie Kirk assassination to surface it, at least briefly for now, but those of you who have been avoiding the worst of the celebration need to see it. Every minute of it, all the way through.

These are the proof that the secularist poison has spread to every corner of the country. The earliest counts of similar hysterics identified them by trade or profession. The list was dominated by teachers and professors. People like this on probably on your school board and in your child’s classroom, whether you’ve been keeping up with the politics or not. Note, too, the high incidence of women in these disgraceful screeds. Should we be surprised? No. We may have wanted to believe that sweatshirts boasting of abortions by the wearer represent some kind of rhetorical exaggeration for effect. No. We have been witnessing to, and in many cases silent accomplices in, the 180 degree about face that has been accomplished in the definition of intelligent womanhood. Motherhood is a confession of failure. Abortion is a sacramanet. Murder of those who inconvenience us or disagree with us are to be occasions of transcendent joy. The same applies to physicians who accept money for surgically castrating pubescent children who have never had sex and are prohibited by age from buying cigarettes, drinking alcohol, driving, voting, or buying a firearm. What do the architects of this ‘gender affirmation’ movement hope to produce? A middle finger to their parents probably. But quite certainly, they have also produced a pool of potential public assassins, who are already in percentage terms the single most murderous demographic in the world. There are a few thousand surgically and hormonally created transgenders. They have carried out so many mass shootings that covering up their membership in this killer group is a full time job for lefty news reporters.

Consider. Even politicians facing tough re-elections are reluctant to condemn barbaric child mutilation and the derangements it causes. Why? Is this some sort of secret weapon planned secretly like some MKUltra conspiracy? Probably not. That doesn’t mean it can’t, isn’t, being used that way by sleeper agents working for the end of American hegemony in the world.

How will things proceed from here? Violence of various kinds will continue to increase, fanned by the rhetoric of clueless dolts like America’s worst 10 governors, and by degrees the Trump administration will have to invoke existing federal tools (the Patriot Act is still on the books) to prevent, control, and punish them. This, in turn, will generate more assaults on federal agents, more riots and arsons, and more assassination attempts on prominent conservatives (which will never be blamed in the media on the promiscuous mouths of Crockett, AOC, Omar, and Justices Sotomayor and Jackson).

I don’t want this to happen. Trump does not want this to happen. He does not want to have to go as far as Lincoln did and suspend the right of habeas corpus for American citizens. The shriekers in the videos above do want it to happen though. Why the fact that there are no credible leaders in the Democrat Party, none, is so ominous a state of affairs.  One suspects they want what the shriekers want too.

Tick tick tick tick tick tick. National Guard units called in, break-ins at the Supreme Court and government office buildings, effusions of celebrity spume about fascism (which rhymes with Trumpism yada yada), until one sunny afternoon, a speech in the heartland, some unguarded rooftop, and the Interregnum of martial law will begin, with curfews and troops everywhere.

I repeat that I’m not the only one imagining this outcome. People on our side are imagining it too. It was never going to be easy. Back in November of 2022, I wrote an anthology post called, “There Aren’t Enough of Us.” Might be worth a reread sometime soon.

I would really like to hear him spell ‘assassination.’