Donald Trump could have easily covered up Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. All he needed to say is: “I have been promising for years to release the Epstein files. I’ve created a lot of expectations. Now that I’ve actually looked at the files, they are worse than I ever imagined. If I released these files, it would bring down the government. We would spend the rest of my term embroiled in the Epstein scandal. Yes, justice would be done for a few dozen criminals and a few dozen victims. But at what cost? Basically, at the cost of the MAGA agenda. Deportations, prosperity, peace: all would be sacrificed. You would all suffer. And that’s too high a price to pay. So, for the greater good, I am sealing these papers for 100 years. Epstein’s victims will be compensated from his estate. History will judge Epstein and his clients. And history will also judge that I am doing the right thing for the American people.”

In short, Trump could have buried the Epstein case with the hearty approval of his MAGA base simply by acknowledging what we pretty much all know: that Jeffrey Epstein was a pervert and pimp who blackmailed rich and powerful people by arranging sex with underage prostitutes. When Epstein was arrested and his crimes were about to be exposed to the world, he either killed himself or was murdered in his cell to protect those who had a lot to lose. Trump could have even left Israel and Mossad out of it, since that angle is admittedly more speculative and fewer MAGA people have strong opinions about it.

But instead Trump has brazenly denied what we all believe. He has proclaimed that there is nothing to the Epstein case — or that there is something there all right, but it is all a conspiracy cooked up by Democrats. As for the people who for years believed Trump himself that Epstein’s crimes were important, Trump has now declared us a bunch of stupid rubes whose support he no longer wants. The deflections, insults, and gaslighting are classic cornered-narcissist tropes.

Trump has basically spat in the face of his populist base in order to preserve the power of a hostile Jewish elite that rules through corruption, perversion, and blackmail. The best that Trump’s apologists can come up with is “Please move on and just focus on Making America Great Again.” But we were never going to fix America with people like this in control. America is dying precisely because of its elites.

If I were to script a way to get the whole world to talk about Jewish control of American politics, I couldn’t have come up with something better. For the fact that Trump is now blowing up his coalition and immolating his presidency to protect Epstein makes it far more believable that Israel is behind this. It also makes it far more believable that Trump is implicated in Epstein’s crimes. Because Trump would never have done this merely to protect some rich perverts.

The Jewish angle is also screamingly obvious because this comes so close on the heels of Trump being walked like a dog by Netanyahu in the Iran war. Under a flag of truce, the Trump administration lulled the leadership of Iran into a false sense of security, during which Israel launched surprise attacks to decapitate and destroy the regime. Then the US entered the war to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities and protect Israel from Iranian retaliation. The war was mercifully brief because Iran proved much stronger and more resilient than Israel and the US expected. But it remains a stain on Trump’s presidency and America’s national honor. It alone may have already doomed Trump’s ability to make lasting changes.

The whole Epstein spectacle has been so clumsy and self-defeating that I fully expect Q-tier Trump apologists to construct 4-D chess scenarios that this is precisely how Trump planned to bring down the Jewish establishment and its political puppets. I am sure people are rewatching the clip of one of Trump’s denials (with Howard Lutnick leering goonishly beside him), slowing it down to see if Trump is blinking “SOS” in Morse code.

Trump’s Iran and Epstein debacles now have millions of white normies asking Jewish questions for the first time. White Nationalists would be fools not to crowd into this opening. We need to give the the public sound and plausible answers, or promote those who can. Time to go all in.

Ironically, although Trump would not give the speech I outlined above to the MAGA base, this is essentially what was said to the MAGA-whisperers: the various online influencers who were tasked to sell this betrayal to Trump’s supporters. Many of them have taken the deal. Others are unwilling to add their credibility to Trump’s funeral pyre. They realize that Trump is an old man, whose time — both in office and on this earth — is limited. They are thinking of American populism and their own careers after Trump.

People basically lie out of greed or fear. Trump reeks of fear. Weak people are afraid of shadows and crunching twigs, but it takes a lot more to scare powerful people.

What’s the worst-case scenario for the Epstein cover-up? The Republicans lose big in the midterms; Trump is a lame duck at best, impeached at worst; the MAGA agenda is halted and reversed; and the Democrats return to power in 2028. Then, since they regard the Right as too dangerous ever to be allowed back in power, they basically establish a one-party Leftist state, kick wokeism and white genocide into overdrive, and institute Nuremberg-style trials for Trump, his family, his friends, and his most fervent supporters, who will either flee or end up in prison. Then America descends into a Third World shithole, forever.

Pretty scary stuff. But whatever scared Trump into covering up for Epstein has to be a whole lot worse.

Politicians, of course, can tell themselves that even their most craven lies are actually brave, because they are doing it for the greater good. When political pundits and influencers lie, they are often well-paid. But there is a psychological payoff as well. By imitating the people with actual power, they feel that they’ve joined the big boys. Congratulations, guys, this is you selling out your populist base and joining the establishment — or at least doing a cargo cult pantomime thereof. You have no real power. And now you have no credibility either.

The party line promoted by the MAGA-whisperers indicates that Trump believes that he can betray his base because we’ll stick by him out of hope for mass deportations and fear of something worse. It’s charming that he thinks we’re all so reasonable. In truth, however, Trump’s coalition contains a lot of thoroughly cranky and irrational people.

For instance a lot of anti-war centrists, independents, and first-time voters gave Trump his margin of victory. It was already a long-shot that these people would have voted for conventional Republicans in the midterms. But now they feel betrayed by Trump’s attack on Iran. Good luck to J.D. Vance in winning them back.

There are also a lot of Trump voters who fervently believe that America is run by a cabal of elite pedophile Satanists. Now they believe Trump is covering for literal demons. He doesn’t just look weak and scared. He looks loathsome and evil. Good luck to Vance in winning back these voters too.

The  MAGA coalition also contains a lot of thumotic men like my friend Gaddius. If you spit in their faces, they will go for your throat. Call it honor or call it spite, but beyond a certain point, these people are deaf to appeals to rational self-interest.

Trump and his advisors need to get it through their thick heads that their lives and futures are being held hostage by people who cannot be abused or bargained with. They must simply be appeased.

No, I am not talking about Jews. I am talking about millions of fed-up white people.

It was a long shot that Trump could save America within the current political system, but since the other alternatives are a lot harder, it was at least worth a try. The only chance of it working, however, is to remove the current elites from power. Trump was our tool against those elites. As Charles Murray put it, he was our “murder weapon.” But now Trump is trying to save the system from the forces he’s unleashed. Our murder weapon is now their bodyguard. Reformism might be impossible. We may just have to burn it all down.

For years, I have been fond of saying that Trump isn’t white people’s last chance. Instead, he’s the current system’s last chance. If Donald Trump chooses to immolate himself to protect the elites that despise him, he will truly be a fitting avatar of Boomer conservatism.

The generations to follow will be increasingly free of illusions, compromises, and pity.

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