Postcards from the Empire

Trump 2.0: Instead of the needed counter-revolution we got a dangerous Clown World.

The second Trump administration is a year old and, unfortunately, there’s more than enough evidence to give a fair assessment of it.

After a promising start filled with many good executive orders and some quality Cabinet nominees, Trump 2.0 has quickly reverted to Trump 1.0 mode. The debate after the many disappointments of Trump’s first term ranged from “he was naïve and surrounded himself with too many insiders who in reality were out to disrupt and stymie his agenda,” to “he never meant to do what he said he would do, it was merely typical politician lies and he was always going to do the establishment’s bidding.” It’s now impossible to believe the former excuse has any validity.

Drain the swamp? Once again it ain’t happening. In addition to his early executive orders, DOGE was a great idea and was making remarkable progress in discovering the mind-boggling amount of corruption, grift and outright theft taking place in D.C. But instead of pursuing DOGE – which would have gone a long way in actually draining the swamp – it was quickly dismantled and forgotten about, sent on its merry way to the Memory Hole.

There’s been no significant cutting back at all of the federal monstrosity, and in fact it continues to grow, from the trillion dollar budgets of the “War Department” (at least it’s honestly named now), to the exponential growth in budget deficits and interest payments. As always, we are promised a “balanced budget” well down the road, based on absurdly optimistic projections, and as always the national debt keeps growing, now making its way through the $30 trillions on its way to $40 trillion. There has never been a bigger spender, and deficit spender, than Donald Trump.

DEI? We’re told it’s being defeated, but is it? Has anything substantial changed? Turn on your boob tube – do you see any more Whites in commercials? Nope, they’re still mostly a “black thang” except now there’s more and more Orientals and Indians.

The presentation of blacks as a near super-majority in advertising early on was dismissed as a kind of pandering. Blacks have been over-represented in commercials for a long time and now it had become even more over the top. But the explanation for the White disappearance in advertising and the visual media in general is part of the Great Replacement agenda that went into hyper-mode circa 2014, as detailed by Jacob Savage in his piece for Compact called “The Lost Generation.” That’s when “affirmative action,” “quotas,” and “diversity” were tossed aside in favor of White men being all but totally excluded from getting jobs with not just advertising companies in front of the camera but behind them as well. White Men Need Not Apply has been the policy of large corporations, universities, and the entertainment industry for over a decade, and the results are startling even to long-time observers of The Great Replacement.

White men are now 12% of lower-level TV writers; they hold 18% of tenured positions at Harvard, their percentage at Vox has gone from 82% in 2013 to 37% now. And keep in mind the actual numbers are a lot worse than that. For example, how many of those 12% of White men TV writers are non-Jewish, heterosexual, non-leftists? Any?

Note that the all-out assault on employing White men greatly accelerated just as Trump was coming on the scene. How many times has the supposed “racist” Trump spoken out on behalf of Whites? He loves to gloat about how the unemployment rate for blacks, Asians and feminists went down during his first administration, but we never hear anything about the White unemployment rate or the open warfare against White men. Other than letting in a handful of White South African refugees, Trump won’t even mention the word “White.” Some “racist.”

And while Trump and his fellow neo-conservatives and establishment conservatives have correctly fought against boys and men invading girls’ and women’s sports, what about the fact that women have invaded every single space once reserved for men and boys. Girls can join the Boy Scouts, who had to change their name to a gender-neutral one, while the Girl Scouts are still for girls only. Women have invaded men’s locker rooms as reporters, and it’s rare anymore to see sports shows centered on football, basketball, golf and others that don’t include prominent roles for women, often as hosts.

Just as Jacob Savage’s article on the thorough systemic purging of White men received much attention, so did Helen Andrews’ piece for Compact a month earlier, called “The Great Feminization,” which documented how women are replacing men in just about every occupation you can name outside of the traditional trades and jobs requiring heavy physical labor. And again, there is no genuine interest in doing anything about it from the Republican Party, Trump, and establishment conservatives.

Like Trump, Ronald Reagan was also a huge disappointment when it came to matching rhetoric to action. But America in the 1980s was far stronger and united than it is now, and the ‘80s are today seen and missed by many as the “good old days” and they certainly were compared to the present time.

But now another 40-plus years have gone by, and the U.S. has been overwhelmed by legal and illegal immigration, corruption, decadence, perversion, and the inversion of every value that had always been regarded as positive, moral and proper. What was called for with Trump 2.0 was a counter-revolution, a genuine counter-revolution to fully engage, take on, and defeat the left, otherwise the country was doomed, as most Trump supporters thought it would be if Cackling Kamala and Tampon Tim had won.

That’s obviously not going to happen. The Republican Party remains Liberal Lite, the “lesser of two evils” branch of the Uniparty, holding off the leftist revolution on various issues for a while before always capitulating, never going on the offensive.

And I haven’t even mentioned foreign policy, and Trump’s blind dedication to MIGA – Make Israel Great Again – which not only warps foreign policy but domestic policy.

Trump demonized great genuine America Firsters like Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Rand Paul, while openly pushing the agenda of neo-cons and Israel Firsters like Lindsey Graham and many others, the exact opposite of what he campaigned on. He attacked his own base when anyone dared to question why the release of the Epstein files was being stalled, which raised questions about how much Trump himself may have been involved with Epstein’s sex crimes.

Trump lacks core principles, his ego and financial enrichment seem to be what drives his chaotic nature and his many flip-flops. At the moment he’s setting the stage for the Democrats to handily win back Congress later this year. Given that they’ll be rabid with revenge against Trump on their minds if that happens, including against his family and as many people associated with him as possible, one would think that Trump would realize that getting back to MAGA basics, even if he doesn’t believe any of them, is his best course in 2026. But it sure doesn’t look like that’s going to happen.

I don’t have Trump Derangement Syndrome. I support what he’s been doing on immigration and in a few other areas. I will continue to view him objectively from my perspective as a populist-nationalist free thinking American.

There’s a lot more that can and will be said in the coming days, but this is enough for now. My apologies for not writing for a while, but I will now be writing regularly again, even if some pieces are fairly brief. Please visit my website American Freedom News (americanfreedomnews.us) which is an excellent daily digest of pertinent articles collected from all corners of the internet on the issues of the day, and if you think this Substack has value, please consider becoming a paid subscriber.

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