Americans couldn’t find on a map – more money than they deliver to the people who put them in power. And they do it again and again and again. President Trump came to “drain the swamp” is a phrase that became one of his campaign’s battle cries. He lost that fight. Yet he achieved incredible feats, from the crushing of ISIS, building more than 450 miles of wall along the Mexican border... recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel... confronting North Korea, Iran, and China... bringing thousands of our troops back home, and – before COVID-19 broke out – creating the conditions for the biggest and greatest economy the world had ever seen. That is why he garnered 12 million more votes in 2020 than in 2016. But it wasn’t enough... Despite Donald Trump having left the White House, America’s patience with the swamp is wearing paper thin. Just ask the residents of Portland and Seattle, or the members of Congress who had to barricade themselves in their chambers. The establishment must change, or Americans may change it for them. They have before. Sebastian Gorka, PhD was strategist to the president of the United States, is host of America First on the Salem Radio network, and is a presidential appointee to the Department of Defense’s National Security Education Board. His latest book is TheWar for America’s Soul . Follow him at @SebGorka.
both sides of the political divide have utterly lost faith in the legacy parties’ willingness or even capacity to represent their desires, whether those desires are rational and reasonable, Utopian, or extreme. Is it not an exaggeration to say that modern politics have become a series of dueling populisms. Whether it is the rise of anti- establishment movements like Brexit in the U.K., the rise of Trumpism and the MAGA Movement in the U.S., or Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Indian populism, together they constitute a global phenomenon. On the other side, you’ll find the old-school socialism, resuscitated in the likes of the “Bernie Bros,” as well as the more modern version of Leftism embodied by AOC and the putative “Social Justice Movement.” The most important aspect of these rising collective political identities is their common enemy: the reigning establishment. Whatever Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer would like to believe... Donald Trump’s legacy as a one- term president will be indelibly marked by the fact that he had never served in the military or any government office ever before, unlike every single one of the 44 presidents before him, from Washington to Obama. How that happened is more consequential than even the storming of Congress on January 6, 2021. Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States as a nonpolitician because the Democrats and the GOP not only behave persistently like drunken sailors on payday but because they give other nations – that millions of
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