Did the Shot Kill Ivana?
The greatest President of my lifetime is Donald Trump. From a selfish perspective, he is the first president to have had direct, concrete impacts on my life.
- He beat back the thought-deadening creep of political correctness, expanding the window of permissible speech and expanding the window of free thought.
- He lifted the censorship pressure on me as a writer, accomplished merely by him speaking and Tweeting about controversial topics outside of the limit of acceptable debate.
- He practically taught a nation how to show courage again.
- His campaign gave rise to a subculture of artists through the pop cultural use of memes that provided a renaissance of art and thought in America, leaving some conservative grandmothers more socially edgy, radical, and verboten than some of the most self-perceived “innovative” young leftists.
- He ended Project Chokepoint which had so impacted my life and the lives of those around me.
- He removed red tape that allowed the United States to become energy independent and an exporter.
- He crossed the DMZ.
- He assassinated a bad guy, carried a big stick, and didn’t start another war.
- Without going into specifics, even my marriage and my daughter’s birth were beneficially impacted by the Trump presidency.
- I do not speak lightly when I say that Trump’s presidency has had tangible effects on my life.
- It represented a change of pace in America and in my life. And it may have been enough if he never even won. Even his candidacy had so big of an impact, that by November 2016, I might have been able to have called him the most significant presidential candidate of my lifetime.
One Of The Worst American Presidents Followed Trump’s First Three Years
And if I focus on key issues such as the state of personal freedom from March 2020 onward, the state of the economy, and the implementation of communism in America, Donald Trump is unquestionably the worst President of my lifetime.
He has even Jimmy Carter beat on that front.
I suppose no President has been party to an economic catastrophe the likes of what took place in the United States from the Ides of March 2020 to Inauguration Day, January 20, 2021.
Donald Trump oversaw the shutdown of what may have actually been the greatest economy that the United States has ever seen. He got convinced or perhaps freely chose to oversee that.
The awful and illegitimate Biden administration inherited things that were trending poorly and made them worse. It was Trump, however, that oversaw that turnaround.
The swamp played President Trump like I have never seen anyone played. It became so bad that defense attaches proudly announced to the Washington Post that they had committed treason by lying to him and knew they could do so with impunity. They did this to a sitting President. They admitted they lied to him to make his foreign troop withdrawals harder. The Washington Post published it. The administrative deep state truly played this man and knew there was little to be done about it.
The original sin of the Trump presidency was the vile people he put in power, perhaps in an effort to precariously allow himself room to operate in DC. And this came to haunt him in so many ways in his presidency, and these next two details are perhaps the most telling:
He allowed an election to be stolen. An incumbent was removed from office by a stolen election. That was how little support his presidency had from any of the structures he had spent four years overseeing.
He was removed from the CIA’s platform of choice — Twitter. A sitting US President was deplatformed.
The Nature of High Stakes Games
This is the nature of a high stakes game. The biggest winner and the biggest loser becomes the same person. Time will tell if President Trump is a net winner or a net loser.
The Supreme Court he left in place does not hurt history’s view of him. The single accomplishment of overturning Roe v. Wade is so monumental and is a key accomplishment of his presidency.
The fact that so many Americans retain hope for what could come is so powerful an indication of the benefit of a Trump presidency, as well — he woke people back up, inspired them to dream, and invigorated them to act.
This cultural change is hard to overstate.
The Story Turns Toward Central Europe
For nearly 20 years of my life, I have been a student of Central European language and culture. From the homemade foods that are a normal part of my kitchen, to the love for teaching the languages of the region, I have such an appreciation for that place.
It is where Ludwig von Mises grew into a titan of economic thought, where the term “dollar” was coined after one of the great hard metal mines of the world, and where cultures collide in a melding that has formed some of the great philosophies of our day.
From that culture, Donald Trump has chosen two of his three brides: First Lady Melania Trump and the recently deceased Ivana Trump.
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