The Democrats Who Cried Wolf

Anyone who’s been following me for any length of time knows that I have no love for Trump, nor have I ever. But what some of you may not know is that I actually voted for him for the first time this last election. I made my mind up on the subject back in 2023, when I gave up on the obviously failed Mises Caucus project in the Libertarian Party (video below)

It was a calculated risk. On domestic policy, despite all manner of disagreement on corporate bailouts, high deficit spending, and blatant police state tendencies in regards to immigration, I certainly aligned more with Trump than I did with Kamala. There was also an element of spite that motivated me. I didn’t like Trump, but I hated the people who were driven mad by his presence more than I held disdain for him. I wanted vengeance for the lockdowns, the vaccine mandates, the endless gaslighting about how we needed to support Ukraine. And even though he enabled the lockdowns, pushed the vaccine with Operation Warp Speed and initiated the lethal aid to Ukraine, for some reason he was viewed as a pariah amongst most who championed these things. And on top of all that, I was doing it for the memes. Trump is funny, and if the government is going to suck, it might as well be entertaining.

Most importantly though, Trump was unpredictable. This could sometimes be good, and sometimes be horrifying. At one moment, we could be seconds away from nuclear war with North Korea, and then the next moment Trump and Kim were shaking hands and establishing a peace deal. Trump was also willing to sit down and talk with Putin, and with Xi. He also didn’t want NATO ripping off the United States and said that European countries should take care of Europe before we do. And of course, he said things in his 2016 run for office that were a huge departure from the party of George W Bush.

Trump was largely controlled by the war machine, but he obviously didn’t think like them. He was by no stretch anti-war, but he at least wanted America to gain from foreign conflicts. He would sometimes say the quiet part out loud as he did with Syria in 2019, claiming that we were staying to “protect the oil” while the rest of the administration was trying to create a narrative that we were there because Assad was a butcher and needed to be restrained.

On top of all this, Trump had been wrongly accused of colluding with the Russians to win the 2016 election, and was continuously called a traitor for simply keeping open dialogue with Putin. Even though he did the establishment’s bidding 9 times out of 10, they still absolutely hated him. And when 2024 came around, many of his old allies had thrown him into the dustbin and were gathering around Nikki Haley.

Along with the abandonment of many of the monsters in his corner, Trump was making new friends with the likes of Bobby Kennedy, Tulsi Gabbard, and even attended the Libertarian Party convention to try to persuade voters. Regardless of the likelihood of him coming forward on any of his promises, the fact that he was actively courting a voting block that had always previously been ignored was noteworthy.

For all of these reasons, for the first time in ANY election, I cast my vote for Trump. And it was fun the day after he won. I had never voted for any candidate who won the presidency, and it was a weird feeling of power and retribution against all the people I hated. I was enjoying the meltdowns on social media from idiots claiming he was going to outlaw gay marriage, not let women work or hold public office, and deport all black people or whatever nonsense.

This, in essence, was what was so interesting about Donald Trump to me. Up to this point, he had never done anything remarkably great or terrible. He had governed with an agenda rather similar to Bill Clinton in the 1990’s, yet he was described as a far right wing extremist by his enemies. And for this reason, I thought we were in store for another four years of Donald Trump mostly aligning with every other president in my lifetime, but perhaps with a small edge of rebellion, and causing a meltdown in the media day in and day out.

As I write this, we are a week into an all-out war with Iran. Civilian targets have been bombed, the civilian death toll has gone over 1,000. American and Israeli military personnel have also been killed. There have now been multiple times where Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Trump have admitted that the reason we launched this war was because “Israel was going to attack Iran” and we had to do something first before Iran could counter attack. Hold up!

If our supposed client state, Israel, told us that they were going to attack Iran and trigger this whole fiasco, why would we not tell them to stop? Why would we put our military, our national security, our gas and oil prices in jeopardy for Benjamin Netanyahu?

The answer is unsettling: Donald Trump is compromised by the Israeli government. We have reached insane levels of treachery, topping Obama, Biden and Bush. Though the aforementioned presidents would bend over backwards to satisfy the Israeli government, we’ve never before reached this degree of placation.

What’s so fascinating about this whole thing, is that Trump has effectively flushed his legacy down the toilet. He received the amount of votes he did from independent voters specifically to keep us out of wars in the Middle East. Though he is not a principled man, he is someone who cares about his legacy and how he is viewed by the country. But he has stabbed his core supporters and allies in the back over this one, and embraced Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro and Shawn Hannity. Now even Mike Pence is heaping praise on him for his execution of this war. It seems to me that though the buck stops with Trump and the blame is completely on him, he is not making decisions that he believes will help his image or his legacy in the long run.

The messaging behind this war has been confusing to put it mildly. Last summer after Operation Midnight Hammer, we were told that Iran’s nuclear program had been completely destroyed and that they had been set back “decades.” But we seemingly had to launch this war to stop them from attaining nuclear weapons “imminently.” We have also been gaslit several times that “we are not in a war” but then also told that we have been at war with Iran for 47 years and this was simply putting an end to it.

We’ve reached a terrifying reality: Trump is worse than the establishment. At least George W Bush spent almost a year trying to sell the world on Iraq having anthrax, and sending Colin Powell to address the UN. There was a Congressional Authorization of Military Force in 2002 which gave him authority to wage the war. At least there had just been a terrorist attack a year earlier that had shocked the country into feeling the necessity to do something, even if not intelligently.

But this time, we weren’t attacked, there was no Congressional oversight whatsoever, there was no year long propaganda campaign, and the messaging has been all over the place. Trump’s administration simply launched this war in the middle of the night, and has been trying to do damage control on the narrative, shifting the goalposts daily.

Now Trump is calling for “unconditional surrender” and for “making Iran great again.” I will point out that unconditional surrender is what we demanded in World War 2, when we fought the Battle of Berlin, fire bombed Dresden into oblivion, and kept troops in Germany for decades afterward. And where we invaded the South Pacific, lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers, dropped two atomic bombs on civilian populations and also have kept troops for several decades after rebuilding the country ourselves.

This is utter lunacy. It’s not just a betrayal of his supporters, but of this country. Trump has sold out our military, our economy and our country to the behest of a country that’s supposed to be working for us.

And now the Democrats have wasted years of political capital on calling him Hitler at every turn, comparing January 6th to the burning of the Reichstag, and drawing similarities to his no amnesty position to concentration camps. Now he’s doing actual Hitler shit, and none of his supporters will take criticism of his policies seriously.

What hurts so badly about this, is the fact that I have never felt more aligned with a party than I felt a year ago with the Republicans. Sure, they had all sorts of problems and a track record of not coming through on their promises. But the Democrats had been so fucking horrible the previous four years. All they cared about was supporting Ukraine and making abortion legal up to birth and protecting the right of grown men to take a shit in the girls’ room. Liz Cheney had crossed the aisle to support Kamala Harris and former neocons like Robert Kagan and Bill Kristol were staunchly against Trump.

Meanwhile, Tulsi Gabbard, Joe Rogan, Tim Dillon and many non-Republican voices were crossing the aisle to support Trump. Dave Smith, Tom Woods, and many libertarian voices felt so strongly that Kamala Harris needed to lose to punish the Democrats for being so awful and for championing the war in Ukraine.

Now here we are, barely over a year in, and I’m a leftist faggot for not wanting World War 3, wanting the Epstein criminals arrested, and for not wanting the American Gestapo patrolling our streets without warrants signed by a judge. Now, Dave Smith and Nick Fuentes are saying to vote Democrat, to “make the Republicans lose the midterms” and to “teach them a lesson.” I have friends wanting Ro Khanna to run for President and start a new rebellion with Thomas Massie. To what end?

I bring this back to the message of my previous substack: the only institution I’m interested in investing in is my family. I’m done pouring endless money, time, frustration and life force into something that will cannibalize me within a year. I have decided that true liberty is taking over your local town and getting your friends elected. It’s building your own castle in the woods and protecting your family while the world crumbles around you. It’s building an oasis in a desert of chaos.

Hopefully we just all live long enough to make it happen.