On Trump Winning Endorsements by Not Receiving Them - Defense and GOP Edition

Topic: Perspective

In March, after Nikki Haley stopped Donald Trump’s undefeated primary streak by beating him in Washington, D.C., among Republican voters, I penned a column explaining why it was more of a victory, or stamp of approval, for President Trump than it was anything productive or beneficial for her.  In fact, for all the lip service Republicans give about small government, conservatism, and all other sorts of unachievable nonsense that amounts to attempting to boil an ocean, having the stamp of approval of the swamp’s own voters and government cheese dependents is not exactly what an “America First” populist would want.  In that sense, it was a ringing endorsement of Trump and telling moment that Haley was indeed the choice of the right wing of the Uniparty.

Now that Trump is once again the GOP nominee, the same chorus is ringing out from the D.C. political complex, magnified by the clueless mainstream media who think Americans suffering under a borderless nation with decaying domestic conditions will be swayed if political hacks prove that we were right about them all along by endorsing Kamala Harris.  In fact, the media had a field day announcing that over 200 lifelong bureaucrats who had previously worked in GOP circles endorsed Harris, including Stephanie Grisham, a former Trump press secretary and Melania Trump aide, and Olivia Troye, a Mike Pence adviser:

With aides and advisers like this, who even needs enemies?  Indeed, one of the great mistakes of our founders was to allow for a capital city of the federal government to take root, grow, and jeopardize the liberties of the American people.  Its “fat cats,” who prosper when the home team is in power, will always side with “their guys” when power is at stake, and will use all sorts of stupid commentary like “you’re not voting for a Democrat.  You’re voting for democracy,” (Troye) or suggesting that Trump has “no empathy, no morals and no fidelity to the truth,” as Grisham opined.

These grifters were the same types who assured us the nation would face certain doom if Romney didn’t beat Obama in 2012, but now have no trouble discarding ideology as long as the sacred “democracy” is at stake.  Never mind the fact that the United States is not a democracy, but rather a Constitutional Republic:

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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

ARISTOTLE

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What is this tied to?  Power and control.  Political lifers like Grisham and Troye, who personally and professionally benefitted from the likes of Mike Pence in Washington, will have no meaningful employment anywhere near the White House if Trump returns to his intended place of duty.  They do, however, get to pick up crumbs and table scraps by offering themselves as token Republicans when the Uniparty needs to convey the message that not even Republicans like Trump, intended for those still stuck in the Cold War.  Speaking of the Cold War, another key driver, if not the key driver in this entire mess, is what Eisenhower warned us of – the Military Industrial Complex.

General H.R. McMaster, who took over as the National Security Adviser after the setup and takedown of Lt. General Michael Flynn, recently sounded off against Trump and used unverifiable quotes and anecdotes to do it.  As a company grade officer, I will tell you that McMaster’s commentary is beneath the dignity of a general officer and in violation of trust placed in him by Trump having appointed him to such an important role in a world full of more potential conflicts of alliance that currently exist than at any time since 1914.

Was McMaster truly upset about Trump’s view of who America’s friends and enemies are, or was it more along the lines of what the 200 neocons coming out for Harris have bees in their bonnets about?  Remember, President Trump started zero new wars, the first administration to do so since Jimmy Carter’s (which was still a foreign policy disaster), and only used our military forces for surgical strikes like the one that took out Qasem Soleimani early in 2020. 

Readers of this journal will remember that four short weeks ago, I posted an expose of my dealings with the RNC, which is primarily based on the East Coast and Washington, D.C., area and more concerned with cocktail club invites than they are about preventing election crimes.  They appear to be more concerned with preserving current crises as campaign issues to ensure there is at least some demand for their political services, which prompted me to recall some of the most blunt and funniest commentary I’ve ever heard:

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Chris Rock had an amazingly hilarious comedy routine, way funnier than anything you’ll find today, back when I was in high school called Bigger and Blacker.  The track “Ain’t No Money in the Cure” is one of my favorites to this day:

They ain’t never curin’ AIDS. Don’t even think about that sh*t.  They ain’t curin’ AIDS ‘cuz there ain’t no money in the cure.  The money’s in the medicine!  That’s how you get paid!

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Similarly, there ain’t no money in peace.  H.R. McMaster doesn’t have the willingness to serve under Trump again.  Good!  Perhaps he can go find another advisory post, make millions on that, speaking fees, and book deals, and exile himself to the European Union somewhere if we can manage to make some serious change for the balance of this decade instead of advising the United States to take military action in all corners of the globe.  I was once a fool who respected John McCain because the media told me he was a pilot and prisoner of war.  Then he laid down like a dog and lost with utmost dignity to Barack Obama, who began the process of weaponizing our own government’s agencies against American citizens and targeting his political opponents with them.