Trumpism is Over

President Trump has two weeks left in office, but for all practical purposes, Trumpism ended on January 6, 2021.

Wednesday started with a pro-Trump rally at the Ellipse just south of the White House where Trump had promised to speak. Some supporters had lined up before sunrise to get a prime position to hear the president.

Trump did appear but just before his appearance Trump reportedly received a phone call from Vice President Mike Pence during which he told the president that he was not going to object to the electors put before him at the joint-session Congressional electoral vote count.

That was unlikely to have sat well with the president, since it would most certainly mean Sleepy Joe Biden would be sworn in on January 21 and not him, and so when he reached the microphone before the thousands gathered he began by, naturally, talking about the size of the crowd and then continued by saying:

Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore and that’s what this is all about. To use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with, we will stop the steal.

He then spent nearly an hour reciting election irregularities that he said occurred across the country.

And then at the one hour and 12-minute mark, he gave his diehard supporters their marching orders:

Our exciting adventures and boldest endeavors have not yet begun. My fellow Americans for our movement, for our children and for our beloved country and I say this, despite all that’s happened, the best is yet to come.

So we’re going to, we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, I love Pennsylvania Avenue, and we’re going to the Capitol and we’re going to try and give… The Democrats are hopeless. They’re never voting for anything, not even one vote. But we’re going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones, because the strong ones don’t need any of our help, we’re going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.

So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I want to thank you all. God bless you and God bless America. Thank you all for being here, this is incredible. Thank you very much. Thank you.

They took his instructions to heart and marched the one mile and a tenth to the Capitol.

And then they stormed the damn place. 

Lefty media went into total moral outrage posture as if storming a government building was in a league all its own compared even to the BLM riots and destruction of the pre-election months.

This was the CNN coverage of the "peaceful" BLM riots:

But this was the CNN coverage of the generally non-destructive storming of the Capitol:

And so, Trump once again showed an uncanny ability to fire up his base (at least the most hardcore part of it) but he had no real plan. Wednesday was a microcosm of his presidency. In November 2016, the street hustler had hustled himself into the big gig by discovering and tapping into the anger of the populous but he had no plan once in the White House and in the same manner, there was no plan as Trump urged his most ardent followers to march to the Capitol.

But the optics, as they say in the political business, were not good for the president. And then a Trump supporter was shot and killed inside the Capitol, most likely by law enforcement.

The president had fired up his most committed followers and they marched Trumpism into hell.

As I wrote immediately after his election:

Trump supporters are rabid, they will likely follow him down almost any hell hole.

And I added in that essay:

 These people are not going to listen to our arguments for smaller government. Their man is in power.

There will be opposition to Trump but it will be coming from the left, not the Trump right.

The left is all about expanding the state. Thus, it will be very difficult to reach out to these people and present state shrinking anti-Trump ideas. They are a perfect target for the socialists.

And so we now face a shift in power to the extreme left.

The Trump presidency was a disaster. He got outplayed by the swamp players time after time. He even placed many swamp creatures, still smelling with swamp stink as they entered the Oval office, as his top advisers.

And then came the year 2020, which he totally misplayed. First by putting focus on a virus that was of no serious threat. Then by holding daily press conferences about the virus with the sociopathic Fauci.

State and city officials across the country noticed the early-stage spike in Trump's poll numbers because of the virus press conferences and so they started giving press conferences of their own and they introduced mad unscientific lockdowns. New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, the grandmother killer, even won an Emmy for his performances. And so the lockdowns continue even now as creepy politicians across the country sun themselves in the lights of the news media attention they get for locking down their jurisdictions.

And  Democratic leadership managed to turn the virus against Trump with the outlandish claim that he supposedly wasn't "doing enough" to stop a virus (!). And in Trump's most asinine move, he funded the blue state and city lockdowns by paying money to essentially all citizens and then boosting their unemployment checks which unquestionably smothered the protests against lockdowns. Everyone chilled at home (when not at BLM protests), pockets full of cash, and watched Netflix and ordered from Amazon. On top of that, the Trump stimulus package resulted in the Federal Reserve Bank pumping $4 trillion of new money into the system which is very likely going to result in accelerating price inflation in 2021.

Trump is also responsible for the "Warp Speed" vaccine that is being jabbed into people's arms and may be required for many of us. It's a shady vaccine for a virus that is of no serious threat to 99.9% of the population.

The latest report on the vaccine, which was introduced while skipping much testing protocol, is that a healthy 56-year-old doctor suffered complete and untreatable destruction of his platelets days after receiving the vaccine and later died of a brain hemorrhage.

This is a Facebook post by his widow:

 Pfizer issued its boilerplate statement for these type of deaths:

We are actively investigating this case, but we don't believe at this time that there is any direct connection to the vaccine.

And then there is the election itself where Trump was no doubt outplayed by the Democrats again. He should have seen the problem developing with mail-in ballots and should have made a counter move long before the election, rather than whine after the election. People I talk to tell me that there were 3 or 4 moves Trump could have made before the election to counter the likely Democratic mail-in ballot stuffing. Again, he was just not savvy enough to outplay the swamp creatures.

But, enough of what he didn't do, it is over for him now. The goofy storming of the Capitol, which accomplished nothing for him, is going to be painted by the Left, and already is being painted by the Left, as an attempted coup. But this wasn't Banana Republic stuff, it was more like Orange Dye Revolution stuff, like orange dye seeping into the brain.

People will have had it with Trump now as the clock winds down on his presidency. The Orange Dye Revolution Storming of the Capitol just added that push to get things to move along two weeks early.

That is if Trump can hold onto the office for two more weeks.

From Axios:

With 13 days left in President Trump's term, confidants and Republican officials are considering drastic steps to stop him, Jonathan Swan and Margaret Talev report.

• The big picture: These measures include censure, impeachment or invoking the 25th Amendment — a move, long dismissed as a liberal fantasy, in which Vice President Pence would step in if  Trump were found to be unable to perform his duties. 
• This talk is coming from current and former White House and GOP Hill aides, and Republican lobbyists and political consultants — all of whom have either embraced him or quietly tolerated him until now. 
• Senior State Department officials are encouraging 25th Amendment discussions along with other officials at the White House and other departments, according to two sources involved in the discussions...
• The 25th Amendment route would require buy-in from Pence and a majority of Trump's Cabinet. But many of those Cabinet members also have been loyalists to the president and serve in acting capacities, so it's not clear that support or will exists.

• The bottom line: No House or Senate Republican leaders are yet championing these ideas — and it's too soon to know whether those talking about them are just letting off steam after a shock to the democracy, or whether a critical mass exists to proceed.

Whatever happens over the next two weeks, Trump will hold on to his most rabid followers but that is all. Once he is out of office, mainstream media is going to drop his name down a black hole. Twitter has already temporarily frozen his Twitter account. And, now after the Orange Dye Revolution, most of the masses will just forget about the hustler that was in charge.

They will be sleepwalked toward socialism by the comparatively calm, seemingly harmless, but very dangerous Joe Biden. This is how Trumpism ends and it started Wednesday. 

-RW