Donald Trump’s Gilded Age

I can’t say that I am surprised.

A year later, Donald Trump’s “Golden Age” has fully become Gilded Age II. As I look back at my expectations, we are not that far off from where I thought we would be last December.

The Big Beautiful Bill that delivered on tax cuts and border security passed Congress through budget reconciliation in the summer. World War III with Iran, Russia and China didn’t happen in 2025. Trump quickly brought the border under control. There have been multiple “Overton Window victories” that have made it easier to talk about race and Jews. The Jewish Question has gone mainstream on the Right since the Iran strike. The Austin Metcalf, Shiloh Hendrix, Iryna Zartuska and the Cinnabon worker Crystal Wilsey controversies have all been milestones that have illustrated the trend of hardening White racial attitudes. Nick Fuentes was recently interviewed by Piers Morgan and boasted about how he identifies as a racist. Trump has made news lately saying that Somalian immigrants are Garbage Americans.

My only regret is being too optimistic in the spring that Trump would break out of the pattern of thermostatic politics in his second term and build a durable governing majority. This was always inconsistent with my prediction that we were entering Gilded Age II. The first Gilded Age was a time of rising income inequality, political extremism and assassinations, legislative gridlock and political volatility. American society became more racist and nativist while simultaneously becoming more miserable at a material level. It was a great time for the rich. The stock market has also been great this year.

Everything that I thought would happen on the economy in 2025 has happened. The GOP passed their precious tax cuts. Gas prices are low. Trump went wild with tariffs. Trump went out of his way all year to unfetter AI development for the tech bros. He is now taking a beating in the polls because none of this was ever a real solution to crushing inflation and the decline in our standard of living.

Glenn Beck interviewing an AI simulacrum of George Washington while Republicans continue to get massacred in special elections symbolizes where we are now. The worst fears of the Trump blackpillers didn’t come true in 2025. No one died storming the beaches of Iran for Israel. Nevertheless, the country is in a foul mood because life hasn’t gotten any better for the ordinary American.

Note: I apologize for my absence here. I haven’t felt inspired to write anything about American politics for weeks now. Christmas is also always the busiest time of the year.

28 Comments

  1. Will Donny will let the Trumpkins press their snotty noses up against the windows of his magnificent new White House ballroom so they can watch the oligarchs dance and feast like it’s a Charles Dickens novel though?
    Donny’s polling #s are garbage because 90% of Americans(10% of Americans own 85% of stonks) are sitting around asking themselves now if their lives are better than they were 10 months ago/do they see life getting better soon and the answer is obviously “No”. Unfortunately the alternative for White Americans is the Democrats who loathe Whites slightly more than the Republican Party does now(i.e. (R) minority and women candidates becoming the norm).

  2. Interesting personal thoughts on the state of our Republic at the current time. I don’t even have any quiibles with them. It was always incorrect to believe that being in Gilded Age 2.0 that Trump could build a durable majority out of such a situation thru more Gilded Age politics.

    On the other hand, Glenn Beck’s George AI actually goes to prove why building such a durable majority during Gilded Age policies could work. George AI’s response to what ails America is 100% spot on. Further, Glenn Beck by building George AI shows the path out of the Gilded Age 2.0 moral swamp. What he has created, if it is true, is actually what AI models should be built like across the board. Essentially, encyclopedic knowledge backed by citation and curated for a particular subject, in George AI’s case, the subject being Founding principles. So, I happen to like the idea of it, particularly its supposes ability to interpret actual bills against Founding principles.

    Of course, everything is in the details of such creation. We don’t live in George’s world anymore. We don’t have a landed Aristocracy running things. We don’t have a limited franchise for land owners who have military experience. We don’t have sole propreitors or estates running our society and economy. In fact, we don’t have estates anymore except in the most limited probate matters. We also don’t have primogeniture or entail on property.

    Everything has been commoditified. The great Founding Fathers generation all the way until the late 1800s, could entail their property to their heirs, finance them thru banks or lender, and rest assured that their White descendants would still run rings. Illegal Laws were passed ending such power to direct where your property would descend. Hunter cannot Entail his property to his heirs which is why he no longer has the ability to live in one of the former grand Griffin Plantations, because they’ve been broken up and sold off to non Griffins since they couldn’t get financing and the gov said Pater Familiar Griffin’s descendents could sell it off to some Italian Ethnic Rif Raf.   

    We don’t have estates anymore because they got rid of such entities by law and ended their utility in finance by ending Entail. But we do have corporations with limited liability who can finance vaste amounts of money to gobble up oodles of land and other assets across the country. These corporations can control entire markets, out up non government barriers of entry into them, monopolize wholesalers, and finally immoderate all competitors down to the sold proprietor and labor level. 

    Corporations are the Genesis of both Gilded Age 1.0 and 2.0. They have all the attributes of state power, short of monopoly on force, but have privatized all profits to its shareholders whilst outsourcing almost all of its public social costs. Such things didn’t exist in George’s time except for a few giant State sovereign companies like the East India Company which was viewed as very dangerous by the Founders. We now have in essence hundreds of East India companies rampaging across America pillaging it’s wealth and spreading immiseration. Glenn Beck apparently is unaware of this and thinks Americans have just forgotten Founding Documents are something.

    Old Progressivism, with its Unionizations, State and Federal regulations, Labor protection laws, etc all that currently are the basis of most government structures were the result of the spread of this Gilded Age 1.0 corporatism. They were a reaction to it which is ironic given the name applied to the movement. In return for allowing the continuation of such things as Standard Oil Company or the Sugar Trust, or US Steel, we got regulations overseeing food quality, labor protections, unions etc. That is why old Progressives could be racists or nationalists against cheap labor immigrants and blacks while championing such things as minimum wage.

    George AI sounds incredibly interesting. Its the type of innovation based on the unique intellect of Anglo-Protestant culture that helped build American socio-economic power. However, it is uniquely tainted by conservative boomerism which thinks of going back to Cowboy and Indian days without realizing the unique racial, national, ethnic, and religious chauvinism that allowed Americans to defeat the Indians. It talks about Founding principles against a backdrop of US Marines raising a flag after battling thru tens of thousands of fanatic slant eyed brutal Japs, backed by giant warships of steel with oak tree sized guns hurtling hundreds of pounds of shells thru the sky; all made by giant corporations George would have seen as threatening to the socio economic fabric which made America. It has scenes from Selma Alabama, of Blacks marching in triumph over being given special privileges over Whites for Civil Rights, something George would’ve seen as threatening to American liberty as unregulated giant corporations, but which Glenn Beck apparently thinks is Founding principles..

    Obviously, Trump and MAGA, aren’t going to build a durable permanent majority out of Gilded Age 2.0 which itself is a corruption of the American socio economic liberty. But, you can help build one by doing what George AI said to do, stop complaining and build something. George AI is a bit out of class for making a total answer but it is a tool you and others can use to build that durable majority out of Gilded Age 2.0. Hunter, you have O.D. to help. You have your connections with the little platoons of American society such as LoS, CoCC, and others to help build something. Glen Beck’s George AI is right the answer won’t come from Washington, it will come from within each of us, working together in solidarity which will Make America Great Again. Meanwhile, enjoy Trump’s YMCA dance, he deserves it, even if it’s not for a first place victory.

    P.S. For the Judenhaters on O.D. Beta Test George AI on the JQ and Israel and see what comes out.

    P.S.S. For the American nationalists, Beta Test George AI on American Identity and Ethnicity and see what comes out.

    • @Aryan Globalist Bro:

      The AI George Washington had a point when “he” said the American people will have to reclaim their morality and basically, in my own words, their backbones to effect the change that will take back their country.

      Take Obamacare which NO average American wanted and NO Republican voted for.

      Obamacare basically signed a blank check to for-profit “health” insurance companies to fill out. The American people were forced to purchase a ridiculous “bronze” plan with a ridiculously high average deductible of $3500 to $7000 and then, if these companies approved the claim and agree to pay 70 percent of the remaining bill, be responsible for paying the remaining 30 percent of the bill.

      All the American people need to do is bank what they pay for their premiums in high interest accounts, pay out of pocket to doctors and minor emergency clinics many of which have their own concierge plans. Doctors will agree to charge you the much cheaper fee they are charged for labwork. Hospitals are required to treat the uninsured and will negotiate prices for you which are usually much lower than your post claim deductibles. Any out of pocket medical expenses you make are tax deductible.

      Obamacare worked just like “no fault” auto insurance worked. If you recall, your vehicle insurance was supposed to go down, because your insurance would pay for your accident and the other car owner’s insurance would pay for his accident, because no one was “at fault.” This was proved to be a lie. The price of auto insurance skyrocketed as did the deductibles.

      Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are going to do anything to truly fix Obamacare because they both get massive campaign donations from these “health” insurance companies. Therefore, the only way to effect change is for the American people to boycott health insurance altogether, forcing them to drastically lower the prices of their premiums as well as their deductibles to stay in business.

  3. “Donald Trump’s Gilded Age”

    Yes, a gilded age for the ultra wealthy, but it was also grinding poverty for many farmers and mill workers.
    With 40 trillion in debt we should all be living in mansions and driving Bentleys.

  4. Brad is still on the white-flight plantation because he wants tax cuts and private schools like any other cuck, not because the “nationalist” claptrap in this status update has traction in the real world. Racist attitudes remain confined to the losers and their grifter benefactors as evidenced by the steep collapse of the GOP in virtually every election and poll thus far. Gas prices are exactly where Biden left them while the Orange Clown’s tariffs wreak havoc worse than any of the COVID stimulus, decimating what little “manufacturing” was left while replacing it with nothing but automated data centers. Trump is doing to Venezuela what Biden did in Syria because Iran actually managed to scare the Israelis and Trump’s imbecilic bombing was yet more failure theater, just like that joke of an Alaskan summit. Trump’s dithering on Russia proves how inept this moron is in his office. America is no whiter now than it was in 2024, so the “immigration restriction” is meaningless, assuming there is any restriction of importance in 2025, but not that Brad cares about whites. He has explicitly said time and again that such concerns are for weirdos and creeps, and he is very normal, so he turns around and issues more racist proclamations on his very own racist website, pretending that racism is actually popular and not for weirdos and creeps, all the while the polls collapse around him.

    Your embarrassing speech at the beginning of the year is still embarrassing and ridiculous.

    • Everything that I said in my speech remains true:

      – No one has died for Israel
      – There was no war with Iran
      – Legal immigration has been restricted
      – Congress passed ICE funding
      – The border is still quiet
      – The Supreme Court delivered some good decisions on suing for anti-White discrimination
      – “Racism” has become far more extreme over the past year
      – Trump did tariffs

      All this can be true while the GOP having no real solutions to economic malaise is also true. Trump is also back to being a retard again in his first term. This is also not really surprising

    • It’s not the “racist attitudes” – if anything it’s the opposite. The Republicucks are abandoning Whites en masse just like they always do when they get the least amount of upper hand in DC i.e. Ratswammy and those colored candidates in FL and VA. Plus with the Boomers dying off ‘Socialist’ candidates will only become more popular and the only thing Repubs offer is Boomer Reaganite Capitalism.

  5. Btw, maybe Hunter and others could build a Confederate AI based on the speeches, words, journals, and mission statements of the Southern War of Independence and see what comes out. It would be hilarious to see Confederate AI and George AI talk to each other about Boomercons like Glen Beck and see what comes out, let alone the reactions across the Left.

    • @gary:

      I am optimistic that this will not happen. I suspect Netanyahu jumped the gun by allowing the security collapse on October 7, 2023 to force his recalcitrant constituents to rally behind him as a wartime leader. That is what I also believed happened with George Dubya Bush who basically used the right-leaning Supreme Court to steal the 2000 election from Al Gore.

      Had this latest Israeli crisis materialized AFTER the midterms, Trump would have probably finished up the Russo/Ukraine peace deal, defenestrated all these illegal aliens, built that Big Beautiful Wall, built that Big Beautiful Pipeline, and brought back enough industry for returning veterans to work at.

      I honestly believe that, if Trump had two whole years to rebuild a volunteer military with a greater caliber of fighters than we have now, yes, we’d probably be in Iran by the time Trump was ready to leave office and wrapping it up would be his successor’s problem.

      We also have to thank corporate greed as well as leftist power-lust for hamstringing Trump. Even as leftists are doing everything imaginable to stop immigration enforcement up to and including attacking ICE agents, we have corporations giddily using AI to throw millions of Americans out of work.

      Will that lead to an economic draft – an economy that will force 18-29 DRAFT AGE Americans to enlist into the military? Thus, we end up in Iran after all? MAYBE. But there is an odds to even chance that an AI Depression may lead to a French or Bolshevik style revolution.

      The cheering of the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione from both extreme left and extreme right quarters makes me fear the conditions are ripe for a revolution especially if AI terminates a bunch of midlevel manager types leaving them not only without jobs to pay for healthcare but no way to clear their student loan debt through bankruptcy.

      • October 7th security collapse? No, they knew it was coming and allowed it to happen. Israeli sources have established this. The old trick of sacrificing some blood to justify revenge and doing an ethnic cleansing that they had been wanting to do for a long time.

  6. Pedoface Mikey and his collection of brokeback boyz of the Gay Old Pedoburo just passed a “Defense” bill with another 650 billion for OUR GREATEST ALLY (in addition to the 24 billion already sent a few months ago) plus another 800 million for the Narco-Führer of Kyiv. The Gay Old Pedoburo – perfecting the art of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory for decades running. Voat moar harder, zeks! The godesses of “Liberal Demoncracy” need you.

    OUR GREATEST ALLY just invited 1000 Evangelical “Christian” pastors to receive instructions for their continued promotion of the Synagogue of Satan.

    • @Exalted Cyclops,

      Another W for jews. Another L for European gentiles.

      There seems to a common denominator to these ops.

      Christians and gentiles who worship Moloch always ‘let the wrong one in.’ The vampires they conspire with aren’t affected by garlic, sunlight, or crucifixes.

    • “OUR GREATEST ALLY just invited 1000 Evangelical “Christian” pastors to receive instructions ”

      Then wondering why their congregations are rapidly declining.

      Such a puzzle.

  7. A “WaPo-Wiener” portrays
    AfD in usual negative light.
    https://archive.is/4UIkt
    https://archive.is/2G1sK

    https://archive.is/8Tnnf
    https://archive.is/QTu4d

    Renowned economic expert Prof. Sinn rejects
    claims that the AfD is economically hostile, ca-
    lling it “the opposite—economically friendly.”
    https://archive.is/1WoqH

    An engineer born in Germany works for
    an American car company, where he is in-
    sulted as a “German Nazi” by an apparent-
    ly Hispanic colleague named Rach(a)el Rive-
    ra. His outrage at this leads to his dismissal.
    https://archive.is/O00Tu
    https://archive.is/7Eril
    https://pdfhost.io/v/pwVrKCruTj_Bach-v_-Lucid-Complaint-Filed

    • Incidentally, the “CEO” of Lucid Motors, from
      which Eric Bach was fired, is Marc Winderhoff,
      who is also German. He could have prevented
      Bach’s dismissal. But he didn’t, which speaks
      volumes about his (lack of) character. I hope
      he will soon be called a “German Nazi” too…

  8. Trump’s support among 18-29 year old voters plummeted faster and further than his support among the general population.

    This was directly caused by Trump’s Israel First policies, including his support for the Gaza genocide, his airstrikes in Yemen and Iran, and the Epstein cover up.

    Those of us who said that foreign policy is just as important as immigration are vindicated. We need an intellectually coherent and morally defensible nationalism. That means that we need to give other nations the same respect that we demand for our own.

    Tacitly supporting Israeli aggression against Gaza because “we are part of a coalition” wasn’t clever realpolitik, it was suicidal stupidity.

    Consistently and firmly pushing back against Trump’s Israel First policies wasn’t “3rd worldism” or “low IQ antisemitism”, it was real nationalism and it was good politics.

    Say what you will about Nick Fuentes, and there are valid criticisms which should be made, but he made the right choice and he has been reaping the benefits. Before the election, he tried to pressure Trump to give firm guarantees about immigration and foreign policy. Ever since, he has been consistently criticizing Trump’s Israel First priorities. As a direct result, he is now rich and he has the largest White Nationalist platform.

    • Anyone with half a nose to sniff the general winds of public option could have told him this six months ago, and there’s no doubt that more than a few warned him. Trump has *never* been one of us, any more than our resident Hasbara is. Having the entire Federal regime controlled by a hostile foreign power (and make no mistake, Satanyahoo and his collection of Likudites, Hassidim, Chabad, et al view all of us – even the retarded claque of a thousand Evangelical heretics and apostates they recently hosted – as Amalek to be exterminated/enslaved).

      Swishy Nicky (Fuentes) is fake and gay. Now that he’s gotten some promotion from the Mighty Wurlitzer, he’s started shooting right at “crazy conspiracy theorists”. He’s at least as bad a Milo the gay jew “convert” to same “trad catholicism” Swishy Nicky advocates. Never forget that the Kosher Nosetra and its Lavender mafia foot soldiers always play both ends of the artificial spectrum. Normies have no clue of this. Many of the most extreme Nazi voices on the internet raving about Jews endlessly (while ignoring all of the goyim who work for them) are sitting next to our resident rebbe in some Unit 8200 warehouse.

    • PS: The Lavender mafia is not confined to the Catholic Church either. They have lot of chapters in Prot and even Orthodox circles as well. There is good reason they were kept out of certain professions back in the olden days.

  9. A commentator responds to the Judentube interview with Collett: “95%? How about 100 White? There’s no reason EVERY European nation shouldn’t be 100% White. Nonwhites have no business being in any European nation.”

    My reply: “Good question, but it simply sounds more acceptable to people who can see how bad things have become but don’t understand that this is a massive attack on them.

    So anyone who talks about 100% of the land being owned by the indigenous people, and does not mean by that the Yanomami or Hottentots, must therefore have Mein Kampf as their party program.

    Furthermore, Mark is of course referring to the remaining 5 percent as the phenotypically and physiognomically descendants of the Celts and Bretons, such as himself, but there is no need to spell this out to dimwits like little ‘Muppet’-Will and his ‘mentally challenged’ audience…”

    https://www.noticer.news/89-percent-somali-families-minnesota-welfare/

    Only nine out of ten? That means one is “working” (e.g., as an imam)! Instead of always interpreting everything negatively, Americans must finally learn to recognize the benefits!

  10. One thing that will save stupid Americans money is stop being degenerate gamblers. What’s gambling in general (including the crypto casinos) been raking in since Covid? Now combine with buying drugs legal and illegal and it’s quite a bit of income. Like all Americans, accountability is non-existent so the usual blaming an external force like Trump is the usual response.

  11. Welp, the MAGA Epstein Mob got its first major bag by publishing the so called “Epstein File.” It features Hunter Wallace offianado Steve Bannon, hetherto unknown associate of Epstein, being buddies with Epstein. I guess I was wrong, or was I, about the utility of using curated Democrat Hoax Machine files.

    I can hear it now: How many times did Steve Bannon go to Lolita Island? What was MAGA influencer Steve Bannon’s connections to intelligence asset Jeffrey Epstein? Is Steve Bannon an intelligence asset and for whom, Ghislaine Maxwell possibly? Is the MAGA Movement just one giant honey pot? Did Hunter Wallace ever go to Lolita Island with Steve Bannon? Did he ever get a massage from one of Steve Bannon’s Epstein provided masseuses? Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. Let’s take everyone down the rabbit hole and in the end find the enemy and discover he is us? Duh.
    https://share.newsbreak.com/gadlex1j

    • Those who possess the wisdom to understand that the further you travel down the “rabbit hole” find that the ‘t’ in rabbit becomes silent.

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