Donald Trump’s Jewish Paradise

It has been quite a year.

A year ago, I was on my way back from The Political Cesspool’s Will To Power conference. I had written and delivered an optimistic speech in which I had defended the first four months of Trump’s second term. We were still riding high off our victory in the 2024 election. I had spent months arguing with activists in the comments and defending practical engagement in mainstream politics.

Looking back on it, I could cite dozens of polls which showed public opinion was shifting in our direction on almost every issue. Younger Americans were even waking up to the Jewish Question. White identity politics seemed to be going mainstream. “Mass deportations” were just over the horizon. We had moved the Overton Window and won over the Right on immigration, trade, foreign entanglements, etc. Nationalism had gone mainstream. The last remaining neocons like Liz Cheney were being purged from Congress. Senators like Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell and Ben Sasse were retiring. BoomerCons were certain to fade in power and cycle out of the electorate over the next decade.

The future appeared to be bright. The Republican Congress would soon use reconciliation to pass the Big Beautiful Bill which would be used to finance “mass deportations” and hire the personnel to carry it out. Trump had already shown a willingness to impose bold tariffs to protect American industry on Liberation Day. The border was quieter than ever. The Supreme Court was about to strike a blow against anti-White discrimination in Ames v. Ohio and would soon gut the Voting Rights Act. The 2030 Census would reapportion Congress and Blue States would lose seats and key electoral votes. It felt like an opportunity to reenter mainstream politics was opening up as a result of all of our metapolitical victories.

There were, of course, warning signs of where we were headed in those first few months. There was Trump’s war against the Houthis in Yemen. I didn’t really care though about a bunch of pirates. There was Trump’s executive order on student loans which sided with debt collectors. There was DOGE wildly slashing at the federal bureaucracy, accomplishing little and cutting funding to programs which should never have been terminated. There was the TACO on the Liberation Day tariffs and the arbitrary way they were being imposed via Truth Social posts. The economy was being managed by Trump’s mood swings. This was not the way that tariffs had historically been used by Congress to protect American industry. More than anything else, there was DOJ’s release of “Phase One” of the Epstein files.

There was always the unsettling fact that Miriam Adelson and other big Jewish donors had given Trump hundreds of millions of dollars during his 2024 campaign. Trump hadn’t gone to war in his first term though. He ran on “no new wars” and was hemmed in by a decade of his own rhetoric. Surely, he wouldn’t be stupid enough to start a war with Iran, which would only bring the Democrats back to power who would be out for vengeance. If nothing else, I thought he would be deterred because his own ass was on the line. I could tolerate Trump being pro-Israel and highly annoying. I didn’t care about antisemitism at Ivy League universities or deporting Mahmoud Khalil neither of which affected my own life.

Trump’s second term could have been radically different.

The Big Beautiful Bill passed Congress as we expected. He could have just shut his mouth and started deporting millions of people while keeping the border under control. The Voting Rights Act also went down as we expected. He could have shut his mouth and allowed redistricting to play out. He could have shut his big fat mouth and said nothing about the Epstein files. He could have shut his mouth about Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene and Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson. He could have not taken the country to war with Iran for Israel or at the very least shut his big fat mouth after Operation Midnight Boomer. It would have been remembered like the Soleimani assassination. He could have shut his big fat mouth and not compared himself to Jesus Christ on Truth Social and so on.

This unstable narcissist simply can’t help himself. See Venezuela. See Greenland. See the White House Ballroom. See the destruction of his relationship with Elon Musk. See his constant interventions in the primaries. He is driven by a desperate need for validation which creates unnecessary bad news cycles. He doesn’t care if his choices and actions are bringing about the political ruin of JD Vance. He spent the last month throwing his weight around to purge Thomas Massie and prop up Vivek Ramaswamy.

The one service that Trump has done us over the past year is that the has shattered a lot of illusions. “Remigration,” for example, was transformed into a Republican dog whistle. “Overton Window victories” are meaningless. Trump’s cult of personality doesn’t care about ideology. It has gotten to the point where the Republican Party is being vetted to destroy anyone who would expose wealthy pedophiles and the base has been conditioned to accept that. He has also proven that he will do anything that Israel wants no matter how much it contradicts everything he said about putting “America First” for a decade. No one has been given so much power and squandered it in such a short period of time.

The Never Trumpers were right. Hillary Clinton was right. Trump never had the character to serve as president of the United States and should have been disqualified on that basis.