If I was a US citizen I would be voting for Trump. And - in simple terms - here is why: The democratic electoral pluralism that was more or less operational (albeit inperfectly) when I was young is now a farce, right across the Western world. It has become little more than a branch of the MSM entertainment industry and a smokescreen for our real governance - a permanent multi-institutional nexus variously called The Machine, The Cathedral, The Blob etc. Whatever else he might be, Donald Trump is quite definitely an outcast from this establishment machine and his blustering personality is such that he will not fall into line. That is very rare in a modern politician and - in our current context - this can only be a good thing. If elected he will not really have much power (for the reasons given above) so he presents little of the danger that The Machine tells us to fear. But he will be a disrupter and that is the least-worst thing we need just now. Another four years of a Leftist pretend democratic executive in lock-step with the real permanent Leftist Machine would be far far worse.
For a democracy to flourish you need an educated and engaged populace. The Democrats do not want a democracy and so the first thing they did, successfully, was to destroy the public education system.
David Thomson: nailed it, 🎯. The left controls the means of cultural production: education, media, institutions. At the core of their belief system is their certainty that we are stupid, we cannot be trusted and we must be re-engineered.
Democracy, shmemocracy. All democracy produces is the "tyranny of the majority." Thank god we have representatives and electors. But I dig your point despite my nitpicking. The Ds absolutely want a hegemony and the degree to which the 2 parties have been much alike is directly due to this fact, which is why globalists flock to he DP. The liberal pie-in-the-sky borderless world lovefest utopia is merely the facade that covers their power-mad ambitions.
How ? Our education system wastes money, the Unions are craven, the evaluation of performance in math and reading suffers in the big population centers especially. They are woke. State colleges and universities over charge and sorrowfully lazy.
Neither political party wants honest and effective education (or government) but the reasons are different.
The Republican Party does not want to have effective government or institutions such as public education. Such success undermines the “all government is evil” idea.
The (current) Democratic Party is essentially a nationwide grift using public education both to steal money and indoctrination.
According to the WEF - the US is 2nd only to Luxembourg on per-student spending. Most conservatives think that throwing money at the problem is not the solution. Something is wrong at the core of the public education system.
I think the universities are the primary means of indoctrination. They have returned to their original mission of training the (new) priesthood and producing the, appropriately conditioned, technical class needed to manage a modern totalitarian state. These groups will then manage the masses who were made docile and pliable by the public school system.
This is indeed the case, but the process cannot and will not continue indefinitely, as long as folks like Mr. Rufo continue pushing for reform. Mainly, however, more people are becoming aware of this condition and rejecting college altogether--especially young men.
The public schools are a thornier problem, yet I am hopeful when I see the numbers of families opting for either homeschooling or conservative private academies. Public schools are also a notorious drain on the public coffers, so the more they suck up $ and deteriorate, the more likely the prospect of making them obsolete and dismantling the US Department of Education altogether. An end to accreditation through teacher's colleges would also be a step in the right direction, but I digress.
I like your trope, yet I hear that recent polls have "Gen Z" young men rejecting the liberal agenda and getting behind the MAGA movement, which ought to scare the bejeezus out of the Dems and at least somewhat demoralize their batshit crazy left wing. Since fewer men are going to university, I can foresee the libs becoming a cloistered nunlike faction not effecting much outside their nunneries, as was once the case.
I am overjoyed by the fact that the new counterculture tends conservative and MAGA scares the shit out of their liberal parents.
Yes A. The Dem's want power and winning -- above all else, even our wellbeing and even beyond normal healthy boundaries. It is no accident their rank and file are unhealthy single women who have very high incidents of mental health issues. They suffer the same psychosis as Hitler Youth and the junior Stasi and the Chinese Red Guard and Stalin's youth-minders...I guess now we know what it feels like (at the early stages, no doubt).
I agree that Harris is The Machine. But Trump is too right wing for me, I would love a leftie, socialist-leaning Trump type. You see, I strongly suspect that The Machine is ultimately capitalism. Not the old kind. A new kind. A transformed capitalism that now loves the state.
The Machine is the non-productive class who profit from the productivity of all other classes. The unaudited Federal Reserve prints money to give to whatever entity The Machine favors, and this is the only reason inflation exists. Taxes are assessed on citizens and Corporations to ensure the Socialist system. Regulations are used to exclude Capitalist competition. All of this non-Capitalist activity is maximized, but still kept just below the threshold where the citizens will complain.
Socialism is the New Capitalism. Fiat currency, taxation, token handouts, regulation, and a government that represents a larger chunk of the GDP than Communist China.
As far as I know it is a reference to some movie...don't know which one. I know of it as a term used by certain UK Tory government ministers to describe the huge, hostile civil service, academia, quango, charitable sector Blob that tries to neutralise any conservative policies they were elected to implement. I wrote about it in this piece: https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/carry-on-governing
“The Blob” was a 1950s movie. Starring Steve McQueen. From Wikipedia: “The film concerns a carnivorous amoeboidal alien that crashes to Earth from outer space inside a meteorite, landing near the small communities of Phoenixville and Downingtown, Pennsylvania. It envelops living beings, growing larger, becoming redder in color and more aggressive, eventually becoming larger than a building.”
And you should check out Mediated if you have the time. The author uses The Blob to describe the seemingly inevitable spread of Neoliberal globalization. It is one of the most prescient books I’ve ever read. Published in 2006 but reads like it was written in 2026.
I’ll take the human Prince fully exposed with his human faults, versus the Party who secretly hide behind a candidate willing to shroud the party mischief. I believe that the American electorate have had enough of a party who has told us to deny our sensibilities and just “shut up and eat our peas” versus one human who tells us that “we the people, still deserve to dream the American dream”.
What Christopher Rufo missed in this fine analysis is that the Democrat Party represents Marxism and the Populist Prince represents Americanism. It is not just a matter of form, the far greater matter is content.
Yes, and you have stated your theme powerfully. Your work exposing critical race theory and subversive education is absolutely brilliant, and I have quoted you in my new book, Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier––Reality Is. You are among the young writers and thinkers who give me hope for the future of our imperiled nation. My remark on this particular article reflected a missed opportunity to name the players. Nothing more.
You have some of the players wrong, Linda. You have been consistently attributing my posts here to Chris Rufo. So I am deleting them for my protection. You have said that the Chris Rufo photo indicates his work. Not so. It is just a Substack brand mark. Don't you see that same photo under everyone's comments?
I don't think you understand who writes, what. Which is rather dangerous for someone who then reprints this material. You may "attribute" as you say, but if you attribute to the wrong person, you do damage to the actual writer and originator.
To be perfectly clear, I had never read ANY of your posts until yesterday, and my book with quoted material has already been published. So, my misunderstanding the Substack brand mark is entirely irrelevant regarding "your protection" and yes, I now understand that the photo appears in every post. I will not make that mistake again.
You have already done the damage to me, however. I will remember who you are. I will scour your material for evidence of you lifting my work (though I will not buy your book).
As you have promised to do.
You have really stuck your foot in it, Linda. You pretend to be a "professional" in the knowledge game, but you get the absolute basics wrong? And then you verbally attack those who call you out?
It (The Democrat Party) may not need to be Marxist, but it is. The connection between Marxism/communism and the globalist elite was exposed by G. Edward Griffin in his astonishing 1982 interview of Norman Dodd. In 1953, Norman Dodd was Director of Research of the Reece Committee, the Congressional Special Committee to investigate tax-exempt foundations. Dodd discovered that since 1945 tax-exempt foundations had been operating to promote a hidden globalist agenda. "The real objective was to influence American educational institutions and to control foreign policy agencies of the federal government. The purpose of the control was to condition Americans to accept the creation of world government. That government is to be based on the principle of collectivism, which is another way of saying socialism; and it is to be ruled from behind the scenes by those same interests which control the tax-exempt foundations." At the end of the interview Griffin asks if the purposes of the foundations have changed over the years, what are their purposes and directions today? Dodd answers, "100% behind meeting the cost of educatrion, such as it is presented through the schools and colleges of this United States, on the subject of our history––to prove that our original ideas are no longer practical. The future belongs to collectivistic concepts. There is just no disagreement on this." The interview concludes with Griffin asking Dodd why the foundations generously support communist causes in the United States. Dodd answers matter-of-factly, "Well, because, to them, communism represents a means of developing what we call a monopoly––as the organization, we’ll say, of large-scale industry into an administrable unit."
Holy moly! And here I thought that the collectivist/Socialist trend in education began with the Free Speech Movement and the rise of the SDS. This is quite an eye-opener for me, personally.
You are very far behind in this subject, then, BH. It has been written about for at least several centuries. Totalitarianism and the study of it is not new.
I am sometimes surprised at the level of general ignorance out there, and sometimes I tell myself to take it for granted. Because this is the reality.
You smug little piece of snot. You are a prime example of someone with political opinions I agree with but with the superior attitude of a self-important jackass. Sometimes I'm surprised at the level of egomania issuing from anonymous blowhards.
Ignorance has been taught for decades. When I was in high school in 1963, I won a contest that was one-third judged on a speech that I wrote and presented. That speech would support Democrat concepts today.
The contest was for a trip to New York City to visit the UN, the IOOF United Nations Youth Pilgrimage. The other two-thirds of the judging were on a written test on the UN and an evaluation of my academic performance.
Exactly! And the lethally corrupt United Nations provides the internationalized infrastructure for globalism’s one-world governance. James Lindsay is another young man, like you, whose brilliant mind and commitment to Americanism gives me hope for our nation’s future. I quote him in my new book as well! Lindsay's essay describing Marxism as the genus, and every vile iteration of critical theory as its species, is stunning. It is my opinion that people are very confused, they know that things are not right, but they cannot identify what is wrong. The globalist elite are waging war on America in America, and they cannot impose their planetary Unistate without collapsing America. The culture war that is convulsing America is planned demolition, and the escalating antisemitism is purely political. First comes Saturday, then comes Sunday––first the Jews, then the Christians. The entire Judeo-Christian tradition is being targeted because it is the infrastructure of Western civilization. The Marxists, Islamists, and Globalists all see Judaism and Christianity as competing ideologies. We are a world at war, whether people acknowledge it or not. And when people view current events through a war prism, everything makes sense. Open borders that are flooding the nation with hostile illegal immigrants, Marxist indoctrination in schools, Satanism on display at the Olympics, antisemitism, anti-Christianity, etc etc etc are all weapons of the globalist War on America. The choice between the Prince and the Party is the choice between American freedom in our constitutional republic, and serfdom in globalism’s Unistate. The Unistate is Western totalitarianism on a planetary scale.
Can you give us an idea of why the comments you are responding to have been deleted? I'd like to see what you are agreeing with.
P.S.
Can you identify any individuals who make up this globalist elite? Klaus Schwab and the members of the WEF come to mind, as does Bill Gates. Forgive my laziness for not immediately scouring the net for answers to this question, but can you tell us who, if anyone, actually manages the UN? Is there a bureaucratic hierarchy?
The so-called "culture war" ain't trivial, and I now suspect those who make the argument that it's merely some sort of distraction that's arisen organically are wrong.
P.P.S.
It looks to me like the deleted comments are from "A" who wants to hoard them for some reason.
Precisely! Knowledge truly is power, which is why the orchestrated campaign to dumb down American children is so sinister. Beginning with "progressive" (a misnomer since it is entirely regressive) education’s insistence upon teaching children to read with sight words is a particularly insidious weapon of mass destruction. Why? Because it has been known for 70 years that English is a phonetic language that MUST be taught with phonics. The War on America is being waged educationally in both form and content. When children can’t read they are crippled intellectually, economically, factually, and socially. Illiteracy has a distinct political purpose. An illiterate population LACKS FACTS, and is easily controlled with FEELINGS particularly through social engineering provided by mainstream media and social media, which are controlled by the same globalist Big Three: Vanguard, Blackrock, and State Street. The War on America is revolution without bullets, and it is a psyop marketed "for your own good." It is very difficult for the civilized mind to process the depth, breadth, and malevolence of globalism’s War on America and on Western civilization. But of this I am certain: The globalists will not stop unless they are stopped! The transfer of information has always been my goal. It is why I began writing political books in my "retirement," and why I have been releasing one chapter a week of my newest book since January 1, 2024 on my goudsmit.pundicity.com website for anyone to read for free. I will continue to do so until all 45 chapters of Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier––Reality Is, have been released. You and James Lindsay and Alex Newman are quoted multiple times, with proper citation of course, in the chapters discussing the catastrophic subversion of American education and American minds in American schools. Children are the future of every society on Earth––and the enemies of freedom know it––they are targeting the children, Christopher. Parents must have the information to protect their children, because the children cannot protect themselves. This is a war of attrition. My generation of patriot grandparents is dying. My children’s generation of indoctrinated millennials is transitional. It is my grandchildren’s generation that is the target of the globalist War on America. And if America falls, national sovereignty will cease to exist worldwide; individual sovereignty will cease to exist worldwide; and freedom will cease to exist worldwide. Upward mobility and the middle class will cease to exist because private property, the foundation of freedom, will cease to exist worldwide. What remains will be globalism’s binary feudal infrastructure of rulers and ruled on a planetary scale administered through the lethally corrupt United Nations––exactly as Norman Dodd described in his 1982 interview. You must keep writing and speaking out, Christopher. Yours is a powerful voice of freedom.
I am not Christopher Rufo, btw. Some readers here have confused that.
I was on the scene and explaining totalitarianism many, many years before. In advance of Chris Rufo and James Lindsay and Mattias Desmet. Because it happens that I have a bit of expertise in the subject! Just a bit.....😊
I am Muslima Our faith has been hijacked. there are nne billion of us, a great majprity still are centrist and sane and beautiful. Asra Nomani has written a compelling new book that i have but have not yet read it is WOKE ARMY " -the red-gree alliance that is destroying america's freedom . i have a hunch she names names and gives rcipts throughout. She is to the left of me even still, but hwever she is a centrist and a Muslima not a heretic
Agree completely: “Marxism” is what we are dealing with, and I wish our writers/freedom lovers would invoke that term often in describing the Democratic Party of today and its Communist leadership such as Obama and Harris. For those of us who were involved in the cold and the hot war against communism, what is going on is just too obvious. Wake up, Millennials , wake up Gen Zs; Your future is on the line right now. With fist raised, you must “fight, fight, fight!”
I was considering not voting for president at all this fall because of our dismal choices- Trump or Biden. Well, when Biden dropped out and Harris was elevated, my decision became clear: I will vote for a Republican president for the first time in my life, and my god it will be Trump. I'm a registered Democrat.
As someone from outside the US the question for me is then: If Kamala and Biden are only replacable figureheads who is making the decisions in the Democratic Party then? I'm sincerely interested how that works behind the scenes. What is the process? How much does the crowd decide and how much is there pressure to tow the line? Does anyone here know? And please don't just respond with "Democrats bad!", I genuinely want to know how that works in the real world.
It’s a cabal of power brokers behind the scenes and those in front who carry out the orders. In present case, power brokers you see from time to time: Obamas, Clintons et al, Clooney Hollywood et al, Soros billionaires et al. Runners: Schumer, Pelosi, Nadler etc., Huma Abedin, Susan Rice, Valerie Jarrett, Letitia James. On and on, many more, deep into the organization. They exert tremendous influence on all those elected and on staff.
Think you are very close but believe there's a layer higher. A cabal of maybe a dozen or more intelligence/military industrialist/banksters- old money, old power. Not Zuckerberg or Gates or any other silicon valley "titan". This cabal probably greased the skids for their success and a few select politicians- Obama, Clinton's, McConnell, etc. When you look at Obama's history, lack of accomplishment and subsequent impact on the political scene the only thing making any sense is an unknown benefactor. So there's "somebody" out there. Question is- what's their motivation? Destruction of the USA? Pure unbridled, concentrated power? Sick amusement? Something else altogether? I don't exactly know but do know it's not any good for any of us.
Yes, agree. Those I listed are them we see. They are pretty obvious. They are the them who serve the ones we don't see. The Money (dynastic money, old money as you suggest, the "men who built America"). They are few, but there is no ONE to point to. Politics serves corporate wealth and power. Politics serves the elite no matter who they are, and they are all the same people (even when we get a few new ones- Elon, Bezos). The rank and file 1%-ers put their money in the party they believe their money will be most protected and preserved and where they think the power will be- age old (i.e, DeSantis in his early phase until he lost steam and they all very quickly shifted, however reluctantly, to Trump). 1%-ers don't necessarily have party affiliation, as they are all aligned with getting the most value for their money and keeping it. They are aligned in keeping it. They will not destroy each other, even when the Soros' and Thiels' of the world collide. The tech billionaires influence in another good old-fashioned way- monopoly, and in the new social engineering way- mind control, then provide money to whoever serve those interests best and keeps them alive. Corporations- and the few- still rule. That's why Trump has such a wide appeal to the working classes. He is the hoped for catalyst and would-be breaker of the corrupt rules he himself participated in. Hierarchy is a crazy game. Always has been. What the masses forget is that the power, like Dorothy's ruby slippers, has been with them all along. Just stop. All at once. However, that requires UNITY, and UNITY is the very powerful thing They keep from Us.
Absolutely agree 100%. Keeping us at each others throats has always been their most fundamental play. I think Trump is forcing many people to confront that fact and maybe, just maybe, they've overplayed their hand.
I believe the cabal is global and consists of the ones you mentioned plus the WEF, CIA, FBI. However, Obama, McConnell, Clintons, Pelosi, Biden, etc. are nothing but stooges who do what the cabal dictates. The cabal's motivation is communism. It's been oozing into the US like slime since the 1950s. The civil rights act is a perfect example of communist slime. It was never intended to uplift blacks. The intention has always been to destroy whites and the civilization we've built through the ages. Non-whites are the cannon fodder!
Just finished reading a post by "millennial woes" on the same subject. He's a Scottish guy commenting on the UK destruction by the same means as here, very depressing & discouraging. If he (and you) are correct, the replacement theory is real and started almost 60 years ago. I used to think it was the "commies" but I'm beginning to think of communism as a "lubricant", a device to win over the young/stupid/poor to lessen the resistance (friction) to the ultimate plan. This global cabal is smart enough to know communism never works but can be a useful tool. But tool for what exactly? They have to know continually importing third worlders will only result in burning it all down. They then rule over the ruined remains? That makes no sense to me, unless the primary force behind the cabal is..... the Saudis.
Quit your laughing. Go read MW, give it some thought and get back to me. Don't have this completely flushed out but when I think about the motive, opportunity and means it's starting to make some sense.... AP
I’m born/raised in the American Midwest, and have these same questions. I was a registered Democrat until my early twenties, when I started asking questions, ultimately landing as a registered independent, where I remain to this day.
It’s the politically convenient inversion of the Golden Rule. Whoever has the most gold becomes the de facto ruler(s). I think it’s most likely a group effort or a hive mind effect.
The crowd decides nothing. American Marxist Barack Obama runs Biden/Harris and also manages the temporary alliance of convenience with the Islamists (particularly Iran), in order to collapse America from within. The alliance participants are all far too arrogant to realize that they are just useful idiots for the globalist elite, who fund and foment the chaos the alliance is tasked with creating. The globalist elite pull the puppet strings, and will eliminate all their useful idiots as soon as their usefulness expires. History is a great teacher, which is why it is no longer taught in American schools.
Oh, no. You give Obama far too much credit. He's not smart enough to run anything!! He's a stooge just like Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, etc. He's been a communist stooge all his life with his various affirmative action handouts and positions...fake college degrees, phony employment as a community organizer, fake election to senate, etc. He's not intelligent but he's glib which dumb people mistake for intelligence. He would be nothing without affirmative action and same applies to Michelle.
I agree with you completely, Frans, and I am sorry I was not clear. I consider Puppet president Barack Obama globalism's most useful idiot of all. He is among the alliance participants who are too arrogant to realize that they will be eliminated once their usefulness expires.
That's a perfect description: "...Obama [is] globalism's most useful idiot of all." He has been groomed for the 'most useful idiot' position all his life!
The people being described here have all the power, money, prestige and accolade imaginable. What more in material earthly riches, comfort and control could they possibly desire?
Anything that cannot be logically and rationally explained or understood, can only be explained and understood by acknolwedging the battle between good and evil. It's all right there- just read The Book.
Power is far more addictive than any drug, apparently. I imagine there's a personality type that is drawn towards power--the controlling asshat infected by what William S. Burroughs calls the "Right Virus," a pathological inability to cope with being contradicted.
An irony in this observation is that, in this particular place and time in history, the prince and his allies believe that power and principles are co-equals. The party model believes that power rules over principle. You would think it would be the other way around. What this tells you is that behind the “party” is a small cabal of power hungry individuals. They seem to driven mostly by hatred towards legacy Western cultural values, I.e. Christianity.
Yes, exactly. A relatively small set of extraordinarily wealthy groups with competing interests, aligned by what they fear and their perception of themselves as “above others” - comfortable in the belief that they are saviors, meant to control the future. My theory is that:
1. They fear nuclear war and seek a means of homogenizing political interests and globalizing control without overt great power war
2. They fear overpopulation and use “global warming” as a means to depopulate nations and save us all
3. They see China as a stable model of social control and will support it (though a one party answer is not in their best interest, so I’m not sure how they will balance powers)
4. They see the “woke” ideology as a means of sowing disruption within western democracies (societal violence - breakdown of law and order to keep people afraid , sexual confusion, degeneracy, abortion - at a time when we need population growth, and open borders to flood the west with more mouths to feed on the dole, military aged men used to corruption be it Muslim extremism or simple drug lord thuggery)
5. They have supported the subversion of the west for decades and are now able to step back and watch us self-destruct.
But, the fight is not over; we must mobilize and show that not only does the emperor have no clothes but he’s simply demonic and thus insane.
I would suggest that it is not so much hatred in a visceral, emotional sense but rather that the legacy Western cultural values are seen by them as an impediment to fully consolidating the power for which they so hungrily seek.
ALL religions any of which they have already corrupted. Every islamic nation that has a violent and callous disregard for human life is Leftist infused by virtue of the need for funds that has made organized crime the largest economy in the world. Organized crime destabilizes everything and intentionally traos and ensaves people and then extorts them in one fashion or another from the high to the low. Hesbollah, Hamas the Houti they all ddeal drugs and sell slaves. And they work with mafias and cartels across the world that inlcude the CCP cabal and the Triad in China. The catastrophic impact of their incursions into banking, and big pharmaceutical companies that "nvent" painkillers like OxyContin which causes painand ddependdece so severe that a plethora of unsuspecting, naive people are addicted almost from first use, these drugs have been mainstreamed. and we have kid who hate themselves it's a very bad combo and very lucrative for the dark forces of abject dependency and social entropy
This part could be expanded. The Party method is susceptible to groupthink. "loyal mediocrities" - NPCs chosen *not* based on merit, but because of their usefulness as cogs in a large machine that, once programmed, has ubiquitous reach.
“Prince versus party” - thanks for the keen insight! Ironic that while Rufo’s critic Yarvin yearns for an American Caesar, he has seemingly failed to arrive at similar conclusions.
I am dyslexic and the comment i worked on for ovwer an hours and ahalf has disappeared. not sure if that is why. i will edit it soe but ime is a constraint and see if it merits inclusion First of all there is no such thing in the USA as populism. It is another made up relatively new term used solely as a pejorative to attack the popularity of common sense candidates (including the esteemable Howard Dean) who have a Shakesperean kind of appeal to the putative electorate that engages a wide and deep swathe of our nation's population.
Donald Trump IS such a popular candidate. This is a boon to our narion's riven state, for while in office, despite being literally hounded by hostile media who paid scant attention to facts and were despicably lackig in balanced coverage of his intiatives and administrative endeavors. But they also vilified the man, made a mockery of journalistic integrity to misinform about his actions, speculate ngatively about his motives and then assert them as fact and then vilify him for views he does not hold and positions he abjures, the while villifying him.
The corporate media, most all of every local paperwhether rural, suburban or urban, having been subsumed into one of 6 media corporations that extert editorial control, supported the democrats in asserting a partisan perogative to manage and to make leftist oriented decsisions about a host of issues most republicans of the pasat would not touc. But Trump sees himself as an American first, and tried to offere succor,
These media and social media organized outlets of propaganda were from the outset deliberately stymying some of his most brilliant and desperately needed solutions for such socio-political problems as the student loan crisis which was in fact his first major prospectus for administrative problemsolving, in his second address to the nation.It is also one that showed he was not going to be a moribund conservative ideologue but a neo- GOP problem solver wth a rare consciousness of the heartache and horror that 72 % of this nation's working or abject poor population face while 28 percent, (including the 1% global oligarchs who have zero national loyalty) skate along on their merry way as a virtual hegemony of privilege who effectively shut out that 72% of us from every social good once enjoyed by a tremendous majority of Americans.
Trump's student loan repayment plan solution was absolutely sane sound and effective as well as affordable. The NYT immediately disparaged it and called in the Heritage Foundation, whose position on negotiating structured repayment plans tailored to actual income with a cap on the percentage height of that income and forgiveable after say 12 years of regular payments, was right of Attila the Hun.
I bring this up to say that there is a major problem within America which has made a uniparty from the top earners in this nation, and that of those top earners a whole host of them arei n cozy commonality with maintaining their ill gotten gains and privilege that should not shut out the rest of the nation and relegate us to a peripheral population that suffers catastrophe when accidents, illness, loss of home or job or family, strike.
Trump is our candidate but the media prevents his incremental leadership based upon positve outcomes and an appreciation for the needs of the American whom FDR could not stand to see prostituting themselves and killing themselves and watching their families literally starve also cared for...but in ways that strove to providde meritoriuos ways to maintain their dignity and work their way OUT of poverty (caused by rigid ideologues on the Right).
Trump's necessary corrective to the extremist influence of the International Leftist Groups (i call them IGL an freguently substitute goons for groups) is needed to help our nation stabilize financially, security wise, and socially into NOT the divided populace denuded and debauched by extremists who preach a boundaryless future of nihilsm, navite, and anarchic hedonism, which we have now, but one that restores national pride, and makes achievment possible for every Citizen.
Trump is caught between a rock and a hard place. The very salient points that would help him attract the voters that he needs to save our nation are denied him because his own party is so corrupted at the top, devastated by the economy in the entire center, and besieged by reactionary backlash against the squandering of America's trust funds, tax payer monies, and oil and gold reserves, betrayals by public institutions particularly schools but also insuracne companies, banks and credit card issuers that censor free speech and punish on partisan gorunds, etc, that we are imploding and worried about spending any money at all adn losing needed patience and trust over 4 years to capacity build and hopefully merit a GOP course of inspired correction by some of our wondderful young "crop: of decent, sane , sound patriotic very diverse, statespeople who want to be incorruptible.
Donald Trump and his " tortured syntax" to quote a trrrific columnist from Israel National News (Arutz Sheva) of truth as he sees it, good bad or ugly is not getting a square deal, he has been attacked by an assassin groomed or inspired by minions of the oligarch backed ILG in our USA .
Yes, he is a stalwart suis generis character in the mold of those who have gone before and corrected this nation's course sufficiently for us to empower the middle again. AND THAT IS WHAT HE WANTS TO DO. In JD VAnce he has chosen someone whp can stand up and do the same if need be.
But G-d help us and our nation if we are unable to see that the political apparatus that fosters INTERCHNGEABLE POLITICAL PARTY ANIMALS has been subsumed and subverted by a global elite that has recreated "the white man's burden" as a racist concept that also deigfies Communism, Marxism, communalism as a viture, destroyed effective mangement in business, enshrined a dreadful AI dependence on technology that gives programmers the powers of gods, and is INVESTED fuly in nations' corrupting with its eyes on the prize of our USA.
i have expressive dyslexis. i cannot see my typos. I did my best to express this celarly and i hope it merits your candid response whatever you think of it-- i am interested. if not at leat i hope you read it and consider my views.
"The Party will gradually fall prey to the whims of the crowd." That's why the founding fathers created the U.S. as a constitutional republic and not as a democracy. "A Republic, If You Can Keep It," is the topic of my latest Substack at https://2026.substack.com/p/a-republic-if-you-can-keep-it
Great analysis, Chris. As usual. So, might we say the Democrats are the Plug-n-Play model (highly effective static platform with interchangeable figureheads) and the current GOP’s is the Patriots model (high risk because it takes but one part to fail, i.e., a single leader gets taken out)?
Feel free to conjure up your own description, comparison, analogy, etc.
The thing is, as bad as he gets, people should understand that, in voting for him, they’re voting for a human being with human flaws instead of for an automaton run by forces that dare not show themselves. Kinda like the Overlords in Arthur C. Clarke’s “Childhood’s End”.
What Christopher Rufo missed in this fine analysis is that the Democrat Party represents Marxism and the Populist Prince represents Americanism. It is not just a matter of form, the far greater matter is content.
If I was a US citizen I would be voting for Trump. And - in simple terms - here is why: The democratic electoral pluralism that was more or less operational (albeit inperfectly) when I was young is now a farce, right across the Western world. It has become little more than a branch of the MSM entertainment industry and a smokescreen for our real governance - a permanent multi-institutional nexus variously called The Machine, The Cathedral, The Blob etc. Whatever else he might be, Donald Trump is quite definitely an outcast from this establishment machine and his blustering personality is such that he will not fall into line. That is very rare in a modern politician and - in our current context - this can only be a good thing. If elected he will not really have much power (for the reasons given above) so he presents little of the danger that The Machine tells us to fear. But he will be a disrupter and that is the least-worst thing we need just now. Another four years of a Leftist pretend democratic executive in lock-step with the real permanent Leftist Machine would be far far worse.
I, too, am supporting Trump for this reason.
Gotcha
I'll cast 100 votes for you, cousin! (Oh, wait . . . Trump isn't running as a
Dem, so that might be hard to pull off.)
My parents could if we were Democrats
For a democracy to flourish you need an educated and engaged populace. The Democrats do not want a democracy and so the first thing they did, successfully, was to destroy the public education system.
David Thomson: nailed it, 🎯. The left controls the means of cultural production: education, media, institutions. At the core of their belief system is their certainty that we are stupid, we cannot be trusted and we must be re-engineered.
Democracy, shmemocracy. All democracy produces is the "tyranny of the majority." Thank god we have representatives and electors. But I dig your point despite my nitpicking. The Ds absolutely want a hegemony and the degree to which the 2 parties have been much alike is directly due to this fact, which is why globalists flock to he DP. The liberal pie-in-the-sky borderless world lovefest utopia is merely the facade that covers their power-mad ambitions.
How ? Our education system wastes money, the Unions are craven, the evaluation of performance in math and reading suffers in the big population centers especially. They are woke. State colleges and universities over charge and sorrowfully lazy.
Neither political party wants honest and effective education (or government) but the reasons are different.
The Republican Party does not want to have effective government or institutions such as public education. Such success undermines the “all government is evil” idea.
The (current) Democratic Party is essentially a nationwide grift using public education both to steal money and indoctrination.
Can you prove your claim?
According to the WEF - the US is 2nd only to Luxembourg on per-student spending. Most conservatives think that throwing money at the problem is not the solution. Something is wrong at the core of the public education system.
The Dem Party operates via projection, whatever they accuse their foes of, is what they are doing.
“Give me just one generation of youth, and I will change the world”
V.I. Lenin
I think the universities are the primary means of indoctrination. They have returned to their original mission of training the (new) priesthood and producing the, appropriately conditioned, technical class needed to manage a modern totalitarian state. These groups will then manage the masses who were made docile and pliable by the public school system.
This is indeed the case, but the process cannot and will not continue indefinitely, as long as folks like Mr. Rufo continue pushing for reform. Mainly, however, more people are becoming aware of this condition and rejecting college altogether--especially young men.
The public schools are a thornier problem, yet I am hopeful when I see the numbers of families opting for either homeschooling or conservative private academies. Public schools are also a notorious drain on the public coffers, so the more they suck up $ and deteriorate, the more likely the prospect of making them obsolete and dismantling the US Department of Education altogether. An end to accreditation through teacher's colleges would also be a step in the right direction, but I digress.
And hence one reason DEI - you need to ensure that the priesthood represents, and so can minister to, all groups.
I like your trope, yet I hear that recent polls have "Gen Z" young men rejecting the liberal agenda and getting behind the MAGA movement, which ought to scare the bejeezus out of the Dems and at least somewhat demoralize their batshit crazy left wing. Since fewer men are going to university, I can foresee the libs becoming a cloistered nunlike faction not effecting much outside their nunneries, as was once the case.
I am overjoyed by the fact that the new counterculture tends conservative and MAGA scares the shit out of their liberal parents.
Yes A. The Dem's want power and winning -- above all else, even our wellbeing and even beyond normal healthy boundaries. It is no accident their rank and file are unhealthy single women who have very high incidents of mental health issues. They suffer the same psychosis as Hitler Youth and the junior Stasi and the Chinese Red Guard and Stalin's youth-minders...I guess now we know what it feels like (at the early stages, no doubt).
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Nicely stated.
Thank you
I agree that Harris is The Machine. But Trump is too right wing for me, I would love a leftie, socialist-leaning Trump type. You see, I strongly suspect that The Machine is ultimately capitalism. Not the old kind. A new kind. A transformed capitalism that now loves the state.
The Machine is the non-productive class who profit from the productivity of all other classes. The unaudited Federal Reserve prints money to give to whatever entity The Machine favors, and this is the only reason inflation exists. Taxes are assessed on citizens and Corporations to ensure the Socialist system. Regulations are used to exclude Capitalist competition. All of this non-Capitalist activity is maximized, but still kept just below the threshold where the citizens will complain.
Socialism is the New Capitalism. Fiat currency, taxation, token handouts, regulation, and a government that represents a larger chunk of the GDP than Communist China.
Are you referring to Mediated when you say The Blob?
As far as I know it is a reference to some movie...don't know which one. I know of it as a term used by certain UK Tory government ministers to describe the huge, hostile civil service, academia, quango, charitable sector Blob that tries to neutralise any conservative policies they were elected to implement. I wrote about it in this piece: https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/carry-on-governing
“The Blob” was a 1950s movie. Starring Steve McQueen. From Wikipedia: “The film concerns a carnivorous amoeboidal alien that crashes to Earth from outer space inside a meteorite, landing near the small communities of Phoenixville and Downingtown, Pennsylvania. It envelops living beings, growing larger, becoming redder in color and more aggressive, eventually becoming larger than a building.”
Kinda like Communism, right?
Yup it’s like the Borg in the Star Trek series. Definitely a cancer.
Nice! I’ll definitely give it a read.
And you should check out Mediated if you have the time. The author uses The Blob to describe the seemingly inevitable spread of Neoliberal globalization. It is one of the most prescient books I’ve ever read. Published in 2006 but reads like it was written in 2026.
I’ll take the human Prince fully exposed with his human faults, versus the Party who secretly hide behind a candidate willing to shroud the party mischief. I believe that the American electorate have had enough of a party who has told us to deny our sensibilities and just “shut up and eat our peas” versus one human who tells us that “we the people, still deserve to dream the American dream”.
The Presidency is designed to be a “unitary executive” not a council.
Great points
What Christopher Rufo missed in this fine analysis is that the Democrat Party represents Marxism and the Populist Prince represents Americanism. It is not just a matter of form, the far greater matter is content.
I have said this in as many ways as I know how, Linda. For years. It's a running theme of mine.
Totalitarianism vs. Individualism-with-community.
Yes, and you have stated your theme powerfully. Your work exposing critical race theory and subversive education is absolutely brilliant, and I have quoted you in my new book, Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier––Reality Is. You are among the young writers and thinkers who give me hope for the future of our imperiled nation. My remark on this particular article reflected a missed opportunity to name the players. Nothing more.
You have some of the players wrong, Linda. You have been consistently attributing my posts here to Chris Rufo. So I am deleting them for my protection. You have said that the Chris Rufo photo indicates his work. Not so. It is just a Substack brand mark. Don't you see that same photo under everyone's comments?
I don't think you understand who writes, what. Which is rather dangerous for someone who then reprints this material. You may "attribute" as you say, but if you attribute to the wrong person, you do damage to the actual writer and originator.
To be perfectly clear, I had never read ANY of your posts until yesterday, and my book with quoted material has already been published. So, my misunderstanding the Substack brand mark is entirely irrelevant regarding "your protection" and yes, I now understand that the photo appears in every post. I will not make that mistake again.
You have already done the damage to me, however. I will remember who you are. I will scour your material for evidence of you lifting my work (though I will not buy your book).
As you have promised to do.
You have really stuck your foot in it, Linda. You pretend to be a "professional" in the knowledge game, but you get the absolute basics wrong? And then you verbally attack those who call you out?
The Democrats want a totalitarian regime under their control. I am not sure it need necessarily be Marxist.
Still, Marxist theory clearly drives the DNC machine.
*100% neolib theory
0% marxist theory in the DNC
Man I’ve heard the wind blow before, you must be a semi genius Lol🐸
It (The Democrat Party) may not need to be Marxist, but it is. The connection between Marxism/communism and the globalist elite was exposed by G. Edward Griffin in his astonishing 1982 interview of Norman Dodd. In 1953, Norman Dodd was Director of Research of the Reece Committee, the Congressional Special Committee to investigate tax-exempt foundations. Dodd discovered that since 1945 tax-exempt foundations had been operating to promote a hidden globalist agenda. "The real objective was to influence American educational institutions and to control foreign policy agencies of the federal government. The purpose of the control was to condition Americans to accept the creation of world government. That government is to be based on the principle of collectivism, which is another way of saying socialism; and it is to be ruled from behind the scenes by those same interests which control the tax-exempt foundations." At the end of the interview Griffin asks if the purposes of the foundations have changed over the years, what are their purposes and directions today? Dodd answers, "100% behind meeting the cost of educatrion, such as it is presented through the schools and colleges of this United States, on the subject of our history––to prove that our original ideas are no longer practical. The future belongs to collectivistic concepts. There is just no disagreement on this." The interview concludes with Griffin asking Dodd why the foundations generously support communist causes in the United States. Dodd answers matter-of-factly, "Well, because, to them, communism represents a means of developing what we call a monopoly––as the organization, we’ll say, of large-scale industry into an administrable unit."
Holy moly! And here I thought that the collectivist/Socialist trend in education began with the Free Speech Movement and the rise of the SDS. This is quite an eye-opener for me, personally.
You are very far behind in this subject, then, BH. It has been written about for at least several centuries. Totalitarianism and the study of it is not new.
I am sometimes surprised at the level of general ignorance out there, and sometimes I tell myself to take it for granted. Because this is the reality.
You smug little piece of snot. You are a prime example of someone with political opinions I agree with but with the superior attitude of a self-important jackass. Sometimes I'm surprised at the level of egomania issuing from anonymous blowhards.
Ignorance has been taught for decades. When I was in high school in 1963, I won a contest that was one-third judged on a speech that I wrote and presented. That speech would support Democrat concepts today.
The contest was for a trip to New York City to visit the UN, the IOOF United Nations Youth Pilgrimage. The other two-thirds of the judging were on a written test on the UN and an evaluation of my academic performance.
Today, the UN is not held in high esteem. In 1963 no one had seen behind the curtain yet.
Exactly! And the lethally corrupt United Nations provides the internationalized infrastructure for globalism’s one-world governance. James Lindsay is another young man, like you, whose brilliant mind and commitment to Americanism gives me hope for our nation’s future. I quote him in my new book as well! Lindsay's essay describing Marxism as the genus, and every vile iteration of critical theory as its species, is stunning. It is my opinion that people are very confused, they know that things are not right, but they cannot identify what is wrong. The globalist elite are waging war on America in America, and they cannot impose their planetary Unistate without collapsing America. The culture war that is convulsing America is planned demolition, and the escalating antisemitism is purely political. First comes Saturday, then comes Sunday––first the Jews, then the Christians. The entire Judeo-Christian tradition is being targeted because it is the infrastructure of Western civilization. The Marxists, Islamists, and Globalists all see Judaism and Christianity as competing ideologies. We are a world at war, whether people acknowledge it or not. And when people view current events through a war prism, everything makes sense. Open borders that are flooding the nation with hostile illegal immigrants, Marxist indoctrination in schools, Satanism on display at the Olympics, antisemitism, anti-Christianity, etc etc etc are all weapons of the globalist War on America. The choice between the Prince and the Party is the choice between American freedom in our constitutional republic, and serfdom in globalism’s Unistate. The Unistate is Western totalitarianism on a planetary scale.
Can you give us an idea of why the comments you are responding to have been deleted? I'd like to see what you are agreeing with.
P.S.
Can you identify any individuals who make up this globalist elite? Klaus Schwab and the members of the WEF come to mind, as does Bill Gates. Forgive my laziness for not immediately scouring the net for answers to this question, but can you tell us who, if anyone, actually manages the UN? Is there a bureaucratic hierarchy?
The so-called "culture war" ain't trivial, and I now suspect those who make the argument that it's merely some sort of distraction that's arisen organically are wrong.
P.P.S.
It looks to me like the deleted comments are from "A" who wants to hoard them for some reason.
Precisely! Knowledge truly is power, which is why the orchestrated campaign to dumb down American children is so sinister. Beginning with "progressive" (a misnomer since it is entirely regressive) education’s insistence upon teaching children to read with sight words is a particularly insidious weapon of mass destruction. Why? Because it has been known for 70 years that English is a phonetic language that MUST be taught with phonics. The War on America is being waged educationally in both form and content. When children can’t read they are crippled intellectually, economically, factually, and socially. Illiteracy has a distinct political purpose. An illiterate population LACKS FACTS, and is easily controlled with FEELINGS particularly through social engineering provided by mainstream media and social media, which are controlled by the same globalist Big Three: Vanguard, Blackrock, and State Street. The War on America is revolution without bullets, and it is a psyop marketed "for your own good." It is very difficult for the civilized mind to process the depth, breadth, and malevolence of globalism’s War on America and on Western civilization. But of this I am certain: The globalists will not stop unless they are stopped! The transfer of information has always been my goal. It is why I began writing political books in my "retirement," and why I have been releasing one chapter a week of my newest book since January 1, 2024 on my goudsmit.pundicity.com website for anyone to read for free. I will continue to do so until all 45 chapters of Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier––Reality Is, have been released. You and James Lindsay and Alex Newman are quoted multiple times, with proper citation of course, in the chapters discussing the catastrophic subversion of American education and American minds in American schools. Children are the future of every society on Earth––and the enemies of freedom know it––they are targeting the children, Christopher. Parents must have the information to protect their children, because the children cannot protect themselves. This is a war of attrition. My generation of patriot grandparents is dying. My children’s generation of indoctrinated millennials is transitional. It is my grandchildren’s generation that is the target of the globalist War on America. And if America falls, national sovereignty will cease to exist worldwide; individual sovereignty will cease to exist worldwide; and freedom will cease to exist worldwide. Upward mobility and the middle class will cease to exist because private property, the foundation of freedom, will cease to exist worldwide. What remains will be globalism’s binary feudal infrastructure of rulers and ruled on a planetary scale administered through the lethally corrupt United Nations––exactly as Norman Dodd described in his 1982 interview. You must keep writing and speaking out, Christopher. Yours is a powerful voice of freedom.
I am not Christopher Rufo, btw. Some readers here have confused that.
I was on the scene and explaining totalitarianism many, many years before. In advance of Chris Rufo and James Lindsay and Mattias Desmet. Because it happens that I have a bit of expertise in the subject! Just a bit.....😊
Look for the "A" at the top of my posts.
I am Muslima Our faith has been hijacked. there are nne billion of us, a great majprity still are centrist and sane and beautiful. Asra Nomani has written a compelling new book that i have but have not yet read it is WOKE ARMY " -the red-gree alliance that is destroying america's freedom . i have a hunch she names names and gives rcipts throughout. She is to the left of me even still, but hwever she is a centrist and a Muslima not a heretic
Thank you for your support this evening, Aminah.
Agree completely: “Marxism” is what we are dealing with, and I wish our writers/freedom lovers would invoke that term often in describing the Democratic Party of today and its Communist leadership such as Obama and Harris. For those of us who were involved in the cold and the hot war against communism, what is going on is just too obvious. Wake up, Millennials , wake up Gen Zs; Your future is on the line right now. With fist raised, you must “fight, fight, fight!”
In a sense Trump is independent.
Correct.
I was considering not voting for president at all this fall because of our dismal choices- Trump or Biden. Well, when Biden dropped out and Harris was elevated, my decision became clear: I will vote for a Republican president for the first time in my life, and my god it will be Trump. I'm a registered Democrat.
For those I know concerned about Mr. Trump's oddities, I mention that we're voting for a direction as much or more than an individual.
That is precisely why Republicans will get my vote and Democrats will not.
As someone from outside the US the question for me is then: If Kamala and Biden are only replacable figureheads who is making the decisions in the Democratic Party then? I'm sincerely interested how that works behind the scenes. What is the process? How much does the crowd decide and how much is there pressure to tow the line? Does anyone here know? And please don't just respond with "Democrats bad!", I genuinely want to know how that works in the real world.
Well, many of us would like an answer to the question of who is running the country.
It’s a cabal of power brokers behind the scenes and those in front who carry out the orders. In present case, power brokers you see from time to time: Obamas, Clintons et al, Clooney Hollywood et al, Soros billionaires et al. Runners: Schumer, Pelosi, Nadler etc., Huma Abedin, Susan Rice, Valerie Jarrett, Letitia James. On and on, many more, deep into the organization. They exert tremendous influence on all those elected and on staff.
Think you are very close but believe there's a layer higher. A cabal of maybe a dozen or more intelligence/military industrialist/banksters- old money, old power. Not Zuckerberg or Gates or any other silicon valley "titan". This cabal probably greased the skids for their success and a few select politicians- Obama, Clinton's, McConnell, etc. When you look at Obama's history, lack of accomplishment and subsequent impact on the political scene the only thing making any sense is an unknown benefactor. So there's "somebody" out there. Question is- what's their motivation? Destruction of the USA? Pure unbridled, concentrated power? Sick amusement? Something else altogether? I don't exactly know but do know it's not any good for any of us.
Yes, agree. Those I listed are them we see. They are pretty obvious. They are the them who serve the ones we don't see. The Money (dynastic money, old money as you suggest, the "men who built America"). They are few, but there is no ONE to point to. Politics serves corporate wealth and power. Politics serves the elite no matter who they are, and they are all the same people (even when we get a few new ones- Elon, Bezos). The rank and file 1%-ers put their money in the party they believe their money will be most protected and preserved and where they think the power will be- age old (i.e, DeSantis in his early phase until he lost steam and they all very quickly shifted, however reluctantly, to Trump). 1%-ers don't necessarily have party affiliation, as they are all aligned with getting the most value for their money and keeping it. They are aligned in keeping it. They will not destroy each other, even when the Soros' and Thiels' of the world collide. The tech billionaires influence in another good old-fashioned way- monopoly, and in the new social engineering way- mind control, then provide money to whoever serve those interests best and keeps them alive. Corporations- and the few- still rule. That's why Trump has such a wide appeal to the working classes. He is the hoped for catalyst and would-be breaker of the corrupt rules he himself participated in. Hierarchy is a crazy game. Always has been. What the masses forget is that the power, like Dorothy's ruby slippers, has been with them all along. Just stop. All at once. However, that requires UNITY, and UNITY is the very powerful thing They keep from Us.
Absolutely agree 100%. Keeping us at each others throats has always been their most fundamental play. I think Trump is forcing many people to confront that fact and maybe, just maybe, they've overplayed their hand.
I believe the cabal is global and consists of the ones you mentioned plus the WEF, CIA, FBI. However, Obama, McConnell, Clintons, Pelosi, Biden, etc. are nothing but stooges who do what the cabal dictates. The cabal's motivation is communism. It's been oozing into the US like slime since the 1950s. The civil rights act is a perfect example of communist slime. It was never intended to uplift blacks. The intention has always been to destroy whites and the civilization we've built through the ages. Non-whites are the cannon fodder!
Just finished reading a post by "millennial woes" on the same subject. He's a Scottish guy commenting on the UK destruction by the same means as here, very depressing & discouraging. If he (and you) are correct, the replacement theory is real and started almost 60 years ago. I used to think it was the "commies" but I'm beginning to think of communism as a "lubricant", a device to win over the young/stupid/poor to lessen the resistance (friction) to the ultimate plan. This global cabal is smart enough to know communism never works but can be a useful tool. But tool for what exactly? They have to know continually importing third worlders will only result in burning it all down. They then rule over the ruined remains? That makes no sense to me, unless the primary force behind the cabal is..... the Saudis.
Quit your laughing. Go read MW, give it some thought and get back to me. Don't have this completely flushed out but when I think about the motive, opportunity and means it's starting to make some sense.... AP
I’m born/raised in the American Midwest, and have these same questions. I was a registered Democrat until my early twenties, when I started asking questions, ultimately landing as a registered independent, where I remain to this day.
It’s the politically convenient inversion of the Golden Rule. Whoever has the most gold becomes the de facto ruler(s). I think it’s most likely a group effort or a hive mind effect.
That’s my question; who the heck is actually governing the country?
The crowd decides nothing. American Marxist Barack Obama runs Biden/Harris and also manages the temporary alliance of convenience with the Islamists (particularly Iran), in order to collapse America from within. The alliance participants are all far too arrogant to realize that they are just useful idiots for the globalist elite, who fund and foment the chaos the alliance is tasked with creating. The globalist elite pull the puppet strings, and will eliminate all their useful idiots as soon as their usefulness expires. History is a great teacher, which is why it is no longer taught in American schools.
Oh, no. You give Obama far too much credit. He's not smart enough to run anything!! He's a stooge just like Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, etc. He's been a communist stooge all his life with his various affirmative action handouts and positions...fake college degrees, phony employment as a community organizer, fake election to senate, etc. He's not intelligent but he's glib which dumb people mistake for intelligence. He would be nothing without affirmative action and same applies to Michelle.
I agree with you completely, Frans, and I am sorry I was not clear. I consider Puppet president Barack Obama globalism's most useful idiot of all. He is among the alliance participants who are too arrogant to realize that they will be eliminated once their usefulness expires.
That's a perfect description: "...Obama [is] globalism's most useful idiot of all." He has been groomed for the 'most useful idiot' position all his life!
The people being described here have all the power, money, prestige and accolade imaginable. What more in material earthly riches, comfort and control could they possibly desire?
Anything that cannot be logically and rationally explained or understood, can only be explained and understood by acknolwedging the battle between good and evil. It's all right there- just read The Book.
Power is far more addictive than any drug, apparently. I imagine there's a personality type that is drawn towards power--the controlling asshat infected by what William S. Burroughs calls the "Right Virus," a pathological inability to cope with being contradicted.
Its 3-4 scared advisors who rolled the dice and lost, now they must find a straw man to replace the dolt Biden.
That’s the 64 trillion dollar question…
An irony in this observation is that, in this particular place and time in history, the prince and his allies believe that power and principles are co-equals. The party model believes that power rules over principle. You would think it would be the other way around. What this tells you is that behind the “party” is a small cabal of power hungry individuals. They seem to driven mostly by hatred towards legacy Western cultural values, I.e. Christianity.
Yes, but the “cabal” is not small at all. It’s wide and dispersed.
Yes, exactly. A relatively small set of extraordinarily wealthy groups with competing interests, aligned by what they fear and their perception of themselves as “above others” - comfortable in the belief that they are saviors, meant to control the future. My theory is that:
1. They fear nuclear war and seek a means of homogenizing political interests and globalizing control without overt great power war
2. They fear overpopulation and use “global warming” as a means to depopulate nations and save us all
3. They see China as a stable model of social control and will support it (though a one party answer is not in their best interest, so I’m not sure how they will balance powers)
4. They see the “woke” ideology as a means of sowing disruption within western democracies (societal violence - breakdown of law and order to keep people afraid , sexual confusion, degeneracy, abortion - at a time when we need population growth, and open borders to flood the west with more mouths to feed on the dole, military aged men used to corruption be it Muslim extremism or simple drug lord thuggery)
5. They have supported the subversion of the west for decades and are now able to step back and watch us self-destruct.
But, the fight is not over; we must mobilize and show that not only does the emperor have no clothes but he’s simply demonic and thus insane.
It's just that they can coordinate and communicate so much better now. Zoom call for 50000. No Problemo!
I would suggest that it is not so much hatred in a visceral, emotional sense but rather that the legacy Western cultural values are seen by them as an impediment to fully consolidating the power for which they so hungrily seek.
ALL religions any of which they have already corrupted. Every islamic nation that has a violent and callous disregard for human life is Leftist infused by virtue of the need for funds that has made organized crime the largest economy in the world. Organized crime destabilizes everything and intentionally traos and ensaves people and then extorts them in one fashion or another from the high to the low. Hesbollah, Hamas the Houti they all ddeal drugs and sell slaves. And they work with mafias and cartels across the world that inlcude the CCP cabal and the Triad in China. The catastrophic impact of their incursions into banking, and big pharmaceutical companies that "nvent" painkillers like OxyContin which causes painand ddependdece so severe that a plethora of unsuspecting, naive people are addicted almost from first use, these drugs have been mainstreamed. and we have kid who hate themselves it's a very bad combo and very lucrative for the dark forces of abject dependency and social entropy
As always, a thoughtful analysis!
"The disadvantage is less obvious..."
This part could be expanded. The Party method is susceptible to groupthink. "loyal mediocrities" - NPCs chosen *not* based on merit, but because of their usefulness as cogs in a large machine that, once programmed, has ubiquitous reach.
Yes, one could write a whole book on just this concept.
“Prince versus party” - thanks for the keen insight! Ironic that while Rufo’s critic Yarvin yearns for an American Caesar, he has seemingly failed to arrive at similar conclusions.
I am dyslexic and the comment i worked on for ovwer an hours and ahalf has disappeared. not sure if that is why. i will edit it soe but ime is a constraint and see if it merits inclusion First of all there is no such thing in the USA as populism. It is another made up relatively new term used solely as a pejorative to attack the popularity of common sense candidates (including the esteemable Howard Dean) who have a Shakesperean kind of appeal to the putative electorate that engages a wide and deep swathe of our nation's population.
Donald Trump IS such a popular candidate. This is a boon to our narion's riven state, for while in office, despite being literally hounded by hostile media who paid scant attention to facts and were despicably lackig in balanced coverage of his intiatives and administrative endeavors. But they also vilified the man, made a mockery of journalistic integrity to misinform about his actions, speculate ngatively about his motives and then assert them as fact and then vilify him for views he does not hold and positions he abjures, the while villifying him.
The corporate media, most all of every local paperwhether rural, suburban or urban, having been subsumed into one of 6 media corporations that extert editorial control, supported the democrats in asserting a partisan perogative to manage and to make leftist oriented decsisions about a host of issues most republicans of the pasat would not touc. But Trump sees himself as an American first, and tried to offere succor,
These media and social media organized outlets of propaganda were from the outset deliberately stymying some of his most brilliant and desperately needed solutions for such socio-political problems as the student loan crisis which was in fact his first major prospectus for administrative problemsolving, in his second address to the nation.It is also one that showed he was not going to be a moribund conservative ideologue but a neo- GOP problem solver wth a rare consciousness of the heartache and horror that 72 % of this nation's working or abject poor population face while 28 percent, (including the 1% global oligarchs who have zero national loyalty) skate along on their merry way as a virtual hegemony of privilege who effectively shut out that 72% of us from every social good once enjoyed by a tremendous majority of Americans.
Trump's student loan repayment plan solution was absolutely sane sound and effective as well as affordable. The NYT immediately disparaged it and called in the Heritage Foundation, whose position on negotiating structured repayment plans tailored to actual income with a cap on the percentage height of that income and forgiveable after say 12 years of regular payments, was right of Attila the Hun.
I bring this up to say that there is a major problem within America which has made a uniparty from the top earners in this nation, and that of those top earners a whole host of them arei n cozy commonality with maintaining their ill gotten gains and privilege that should not shut out the rest of the nation and relegate us to a peripheral population that suffers catastrophe when accidents, illness, loss of home or job or family, strike.
Trump is our candidate but the media prevents his incremental leadership based upon positve outcomes and an appreciation for the needs of the American whom FDR could not stand to see prostituting themselves and killing themselves and watching their families literally starve also cared for...but in ways that strove to providde meritoriuos ways to maintain their dignity and work their way OUT of poverty (caused by rigid ideologues on the Right).
Trump's necessary corrective to the extremist influence of the International Leftist Groups (i call them IGL an freguently substitute goons for groups) is needed to help our nation stabilize financially, security wise, and socially into NOT the divided populace denuded and debauched by extremists who preach a boundaryless future of nihilsm, navite, and anarchic hedonism, which we have now, but one that restores national pride, and makes achievment possible for every Citizen.
Trump is caught between a rock and a hard place. The very salient points that would help him attract the voters that he needs to save our nation are denied him because his own party is so corrupted at the top, devastated by the economy in the entire center, and besieged by reactionary backlash against the squandering of America's trust funds, tax payer monies, and oil and gold reserves, betrayals by public institutions particularly schools but also insuracne companies, banks and credit card issuers that censor free speech and punish on partisan gorunds, etc, that we are imploding and worried about spending any money at all adn losing needed patience and trust over 4 years to capacity build and hopefully merit a GOP course of inspired correction by some of our wondderful young "crop: of decent, sane , sound patriotic very diverse, statespeople who want to be incorruptible.
Donald Trump and his " tortured syntax" to quote a trrrific columnist from Israel National News (Arutz Sheva) of truth as he sees it, good bad or ugly is not getting a square deal, he has been attacked by an assassin groomed or inspired by minions of the oligarch backed ILG in our USA .
Yes, he is a stalwart suis generis character in the mold of those who have gone before and corrected this nation's course sufficiently for us to empower the middle again. AND THAT IS WHAT HE WANTS TO DO. In JD VAnce he has chosen someone whp can stand up and do the same if need be.
But G-d help us and our nation if we are unable to see that the political apparatus that fosters INTERCHNGEABLE POLITICAL PARTY ANIMALS has been subsumed and subverted by a global elite that has recreated "the white man's burden" as a racist concept that also deigfies Communism, Marxism, communalism as a viture, destroyed effective mangement in business, enshrined a dreadful AI dependence on technology that gives programmers the powers of gods, and is INVESTED fuly in nations' corrupting with its eyes on the prize of our USA.
i have expressive dyslexis. i cannot see my typos. I did my best to express this celarly and i hope it merits your candid response whatever you think of it-- i am interested. if not at leat i hope you read it and consider my views.
"The Party will gradually fall prey to the whims of the crowd." That's why the founding fathers created the U.S. as a constitutional republic and not as a democracy. "A Republic, If You Can Keep It," is the topic of my latest Substack at https://2026.substack.com/p/a-republic-if-you-can-keep-it
Wonderful comments, friends. We can only wish for the best. Let’s hope some of the sheep are asleep on 11/5. God (yes, God) Bless America!
Great analysis, Chris. As usual. So, might we say the Democrats are the Plug-n-Play model (highly effective static platform with interchangeable figureheads) and the current GOP’s is the Patriots model (high risk because it takes but one part to fail, i.e., a single leader gets taken out)?
Feel free to conjure up your own description, comparison, analogy, etc.
Yeah, the Dems are interlocking circles of institutions. The Reps are a hub and spoke system around one man.
Yeah, but the spoke is warped!
The thing is, as bad as he gets, people should understand that, in voting for him, they’re voting for a human being with human flaws instead of for an automaton run by forces that dare not show themselves. Kinda like the Overlords in Arthur C. Clarke’s “Childhood’s End”.
If I may Recommend Machiavelli In Context William R Cook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vq4YrgnuA8&list=PLt8NmV7jBVNHz1pEROFOk-f_GrNuOvp5P
Oh Sure. Force me to read another Book! SIGH :-)
Actually From The Great Courses
https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/machiavelli-in-context
Bought the DVD's about 10-15 years ago. They show up on Youtube, then get taken down.
Good Stuff. Expensive but good.
Linda Goudsmit
just now
What Christopher Rufo missed in this fine analysis is that the Democrat Party represents Marxism and the Populist Prince represents Americanism. It is not just a matter of form, the far greater matter is content.
I agree, in this instance.
Be aware that Linda G. says she intends to plagiarize in her self-published work, Chris.