With the Assassination Attempt on Trump, the Stakes Just Went Up
Peter St. Onge /
Editor’s note: The following is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge.
JFK, Ronald Reagan, and now, Donald Trump.
The seemingly orchestrated campaign of national collapse our ruling elite is carrying out took a very dark turn over the weekend as yet another alleged lone wolf tried to take out yet another anti-establishment president.
Many of us are old enough to remember four years ago when Joe Biden was promised as the return to normalcy after Trump. The calm after the storm. The adults are back in charge.
Instead, of course, we got double-digit inflation; bank failures exceeding what happened in 2008; a national debt barreling toward $35 trillion; mass legalization of street crime that’s depopulating our greatest cities, replaced by the wholesale importation of 10 million—perhaps 20 million—illegal immigrants. And, to top it off, an obsessive determination to gin up World War III, nukes and all.
If that’s adults in charge, maybe we need new adults.
As Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds puts it, the Biden administration has been so crazy that it’s made Trump look like the return-to-normality candidate.
We’ve actually been here before, starting in the 1960s. After JFK was replaced, the CIA-approved Lyndon B. Johnson embarked on the Great Reset 1.0—billed as the Great Society—Washington’s trillion-dollar project to remake America into a left-wing utopia.
Of course, it delivered what socialism always delivers: the precise opposite of what was promised. Inflation soared and incomes collapsed, with unemployment hitting double digits for years on end. Great Society crime reforms collapsed our greatest cities into crime and disorder. Great Society welfare gutted the traditional family, especially urban families. Great Society education reforms turned public schools into propaganda factories turning out illiterate voters.
The media naturally did everything they could to hide the collapse. But the Left had swung the pendulum too far too fast, and voters had enough. They wholesale rejected the elite-approved Jimmy Carter, handing the anti-establishment Ronald Reagan 44 states—one of the most lopsided victories in American history.
That’s despite a savage media campaign against Reagan that we wouldn’t see again until Donald J. Trump.
Then, just two months into office, that anti-Reagan media campaign bore fruit, as an obsessed fan tried to assassinate Reagan to impress a famous actress.
As with the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, intelligence failures—particularly by the FBI—were egregious enough to invite questions as to whether the Deep State effectively greenlighted the assassination.
Fortunately, Reagan recovered and went on to win 49 states—the biggest landslide since 1936. That’s a number Biden’s handlers will be very aware of.
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It’s almost eerie the degree we’re replaying the 1970s. We’re already living the long 1970s stagflation driven by federal spending on useless wars and welfare for illegal immigrants while middle-class Americans line up for food banks and our veterans are turned out on the street.
Our cities are once again collapsing. The media is once again driving division. Washington is once again flirting with World War III while our manufacturing jobs flee overseas.
In short, the radicals are back in charge, and they’re actually doubling down—from arresting the opposition to yet another perfectly timed lone wolf.
The stakes just went up. At this point, it’s Trump or the abyss.
Originally published by Peter St. Onge, Ph.D.
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