All Hail the New Caesar

A large part of the American population are depressed by Donald Trump's comeback after his 2020 defeat. A great many other people are, right now, the happiest they've been in years.

Really?

Of course, even journalists have feelings and opinions. My feeling is one of bewilderment, even though I knew this was coming for months. My opinion is that Trump is a ticking time bomb who could blunder into a big war without realizing that it had come to that.

On the other hand, the Deep State, as interpreted by the Democrats, was badly in need of a shakeup. They had gotten too complacent when Biden was elected. It blinded them to things that most of the public could see; Biden falling into a pit of dementia was clear to even casual observers. The Emperor wore no clothes. Many of the Populi saw the shabby way in which the Commander-in-Chief was treated when he was stripped of his right to run for reelection.

The voters also learned rather quickly that Kamala Harris wasn’t presidential material. Many people began taking a second look at Trump. They knew that during his first four years in office, the U.S. didn’t turn into a strict fascist state, as the Democrats warned. Trump might be a loose cannon, but it was becoming clear that the Biden-Harris combine had no new ideas, and even if they did, they didn’t have the ability to implement them.

Trump won by default. It wasn’t that a majority wanted him, although there were many who viewed themselves as MAGA, but that they didn’t want the Democrats again.

It was time for that crew (the Dems) to sit one out. If they ever return to power, it will be because they did a lot of soul-searching and decide to return to their roots among the working class. Or they may fade away in a blizzard of recriminations while Trump attends to business.

And make no mistake about it: Trump will attend to business. It has already become clear that the first few days of the Trump regime is a “Dinner Party” for the billionaire class. It is Springtime for the Superegos, who will end up fighting each other more than they ever fought the Democrats. Already, Superego Elon is fighting with Steve Bannon, while preparing to fight the Stargate, which Trump convened with a goal to beat China in the battle for Robot supremacy.

Elon was noticeably absent when Trump launched Stargate on TV the other day. Oddly, his friend, Larry Ellison, was front and center at the event, which Ellison claimed could lead to each of us having our own personal vaccine. Does Ellison not know that the very mention of vaccine, let alone our own personal vaccine, is not a popular topic among the MAGA rank-and-file?

To the surprise of official Washington, Trump held a press conference on inauguration night, while he was busily signing Executive Orders that overturned many of Biden’s most recent dictates.

Can Trump hold his own ego in check? That will be the test that will determine how long Elon, Robert Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and other recent converts to the MAGA jihad are welcome in the White House.

Speaking of jihads, one of those Executive Orders that Trump signed could easily plunge us into a second Mexican War. It’s the one declaring the Cartels to be terrorist organizations, which gives other countries the right to enter other countries to fight them.

Clearly, they are criminal organizations under Mexican law, but they are not your typical terrorist organizations. They only kill people when they get in the way of the drug business or try to take over a neighboring cartel. In any case, we’d be better off without them, but leave it to the new Mexican government of President Claudia Sheinbaum.

Trump’s disparaging comments about immigrants, many of whom are Mexicans, is an insult to that country and many of its citizens have been offended. For Mexico’s president, the reaction was muted. Sheinbaum said. “They are heroes and heroines of la patria (the immigrants).” “That is how we are going to treat them.”

This is a far cry from Trump’s rhetoric that the immigrants are all blood-thirsty criminals and killers. Sheinbaum was also calm about the fear in Mexico that defining the Cartels as terrorist organizations could result in military action in Mexico by U.S. troops. She said Mexico wanted to work with Trump to deal with the Cartels, but “They in their territory, we in our territory.”

Trump must understand that any military incursion into Mexico for any reason, would bring an immediate reaction from the 40 million people of Mexican origin who live mainly in the former Mexican territories (California, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, and parts of Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming.) Non-violent, and even violent, support for Mexico by a small fraction of these 40 million (plus peace activists and radical non-Mexican Americans) might cause havoc that could wreck Trump’s ambitions.

This is not the only pothole for which the Trump caravan should beware. Trump may inadvertently unite Europe against him by trying to take Greenland away from EU-member Denmark. Canadians will surely unite to save their sovereignty, if Trump decides to push for annexing that land. Even the President of Panama has said his country will not surrender the canal to the U.S. Can Trump keep his mouth shut when he’s about to antagonize someone or some country? Don’t bet on it.