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''A snake in President Trump's cabinet: Mark Esper tells all to 60 Minutes''

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May 9, 2022 By Monica Showalter

When you think of everything that's gone wrong with the U.S. military

– from its wokester agenda, to its failure to contain Russia, to its breakdown in discipline, to the presence of Gen. Mark Milley on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, pretty much all of it has the name of Mark Esper, President Trump's former defense secretary, all over it.

Rather than slink off into obscurity after such a performance, if not back to the big-bucks war-machine defense-contractor lobby whence he sprang, he's out shilling a tell-all book and promoting it on 60 Minutes in a bid to discredit the man he purportedly "served," President Trump.

According to 60 Minutes interviewer Norah O'Donnell, he now calls Trump "a threat to American democracy."

But his interview with 60 Minutes didn't come out the heroic way he probably thought it would.

Unbeknownst to him, he demonstrated what a coward's coward and slithering snake he was while in office. Everything he did involved some new means of undercutting President Trump, or, as O'Donnell summed up, "subverted many of the president's wishes."

The interview can also be viewed on CBS's site here.

There were multiple bad things he described doing in that interview, but the summary line that stands out comes near the end when he tells O'Donnell why he stayed in office instead of resigning on principle, which is what decent people do:

O'Donnell: "Critics will say, 'Why now in a book? Why didn't you speak out during the Trump administration?'"

Esper: "It's very simple. If I spoke out at the time, I would be fired, number one. And secondly, I had no confidence that anybody that came in behind me would not be a real Trump loyalist. And Lord knows what would have happened then."

Why shouldn't someone who's busy disagreeing with and working to undercut the president not get fired? Did he tolerate that kind of behavior when he was in the Army himself, or as a top lobbyist for Raytheon? What a hypocrite right there.

Worse still was his reason for not resigning after he decided he disagreed with President Trump on everything – his fear that Trump might get someone loyal to his aims as his replacement, "a real Trump loyalist" as he put it. So the only reason he sat there warming his seat at the Pentagon was to prevent Trump from hiring someone else who was interested in advancing President Trump's policy aims. What a guy.

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The arrogance of his logic comes in the part of his statement that came just before it in the video:

O'Donnell: "You're a lifelong Republican. But in this book, you detail how you subverted many of the president's wishes. People will say you were disloyal."

Esper: "I never disobeyed a direct order from the president of the United States. I was fortunate that he often didn't give direct orders. But otherwise, I did what I thought was best for the nation and our security, and completely within the authority granted to me under the law."

That of course was the Alexander Vindman justification for his sleazy backroom tactics to impeach President Trump, that he knew better than Trump, who was elected by the citizens for this job, to determine what U.S. national security interests were.

The other parts of the statement are disgusting, too – that he never disobeyed a direct order, and technically operated within the law, which means he worked the legal loopholes instead of doing anything the president or the lawmen could pin him on. There are plenty of ways to get around the law if you're lawyered up enough to avoid the legal responsibility, which is what snakes do. Slither much, Mr. Snake?

Esper also claimed that Trump wasn't much for direct orders. Sound like a guy who's a big scary threat to democracy, as he claims?

What a nightmare he must have been to President Trump.

So let's get into some of his record now that he's laying it out to generate outrage against President Trump:

One, he's a big fan of Joe Biden's Ukraine performance and seems to favor mission creep, drawing the U.S. closer and closer toward involvement in that conflict and eventually war. He had praise for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Congress, too.

The impeachment of Trump was brought up, too, which began with Vindman's leaks about Trump asking President Volodymyr Zelensky to keep up the corruption investigations, while seemingly withholding aid as leverage, while Esper bucked for the release of the aid without strings. Trump, of course, did release the aid, which neither 60 Minutes nor Esper note, while ignoring that Biden himself used far more questionable leverage to get a prosecutor fired for investigating the energy company his son was involved with. Deal-cutting was always O.K. if Biden did it, you see, but not if Trump did.

After that, he tells O'Donnell what a hero he was in preventing "dark things" from happening to the U.S. with Trump at the helm.

His first example sounds like an outright lie: That "we had a proposal from the White House" to invade Venezuela, which would be very odd stuff, given Trump's aversion to getting the U.S. involved in foreign conflicts. Esper says he thwarted it, as if that socialist hellhole wouldn't actually benefit from a U.S. invasion, along with the rest of the hemisphere as terrorism-exporting Cuba went down as a natural side effect. He also claimed there were calls to strike Iran and, horrors, blockade Cuba. Really? These were disasters avoided? Cuba should have been blockaded given what it's getting away with, while the claim that Trump was itching to go neocon and start a war with Iran is obviously nonsense.

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Esper, though, was the white knight who marched in to "swat 'em down" to save us from such calamities.

Yeah, sure.

He later claimed that Trump wanted to send missiles over the Mexican border to hit the cartel hideouts, something President Trump has announced 'no comment' on. Esper blithely dismissed that the U.S. was undergoing a flood of drugs from Mexican cartels and vaguely claimed there were other ways to stop it, but he didn't offer any ideas to O'Donnell. Left unsaid was that Mexico's president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has responded to pressure tactics in the past, as was evident enough when President Trump cut off trade with Mexico and shut the border in order to get his "remain in Mexico" deal through which resulted in the halting migrant caravans. Also left unsaid was that the U.S. had very much employed such tactics through its ally Colombia in 2006 and 2007, which had no problem launching cross border attacks into Ecuador and possibly Venezuela when those nations were caught harboring drug dealing terrorists on their territories. It's actually been done before, and yes, it tamped down that activity considerably. Getting rid of Mexico's cartels would have been a favor to Mexico, actually, given the threat these criminal groups pose to that government. Dismissing the idea as 'ridiculous' was Esper at his stupidest.

O'Donnell asked who 'we' was in his quest to shoot down every idea President Trump presented, and he admitted it was "mostly me" but also Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who later became the architect of the Afghanistan pullout as well as the promoter of the wokester military. Esper, according to his Wikipedia entry, was buddy-buddy with Milley dating from his Army bureaucrat days, where they "ran the Army for over a year before finding themselves in charge at the Pentagon," as O'Donnell narrated.

Found themselves, really? Like a Harold and Kumar movie? Very likely it was Esper who got Milley into his current slot as America's top general. And the cronyism continued from there: Milley, in his testimony to Congress, explained that it was Esper who put him up to his infamous stunt just before the 2020 election and a couple of days after Jan. 6, which was calling up a Chinese general and assuring him that if the U.S. was going to attack China, he'd be the first to let them know ahead of time.

"The calls on 30 October and 8 January were coordinated before and after with Secretary Esper and acting secretary Miller’s staffs and the inter agency."

Esper is the one who put Milley up to it, according to Milley's congressional testimony, and in retrospect, it sounds true.

According to Bob Woodward's book Peril, Milley didn't bother to let the president know, either. One wonders if Esper was the one who told Milley to keep quiet.

Esper goes on to lie again about his and Milley's "four no's" – no strategic retreats, no unnecessary wars, no politicization of the military, and no misuse of the military, all of which have since been belied by events.

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Afghanistan under Biden got the ball rolling on strategic retreats, while unnecessary wars were belied by Esper's bid to get the U.S. more involved in Ukraine's affairs and letting Germany off the hook. The politicization of the military was obvious from the transgender agenda and the critical race theory agenda that were promoted in the military on Esper's watch and which have worsened now that Milley is still there by himself. The misuse of the military as a magnet vehicle for transgender surgeries and in his refusal to send troops to the literal frontier of the U.S. to head off a foreign invasion, leaves one wondering what the hell we have a military for at all.

Two other things leap out Esper's grandstanding on the George Floyd riots, which involved rioters who burned a historic church directly in front of the White House, ("protestors," O'Donnell called them), and criticizing President Trump for wanting to call out the military after the violence got that close, as well as left dozens of cities in flames for months on end. Somehow, this was bad and Esper save the country from saving America's burning cities by his logic. Anyone normal would have called out the military under such circumstances except for a political animal like Esper who wanted Democrats to politically benefit from that activity.

Esper also lied and distorted his role in Germany, piously claiming that when President Trump ordered the pulling of U.S. troops from Germany and the sending of them to Poland, he went and undercut the aim of that order by sending Germany more of them. Left out was the real backstory, which can be read on Wikipedia, that Trump's maneuver was all about getting Germany to end its dependence on Russian energy sources through the Nord Stream II pipeline, which pretty well has put it in a bind now that Russia has attacked Ukraine, and made Germany a disgraceful laggard on sanctioning Russia for its assault. 60 Minutes left that part out. Esper must have been among those Germans laughing at Trump when he warned them not to get dependent on Russian energy.

All we see from this interview is a slithering snake whose main aim was to keep his job so he could continue to undercut President Trump.

In every instance, he knew better, yet in every instance, he was wrong. No wonder he's a fan of Joe Biden, the man who has been "wrong on nearly every foreign policy issue" as former CIA director Bob Gates put it in his memoir. Joe, though, was just wrong. Esper went out of his way to burrrow into the administration and act out the wrongs.

The only conclusion one can reach from this is that Trump didn't fire this snake soon enough. That's sad.

Image: Screen shot from 60 Minutes video, via YouTube

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/05/a_snake_in_president_trumps_cabinet_mark_esper_tells_all_to_60_minutes.html

https://youtu.be/FwEKCP7DVFc

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-mark-esper-sacred-oath-60-minutes-2022-05-08/

ESPER II

Yawn – Yet Another Never Trump Loser Sucks Up to the Media

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If there’s a genre that’s worn out its welcome, it’s the self-hagiographical tell-all tome by some second-tier Trump administration hack who tries to leverage his track record of failure into a cash advance and some MSNBCNN hits fielding softballs from guys best known for punishing the primate on Zoom calls. How fitting. The latest example is Mark Esper, who would be the worst Secretary of Defense ever if not for the determined competition from the current one. I would not normally name this pompous tool’s ridiculous book, but his title is just too hysterically funny – “A Sacred Oath.” Yeah, he really named it that on purpose – pretentious, self-important, and so utterly DC that you need a heart of stone not to burst into laughter. I won’t link to oathboy’s book, though – instead I’ll link to my new book, which, in stark contrast, is based and will actually be read instead of stuck on a shelf next to the dusty musings of such comparable luminaries as Omarosa and Anonymous.

Even Donald Trump’s greatest defenders have to admit that the president’s personnel record was, well, mixed, veering from astonishingly insightful talent-spotting, as in the cases of National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien and Ambassador Ric Grenell (Full Disclosure: Both are friends) to astonishing missteps like Rex Tillerson, John Bolton, and this Esper chump. Not surprisingly, according to journalists who have had their interns skim his upcoming book, Esper expends a lot of ammunition attacking both O’Brien and Grenell. They would be the guys who merely helped bring peace to the Middle East, solve the Kosovo-Serbia dispute, and get NATO to start carrying its weight – all of which have come in pretty handy lately. In contrast, Esper – who you will not be shocked to learn worked for Raytheon before coming to the Pentagon – is a historical footnote whose Wikipedia page spends a lot of time talking about how he was very focused on welcoming transgender troops. There’s a sign of seriousness. His legacy is decline and pronoun justice.

But that hasn’t stopped Esper from making the rounds of the regime journalists, who are only too happy to give the mic to a Trump turncoat for a few moments before relegating him back to his much-deserved obscurity. Here are some of his greatest hits – and what is hilarious is that he’s probably proud of them.

Esper claims he stopped Trump from putting a bunch of troops on the border to stop illegal aliens. Well, with several million illegals wandering north, putting a bunch of troops on the border to stop illegal aliens is sounding pretty good right about now.

Esper claims he stopped Trump from sending in troops to get serious and suppress the 2020 Democrat riots. Well, I was part of the Army response to the LA Riot and we ended that nonsense in three days. The 2020 rioting went on all summer. Great call, dude.

Esper claims he stopped Trump from helping the Mexican government fight the drug cartels by blowing up drug labs. Well, with 100,000 Americans dead from fentanyl a year, if we have to fight a foreign enemy maybe it should be the enemy next door that’s literally killing 100,000 Americans a year instead of the foreign policy establishment’s villain du jour over in Whogivesadamnistan.

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Esper claims he stopped Trump from helping the Mexican government fight the drug cartels by blowing up drug labs. Well, with 100,000 Americans dead from fentanyl a year, if we have to fight a foreign enemy maybe it should be the enemy next door that’s literally killing 100,000 Americans a year instead of the foreign policy establishment’s villain du jour over in Whogivesadamnistan.

Esper claims that he bravely opposed the idea of taking al-Baghdadi’s head, dipping it in pig’s blood, and marching it around to show the ISIS scuzzes the wages of sin because this was “a war crime.” Well, there is the whole problem about the Muslim mass murderer not being a lawful combatant and therefore not being covered by the Geneva Convention, but whatever. Why ruin a good anecdote where he thinks he’s the hero with, you know, facts?

Esper wanted to keep lots of forces in Germany, perhaps as a reward for the Germans’ wunderbar contributions to NATO, instead of positioning our forces forward in allied countries actually threatened by Russia. While O’Brien and Grenell demanded the krauts pay their fair share, Esper was firmly with those who wanted Uncle Sucker to keep footing the bill for the free-riding strudel-munchers.

The guy has the instincts of George Costanza; if he just did the opposite of what his gut told him he would have been amazing. But no. Instead, he was widely considered, both by other officials and defense contractors, to be totally incompetent. Esper was laughed at by most of the rest of the administration and was often cut out of the decision-making process. A deeply superficial Deep Stater, when he did participate it was to get in the way. Hilariously, he takes credit for deploying Navy hospital ships to our cities during the COVID panic, but my sources tell me he initially opposed that. And he also slow-walked Javelins to Ukraine, using military resources against the cartels, and interfered with hostage rescue missions. He helped block the 350-ship Navy, for which China should give him a medal. Trump wanted all this but Esper got in the way.

It says something about you that you’re Never Trump and yet you feign loyalty to get a political position, then used it to try to obstruct the man America actually elected. So much for Our Democracy.

These guys are all the same, towering mediocrities who nonetheless lack humility despite having so much to be humble about. I will give Esper some credit – while he’s as useless a liberal rump-sniff as any Lincoln Project goblin, at least he’s allowed within a quarter mile of a school. Sadly though, if his disgraceful tenure at the Pentagon is any indicator, he would use that access to inject CRT, pronoun stupidity, and the other shibboleths of modern progressivism into the classroom just as he let it infect our military under his alleged leadership. Our armed forces were measurably worse when he finally left his position – there’s his tribute, a military that can’t win a war and can’t tell which bathroom to use.

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Esper told the New York Times, in fractured English designed to please his fellow Never Trump failures, that the President was “an unprincipled person who, given his self-interest, should not be in the position of public service.” Of course, this did not cause Esper to resign like anyone with integrity “in the position of public service” (sic) would have if he found his boss actually was “an unprincipled person who, given his self-interest, should not be in the position of public service.” No, Esper hung onto his sinecure until he got fired – by a tweet.

Perfect – a suitably frivolous end to the career of a frivolous hack. Esper was so bad that even as an ex-Sec Def he has not managed to get a big, cushy job. The guy can’t even grift right.

But there’s a bigger lesson here than that one particular nobody sucks – though he certainly does suck. The next GOP president, be it Trump 2.0 or Ron DeSantis or whoever, needs to hire slowly and fire quickly. There are herds of these Vindman-esque bureaucrats grazing in Washington, all eager to get into positions of influence and push their own agenda, not ours. We have to stop that. We can’t afford to let the next administration’s agenda be side-tracked by bad personnel choices. The next GOP nominee needs to make his cabinet picks known in advance, so we can vet them, and then the first one who steps out of line needs to get the figurative al-Baghdadi treatment to encourage the others. We need to Schiff-can the hacks and strivers so fast that they don’t even have time to gather enough stories to write a book.

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The Exasperated American

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May 9, 2022

Will the voters channel their furor at this regime of lies into an unprecedented turnout at the polls in November?

By Victor Davis Hanson

A large majority of Americans now have no confidence in Joe Biden and his administration, which often polls below 40 percent, with negatives nearing 60 percent.

Despite the 15-month catastrophe of his regime, the level of his own unpopularity remains understandable but still remarkable. After all, in 2020 voters already knew well of his cognitive deficits and the radicalism of his agenda. They saw both clearly starting in 2019 and during the 2020 Democratic primaries, the primary debates, and the general election.

So what did Biden’s voters imagine would happen when a cognitively challenged president, controlled by hard-Left subordinates, entered office—other than what he has done?

Now, as then, the media is fused to the progressive agenda and does—and did—its best to turn a non-compos mentis Biden into a bite-your-lip centrist empath in the Bill Clinton “I feel your pain” mode.

The American people know that on every occasion their president speaks, he will slur his words at best. At worst, he will have little idea where he is, where he has been, or what he is supposed to be saying or doing. When he is momentarily cognizant, he is at his meanest, or he simply makes things up.

Our new normal of a mentally incapacitated president is not entirely new in American history—Woodrow Wilson was an invalid during the last months of his presidency. But Wilson’s condition was well hidden. Quite novel is the idea that the American people know the man in the White House is cognitively disabled and simply expect him to confirm that bleak diagnosis each time he opens his mouth.

If Donald Trump exaggerated, Biden flat out lies daily. His most recent untruth was his assertion that the MAGA movement represents “the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history.” Biden cannot really believe that roughly half the country is now more dangerous than Antifa, Black Lives Matter, the Weathermen, the American Nazi Party, the American Communist Party, and the Ku Klux Klan. And this comes from the mythically moderate “good old Joe from Scranton”?

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The bullied people also know the Biden problem has no remedy. The 25th Amendment that Democrats and the Left raised nonstop in efforts to remove Trump—from the Rosenstein-McCabe wear-a-wire embarrassment and former Yale psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee’s congressional tomfoolery to the incessant Montreal Cognitive Assessment demands—won’t apply to Biden.

Either the media will continue to rebrand his incapacity as Ciceronian eloquence or it will privately gloat that Kamala Harris is so off-putting, so uninformed, so unpopular that the people would prefer an amnesiac Biden to a nonimpaired Harris. The truth is, the three doyens of Democratic progressivism—Joe Biden, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)—all struggle with cognitive decline and rely heavily upon the media and the Democratic Party’s political attack machine to enjoy asymmetrical exemption. (Though, in Feinstein’s case, her support is wavering.)

Americans feel there is no remedy for this downward spiral until November. To get a sense of their dilemma, imagine a Richard Nixon in 1973 caught lying during Watergate but with Spiro Agnew waiting in the wings without a trace of scandal—except with one difference: the current media is now attacking not the president’s shortcomings, but the president’s critics who point them out.

Even if the Republicans were to win a 60-vote majority in the Senate, they would hesitate to impeach Biden simply because Harris is a more frightening prospect. And some Marquess of Queensberry centrist RINOs would not wish to codify the Democrats’ new standard of impeaching an opposition president the minute he loses the House of Representatives in his first midterm.

Most of the country has awakened to the fact that the Trump-Russia collusion story was essentially a Hillary Clinton campaign effort to destroy a political opponent, a presidential transition, and a presidency. And they know Clinton will never be indicted for her conspiracies and racketeering even if her minions rat her out to seek reduced charges for themselves.

That hoax was followed by an impeachment vote over a phone call based on two more lies: 1) the Biden family was neither corrupt nor used Joe Biden’s office as vice president and his future political career to leverage payments from Ukraine, and 2) Donald Trump canceled military aid to Ukraine rather than sent them critical Javelin anti-tank missiles put on hold by the Obama Administration.

Americans know Google, Facebook, and Twitter censors were all enlisted in the effort to destroy a former president and his outspoken supporters. And they know there is no real remedy unless two or three more enlightened billionaires follow Elon Musk’s lead.

If Roe v. Wade were to be repealed, many Americans in red states will remain appalled that some blue states will allow abortions, especially late-term abortions after 22 weeks. But nearly all will accept the rule of constitutional democracy and thus the states’ rights to make their own laws that do not conflict with federal legislation as passed by Congress and signed by the president.

These red-state citizens know the opposite is certainly not true: blue state officials will do all they can to attack those who disagree with them, who consider abortion the destruction of human life in the womb. Expect more California-style official travel bans.

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Americans know that the Department of Homeland Security’s new “Disinformation Governance Board” will, by design, be run by an arch-disinformationist Nina Jankowicz. The board’s entire purpose is to coordinate with the media to brand oppositional expression as “hate speech” and “mis-, dis-, and mal-information” so that critics preemptively self-censor and moderate their opposition.

In this regard, they know that the Biden regime awards positions of great power in the U.S. government to those who do the very opposite of the intended offices’ purview. The goal is pure nihilism.

Thus, a mythographer and propagandist will adjudicate “truth.” A homeland security secretary will do his best to make the border entirely insecure. The secretary of transportation will see to it that freeways and bridges are not built. The department of energy’s task will be to ensure less energy is produced and its transportation is more expensive and more dangerous than ever. And the secretary of defense will oversee the most humiliating retreat in modern American history in Afghanistan as he cites our chief existential threat to be either climate change or “white supremacists.”

The people know the Left eventually always loses the support of the voters. But leftists still believe they can achieve and retain power, given that they control America’s cultural and informational institutions.

The Left remains hell-bent on radically changing the demography of the United States. And it always manufactures new hysterias—from the claim that Trump was “100 percent responsible” for every American death during the COVID-19 pandemic, to border officers “whipping” innocent illegal aliens, to Vladimir Putin single-handedly causing sky-high gas prices and the worst inflation since the 1970s. Each week brings another prairie fire hysteria. No sooner than it is exposed and refuted, and the Left is on to another conflagration.

Americans have a rough idea that the tragic death of George Floyd was not proof of an epidemic of lethal police shootings of black males. Yet that single death set off the entire woke conflagration of 2020 and, with the hysterias of the lockdowns, has nearly wrecked the country.

Yet in 2021, out of more than 10 million arrests in the United States, police shot about six unarmed black men. The same year, 346 police officers were shot, 63 fatally—to left-wing indifference. Moreover, roughly 8,000 blacks were murdered mostly by other blacks—to callous media and political silence. Thousands of lost black lives mattered little—except the fewer than 1 in 1,000 of that total who were tragically and lethally shot while unarmed by police.

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Finally, Americans were angry at the rioting inside the Capitol on January 6, 2021. But they cannot forgive the needless lies surrounding that illegal act in an effort to fabricate an insurrection out of a spontaneous buffoonish riot.

So they recoil at the lies about Officer Brian Sicknick’s death. They are baffled about the silence surrounding the number of FBI informants among the January 6 protestors. They are angry about the lies surrounding the lethal shooting of an unarmed Ashli Babbitt. They don’t understand the refusal to release all videos or communications pertinent to the government’s reaction to the riot. And they do not fathom the disproportionate treatment of those charged with unlawfully entering the Capitol versus those 14,000 arrested during the summer of 2020, when rioting led to more than 35 deaths, some 1,500 police officer injuries, and $2 billion in property damage and massive looting.

They shake their heads when Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) directly threatened two Supreme Court judges by name outside the court, ginning up an angry protest group at the doors. They are baffled that the White House press secretary sees nothing wrong with disseminating the private addresses of Justices in order to ensure mobs of protestors show up at their homes to intimidate them.

Of course, exasperated Americans are furious over the open border. They are angry their lives are being insidiously destroyed by the Biden inflation and energy prices. They are humiliated by the Biden debacle in Afghanistan and angrier still over his spiking crime wave and his mean-spirited senility. They resent Biden’s efforts to blame all these self-inflicted miseries on Donald Trump, or the “Putin price hikes” or the inability of a presidency to do anything about supposedly organic forces beyond his purview.

But behind the popular furor is a sense of impotence in the face of the untruth they are assaulted with day after day. In other words, bullied Americans are angry that people who control the nation’s institutions deliberately mislead them and do so because they hate them.

Let us hope that they channel this historic exasperation in November in a manner we have never seen before in the modern era.

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