We’re no longer a nation of Republicans versus Democrats, or even liberals versus conservatives.
We’re a nation of the establishment versus the anti-establishment.
Those who are members of the anti-establishment all too well understand what the establishment is and what it's comprised of: all forms of big government, big education, big Hollywood, big science; and certainly big media.
And no, the media are no longer mainstream. They are simply against us.
"Us" being the people who believe in common sense, and who are anti-corruption.
The folks who are anti-establishment are mainstream.
The best example of this?
George Washington was mainstream. The Big British, if you will, were not.
Ronald Reagan was anti-establishment.
The big corrupt Washington culture Reagan opposed was not.
The establishment in America is simply interested in power. Raw, naked, unrelenting influence and coercion.
They know their game, it’s right out of "Rules for Radicals," by Saul D. Alinsky.
Are re-education camps in the offing?
We already have state power, state censorship, state control, state arrests.
Why don’t we discuss cutting government spending anymore?
How far are we from the deification of government and government officials?
This explains why the U.S. Capitol of fenced off.
To keep us away from them.
That is why killing, burning down cities, and corruption are all OK with them.
The bottom line?
Anything that can be used to obtain more and more power is OK with them.
As the evil O’Brien said in the great novel "1984," by George Orwell: imagine a man stomping on a human face with hobnail boots. Forever.
In this regard, you could not find a better example than the Biden administration trying to pry open our private financial accounts.
Since when is this Joe Biden's (or any president's) business?
It is when we allow it to be; not fighting back --- through our nation's ballot boxes and public squares.
How about the Biden administration now trying to regulate how many drinks Americans can consume each week?
Even the Proles of "1984" got unlimited beer and the members of the "Inner Party" got copious amounts of "Victory Gin."
We’ve seen manifestations of this dynamic in the past.
Our American Revolution was the manifestation of the rise of the anti-establishment.
This is what the corrupt members of the establishment have never understood.
The more MSNBC's Chuck Todd or Joe Scarborough (also of MSNBC), or other card-carrying members of the power establishment attack Donald JohnTrump, the stronger he becomes.
They more they use the instruments of corrupted government to attack him, the stronger he becomes.
Now he needs to go before the American people and make the psychic connection that as he has had problems with corrupt governments, so have they.
Anti-establishment Americans have had trouble with the IRS, police officers, school boards, local bureaucrats, especially "insect" bureaucrats.
Governments cause many more problems than they solve. Recall, as Ronald Reagan famously said, "Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem."
Mr. Trump needs to make that exact case — head on — to Americans.
The American people all have tales of woe about corrupt, abusive government.
An appreciable number of Americans now describe themselves as being dissatisfied with government.
Trump is like the Greek God Antaeus, who only got stronger the more his opponents attacked him.
Go ahead left camp, keep making Trump stronger than ever — every day.
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Craig Shirley is a Ronald Reagan biographer and presidential historian having written six books on Reagan. He's also written The New York Times bestseller, "December, 1941" and just published the companion book, "April, 1945" to wide acclaim. He's also the author of the book "Mary Ball Washington," which won the People’s Choice Award from the Library of Virginia. His book on the 1980 presidential campaign, "Rendezvous with Destiny" was named by The Wall Street Journal as one of the five best campaign books of all time. Read Craig Shirley's Reports — More Here.
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