Oh No – Here Comes 2028

posted by Kurt Schlichter at Townhall 

The 2024 election is in the rearview mirror, and now we need to start focusing on 2028. Yeah, I know that 2026 and the midterms are ahead, but they will take care of themselves if Trump can get his economic plans through and turn America into the 80s-esque powerhouse it can be once again. And yeah, I also know that nobody wants to hear about 2028 now. Too bad. 

A failure to plan and prepare is inevitably a failure to win. Trump has one more term, and then he’s off to Mar-a-Lago forever. The Democrats, and some in the Republican establishment, are going to try to erase what Trump has done over the decade-plus he’s been in the political eye of the storm. We can’t let that happen. We need to keep this new Republican Party and its new coalition going. It’s not a matter of being on defense and solidifying our gains. It’s a matter of taking them to the next level.

But who can replace Trump? Trump is a unique character, one who has not only revolutionized American politics and reformed the coalitions within the parties but who has actually infiltrated the culture. If you watch sportsball, you see the players doing the Trump dance on the field after a victory. The Trump movement is more than just a political movement – it’s a cultural movement, and that’s important. Remember, many people in our new coalition – particularly low-propensity voters and young men – hate politics. They despise it and find it uninteresting. They don’t want anything to do with it. There are only two reasons why they chose to have something to do with it in 2024. One is the fact that politics was interested in them, and they were getting all sorts of woke nonsense shoved down their throats even as they were being impoverished by quasi-socialist policies. The other was Donald Trump, who made politics fun for once.

So, that’s a challenge for the next Republican candidate. How do you step into Donald Trump‘s very expensive shoes if you’re not Donald Trump? The guy is unique, a once-in-a-century individual with no analog out there on either side. He is rich enough not to care what everybody else says, but he also has a personality that makes him not care what everybody else says. Combined with his unparalleled communication skills and his uncanny ability to message, the result is that whoever follows him will have to somehow achieve the same results without all of these characteristics. That’s a challenge. We need to start building our bench now. Fortunately, Donald Trump is doing that. The most important thing Donald Trump can do to help the next Republican nominee win in 2028 is to be a terrific president who makes America great again, but Trump is also giving a hand to potential candidates with his personnel choices.

The most obvious one is JD Vance, who proved himself a spectacular vice-presidential candidate. He’s so smart and so articulate that he runs rings around a regime media that is used to Republican stiffs and hacks who they can turn into caricatures. I’m talking about you, Mitt Romney – good riddance to that loser. 

JD Vance had a lot of doubters at first, and they tried to paint them as weird, and that didn’t work because he’s a great guy, and he’s not weird. He’s relentlessly normal while also being relentlessly smart. The question is whether he can also be fun, whether he can give the cultural cachet to conservatism that Donald Trump has given it. As Andrew Breitbart famously said, “Politics is downstream from culture.” Trump is moving America away from the doom and gloom of socialist malaise and back into the bright, fun USA that we knew in the 80s. JD Vance has to continue with that. He’s already been great on popular podcasts and even has his own meme – the famous JD Vance debate side-eye meme.

Ron DeSantis is the other major contender. His thing is not so much the cultural aspects embodied by Donald Trump. He’s just flat-out super competent. That’s his selling point – Make America Florida. He’s been a great governor, an unbelievable leader, and a loyal supporter of Donald Trump the minute the primary ended in Trump’s favor. The smart money is on a primary race, with JD and Heavy D facing each other for the nomination. How great would that be? Two incredibly confident and capable candidates, both unbelievably smart and able to speak complete and coherent sentences, unlike so many other politicians.

We should be so lucky! And I think we will be so lucky. I think those are the two to watch in 2028.

But there are others out there. Vivek Ramaswamy will certainly consider running. His work at DOGE with Elon Musk will allow him to highlight his skills and put some concrete achievements on the leaderboard. That was one of his problems during the 2024 campaign – he talked a good game but hadn’t actually done anything. By 2028, maybe he will have.

Ted Cruz still wants to be president. He’s starting to get older and may think this is his last shot. His challenge is that he’s no longer the new kid on the block. I would not be surprised if he chooses to replace Clarence Thomas or Samuel Alito instead.

Marco Rubio may have the same issue—we’ve seen him run before. As Secretary of State, he’ll certainly have a bully pulpit for at least a couple of years. But he’s pretty establishment, and that might not inspire the Trump coalition. We will have to see.

Kristi Noem, the incoming DHS secretary, may give it a shot. The problem is she also gave her pet puppy Cricket a shot, and I don’t think anybody’s ever going to forget that.

Governors Brian Kemp from Georgia and Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas may give it a try. They have both been solid governors and would make good presidents, but it’s going to be hard to get past the top two contenders. 

And, of course, there’s Nikki Haley. No. Just no.

The Republicans are in a good place – we’ve got young and exciting candidates who are super competent, most of whom have never gunned down a pet. The 2028 election will be a changing of the guard to a new generation for the Republicans, but also for the Democrats, too. We will probably see such candidates as the Stepford Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Governor Gavin Hairstyle, and Governor Josh Shapiro, who’s actually competent and scary. Whoever we nominate has to be prepared to take them on head-on. And there’s one other factor to consider.

Who, if anyone, will Donald Trump support? Because that may settle the issue at the outset.

X22, And we Know, and more- Nov 20

 

Trump Must Make These Careerist Bureaucratic Pigs Squeal

posted by Matt Vespa at Townhall 

President-elect Donald J. Trump has made some picks for cabinet posts that have engulfed Washington in a frenzy of whining and misery. That’s all I need to know regarding the nominations—if the political class hates them, it’s good for the country. Yet, there will be some vociferous opposition to some of Trump’s picks, to which I say bring it on. We won the election. The president can make his selections. Let’s see what happens. And for Republicans who might be thinking about standing in the way, we’ll remember. 

The two most controversial are Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Matt Gaetz for secretary of Health and Human Services and attorney general, respectively. Kennedy will be slammed for his takes on vaccines, among other things. At the same time, Gaetz will have to wade through his reservoir of controversy concerning alleged drug use and frolicking with underage girls—all of which are rumors and speculation at this point. 

Was Gaetz my number-one choice? No. I would joke that Trump should nominate him as a radical choice to lead the Justice Department, so it was a bit of a treat when he did so formally. It’s tragic: Gaetz would uproot the bad apples at the Justice Department without the purported baggage. You need someone a bit nutty and an anti-institutionalist, for lack of a better term, to dig out these cancers. Not that one needs to be anti-DOJ, Treasury, and the like, but someone who isn’t willing to knock off the roof, turn the building upside down, and shake out all the slimy bugs that reside. 

Rod Rosenstein, Jeff Sessions, and William Barr aren’t those people. That’s the thing that’s glossed over—Trump did pick from the “qualified” crop in his first presidency, and they either turned against him or allowed the gangster tactics that hamstrung the White House to suppurate and fester. The man doesn’t have another election this time—he’s going for the gusto, and more Republicans should embrace this balls-to-the-wall approach, whether it succeeds or not. The message must be clear: we’ve come to take our government back. And we’ll nominate anyone who will make the careerist bureaucratic pigs squeal. 

Elections have consequences. The intelligence community, the media, Democrats, and the Justice Department tried to get this guy in a million different ways. Trump has survived two assassination attempts. And he won the 2024 election. It’s time to burn Washington to the ground. It’s time for revenge, and I’ll back anyone who will make that happen; problematic history be damned. 

Let loose the age of rage.

Democrats’ Frowns Brought Americans No Joy

posted by J.B. Shurk at American Thinker 

I’m not much of a spontaneous laugher, but the explosion of videos with people doing the “Trump Dance” just cracks me up.  When President Trump started showing off a few of his signature moves during the 2020 campaign, I thought the whimsical addition to his rallies provided a bit of levity to an otherwise stressful time, during which COVID dominated the headlines.  Then I noticed that college-aged social media users had adapted Trump’s routine into a game similar to Dance Dance Revolution.  Trending videos on YouTube and TikTok highlighted young people trying to replicate his movements with a split screen showing Trump dancing on one side and competitive mimics on the other.  The “Trump Dance” became a cultural phenomenon. 

The late, great Andrew Breitbart was keen on reminding conservatives that politics is downstream from culture.  It is only right, then, that his eponymous publication featured a story a few days ago that captured how popular the “Trump Dance” has become.  The Breitbart article includes videos of Argentinian president Javier Milei breaking out to the “Trump Dance” with supporters, San Francisco 49ers star Nick Bosa celebrating with his teammates on the field, and numerous young men and women enjoying the Donald Trump dance craze.  If you look at any social media platform, you can find videos of people all over the world doing the “Trump Dance” at parties, in bars, at sporting events, and near historical landmarks.  The funny little dance is a global sensation.

Now, this might seem silly to a lot of people.  We have so many serious problems today, and Americans struggling to make ends meet don’t have time for an extra helping of nonsense.  Allow me to suggest, however, that the widespread enthusiasm for the “Trump Dance” is a healthy sign for a society that has been deprived of authentic joy for far too long.  

It is no coincidence that Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign avoided real policy issues and concentrated on selling “joy” to the American people.  Polling consistently shows that Americans have never been so unhappy, and during Biden’s presidency, a record share of the electorate has agreed that the country is on the wrong track.  Democrats tried to spackle over these ugly numbers with fake displays of happiness.  They relied on celebrity musicians, actors, and influencers to smile for the cameras and tell voters how excited they were to vote for Kamala Harris.  This media blitz of artificial joy failed.

Why is that?  Because Democrats abandoned authentic joy long ago.  They turned their backs on American history and took a knee during patriotic tributes.  They rejected the concerns of blue-collar workers and began openly mocking people with dirt under their fingernails.  They moved away from the inspirational rhetoric of past Democrats such as President Kennedy and embraced a dark worldview in which Americans are divided into discrete identity groups and forced to fight one another.  When you think of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, or other members of the Democrat “Squad,” you don’t picture smiling faces.  You imagine angry frowns.  

This is the Democrat party that President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder built.  Americans across the political spectrum had hoped that Obama’s 2008 victory would be the beginning of a national renewal in which petty racial divisions could be forever relegated to the past.  Instead of seizing the moment as a singular opportunity to heal old wounds and rejuvenate the country, however, Obama and Holder chose to pit Americans against one another.  In the half-century preceding Obama’s historic election, race relations steadily improved.  After Obama’s election, race relations steadily degraded.  Democrats and the propaganda press have done their best to falsely blame renewed divisions on white conservatives’ “unconscious racism.”  In reality, conservatives of all skin colors had hoped that Obama’s presidency would usher in a new era of American unity.    

Instead, Obama and Holder proved that their Marxist inclinations severely outweigh any nobler impulses.  As proponents of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and ideologues who worked constantly to politicize the most personal aspects of Americans’ lives, Obama and Holder specialized in rubbing salt in old wounds.  They told us that America is not exceptional, that America’s history is nothing to celebrate, and that America’s heroes are all irredeemably bad.  They told us that America is “systemically racist,” that the Constitution is a relic of “white supremacy,” and that the country must be “fundamentally transformed.”  Michelle Obama told us that she had never been “proud” of her country until her husband’s meteoric political rise.  Obama and Holder’s anti-American negativity so infected the temperament of their party that President Biden and other prominent Democrats have repeatedly argued that America was never that great.  For nearly two decades, the Democrat party has soaked in this acid bath of dour pessimism and grim hatred for the country that it seeks to lead.

It is hard to believe that young Americans who have just become old enough to vote have never lived during a time when oppressive “political correctness” and social media censorship were not the norm.  They have no memories of a time before public finger-wagging and online mobs hell-bent on “canceling” groupthink offenders.  They cannot relate to a time when Democrats and Republicans could disagree about important issues and still enjoy one another’s company.  This era bereft of great comedy, satire, and intellectual debate is all they know.  This joyless wasteland has been the Obama-Holder legacy.

It is all the more ironic, then, that Democrats have spent the last decade trying to tarnish Donald Trump as a “dark” and “divisive” figure intent on spreading “hateful” misery.  As assiduously as they have worked to push that lie, Americans can see the truth.  Obama’s Democrat party is a struggle session of stern lectures and disappointed frowns.  President Trump’s MAGA movement is a boisterous celebration filled with happy people sporting wide smiles.  You can’t fake “joy.”  Kamala Harris learned that lesson the hard way.  President Trump, on the other hand, is filled with so much authentic joy that he creates pop culture attractions with something as simple as a little dance.  His joyful determination in the face of hardship is why he gained substantial support from young people in 2024.

President Trump’s political movement is changing the world for the better.  After the attempt on his life at the Butler Farm Show Grounds in Pennsylvania on July 13, online images circulated of a guardian angel tapping the president on the shoulder, moving his head slightly to the right, and saving his life from an assassin’s bullet.  In Japan, this guardian angel took the form of Shinzo Abe — the Japanese prime minister who was good friends with President Trump and who was assassinated in 2022.  So strong is Trump’s connection with the Japanese people that they felt invested in his survival.  This kind of bond with an American leader is not normal, but it has become an undeniable feature of the Trump Era.

At Mar-a-Lago last week, Sylvester Stallone introduced President Trump at a black-tie affair with some touching words.  Comparing Trump to his creation, Rocky Balboa, Stallone described the president as a “mythical character” who has gone through a “metamorphosis” and “change[d] lives” for the better.  “This individual does not exist on this planet,” Stallone remarked.  “Nobody in the world could have pulled off what he pulled off, so I’m in awe.”

It is clear that Stallone is hardly alone in seeing President Trump as not only a legendary American but also a consequential world figure.  Across the globe, friends and foes have expressed admiration for the man.  He has taken on the mantle of peacemaker, change agent, and future-builder.  He inspires hope.  He nurtures joy.  It is no surprise, then, that so many follow his lead...and dance.

Sweden & Finland Warn Prepare for War Posted Nov 19, 2024 by Martin Armstrong

 

All the European leaders wanted war desperately so they could (1) try to hold together the failing Eurozone and (2) end up with an excuse to default on their debts. The average Russian, European, American, Canadian, Japanese, and Chinese are uninterested in war. The average person wants to get along and deal with everyday life. Sweden and Finland are telling their people to prepare for war. There is nobody in power even saying, let’s talk this out – NOBODY!

Germany and Finland launched a probe Monday after an undersea cable linking the countries was severed, warning of the threat of “hybrid warfare” amid heightened tensions with Russia. The USA blew up the NordStream Pipeline, and Germany turned off the gas from NordStream 2 on the orders of the American Neocons, subjecting the German people to much higher gas prices. There is no question now that the war chanting from countries’ foreign ministers said in a joint statement they were “deeply concerned” by the cutting off the communications link through the Baltic Sea, where tensions have increased since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Meanwhile, last Friday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged the Russian leader to withdraw his armed forces from Ukraine and negotiate a peace agreement with Kiev. You have to wonder if he is drinking too much. Vladimir Putin replied that any agreement would have to take account of “new territorial realities.” That was the Minsk Agreement that the people in the Donbas were Russian – not Ukrainian.

Zelensky has outlawed their language and their religion, and what started this was the massacre of Russians in Odesa in 2014, where they burned Russians alive as soon as the Ukrainians won their revolution. The West is not interested in peace. They have done nothing but promote this war from the outset.

Yugoslavia broke up according to ethnic lines. Is it worth the destruction of Europe to want war with Russia? It did not work out very well for Napoleon or Hitler. In 2014, I warned that Ukraine should have been broken up according to its ethnic lines.

Let’s get real here. If Russia walked out, the Ukrainians would slaughter the Russians that live there. The ethnic hatred goes back centuries. This is the same crisis in the Middle East. It is also not about land and more than this Ukrainian war. It is an ethnic view that goes back centuries. There is no living together. That seems to work for only brief moments in history.

When Herman Goring was asked how did the Nazis get the people to support the war, he answered straightforwardly, but nobody wanted to believe. He said that was easy.  It was Stanley Milgrim who tested what Goring said and found it to be correct.

Stanley wrote his conclusion in Obedience to Authority. Most were outraged because they did not want to believe that society could be so easily manipulated. It’s worth the read.

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/sweden-finland-warn-prepare-for-war/

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COMENTARY... With Rand Paul 'video' on Gov't Waste

Throughout U.S. history, bloodthirsty war hawks have baselessly slandered their detractors as sympathetic to America’s perceived enemies for having the gall to believe the United States military should mind its own business when it comes to foreign conflicts. It’s a centuries-old trick with examples too stupid to believe. When George Washington was president, he weighed sending American forces to Europe to fight the British alongside the French. Despite immense pressure from some of his closest allies, Washington wisely refrained, believing that embracing a foreign war would be too much for his new nation to withstand and recognizing that the Anglo/French conflict was not related to America’s interests. For making that decision, that era’s asinine pro-war political elite depicted Washington, who had just defeated the British on the battlefields of the American Revolution, as more committed to serving England’s interests than those of the United States.  A similar dynamic unfolded in the early 1900s as Congress debated whether to authorize the United States’ involvement in World War I. Despite recently being reelected for being the president who kept America out of the Great War, Woodrow Wilson began his second term with a complete 180 by requesting Congressional approval to declare war on both Germany and Austria-Hungary. D.C. politicians overwhelmingly favored the president’s destructive ask, but their agreement was not unanimous. Robert La Follette, a Republican senator, served as his body’s strongest anti-war voice, arguing that “Collective homicide can not establish human rights. For our country to enter the European war would be treason to humanity." That didn’t mean La Follette condoned Germany’s submarine attacks or any of the rogue nation’s military activities. It meant he didn’t want American blood spilled over matters that lay an ocean away from his country’s shores.  The media immediately attacked La Follette as “decidedly pro-German [and] un-American,” “nothing short of pathetic,” and “lending himself to the encouragement of autocracy.” Over 100,000 Americans went on to die in the war La Follette desperately fought to prevent. And just over two decades ago, deranged neocons attacked Barbara Lee, the only member of Congress who voted against America’s disastrous Afghanistan invasion, as a “traitor” to her nation. In reality, she was the sole American lawmaker wise enough to foresee the United States’ impending catastrophe.  Today, weak, frothing, and actually pathetic policymakers are pushing America to the brink of a nuclear conflict with Russia, quenching their long-held urge to thrust our country into its next forever war. There’s no justification for their behavior – Vladimir Putin has not harmed or even threatened America’s safety – but they don’t care. They get off on power and violence. Those opposed? The “radicals” uninterested in risking human extinction over a conflict that has nothing to do with U.S. interests? Washington’s bloodthirsty war cult is certain to slanderously label them America-hating, democracy-loathing zealots secretly rooting for a foreign power to topple the United States and bring Western life to a screeching halt. Just like it always has.

Alvin Bragg Is Suddenly Willing To Postpone His Witch Hunt Indefinitely Now That It Can’t Keep Trump From Becoming President

Brianna Lyman reporting for The Federalist 

For months, the left pounded the drum that the lawfare waged against then-former President Donald Trump was all about “upholding the law” and had nothing to do with the impending election. They insisted Trump was some kind of criminal mastermind and claimed that this narrative was confirmed when a jury of “peers” convicted him in May in a Manhattan show trial.

But now that Trump won the election, the Manhattan case brought against him is falling apart at the seams. On Tuesday, New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg agreed to indefinitely delay Donald Trump’s sentencing — previously set for next week — after the former president was re-elected in a landslide victory.

But certainly there should be no hesitation about sentencing a 34-time “felon” like Trump — unless the case was never about “justice” or the “law.”

Bragg claimed Trump made payments to his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, who then allegedly paid pornographer Stormy Daniels to stay quiet about an alleged affair — but Bragg failed to clarify exactly how such alleged actions were illegal. It’s a case that the Federal Elections Commission, Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Southern District of New York’s U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to bring.

Bragg, in his zeal to destroy Trump, enlisted the help of Colangelo (who was formerly No. 3 in President Joe Biden’s DOJ and was hired to reportedly “jump-start” the investigation) and argued that Trump should have classified the alleged payments as a campaign expense rather than a legal fee. He claimed the payments were made to influence the 2016 election. Cohen, however, blew up Bragg’s argument while on the stand, confirming to the court that when the allegations first surfaced in 2011, Trump was concerned about how the story would affect his family.

Trump’s sentencing was scheduled for Nov. 26. Just over a week ago, Colangelo asked Judge Juan Merchan to delay proceedings until his team could figure out its course of action following Trump’s victory. Merchan gave prosecutors until Nov. 19 to make a decision.

In his Tuesday letter to the court, Bragg acknowledged the possibility of delaying the sentencing until after Trump’s upcoming term.

“[C]onsideration must be given to various non-dismissal options … such as deferral of all remaining criminal proceedings until after the end of Defendant’s upcoming presidential term,” Bragg said.

Tuesday’s letter from Bragg and his team agreeing to delay proceedings means one thing — this case wasn’t about “justice” or “the law.” It was about interfering in the 2024 election and trying to toss Trump in jail so that he couldn’t land in the White House.

'Mr. President!' Desperate Reporter Tries to Get Joe Biden's Attention in Riveting Moment Caught on Video

Sister Todjah reporting for RedState 

Joe Biden's presidency is filled with some pretty embarrassing defining moments, including his triple tumble while walking up the stairs of Air Force One, the infamous Red Speech where he called half the country MAGA extremists, his disastrous 2024 presidential debate with Donald Trump, and the incredibly disturbing moment he called out for a deceased Republican Congresswoman during a White House event.

Some of them have involved repeated attempts by reporters to get his attention, something we've seen often throughout Biden's nearly four years in office, where oftentimes his handlers have aggressively run interference in shielding him from those trying to get answers to shouted questions as he leaves or heads back into the White House.

Here's one such moment from back in April:

The strategy was fine-tuned in 2024, as we reported at the time, to even more severely limit the media's access to Biden at a time when more questions were being asked about his age and fitness to lead the country. This was done not only to keep Biden away from the press but to try and prevent voters from seeing how he shuffled across the White House lawn.

Here we are now, roughly two months before Biden's lone term in office draws to a close, and we have yet another one of those defining moments to report on, with this one being as Biden was preparing to board Air Force One after his G-20 Summit trip. A reporter got increasingly desperate to the point of screaming to get him to answer a question, which they said would be a "birthday present" to the media (Biden's birthday, where he'll turn 82, is November 20th):

“Mr. President, happy early birthday. For your birthday, will you talk to us, sir? As a gift to the press, will you please talk to us? Mr. President. President Biden. Please, we haven’t heard from you all trip. Mr. President!!!”

He never responded.

Watch:

The reporter, as it turns out, was not wrong. Biden barely talked to the media during his entire trip to South America for the summit:

During a six-day foreign trip to Peru and Brazil that wrapped up Monday, the president rarely spoke in public, answering almost no questions despite repeated efforts to engage him. One television producer took to writing messages on a large pad of paper, holding it up as Biden boarded and departed Air Force One.

“Xi?” one said, a silent request that Biden discuss his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. “Ukraine???” read another, amid reports the president had authorized the firing of long-range U.S. weapons into Russia.

When reporters are reduced to screaming out questions and scribbling keywords on a notepad to try and get the purported leader of the free world's attention, you know it's bad.

Only eight more weeks of this and then change is comin'...

Trump Reportedly Has a Plan for Accountability on Afghanistan

Bonchie reporting for RedState 

Losing an election is a bit like going through the five stages of grief, and Democrats have yet to reach the acceptance stage. That means they still think their opinions matter on what should and shouldn't happen in the incoming Trump administration. They also think their outrage means something.

So what are they mad about now? According to reports, Donald Trump is planning to recall retired military officials so they can be court-martialed for the failures of the deadly Afghanistan withdrawal. The news immediately sent the press and some former generals into an apoplectic rage. 

The plan includes recalling retired officials to active duty to court-martial them, NBC News reported, a move McCaffrey said is unprecedented and unlikely to succeed.

"This is utter nonsense," McCaffrey said during an MSNBC appearance on Monday. "What is not utter nonsense is this is a political attack of utmost hypocrisy."

McCaffrey, who is a retired U.S. Army general turned media personality, could not be more wrong about this. The idea that morale would be harmed by finally holding these partisan flag officers accountable is utter nonsense. On the contrary, I would suggest that nothing would make the rank-and-file of the U.S. military happier than seeing the rules applied evenly for a change. The fact that no military leaders were ever punished for the failures of the Afghanistan withdrawal remains a stain on America's history.

Like the civilian bureaucracy, the upper levels of the Pentagon see themselves as untouchable and above being subject to the voting public. That attitude is why the once-great U.S. military hasn't managed to win a war in decades. Members of the general class are just as political as any politician, and they will sell their fellow servicemembers down the river if it means cozying up to a Democrat president. There is no better example of that than Gen. Mark Milley, who most are no doubt familiar with at this point. 

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General Mark Milley was Reportedly Stocking Up on Brown Trousers Just in Case Trump Got Re-Elected

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Jesse Kelly provided the perfect rebuttal to McCaffrey's rant. 

Still, the press is doing its level best to turn all this into a scandal. Aside from recalling and court-martialing generals like Milley, Trump is also planning to wipe out the general class currently in place. Meet the Press called that a "politically-motivated purge."

You're dang right it's politically-motivated. The general class is infested with left-wing partisans who put politics above the rank-and-file, sometimes with deadly consequences. The purge is coming, and no amount of crybagging from the press is going to stop it. Buckle up.